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Necrology. Visitors.
Frederick O. Prince, ex-Mayor, June 16. Great reception to Admiral George Dewey, with parade, October 13-14.
Welfare.
Animal Rescue League incorporated.
Mayor. Population.
1900 Thomas N. Hart (1900-01). 560,892.
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Buildings.
Symphony Hall, 249 Huntington avenue. Sym- phony concerts transferred from old Music Hall on Winter street.
Tufts College Medical and Dental Schools, 416 Huntington avenue, completed.
City Government.
The state paid the city nearly $14,000,000 for its water supply system.
Finance.
. Globe National Bank closed.
Massachusetts National Bank also embarrassed but saved and reorganized to become nucleus of present First National Bank.
Hospitals.
Faulkner Hospital incorporated. Founded by Dr. George Faulkner and his wife as a memorial to their daughter, Mary.
Necrology.
Robert Breck Brigham, who left his large fortune to found a hospital for incurables. Nephew of Peter Bent Brigham, who founded a hospital for needy citizens.
Theaters. Transportation. Welfare.
Lucretia Hale, author, June 12.
William H. Whitmore, antiquarian, June 14.
Colonial Theater opened.
Last horse-car line abandoned.
Boston Legal Aid Society founded. Gives legal advice and aid to people without means.
1901
Thomas N. Hart.
Y. M. C. A. Jubilee Convention. Fiftieth anni- versary of the founding of the association in the United States.
Associations.
Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government founded.
Buildings.
New Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts avenue, opened to public June 4.
Business and Industries.
Gillette Safety Razor Company. First address, 424 Atlantic avenue.
Education.
A separate Schoolhouse Department established for the building and maintenance of public schools.
Epidemic. Necrology. Parks and Playgrounds.
Many cases of smallpox in November. Roger Wolcott, ex-Governor, December 21.
Strandway and Columbus Park (1890-1901) added to Boston Park System.
Transportation.
Completion of the first section of elevated railway in Boston, Dudley street to Sullivan square, via the Tremont Street Subway. This subway connection is no longer made.
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Mayor. Anniversaries.
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Mayor. City Government.
1902
Patrick A. Collins (1902-05).
The House of Correction at South Boston was abandoned this year, the inmates being trans- ferred to Deer Island.
Education.
Simmons College opened.
Resolution adopted that a woman, other things being equal, should be preferred as principal of a girls' school in Boston.
Maritime Affairs.
Steel schooner "Thomas W. Lawson," first seven- masted schooner in the world, launched from Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy. Afterwards foundered in a gale.
Memorials.
Dorchester Heights Monument, designed by Peabody and Stearns, erected on Telegraph Hill, South Boston.
Music.
The new building of the New England Con- servatory of Music, 294 Huntington avenue, opened.
Necrology.
Horace E. Scudder, author, January 11.
Newspapers.
Jewish Advocate founded.
Parks and Playgrounds.
Chestnut Hill Park, Beacon street and Common- wealth avenue (1898-1902), added to Boston Park System.
Strikes.
Fuel shortage and suffering, winter of 1902-03, due to the great miners' strike.
Welfare.
First station for the sale of pure milk opened at Elizabeth Peabody House, West End.
1903
Mayor. Art.
Athletics.
Buildings.
Old Hancock Tavern, Court street, torn down.
Business and Industries.
Memorials.
Necrology.
Theaters.
Patrick A. Collins.
Fenway Court, Venetian palace of Mrs. John L. Gardner, first opened to the public, February 23. Boston American League team won the world's championship in baseball.
Harvard Stadium first used this year.
United Drug Company formed. First address, 43 Leon street. 1930 capitalization, $50,000,000. William Ellery Channing Memorial, by Herbert Adams, erected in Public Garden.
Arioch Wentworth, who gave over $5,000,000 for the Wentworth Institute, died March 12.
Old Boston Museum, famous for its stock com- pany, held its farewell performance.
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Welfare.
Catholic Charitable Bureau organized. Boston Tuberculosis Association formed.
