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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1917
Page
9
In New York P F Sullivan president of the Bay State Street Railway Boston said the benefit of the six cent fare in former five cent zones in Massachusetts would not be known until next month during a conference of the American Electric Railway Association.
Matthew C. Brush president of the Boston Elevated road was named to the committee on elective railway revenue. L. S. Storrs, president of the association, told the conference that increased revenues are essential to the continuance of the electric railway industry in the United States and cited rising expenses and right of way maintenance.
Heavier taxation burdens may force traction-line owners to seek tariff revisions through public service commissions and public appeal. Proposals include transfer charges and fare zones to raise revenue, plus employing women as conductors and motormen, a practice touted as effective in Britain and Italy. committee members named include J. K. Cheates, J. D. Mortimer, M. C. Brush, Joseph Alexander, and C. Loomis Allen.
The Concord Rifle Club will hold its annual Col umbus Day open shoot Friday morning at the club range on Bristol Hill.
A dedication program for the Columbus Park section of Strand Way in South Boston includes a parade of 300 Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus as escort to Cardinal O Connell who will celebrate an open air mass at 10 30 next Friday.
Francis J. D. Ferguson leads I Knights of Columbus and St. Vincent's Boys' Band of South Boston to meet Cardinal O'Connell at Edward Everett square. A large, multi-city Lisbon society march will head to the mass, with 5000 members led by A. A. Silva. Afterward a silken Old Glory gift to Mayor Curley and flags for the State House are planned. A yacht illuminated parade and firework display close the festivities in the Strandway.
Miss Helen Nickerson of Boston, a Sewing Circle member, married Ensign Samuel Powers Sears at Fieldstone Hall, her mother's summer home. The bride’s brother Lieutenant Roland C. Nickerson gave her away. best man was Lieutenant Robert T. Young. Both are Harvard graduates with Sears from Quincy.
Patrolman William H Noble of Division 11 Fields Corner was found dead in his bed at 29 Bowdoin Street Dorchester from acute indigestion. He had been ill since Saturday but was not considered seriously ill before his death early yesterday.
Elizabet Rendell of Philadelphia is jailed on charges of conspiracy to defraud connected to the August 1915 disappearance of Philadelphia contractor Frederick Roe Searing. Searing was also taken into custody, and both are held as fugitives from justice in the parish prison without bail.
Police tie Searing and Ms Rendell to a case after Searing lived under the Reynolds names for nearly a year. Searing came from Atlantic City after vanishing there and bought a St. Tammany Parish farm before falling ill and being treated in a New Orleans hospital where he underwent an operation.
Mrs. Searing sought $18,000 from life insurance policies on her husband after his presumed drowning at Atlantic City. The appeal of the insurers was heard in Philadelphia. Searing claimed memory lapse and said he did not recall events from that time until hospital recovery. The prisoners agreed to return to Philadelphia without extradition.
Cambridge officials announced yesterday that the city tax rate remains $23.50, unchanged from last year. Citizens had expected a notable increase, making this the first year in some time with no rise over the prior year.
NYC liquor trade leaders met at the Waldorf and Terrace Garden to discuss the new war tax law. They expect invoicing every gallon will push whiskey per drink to 60 cents to $1 over the next three years and fear the treating habit may be practically abolished.
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