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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1910
Page
16
Havana reports no bodies found in Maine wreck cabins yet no internal survey possible. Borings place bed rock about 100 feet below water and Maine on 50 feet of mud. A cofferdam will determine mud depth while Cuba grants duty free entry for American machinery and materials.
New Bedford September 27 Joseph Shezwszowski of Fairhaven was discharged when brought before United States Commissioner Goodspeed. Antone Krol of New Bedford was arrested on a new complaint for uttering and issuing counterfeit money and held.
A planned ten story building on Court street may rise funded by the will of the late Andreas Tomfohrde. The estate largely goes to Dora Tomfohrde and Carol ine Pearce, with a restaurant and minor bequests excluded. Somerville reports 77,236 residents in 1910, up 25.3 percent since 1900, while Newton stands at 39,806 with an 18.5 percent rise.
The will dated June 14, 1906 creates the Tomfohrde Real Estate Trust to convert nonbequest assets into cash for a new building on Court Street costing about 1.9 million dollars. Executors Arthur P. Pierce John Frederick Tomfohrde and Richard Tomfohrde manage the estate with a life income to Mrs. Tomfohrde until her death, then grandchildren inherit. Pierce receives the restaurant business and name rights with rent payable. Gruzbach gets 5000. Lutheran German Church on West Newton Street receives 500.
Sailors will escape the Graveyards at Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras by an inland canal nearly complete between Beaufort, North Carolina and Boston. Dredges from both ends are under three quarters of a mile apart and waterway opens next December. Barges with eight foot draft will pass, carrying 600000 feet of lumber, and cut freight costs from northern ports.
Frances Alda star of the Boston Opera House has won praise in Brussels for her Mimi in Puccini La Boheme at the Theatre de La Monnaie. King Albert greeted her, expressing royal thanks for the pleasure her performance provided.
Yesterday's figures show Somerville Massachusetts at 77 236 up 15 593 or 25 3 percent from 1900 while Newton York Easton New Castle Oshkosh Terre Haute report sizable increases. The piece notes Somerville's government schools churches and no license stance as key growth factors.
Daniel Chester French, a leading American sculptor in New York, will carve a $50,000 bronze equestrian statue of General William F. Draper that will stand in Congressional Park Milford. The statue and park are a gift from General Draper’s widow, Mrs Susan Preston Draper.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company releases a map and explanatory notes detailing added transit facilities since January 1898. It cites population growth from 843,000 to 1,098,017 and investment rising from 25.96 million to 81.44 million, noting Tremont Street Subway and Park Street loops as early elements.
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