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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1917
Page
10
Councillor Walter Ballantyne criticized city building methods as costly and prone to overruns while Fred H. Kneeland stated the Vine Street municipal building now leaks badly requiring umbrellas for staff.
Ballantyne notes all but the Vine Street municipal building cost over original appropriations in the past decade. Kneeland reveals the roof leaks centering on skylights. Custodian Henry Griffen asks staff to use umbrellas. if unrepaired, umbrellas will be sent out.
Ballantyne criticized the $115000 estimate for a new West Roxbury courthouse during council discussion. Municipal architect T. G. O Connell backed the Kneeland estimate, but the council deferred action until next Tuesday when the finance committee will review the Kneeland report in detail.
Harvard intensifies recruitment for the Harvard Regiment aiming for 1100 to 1200 members. Canvassing expands while drills may rise to three or four sessions weekly. Rain won’t stop training as Stadium space is used for practice. Captain Amann lectured to advanced students. Major Flynn leads the elementary course.
Dr M Victor Safford, long time Public Health Service veteran in Boston, is appointed Deputy Health Commissioner of Boston. He has spent 27 years with the Public Health Service in this city and assumes new duties immediately.
An advertisement promotes lemon juice and Orchard White as a cosmetic to lighten freckles sallowness and tan while softening skin. It instructs making a quarter pint lotion from two lemons and three ounces Orchard White and using it daily on face neck arms and hands with claimed long lasting freshness and fragrance. Edward Wesley Co. Cincinnati Ohio.
Miss Gertrude Dudley Danforth of Dorchester will marry Wilfred Jacobs Brown, a quartermaster on the U S S Spink, at the Danforth home in Dorchester tomorrow night. The ceremony was moved from the Second Congregational Church due to Miss Danforth’s illness. Navy recruiting officers reported a busy day with more than a dozen new enlistments.
The army recruiting station sent 37 new recruits to nearby training camps and accepted 29 more as fit. Eleven applicants were rejected. Of 15 men examined at the Marine Corps office only one passed the tests and will leave in the near future.
Edwin S. Prieth publisher of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung had second class mailing privileges revoked by the Post Office Department for publishing material deemed sedition under the espionage act. Federal agents raided the newspaper plant last week in Newark New Jersey.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frederick W. Mansfield spoke at an open air rally in Mansfield urging voters to elect the Democratic state ticket to show unity with the Wilson administration and support for the war effort.
Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Matthew Hale spoke in Norwood alongside Mr. Mansfield, greeting the erstwhile Progressive leader Charles S. Bird. Mansfield urged loyalty to the President, noting the Springfield convention’s dual call to back the President and support Republican state candidates.
A speaker argues that Republicans should set aside party ties in Massachusetts to support Democratic candidates aligned with the President. Citing Lincoln and 1864, the appeal says defeating President’s party would rebuke him abroad, and notes Governor McCal and Charles Sumner Bird as targets of the argument.
Officials in Buenos Ayres confirm Count Karl von Luxburg, former German minister to Argentina, remains in the country. A British cruiser failed to locate him on an outward bound Spanish steamer, thought to have left Montevideo last Friday.
Governor McCall voiced opposition to submitting constitutional amendments to the November ballot. He urges a special election in April 1918 to submit all amendments and asks the convention stay in session until its work is done. A pending plan would adjourn October to June 1918. absentee voting is the sole amendment advance.
Naval men across the First Naval District will stage a benefit dance on Saturday Oct. 13 at the Cambridge Armory Cambridge under the Boston navy yard welfare committee. Bands from Commonwealth Pier and the Hing ham naval training school will perform. Proceeds go to sailors families in the district.
Americans listed in Canadian overseas casualties include N. McPherson of Rockland Maine killed in action and D. Hellburn of Methuen Massachusetts wounded. Forty Millville Orphans Home inmates near Concord escaped after a fire damaged the building amid assistance from St. Paul’s School students. Loss estimated at $5000.
About 30 Cambridge residents led by W. F. Connor opposed a gas price rise from 0 to 90 cents per 1000 cubic feet. The Gas and Electric Light Commission postponed the matter after a hearing, with Alfred E. Pillsbury representing the Cambridge Gas Light Company.
The Harvard Union reports a total deficit of 10 861 40 dollars for the last year as most departments including the pool room cigar counter and newsstand showed profits. Membership dues totaled 15 282 dollars, down 2000 from the prior year, while the restaurant lost 2 8 percent though the pool and billiard tables earned 502 dollars.
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