New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1928, Page 3

district. Since the recent burning of BOSTON STATIONS ONCE TOTALLED 8 Today This Number Is Reduced !daten'ally there has been more agitation for the building of a union station in that section. Miss Mae Hilton of 219 Chestnut street is spending two weeks in New | Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Murphy of | Dwight street have returned after | spending two weeks' vacation in the | Boston, Aug. 20 (UP)—The opening to the public today of the new North Station marks the latest | o chizes, | step in the unification of railroad | ierminals in Baston. Thirtysfve| w004 Mre Ghester Bowersorse | years ago each of the eight New |Cedar street has returned after a Exmtend tallroads entering this elty | 00" PUeP0. B8 e Geneva, N. Y. had 1ts own terminal station. The | elght railroads have been reduced | oo Dewey Selanderand Personals {bumper crop of New | paign, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1928. the New Hovews tack my navon FLASHES OF LIFE: MASS. GOVERNOR OBJECTS TO INCREASED INSURANCE —_—— Boston — Prospect good for a ensemble is to give conductorless England to- | concerts. The idea is that the at- | tention of the audience will be di- | verted from the personality of a con- North Brookfield, Mass. — Mps. | ductor to the mu: Mary Donovan Hapgood, notitied of nomination for governor on socialist Budapest — Church bells today ticket, says Sacco-Vanzetti case and | Summoned folks to pray on the name W Bedford textile strike will be|day of the country’s patron saint, cipal issues in worthcoming cam- } Stephan, for restoration of Hun- “gury's pre-war frontiers, Lacco. pri Newport, R. 1. — Tilden not to| New York — Anybody who was play in ino cup tournament, he | Curious from a distance about the notifics committee. £ilded Diana that used to poise atop R I the old Madison Square Garden, may Exe N. H. Unidentifieg | satisiy himself by visiting the Metro- man killed when nine cars of Bos. | politan Museum of Art, The museun - o e el {will spend the next two weeks at | This process has changed the - |\ "bOOd Te Momarguin, ! dustrial and business map of Bos- | ' anshe Tediesiig: 2 | ton. In the old days the Boston and e Nt Erovidence station reared its-proud} . NI Bernadatie Labadie of Hart- Mleck Lower in-Hapl Squarsca shiors| 01 & DU 40 the bourd of heaith distance from the Common and pub. | Ofice left Satul Bl lic garden. The old Colony road had Bomescen, Vt., where she will spend a dingy station on Kneeland street, [{he Next two week some distance to the south of the 3 : center of business—dingy outside | T'"_““ ‘ft"“"“f" ""' ”::";f but boasting a waiting room which "l“_"‘(h’fl ‘"{‘. 3 "l u At old time commuters insist was as wapiha ey, lnesand, S comfortable as that of many a lIIO-"\h\‘ visited Mrs. A. C. McKinnie act dern station. the latter's summer home. | The New England railroad's sta- = | tion was in an inconvenient location | John A. Dolan andl son, John Jr at the end of a waterfront dock. Al |and daughter, Ethel, Mr. and Mrs. thebe railroads later were consoli- | Arthur Elton and daughter, Virginia, dl’kd into the New Yor -jand Mr. and Mrs, Trving Dunn of | e and Hartford railroad. In course [REcKville have returned afte a two | of time the Park Square stafion” fag | Weeks' vacation at the Home cot- | birned and the others were closed |tage, Indian Neck I when the south station, at the time | < = the largest in the country, was/ Miss Anna Bella Gavelek of thi‘ opened on January 1, 1899, [eity will spend the next two weeks | The old Boston and Albany sta-[at Silver Sands. tion was a neighbor of the old Col- | ony on Kneeland street. The road, now under lease to the New York Central, joined with the New Haven in sending its tracks into the South station. Sydney Kirshnit of 1 Hartford | avenue entertained a number of friends at a theater party in cele- bration of his birthday this after- noon. On the north side of the city the old Boston and Maine tracks ran Mr. and Mrs. Jehn J. Hollow: beside Canal street, where once, |and daughter. Ennice, of Murr: were the waters of the Middlesex |street, have returaed home after canal, to a station in Haymarketspending two weeks at Lake Pocoto- square. On Causeway street, nearby, | paug. st00d the modest granite towers of | e the Fitchburg railroad station, the Tyolley and Automobile | modest Eastern railroad station and | the Boston and TLowell station,| Crash; Four Persons Hurt | which was considercd in its day a| Motheun, Mass., Aug. 20 (UP)— model of ornate architecture. Four persons were injured, two| - seriously, in a collision between a Later the Boston and Maine tore trolley car and an automohbile here up its Canal street tracks and |today. joined the others on Causeway| A dozen passengers in the electric street. In 1894 three of these roads|car were slightly shaken but none| unlted in the building of a unit| was hurt. which joined their stations together | Miss Rose Fortin, 26, and Harold | and formed the first North station, | Jackson, 25, hoth of Lawrenc known in its early days simply as|taken to the Lawrence Gene. Unlan station. Only the Fitchburg pital. Both were reported in retained its own facilities. The Bos- |ious condition. ton and Maine in due time absorbed | Miks Milred Daly, 22, and Her the others and when the Fitchburg|Banks, driver of the automobile enfered the consolidation its tracks |were not seriously hurt but also re were routed into the North station. |quired hospital treatment. This North station and the old| The trolley car. in charge of e | | | Fitchburg station were torn <down | Motorman Percy Richardson, was to make way for the new|enroute to Salem, N. H., when i North station and adjacent build-|accident occurred as the automo: ile inga, The end of the North stationgemerged from a side which formerly was the Boston and | Lowell has been utilized by the Bo -‘Phoenix Ll)dEE, 1. 