Mayor. Bridges.
Patrick A. Collins.
Broadway Bridge over Fort Point Channel rebuilt.
Conventions.
Grand Army of the Republic Encampment, August 17.
Education.
Trade School for Girls founded under the auspices of the Massachusetts Association of Women Workers.
Fires.
Mystic grain elevator. Three burned to death. July 6. Loss $327,152. Steamer "Austrian" destroyed.
Memorials.
Statue of General Joseph Warren, by Paul W. Bartlett, erected in Warren square, Roxbury. Henry A. Clapp, Shakespearean scholar, Febru- ary 19.
Newspapers.
First Hearst newspaper in Boston. Evening American, March 21.
Rioting.
Institute of Technology students fought with the police in front of their building on Boylston street. Several superior officers demoted for their part in the affair. November 2.
Transportation.
East Boston passenger tunnel, between Maverick square, East Boston, and Scollay square, opened.
School of Social Work opened under joint guidance of Harvard University and Simmons College.
Mayors.
Patrick A. Collins, who died in office, and Daniel A. Whelton, Acting Mayor for the last three and one half inonths.
Population Fires.
595,380.
Hospitals.
Hoosac Tunnel Docks. Two steamships badly damaged. February 21. Loss, $359,251. Albany street lumber fire, July 7. Loss, $197,772. First Hospital Social Service Department in the. United States organized at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Laws.
Bill for the establishment of Franklin Union passed.
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1904
Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress, October 3-8, at Tremont Temple.
Necrology.
Welfare.
1905
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Maritime Affairs.
Granite lighthouse on "the Graves" lighted for first time, marking change in the channel for deep water shipping to Broad Sound from the Narrows Channel.
The first steam trawler went out from Boston this year. Mary A. Livermore, reformer, May 23.
Necrology. Water Supply.
Wachusett Reservoir added to the metropolitan system. First indoor public swimming pool in Boston opened on Cabot street.
1906
Mayor. Anniversaries.
John F. Fitzgerald (1906-07).
Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ben- jamin Franklin celebrated.
Bridges.
Brookline Street Bridge, from Brighton to Cam- bridge.
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Extension to First Church of Christ, Seientist, 75-105 Falmouth street, dedicated, June 10. Auditorium seats 5,000.
Monumental group of Harvard Medical School buildings, 240 Longwood avenue, opened.
Temple Israel built.
Clubs.
Boston City Club started at 9-11 Beacon street, in December.
Education.
First Hebrew School (changed in 1917 to the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools).
Suffolk Law School opened, September 19.
High School of Commerce established.
President Henry S. Pritchett of the Institute of Technology became President of the Carnegie Foundation.
Fires. Hospitals.
Faneuil Hall damaged, $38,900. March 23.
Boston Sanatorium for consumptives established on River street, Mattapan. An estate of fifty- five aeres purchased.
Memorials. Memorial to Franeis Parkman, by Daniel C. French, ereeted in Olinsted Park.
Neerology.
Michael Anagnos, director, Perkins Institution for the Blind, June 29.
Police.
Welfare.
Board of Police superseded by a single executive, the Police Commissioner, still appointed by the Governor. Stephen O'Meara appointed first Commissioner by Governor Curtis Guild. Boston Juvenile Court established.
First free State Employment Bureau opened.
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1907
John F. Fitzgerald.
One hundredth anniversary of Boston Athenaeum, February 13.
Bridges.
New Cambridge Bridge opened; formerly called West Boston Bridge; in 1927 officially named Longfellow Bridge.
Buildings.
Shawmut Bank Building, 40 Water street, com- pleted, May 2.
Education.
Finance.
Necrology.
High School of Practical Arts for girls established. Clearing House certificates issued. Up to Janu- ary 3, 1908, issue amounted to $12,595,000. No important banks failed in this panic. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, author, March 19. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, educator, June 27.
Parades.
Old Home Week Parade, August 3. A week of reunions for Boston people.
Religion.
