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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
3
About 2000 veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, still 50 divisions strong, passed in review at Detroit’s national encampment. More than a quarter of a million spectators applauded as the old soldiers, masking faltering steps, marched down the main business thoroughfare. The parade line stretched a mile and a half.
The review proceeded without major incident though several heat prostrations occurred. About 50 people received medical aid at hospital tents and were expected to recover quickly. At 10 pm the parade moved along the avenue led by Sons of Veterans and Detroit Post 84 with Gardner as commander in chief.
Major Col. Cramer of Columbus Ohio was elected commander-in-chief by a second ballot at the United Spanish War Veterans convention in Louisville. Scranton Pennsylvania was selected as the 1915 convention city. Officers elected include Cockey Salina Kansas and Denun gio Louisville Kentucky as senior and junior vice commanders with Lazansky in the Philippines and Brown in Hawaii as deputy commanders and Elliott Milwaukee as surgeon general. Thousands joined a late parade to end the encampment.
The will of Mrs Anna Frances Hill of 205 Bay State Road dated March 4 1903 leaves $2000 to the Boston City Missionary Society and to the Women's Home Missionary ration. Executors named are Hamilton Hill, her son, and Charles Theodore Carruth.
Funeral services for District Chief Joseph M Garrity who died at his home on Brook Street Brookline were held at the Church of the Assumption Brookline yesterday with Fire Commissioner Grady Chief Mc Donough and many others in attendance The note includes an aside about a comic in the next Sunday Post mentioning Pa Van Loon.
Major General Wood visits garrison bate Wakefield where water from Crystal Lake resumes supply. The town will stop paying $70 daily to the Metropolitan Water Board while water from Crystal Lake is in use.
Mrs Catherine A Pearson claiming to be the wife of a British lieutenant pleaded guilty in police court to defrauding the Hotels Lenox and Puritan. Police investigations focused on her identity while authorities also alleged theft of goods worth 17.10 dollars from a department store. Judge Burke continued the case to Friday. she was held in 1590 dollars bail.
The feature profile notes Nat Goodwin discovers romance trumps luck at the card table. A Sunday Post feature section promises his fuller story told in his own words.
More than 400 youths from Lyman Plummer Emerson and Cottage street playgrounds gathered at Wood Island Park for songs dances and athletic events under Boston school committee auspices yesterday.
The program featured 100 sunflower hat wearers in the sunflower dance and a flag salute with the national anthem. Dances by Csehbogam Ostend and Irish lilt impressed, and the grand march united girls and boys from Emerson Cottage street Plummer and Lyman playgrounds.
The Rev. William Franklin will speak to men at the West End Rescue Mission at 42 Green Street tonight at 7:30. Sharon Baptist Church installed a new pipe organ donated by Andrew Carnegie and Erwin S. Stockwell. Rev. Harry St. John Filmer, pastor of Webster Baptist, has resigned for Breen Rhode Island and was given a gold watch. his wife received $25 in gold from congregants.
In Rome Hugo Haase and Albert Schwarz dedicate a mission from Germany to urge Italy to join the war. Italian Socialists publish a protest calling the move an affront to Italy’s dignity and express that if peace cannot be achieved the war will crush those who provoked it.
Eleven Red Cross nurses from Cincinnati sail to New York for departure to European battlefields. Chicago reports twelve nurses also leaving for Europe with the same destination.
Washington Sept. 2 The Clayton anti trust bill to supplement the Sherman law and complete administration trust legislation for this session passed the Senate 46 to 16. Seven Republican senators Brady Clapp Cummins Kenyon Norris Jones Perkins and Poindexter voted for the measure.
The Senate amended the anti trust bill in many particulars and will send it to conference where the FTC bill remains under consideration. Reports on both measures are hoped within two weeks. The bill imposes penalties for corporate officers, restricts exclusive and tying contracts, forbids interlocking directorates in large firms, and bars railroad directors from certain cross holdings. It also fixes penalties for violations, limits actions on court procedure in labor disputes, and notes President Wilson will delay naming Trade Commission members until harmonization with the Clayton bill is complete.
The Cunard liner Franconia sails from East Boston to Liverpool with a party of ten including six women. Passengers listed are Mrs. Henry Hooper, Mrs. Alice W. Pierce, Miss Dorothy Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thompson, J. B. Truvanill, Mrs. Stanley P. Gwyther, E. T. Sanders, and Mrs. Lievriech. The ten occupy two of the 50 dining tables on the voyage home.
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