The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-03
ALL NEW ENGLAND
AROUSED BY WRECK
Boston People in Particular Call
ing for Rigid Inquiry Damper
on Thanksgiving Day.
BY r. q. Larsen.

M BY r. q. Larsen.
Boston, Dec New England has
not yet recovered from the effects OF
the greatest railroad horror we have
had in decade or
Wreck Horror more and the ex-
element caus ed
Stirs by the collision at
Lincoln S n ay
All New England evening, in which
nineteen persons
were killed, is not likely to subside until
the management of the Boston & Maine
railroad system has satisfied the public
that every precaution had been taken to
8sprevent Just such an accident as oc-
blurred. Lincoln is about seventeen
miles from Boston, and is the summer
home Of scores of rich men who come
into the city daily. The train service
there is good, as far as the frequency
with which trains are run can be taken
into account. The complaint is that the
trains run too close together, as was the
case Sunday evening, when the Bellows
Falls express, thru train drawn by
two locomotives, ran into an accommo-
dation, which was supposed to lead it
by not more than five minutes. The en-
gineer Of the first engine on the ex-
press has been arrested on a charge Of
1nanslaughter, and it is now claimed
that he was not a regular man, but an
extra. The engineer on the second on
CINE of the express claims to have seen
the green signal lights and done every
thing in his power to bring the train to
q standstill. His failure to 10 SO re-
suited in the catastrophe. Even while
the work Of rescue was going op resi-
dents Of Lincoln who have occasion to
use the road every day, declared that
there were times when they were afraid
to get On board the trains, that ono
train followed another SO closely that
they would almost run into each other
at the stations, while it frequently oc-
Cured that trains went by at such
speed that the gate tenders at grade
crossings did not seem to think it worth
while to lower the gates. These things
will be brought out at the investigation.
The Boston & Maine road has prac-
tically a monopoly Of all the business in
its territory, but there never has been
any severe public criticism Of the man
sgement until now. The trains, how
ever, are run on the old signal plan, the
road being one of the very few, and the
only one of the big railroads that has
not adopted the block system. = i = =;
This accident and the roundup Of the
carnival of crime which has been de-
manding attention here for q long time,
put somewhat Of
Divers Influences a damper on
Thanksgiving, one
Put Damper Of the days New
Englaaders never
On Thanksgiving fail to observe.
,., The weather has
been anything but seasonable, warm
almost to- the degree Of midsummer
heat, wet and disagreeable, enough SO
as to mar to a degree the holiday Of
those who went, into the country TO
take part in family reunions ThSse
are becoming general every year. Tic
biggest public event Of the day was
the dinners given by the Salvation
Army, at which over 5000 persons were
fed in halls in different parts Of Bos:
Ton. They took in every creed and
nationality. In one of the halls spe
cially. prepared food was served tc
about 600 Hebrews. The money .foa
the dinners is collected on the street
corners by girls in Salvation Army
uniforms, and they always secure
enough to supply all demands madt
upon them. The army is very success
full in raising money for any purpose
about 100000 having been subscribed
here recently to build Peoples palace
IN the south end Of Boston. ~..
Now that it has been definitely de
clded that merger with Harvard uni
Yerslty cannot be brought about, plan
- are being made b.
Expansion Is Now the authorities O.
the Massachusetts
Planned Institute Of Tech
-. nology to brancl
by Boston ''Tech' out, erect new
buildings and in
crease the efficiency of the Institution
When the merger was proposed, tech
graduates all over the country wer
strenuously opposed to it, but it was
decision of the supreme court to tn
effect that the institute could not sci
Its property in Boston that settled mat
ters. President Pritchett now 4 an
nounces that the institute must renal
twenty years more, but in the meantim
IN effort will be made to use land owne
by it within ten minutes ride on th
electric in the suburbs. i Here. e,orni
tories will be built, and "a student lif
Ind atmosphere created, that has neve
existed at Technology, and which seem
almost out Of the question while tn
Students are obliged to live in lodgln
houses of large city. The Massa
shusetts Institute of Technology an
pther similar institutions in the cas-
ind their greatest difficult in competin
with technical schools in the west. man
Il which has support from their states
President Pritchett has declared tina
The question of lowering the tuition fe
must be considered, and in this conne(
ion calls attention to the fact that tn
University Of Michigan has tuitio
ZEE so low that student can pay a.
he expenses for a four years course fo
What tuition alone costs at the Institut
,f Technology.
Boston as an educational center wa
tever more prominent than last Satu
lay night after the Harvard-Yal gam
when the 800
boston never so persons who ha
seen Yale win b
WAo as score of to