Death of Archbishop John J. Williams and succes- sion of Archbishop William H. O'Connell to the Metropolitan See.
Visitors.
President Roosevelt, February 23.
Baron Kuroki, Japanese general in Russo- Japanese War, May 23.
The Duke of the Abruzzi, mountain climber and explorer, June 17.
1908
Mayor. Anniversaries.
George A. Hibbard (1908-09).
One hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Diocese of Boston, October 28.
Buildings.
Franklin Union, 23-47 Berkeley street, completed October 15.
City Government.
The state took over the Boston Insane Hospital, paying $1,000,000 therefor.
Education.
Graduate School of Business Administration founded at Harvard. Later endowed by George F. Baker of New York and housed in a new group of buildings on the Boston side of Charles river.
Portia Law School founded (said to be only law school for women in the world).
Ford Hall Forum opened: an arena for the free discussion of current questions.
Typhoid fever outbreak, March to May.
Epidemic. Fires.
Great Chelsea fire, April 12. City largely de- stroyed. Boston Fire Department rendered aid.
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Memorials.
Patrick A. Collins Memorial, by Henry H. and T. Alice Kitson, erected on Commonwealth avenue.
Music.
Flonzaley String Quartet gave its first Boston concert, January 21.
Necrology.
George Francis Parkman, September 16. Left over $5,400,000 for the maintenance and im- . provement of the older Boston parks.
Printing and Publishing.
The Christian Science Monitor started Novem- ber 25.
Transportation.
Washington Street Tunnel opened.
1909
Mayor. . Anniversaries.
George A. Hibbard.
One hundredth anniversary of Park Street Con- gregational Church.
Art.
New Museum of Fine Arts, 479 Huntington avenue, opened to public, November 15.
Business and Industries. City Government.
Present Boston Chamber of Commerce organized. City Charter amended. Many radical changes. Boston Finance Commission of five members appointed by the Governor.
Education.
A. L. Lowell succeeded Charles W. Eliot as Presi- dent of Harvard University, May 19.
Music.
Boston Opera Company founded by Eben D. Jordan, November 8. Disbanded after several years.
Necrology.
George T. Angell, President, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, March 16.
Edward Everett Hale, author, June 10.
William Lloyd Garrison, philanthropist, Sep- teniber 13.
Parks and Playgrounds. Weather.
Savin Hill Park added to Boston Park System.
"Christmas Storm," December 26. Heavy snow and gale causing estimated damage of $5,000,000. Highest tides since 1851. 15.64 inches.
Welfare.
Milk and Baby Hygiene Association formed by Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
Mayor. Population. Air Service.
1910
John F. Fitzgerald (1910-13). 670,585.
Aero meet at Squantum Field, September 2. Flight made by Claude Grahame-White, Sep- tember 12, to Boston Lighthouse and back.
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Buildings.
Education.
First issue in May of "New Boston," the publica- tion of the "Boston - 1915" organization, which by lectures, exhibitions and conferences aimed to introduce many improvements in the city, fixing 1915 as the date of their accomplish- ment.
Continuation schools (for working boys and girls) established.
Scarlet fever prevalent in the spring.
Albany strect lumber district. August 10.
Columbus Day, October 12, made a legal holiday. Law passed for the abatement of the smoke nuisance.
William Everett, representative, United States Congress, February 16.
Robert Treat Paine, philanthropist, August 11.
William James, psychologist, August 26.
Winslow Homer, artist, September 29.
Julia Ward Howe, poet, October 17.
Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science leader, December 3.
Parks and Playgrounds.
Completion of the Charles River Basin. Dam with roadway and lock on site of former Craigie Bridge.
Welfare.
Newsboys' Trial Board established by School Committee.
International School of Peace incorporated as World Peace Foundation and endowed by Edwin Ginn.
Mayor. Anniversaries.
1911
John F. Fitzgerald.
Fiftieth anniversary of the Institute of Tech- nology. Alumni and others subscribed over $7,500,000 for the new group of buildings in Cambridge.
