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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1917
Page
8
A pacifist clause in a Brooklyn meeting resolution pledging support to the war led to a re convening of the New York State Universalists' convention and the clause's exclusion. An Ohio clergyman, not in the state group, prompted its introduction.
Details emerge on how the German commerce raider Seeadler evaded a British cruiser by masquerading as a lumber carrier. Captain Hador Smith of the American schooner R. C. Slade, among its victims, described the ruse after Mopeha Island reef fate.
After capture by Britain and escape the Seeadler reached Bremerhaven and in December 1916 was fitted as a motor schooner under Lieutenant von Luckner with 68 crew. With forged clearance papers and hidden guns it sank 13 vessels in the Atlantic before sending prisoners from a French bark to Rio de Janeiro and then attacking the South Pacific after rounding Cape Horn. The Navy Department announced the depredations on October 4.
Washington October 12 Secretary Baker announced approval of a Camp Upton order permitting political gatherings in national army training cantonments under proper rules. The ruling, issued on Major General J Franklin Bell's authorization, applies to all camps and forbids unsanctioned meetings this fall.
Florence McCarthy a new first class yeoman of the U S Navy and former Pen and Pencil Club clerk in Boston received a farewell banquet and reception last night. Martin Clougherty acted as toast master and presented a wrist watch brushes and shaving set. Florie known for athletics Charlestown politics Jackson Club Boston Elks Silver Lake Vacationists and modern dancing heads for foreign service.
A group of musicians and singers with speakers will tour Back Bay and downtown streets in cars to raise funds for Salvation Army work for soldiers in France and at Ayer. A button will be given to each contributor.
The Morgan Memorial Industrial School will open this forenoon with classes in basketry millinery housekeeping cooking dressmaking cement work floyd lace and weaving. The school is housed in the Children's Settlement building and more than two percent of pupils are expected to enroll.
The 1917 18 Boston Symphony Orchestra season opened in Symphony Hall with Dr Karl Muck conducting at 2 30. He appeared gravely but as distinguished as in prior years and was warmly greeted by the audience amid denials of gossip and rumor.
The program opened with Bee thoven fifth and Berlioz king Lear overture with Liszt Prometheus and Parsifal prelude. Dr. Mack conducted the last three movements of the fifth, delivering unusually emotional slow and final movements and proving the vitality of Beethoven’s score. Berlioz’s King Lear overture is praised for its dramatic fervor and flaws, while the composer’s genius in orchestration and invention is acknowledged despite its era’s excesses.
Publicist and lecturer Lincoln Steffens will speak tonight at Tremont Temple on the Russian character during the present war. He will cover Rasputin, the Czarina, the revolution, Russian behavior in upheaval, views on killing and looting, and peace prospects.
The Great Council of Maine, Improved Order of Red Men, in session at Portland voted to subscribe 5000 for Liberty bonds and to remit dues for all members serving in the United States. Maine has 624 members, up eight in the year, with 77 tribes. Officers named include Sachem Mark C. Morrison and prophet Bradford C. Redennett. Pocahontas officers were Prophetess Lizzie Moon and Pocahontas Stella Young.
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