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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1915
Page
8
Police guarded the funeral of James Stivie a Greek mill hand killed during a riot at Jackson Mills. Thousands lined Ash Street as the body was brought to the church and the Greek Church was crowded beyond capacity.
Police shielded Nashua as Greek and Polish leaders deny race hate while crowds stay away. No Poles attended. Greeks declined to parade. Rioting last week injured three and wounded scores at Nashua Manufacturing. Marshals prepare to prevent further unrest. destitution rises among strikers. Former Mayor Barry, counsel for the strikers, contemplates arbitration.
A 40 foot power boat burst into flames about a mile and a half off Boston Light. Occupants were rescued by a small motor boat and then taken to Boston. The Liberty pilot boat aided but left after the small boat departed with the occupants. The life-saving crew at Point Allerton launched a lifeboat but found the Liberty already alongside. The burning craft was destroyed by fire and burned to the waterline. Names of the boat and its occupants could not be learned.
Bishop Lawrence officiated at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Arlington during morning services. He confirmed 29 individuals and dedicated the new chancel, altar, and altar cross.
On the Atlantic liner St. Paul passengers recount Zeppelin raid casualties as higher than official tallies. Eyewitnesses name 300 killed and 154 killed as figures from different sources but note official figures began at eight and rose to 56.
Mr Whitridge recalls a raid starting October 13 at the Ritz as five Zeppelins split up and one looms faintly. A Gaiety Theatre observer reports four bombs near the building, a gas main fire, a limb severed, and streets ripped apart. Residents describe panic, shattered pavements, and ineffective anti aircraft guns as the storm of bombs continues through the night.
President Wilson and his fiancée Mrs Edith Galt attended church in Washington with their daughter Miss Margaret Wilson for the first time since their engagement was announced.
Charles Wilson of Brookline and Miss Margaret A Driscoll of Dorchester married yesterday at St Mark's Church. Rev John Daly performed the ceremony with Frances Elmore as bridesmaid and John McCabe as best man. The bride wore white satin with Irish point lace and passermenterie. After a reception at 21 Rosemont Road the couple left for a honeymoon to the San Francisco fair and will reside at 31 Samoset Street after December 1.
Boston Typographical Union 13 endorsed suffrage yesterday and pledged to campaign for victory at the polls. Malcolm A. Knock, nominated for trustee of the Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs, accepted and a committee was formed to support his election across the International Typographical Union. A. W. Thomson of Cleveland spoke on vocational training and praised employers and his commission for boosting apprentice training.
The Grocery and Provision Clerks' Union appointed a 15 member committee to draft a wage scale for store employers, seeking their first agreement. The Department Store Teamsters' Union endorsed women's suffrage and pledged to work for enfranchisement at the polls. A meeting at Hibernian Hall tonight aims to form a Boston district council of the Trade Union Liberty League to oppose prohibition, uniting bartenders brewery workers bottlers drivers engineers firemen and restaurant workers.
Rabbi Stephen S Wise of New York argued war is inevitable unless secret diplomacy ends and women gain a voice in national relations. He praised woman suffrage and urged Gold en Rule diplomacy with Japan while criticizing leaders for militarist policies and colonial actions including the Panama Canal.
Miss Mary Parkin of Maynard announces engagement to Rev. H. A. Welday of Newell West Virginia, with a wedding to follow.
Maynard announces the engagement of Miss Mary Parkin to the Rev. H A Welday of Newell West Virginia. Parkin, salutatorian of Maynard High School, is noted for her popularity among classmates. Welday graduated from Boston University Theological School in 1913.
An Imperial ukase allows the finance minister to transact up to 5.5 billion rubles on foreign markets and issue treasury bonds abroad in pounds francs and dollars. Pierre Bark outlines plans for income tax reform and new taxes on textiles with annual treasury gains of 75 million dollars. Monopolies on tea sugar and matches are being studied. A 6 percent internal loan is to be considered as deposits in private and savings banks surge, signaling a robust money market.
Washington Oct 24 The Department of Commerce estimates for the next fiscal year outline an elaborate world wide trade campaign. Through the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce the department aims to aid American merchants and manufacturers in seizing opportunities now and in preparing for a anticipated struggle for trade supremacy after the European war.
Dr. E. E. Pratt announces new estimates proposing a Washington staff reorganization and an about doubling of the foreign commercial service. The plan asks appropriations for broad investigations of foreign commercial conditions and tariff inquiries by the cost of production division as part of preparedness measures.
The Secretary will request Congress to provide a very large increase for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The Commercial Agent Service is key to trade promotion and investigations into foreign markets for cotton textiles and other goods are planned for 1916-17. No major rise for US branch offices is planned. expansion will rely on local commercial cooperation.
The Japanese steamship Senju Maru sailed from Philadelphia for Vladivostok with eight locomotives and tenders, 12 432 steel rails, 2000 kegs of staples and 10 800 reels of barbed wire valued over 216 000 dollars. Sail via Cape Horn due to Panama Canal closure. A fourth shipment on Indy Maru is expected with 10 locomotives 5000 tons of rails and 700 tons of barbed wire aboard.
Under the Field and Forest Club, the Public Library hosts an illustrated South America lecture this evening. Don G Montt will present the talk to attendees.
Baron von Wangenheim German ambassador to Turkey is seriously ill in Berlin and will be unable to continue his duties for some time. He helped forge the close relations between Turkey and Germany after returning to Constantinople from a health-related absence.
A telegram from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph reports Belgian men aged 17 to 30 liable for military service have been ordered by German authorities in Brussels to report to the German commander. About 700 have already been deported to Germany.
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