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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1915
Page
12
State and local police search continues after a boiler blast at George G. Strong & Co on Middle Street. Engineer Cornelius Condrick is dead, 14 injured operatives and firemen rest in hospital, investigators to work with boiler inspectors tomorrow for a finding.
Amid shattered upper floors and flying debris, male workers aided women to safety leaving only one injury. Miss Alice Howley, telephone operator, maintained calm, phoned fire and police, aiding rescue. Fire quickly contained. engineer Cornelius Condrick found dead. A company truck crash near Commercial street caused by steering failure injured four aboard.
Chester R. Lawrence of Boston filed independent papers as a Progressive Party Citizen for Lieutenant Governor after failed signatures. He will run as a running mate to Nelson Clark, while 1000 signatures were required from 1322 certified on his papers. Middlesex county sees county commissioner filings with Dyer Republican Reform and Walsh Democratic Citizen opposing Cambridge regular O Connor. Middlesex Republican subcommittee to nominate a substitute for Chester Williams considers Messer Barnes Penniman, all having taken independent papers but none filed.
Chief Post Office Inspector Morse yesterday warned merchants after several were victimized by cashing fraudulent money orders. Stolen forms include orders from Leonardo New Jersey Nos 2662 to 2800, Eaton Centre New Hampshire Nos 565 to 600, Milford Centre Ohio Nos 28001 to 30000. Morse urged hotel clerks and merchants to treat post office orders like private checks, noting small rural post offices are prime sources for stolen stock and burglars cash them through local merchants.
Brockton October 11 Leon Wager aged 18 was arraigned on a charge of having forged his mother's name on the marriage license application. Married last Thursday to Mary Isabel also 18 he pleaded not guilty and the case was continued until Thursday. The mother had not approved of the match and withheld approval.
Prohibition candidate William Shaw declares he and the Republican party should stand for state and national prohibition. He accuses McCall of misrepresenting his position and urges Massachusetts voters to reject the liquor traffic. Shaw spoke at General Electric works at noon and to about 2000 people in City Hall square and surrounding streets.
The College of Liberal Arts at Boston University will host a college circus next Friday featuring a parade, one-ring show, a side show, and an exhibition of living moving pictures. The event was planned at a meeting in Jacob Sleeper Hall led by senior Miss Doris M. Kennard.
The Boston Press Club hosted Baseball Night with over 200 visiting sporting writers and local journalists. Ex Mayor John F Fitzgerald presided as actors from Boston theatres performed hits and the show included Ty Cobb and Hughie Jennings among player-writers. The midnight to 3am program featured entertainment and ballroom dancing.
Members of Division 82 A O H marked the divisions 20th anniversary with a reunion and concert last evening. The largest division in Suffolk county hosted speakers including Mayor Curley former Lieutenant-Governor Barry Richard Dwyer state secretary Michael Delea state financial secretary B Fitzpatrick state vice-president T O Flaherty and former Division President M O Brien.
William J. McGrath of South Boston leaped from the rear wharf at 774 Albany Street and became stuck in mud. Three men pulled him free as the outgoing tide left him sinking in the mire, his shouts echoing in the night.
McGrath sank to his neck in mud as cries for help drew John Murphy of the fire department and others. Rescuers crawled along mud using planks while he was brought to City Hospital by ambulance and slipped off the stretcher due to slick mud. A hose at the hospital washed away the mud as McGrath, of 10 Frederick Street, South Boston, recovered.
The pheasant hunting season starts today in Norfolk Middlesex Worcester Essex Hampden and Berkshire counties and runs to Nov 12. Despite protests from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and many citizens the Fisheries and Game Commission has not acted to stop the slaughter. An estimated 11000 pheasants will be killed in the next four weeks. In 1914 about 10000 were killed and this year even more hunters plan to pursue pheasants.
Health week in Cambridge opened last evening at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. with Mayor Good and others speaking. An exhibition of photographs on public health by municipal authorities and civic groups will be shown all week with evening addresses each night.
In a special junior class election at the College of Liberal Arts Boston University Miss Isabelle B Turnbull of Last Lynn narrowly defeated Miss Susan M Tierney of Lawrence by five votes to win the presidency. The result settles a tie from the regular class elections held Friday.
Walter Welch alias Wallace Williams, 21, was charged in Plymouth with breaking and entering the garage of Matthew Huntley in Hingham and with assault with intent to kill Police Chief Washington I James. His father B F Welch of Boston defended him, cross examining witnesses and pleading with the jury as court recessed for the night. The jury was locked in for the night and a verdict was expected on sealed.
Rob Reid a Boston constable was awarded 1200 in a civil suit against the Boston Private Railway Company for an unprovoked assault by Motorman Ernest L Verrill on March 17 1914 at Seaver Street and Blue Hill Avenue Roxbury. Reid had been fined 20 for assault the prior day and appealed. The case concluded after three days of hearings with a sealed verdict entered Friday before Judge Quinn.
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