Citizens protest overburdening wires on city poles
A large audience packed the Cambridge board of aldermen hearing on the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company petition to attach wires to Cambridge Electric Light poles. Residents argued against more wires, citing safety, cost, and lack of notice, while officials noted legal rights and possible undergrounding limits. The matter was referred to the highways committee for review along with related City actions and future hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Aid
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Cambridge Electric Light Company
Locke
Joseph 8. Lamb
Pleasant Street
Elizabeth Karxher
James K. Breslin
Rice Street
Frank P. White
P. J. Donovan
Leonard Avenue
Henry A. Wise
Kinnaird Street
Ester Witman
Park Street
William H. Ricker
Massachusetts Avenue
McBeedle
John Murphy
Portland Street
Thomas F. Moran
Howard Street
Nicholas Zelinsky
Willow Street
A. P. Clark
James W. Coleman
Alderman Coveney
Coleman
Telephone Company
Melville
Beedle
Sacramento Street
A. Baker
Light Company
Allen
Garden Street
Henry M. Wheeler
Good Government League
Ninth Street
John Amee
Hancock Street
Charles Hopewell
Qoveney
Mr. Hopewell
Cambridge
Donovan
Charles Street
Boston
Thomas H. Sharkey
Trowbridge Street
Christine Aberle
Palermo Street
Wm. H. Sinnott
Spring Street
Michael Crossman
Louie Sandler
Robert Walcott
Stoughton Bell
Wires
T. H. Raymond
Massachuetts Avenue
C. H. Hyde
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Brandon
Committee On
Lake
Frederick Reid
Patrick A. Kelly
Greenstreet
Jeremiah Crowley
Board of Overseers of the Poor
Crowley
Daly
William J. Marvin
Patrick T. Kelley
Charles B. Hadcock
Geo. Howland Cox
John §. Goodale
James W. Bean
James R. Ryan
John F. Ward
George E. Hixon
Otis H. Wylie
Lowell
Marcellus B. Parker
Josephine
Dillenschneider
Coolidge
Committee On Finance
Bancroft and
Getmore Streets
Monk, Bordley & Evans
City Council
Hilliard Street
Ash Street Court
Alewife Brook
Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Episcopal ‘Theological School
City All Association
McNamee
Common Council Issues and Budget Motions 1901
The Boston Common Council debates routine business, ordinance referrals, and budget transfers. Debates over civil service listing for fire department personnel, street repairs, snow removal funding, and a pay raise for city laborers dominate, with calls to audit actions by the mayor and executive boards.
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More
Giles
Thayer
Civil Service
Commonwealth
Committee On Fire Department
Nelligan
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Harvard Square
Committee On Highways
Wood
Masachusetts Avenue
Arlington Street
Hogan
Cambridge
Union Square
Massachusetts and
Somerville Avenues
Park Department
Dinan
Reardon
Board of Aldermen
Merrill
Cronin
Joint
Standing Committee On Water Supply
Water Board
Hobbsbrook Reservoir
Newton Street
Waltham
Fresh Pond
Committee On Finance
Ogler
Downey
Harlow
Streets
Civil Service Commissioners
Fire Department
Monk
Meyers
Fee
Caswell
O'Neill
A City Politicking Mirror From The Nonpartisan Skirmishes
A gossip column chronicles ward seven tactics and rivalries in early city politics. It notes attempts to crush the ward seven club, insider schemes for city jobs, drunken-room exploits at headquarters, and tensions between Daly and Mont gomery allies, with reflections on patronage and reform.
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Ward Seven
Thas
Annex
Brown
Jefferson Club Banquet in Rhodes Hall Monday Evening
The Jefferson Club plans a large banquet at Rhodes Hall Prospect Street to honor ex Mayor McNamee. Tickets are limited to 250 with prominent speakers listed and Henry J. Cunningham as toastmaster. The club, formed recently, celebrates its flourishing activity and seating at Hampshire Street quarters.
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Colonial Club
East Cambridge
Daly
Peabody
Dallinger
Harlow
Walcott
Amesbury
Henry J. Cunningseam
Jefferson Club
Rhodes Hall
McNamee
Prospect Street
William A. Gaston
Aylward
Sennett
Sdetrick
John H. Corcoran
Charles H. Thurston
Andrew J. Rady
John KE. Hannigan
Francis P. Curran
J. Henry Duckery
J. Prank Facey
Henry J. Cunningham
Edward H. McDuffie
Thomas F. Tighe
Jamesd. O'Brien
George T. Triggs
Tair
Warde #4
Stampshire Street
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Station Two
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Skelly
John Coulter
City Hall
Coulter
McCauley
McVarland
Somerville
Hearst Club
The
Democrat
Froid
Casey
Ward 5
Dr. Weeks
Board of Health
Stemi
G. Howland Cox
Montgomery
G. Howland
Manuel Andrew
Andrews
Murphy
McCormick
Chronicle
Ime
Jimmy Grant
Jory
Nhatampede
McNimee
J. Hwil
McNamer
Eere
John Spaulding
Jeremiah McCarthy
Thomas I. Tighe
James H. O'Brien
William McMasters
James W. Cairnes
Dennis I. Collins
James J. Wellsher
William 4. Cogan
Charles A. Fallon
Whittemore & Girard
Jefferson
James F. Aylward
Jefferson, Club
Red
Frederick
Deitrick
Jifferson Club
Edward J. Sennott
Eifferson Club