Bigelow and Weld collections given to Museum of Fine Arts.
Buildings.
Education.
Old Court House, scene of the Anthony Burns riot in 1854, torn down.
Wentworth Institute opened. Construction of the new Boston College buildings at Newton well under way.
Epidemic. Fires. Holidays. Laws.
Necrology.
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Boston Opera House, 349-353 Huntington avenue, completed December 12. Home of the Boston Opera Company.
Boston and Albany Railroad, East Boston Grain Elevator, Marginal street, built.
Art.
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Maritime Affairs.
Necrology. Peace.
$9,000,000 appropriated by the state for the im- provement of the port of Boston. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, author, May 9. On November 7 President Eliot, seventy-seven years old, started on a journey around the world in the interest of international peace. He underwent a serious operation in Ceylon (performed by a Tamil surgeon), but continued his journey, reaching Boston, August 10, 1912. Archbishop William H. O'Connell of Boston created Cardinal.
Religion.
Theaters.
Plymouth Theater opened. The Abbey Theater Company from Dublin played here in the fall for five weeks. Disturbances took place, par- ticularly at the performance of Synge's "Play- boy of the Western World," October 16.
Visitors.
Lady Augusta Gregory, one of a long line of dis- tinguished Irish visitors, which has included Charles S. Parnell, John E. Redmond, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Hyde, Sir Horace Plunkett, William Butler Yeats, George W. Russell and others.
Weather.
July, 1911, hot wave. Most extreme heat in New England history. Temperature of 103.5 degrees.
Welfare.
Boy Scouts organized.
1912
Mayor. Athletics.
John F. Fitzgerald.
Boston Americans (Red Sox) won World's Series Championship.
Buildings.
New building of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Newbury street.
Copley-Plaza Hotel opened to the public. Corner-stone of new Y. M. C. A. building laid by President Taft, October 2.
Business and Industries.
City Government.
Education.
The International Congress of Chambers of Con- gress was held in Boston. President Taft was the guest of honor at the official banquet. Hyde Park annexed to Boston: only annexation in the period of fifty years, 1880-1930. Boston Trade School opened March 18. Sales- manship instruction authorized in high schools. Evening School Centers established. Practical trend in education very marked.
Perkins Institution for the Blind, located in South Boston for seventy-three years, removed to Watertown this year.
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Hospitals.
Boston Psychopathic Hospital opened in June. First of its kind in the United States.
Huntington Memorial Hospital for cancer patients opened.
Memorials.
George F. Parkman Memorial Bandstand, by Robinson and Shepard, erected on the Common. The remarkable Mendelssohn Choir from Toronto sang in Symphony Hall, February 29.
Music.
Necrology. Parks and Playgrounds.
Edmund M. Wheelwright, architect, August 14. ' Marine Park Aquarium and Franklin Park Zo- ological Garden added to Boston Park System. Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation formed.
Printing and Publishing. Strikes.
A great strike of street railway employees, June 7 to August 19. Strike-breakers employed. Dis- orders. A special board heard the issues, with James J. Storrow as chairman.
Transportation.
Cambridge-Dorchester tunnel section from Har- vard square to Park street opened.
East Cambridge viaduct opened from Lechmere square, East Cambridge, to North Station. Domestic Relations Court held its first trials.
Welfare.
1913
Mayor. Buildings.
John F. Fitzgerald.
Harvard Club of Boston building opened in November, 374 Commonwealth avenue.
Clubs. Education.
Women's City Club of Boston founded. Harvard University opened a School of Tropical Medicine this year and sent an expedition to South America.
Fires.
Hotel Arcadia fire, December 3. Twenty-eight killed, nineteen injured, loss $19,151.
Hospitals.
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 697-721 Hunting- ton avenue, opened. First patient admitted January 27.
Maritime Affairs.
Opening of Commonwealth Pier at South Boston, the first pier to be constructed by the state.
Memorials.
Opening of the state-built Fish Pier, the largest and most sanitary fish pier in the world. Statue of Edward Everett Hale, by Bela L. Pratt, erected in the Public Garden.