0; O.F, fon and Maine as a temporary sta- b0 B2 . tion during the construction and is Holds Family Outing Members of Phoenix lodge, 1. O. now to be demolished. The opening of the South station O. F., and their families attended an transformed that section of Boston, |outing at Lake George in Wales, Summer and Federal streets soon|Mass, Sunday. About 100 were growing from little used thorough- | present, all making the trip by| fares into important arteries lined | motor. | with great retail establishments. The | In a baseball game the married | Park square district after the fire imen defeated the single men, 8 to 7. for many years was a waste area of | The contest was suddenly tertin- vacant lots. A few years ago a re-iated in the seventh inning when the | tail furniture store had the hardi- |heavy hitters on the married men's | hood to erect a large building in | team hroke the only two bats avail- | this district and soon thereafter | aple trying to knock the ball across | eame a mushroom growth which has | the lake. | given the city a new center of busi- ness, hotel and office buildings. Lol Similarly Canal street after the FLY FROM BOSTON pening of the North station altered | Saint John, N. B. Aug. 20 (P 8 appearance. The street was “i-;rum August Pabst, with Machinist | dened and new and better buildings | Henry Willis of Boston, and Georg | were erected, largely devoted to r H. Clarke of this city as a passeng- tail business. er arrived here last night after a The New Haven and the Boston four and a half hour flight from and Albany have maintained sepa-|Boston. The plane will return to rate way stations in the Back Bay | Boston toda street. A basket Innch was served, SLEEP ALL NIGHT + + + FREE FROM MOSQUITOES FLY-TOX gives complete protection against mosquitoes. Spray in sleeping rooms, on ecreens and curtains. FLY-TOX assures an ali-night rest free from the NEW BRITAIN DRY CLEANING CORP. As the oldest dry cleaning establishment in New Britain we have an acknowledged reputation for reliability. Our superior methods and fine equip- ment enable us to do the kind of work which in- sures satisfied customers. - OFFICE » TELEDHONE 1323 | harbor ne {and two year old son are " | sapling discovered ton and Maine freight arc derailed | l'as obtained a copy of the original, rear here. bit shorter and minus some | @rapery. Brookline, Ma - Walter T Spencer, Boston division superinten- | dent of New Haven road, divs, Newport, R. 1. — This is a pretty strenuous week for tennis players at | the annual Casino tournament if they attend everything for which so- ciety’s latchstring is out. They are invited to a luncheon by Mrs. Vin- cent Astor, a dinner by her husband, a dinner dance by William H. Van- derbilt, a horse show yacht races and sundry other functions. Boston — Governor Alvan T. I"ul- ler scores proposed increase in rates of compulsory automobile insuran. says Insurance Commissioner Monk | must explain stand in favor of com- panies. Westport — When I. Leon Hunt attempted to get his boat into the| New York — A well dressed smil- unintentially caused [ing man strolled along the board- rouble among Sunday | walk at Coney Island without at- plenty of drivers. Traffic from the post road |t rweting any attention whatsoever was routed while the bridge tender | from thousands. He was mes J. attempted to let Hunt's boat through | Walker, mayor of New Yor! but the draw wouldn't W' and | -—_ so while motorists were getting lost | Bridgeport — Burns which fol- on the detour, Hunt was held on|lowed the explosion of a can of the wrong side of the bridge, | stove polish .result fatally for Mrs. | Mary Janc Norwalk — Poiice find dead man | sitting in automobile and driver of | Virginia E. car home in bed. He claims he re- | Buckley dies as result of being members “a big flash” and nothing | siruck by automobile, niore until awakened. Norwalk — M Tomlin, 74. Bridgeport — M Storrs — Scholastic honors for the Lupin sccond half of the academic year aken to |at Connectient Agricultural college hospital after gasoline, woman was | are announced by the registrator. using for cleaning purposes, explod- | S cd and burned them. [* S{orrs’ — Boara 'of = Connecticut Agricultural college votes new $400,000 classroom build- ing for President-Emeritus Charles tack | Lewis Berher, a former | corgia trustees of Windsor — Steven Sidorcko, 35, is | stabbed six times while defending boarding house keeper against 4 of John Pankiewick, boarder, ew London — Fred Stone cele- ¢s birthday in hospital. Al though Fred is 55, his two birthday cakes edch bore four eandles, He says | growing younger each year and next year there will be but seven candle: Willimantic — Preparations go forward for golden jubilee observ- ance of Sister of Charity of Our Lady of Merey at St Joseph's church. | Norwich — Charles Du L alleg- | ed bootlegger, is captured by polive Bloomfield — Farm hand peace- jafter being f on. fully milks cows in barn as flames Bt burn roof off. Oaxaca City, Mcxico — It was a| Columbus | America and now s cypress. 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Matthew Traynor, pastor of St. Mary's Donohue, pastor of st Jose ph's; Rev. Thomas J. Laden. pastor of the Church of St. John the and Rev. Walter A, A sistant at St. Mar St Mary's Church Banns of marriage were published for the first time yesterday morning between Martin J. Walsh and Cath- erine Connelly and hetween Paul Sil- iverto and Antonia Ncata t this week at ann, as- A Mirst anniversury mass was cele brated t for Kowalcik. St. Joseph's Church A meeting of the g tee in charge of the is morning anislaus commic- open air card | party to be held on September | will ‘be held this evening at $:15 | o'clock. S dohn's CH Announcement was 1 yester- |d;|y at the Church of $t. 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