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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1914
Page
5
Louis L. Brandeis, ICC special counsel, reviewed arguments by counsel for 35 eastern railway systems seeking a general freight rate increase. He stated the sole new fact offered to justify the plea was the European war.
Testimony questioned legality of raising rates with railroads contending increases are reasonable and not a grant of grace. Advocates for shippers urged the commission to resist any advance. final arguments scheduled for the next morning.
A large crowd is to attend a special hearing at the State House tomorrow at 10 o clock before Governor Walsh on Massachusetts pheasant protections. Pleas for and against the pheasant will be presented as protests against the hunting season’s slaughter push for action and a statewide bird protection movement is expected to form from the meeting.
Sergeant John Murphy testified in police court that Frank Cannon of Brighton mistook the Back Bay police station for a hotel near midnight. He addressed Murphy as Mr Clerk and asked for a taxi fare advance while Patrolman Healey escorted him to a room and provided a night cap.
Massachusetts anti suffrage workers have completed arrangements for a meeting tonight in Paul Revere Hall at the Boston Food Fair. They will set forth why they oppose votes for women. Mrs William Lowell Putnam, noted for safeguarding the public milk supply, is to preside.
One hundred Harvard Democrats attended a rally in Austin Halls at Harvard yesterday to recruit undergraduates for stump speaking across the state in the final days of the campaign. Many students skilled in oratory offered their services and will be sent out to campaign speaking from now until Monday night.
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