Weather.
Warmest January on record. Average tempera- ture 39.2 degrees.
Welfare.
Mothers' Aid law passed for Massachusetts: a great forward step in social amelioration.
Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene founded.
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Mayor. Buildings.
1914
James M. Curley (1914-17).
City Hall Annex, Court street, built on the site of the historic Old Court House, accepted May 22.
City Government.
The Health Department, placed in charge of one commissioner, came at last under expert control (ordinance approved January 30, 1915). An ordinance, approved January 27, provided for a Planning Board of five members, one of whom shall be a woman. .
Education.
Children's Museum incorporated. Now at Pine- bank, Jamaica Pond.
Finance.
Boston Stock Exchange closed July 31, to remain shut until December 9.
Boston Federal Reserve Bank opened for business with 439 member banks.
Hospitals.
Robert B. Brigham Hospital for Incurables on Parker Hill completed this year.
Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children, gift of the Forsyth brothers, dedicated in No- vember.
Memorials.
Blackstone Memorial tablet, by R. Clipston Sturgis, erected on Boston Common.
Necrology.
Edwin Ginn, Boston publisher and founder, World Peace Foundation, January 21.
Telephone.
Boston-Washington underground telephone cable placed in service.
Theaters.
Wilbur Theater opened.
Transportation.
Boylston Street Subway, from Tremont Street Subway to Kenmore Station, opened.
1915
Mayor. Population. Art.
James M. Curley. 745,439.
Robert D. Evans Galleries for Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, opened February 3.
Athletics.
Boston Americans (Red Sox) won World's Series championship.
Braves Field dedicated by the Boston Braves, August 18.
Bridges.
New State House wings, corner-stone laid August 6. .
Anderson Bridge across Charles river, at Soldiers Field, replacing North Harvard Bridge.
Eben S. Draper, ex-Governor, April 9.
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Buildings.
The Commonwealth Armory, 925 Commonwealth avenue, dedicated December 30.
New United States Custom House, India street, opened January 25. Tallest building in Boston. Boston City Club, 12-14 Somerset street, opened January 18.
Education.
Authorization by law of state-supported univer- sity extension courses.
Health.
The Boston Quarantine Station on Gallop's Island was sold to the United States Government for $100,000.
Memorials.
Statue of Wendell Phillips, by Daniel C. French, erected in the Public Garden.
Necrology.
Mrs. James T. Fields, author, January 5.
Charles Francis Adams, 2d, lawyer, March 20. Curtis Guild, Jr., ex-Governor, April 6.
Telephone. Theaters.
Boston to San Francisco line opened January 25. A film, "The Birth of a Nation," by Thomas Dixon, believed slanderous by the colored citizens, caused much excitement. Meetings of protest in Faneuil Hall, April 18, and at Tremont Temple soon afterward. President Eliot spoke at the latter meeting.
Weather. Welfare.
February 26 to April 2, drought.
Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund established (fund approximately $5,000,000).
School Committee opened Department of Voca- tional Guidance.
Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene incorporated.
1916
Mayor. Anniversaries.
James M. Curley.
One hundredth anniversary of Provident Institu- tion for Savings, November 6. First savings bank incorporated in the United States.
Athletics.
Boston Americans (Red Sox) won World's Series championship.
Disasters.
Trolley car went through open drawbridge at Summer Street Extension into Fort Point channel November 7. Forty-six people drowned.
Education.
Institute of Technology dedicated its new build- ings in Cambridge, June 14.
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High School of Commerce, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, opened in September.
"Boston-1915" Exposition.
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Epidemic.
Fires. Maritime Affairs.
Infantile paralysis outbreak in the summer. Tremont Theater, January 23. Loss $99,993. Secretary of Commerce Redfield unveiled a tablet
on Boston Light commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the first lighthouse in America.
Necrology.
Pauline A. Shaw, philanthropist, February 10. Sarah K. Bolton, author, February 21.
Edwin M. Bacon, Jr., author, February 24. Eben D. Jordan, Jr., merchant, founder of the Boston Opera House, August 1. John J. Enneking, artist, November 17.
Newspapers.
Italian daily paper, La Notizia, established. First address, 30 Battery street.
Parades.
Preparedness Day Parade, May 27, held in anticipation of American entrance into the World War.
Transportation.
East Boston Tunnel section from Scollay square to Bowdoin square opened.
Welfare.
School of Social Work taken over entirely by Simmons College.
Travelers' Aid Society of Boston established. First of Boston's Health Units opened on Blossom street, West End.
1917
Mayor. Buildings.
James M. Curley.
Little Building, Tremont and Boylston streets, opened in June.
Conventions.
Grand Army of the Republic Encampment, August 20. Aged Civil War survivors warmly greeted.
Finance.
First National Bank of Boston opened branch in Argentina.
Fires.
Nos. 77-111 Chauncy street, wholesale dry goods, January 29, loss $507,662.
Laws.
Fourth Massachusetts Constitutional Convention convened. Among the members were Charles Francis Adams and Brooks Adams, both descendants of John Adams, who drafted the Constitution in 1779.
Memorials.
Curtis Guild Memorial Entrance, by Cram and Ferguson, erected on Boston Common.
Necrology.
Pauline A. Durant, co-founder of Wellesley College, February 12. Richard Olney, Secretary of State under Cleveland, April 8. Bela L. Pratt, sculptor, May 18.
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Visitors.
French War Mission, with Marshal Joffre, came to Boston, May 12. Italian War Mission, June 25. Russian War Mission, August 21. Japanese War Mission, September 18.
Weather.
Welfare.
Cold wave. Lowest temperature recorded in Boston, 14 degrees below zero on December 6. Judge Baker Foundation for the study of juveniles established.
Girl Scouts organized.
Great explosion at Halifax damaged the city early in December. A special State Guard and Red Cross relief train left Boston at 10 p. m. that night and rendered most valuable assistance.
World War.
Massachusetts militia units volunteered. Draft of citizens for military service proceeded in an orderly manner. Departure of recruits to the training camps.
1918
Mayor. Athletics.
Andrew J. Peters (1918-21).
Boston Americans (Red Sox) won World's Series championship.
City Government.
Transit Department established by the city to perform duties formerly in charge of the Boston Transit Commission, a state department.
Clubs. Epidemics.
Girls' City Club incorporated, 190 Beacon street. Great influenza epidemic in the fall and following winter. Many deaths, especially among young people.
Fires.
Boston Arena, an auditorium for sporting events, December 18. Loss $233,100.
Laws.
Constitutional amendment passed enabling cities to deal in the necessaries of life.
Maritime Affairs.
Keels of six torpedo boats laid simultaneously in the presence of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, at the opening of the Victory Plant at Squantum. Henry Adams, author, March 27. John Q. A. Brackett, ex-Governor, April 6. Arlo Bates, author, August 24.
Necrology.
Stephen O'Meara, Police Commissioner and editor, December 14.
Third Liberty Loan Parade, April 6, to promote interest in the war loan.
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Transportation.
Management of the Boston Elevated Railroad, financially weakened, was placed under the control of five trustees appointed by the Gover- nor of the Commonwealth.
Last section of the Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel between Harvard square and Andrew square opened.
World War.
Armistice proclaimed November 11. Tumultuous rejoicing throughout the city.
Mayor.
Andrew J. Peters.
Associations.
Name of Boston Equal Suffrage Association (the cause having been won) changed to Boston League of Women Voters.
Buildings.
United States Army Supply Base, costing $26,000,000, completed June 10.
Debate.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (against) and President A. Lawrence Lowell (for) debated in Symphony Hall on the proposed plan for a League of Nations, March 19.
Disasters.
Fuel shortage. Coal rationed to purchasers. Great suffering.
Education.
Emmanuel College for young women founded.
Finance.
Charles Ponzi, famous swindler, began the opera- tion of his Security Exchange Company.
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