The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-01
New E,,gland Felt
 Earthquake BlouD
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by shaking cots, Two nurses, mad dizzy by the Nteinblors, tainted.
 At Hotel Statler, in the Bacl Bay, many Q guest hopped out o Q swaying bed. Tn an eighth floor room where John L. Donovan and other members of the Fedora Housing Administration were a work. portable typewriter slid of c table and crashed to the floor Panicky guests poked pale face into corridors to see what had hap pened. Hotel attaches reassures them.
 Hotel Building Shook
 Night Clerk O. M. Campbell O the Fensgate, another Back Ba! hostelry, reported:
 T was almost thrown from m, chair. The whole building swayed People in the lobby felt the tremor which couldn't be mistaken"
 Thrice in swift succession wa Hostons waterfront rocked. Pic lures on office buildings ct tn harbor's edge were jounced askew.
 Buildings in Newspaper Row wer shaken and some press wire sys tenls temporarily crippled.
 The quake was nothing new fo George S. Whitcomb of the Bacl Bay, supervising director of must, and drama for the era, who hal survived five California earth quakes.
 "The quake occurred about i:o' 0. m, he said. Three window curtains in my home went up witt a bang. The four logs in the fire. place were scattered by the quake My dog started to cry and howl The house trembled. The move. ments of the house, as 1t swayed made my wife H."
 At Worcester, where two distinct shocks were felt, Q power house was put out of commission, darkenine the city.
 Eight Shocks at Springfield
 Springfield reported eight shocks within 60 seconds. Residents said the first shock was like an ex- plosion. Following this, they said the ground seemed to rise and fall like waves.
 Four shocks were experienced at Providence, R. I.
 Many 0 panicky Portland. Me, resident telephoned police head quarters to inquire what had hap pened. Tn Portland's west end, night workers at the American Ex- press offics reported that during the temblors an automobile parked outside trembled so violently they thought the body might hop off the chassis.
 At Manchester, N. H., and in sur- communities the quake was felt, though not severely.
 Some 60 miles westward, at Man Vt., however, the shocks were as strong as anywhere in New England. Tumbled from their beds at swift series of jarring temblors, citizens stayed up the rest of the night, fearful that even more violent tremors might follow.
 A Winthrop resident was awak- ened by the quake, but only inde- rectly. He telephoned police to explain that his chickens were 'cackling at a great rate" as though they had been frightened by some thing. He wanted to know what that something" could have been.
 Both Alarms Were Rung
 Salem firemen, wearied by the Ialse alarms of Halloween, found hat the quake was just another So severely was Q business block jared that both its ire and burglar alarms sounded. bringing firemen and police.
 At Lynn passengers reported that ! narrow guage electric train 'wriggled like a serpent" Some first supposed the train had struck m object.
 The Boston office of the U. S. weather bureau, on the 18th floor of he Federal building, felt the quake It l:08 a. m. None of the meteoro- ogical instruments was damaged, however.
 At Weston college, near Boston, he quake was recorded on the eismograph at l:06 a. m. An ob- erver said the record showed "a trong shock. A detailed record ould not be compiled, however. lntil the return from Maine of the sev. Michael J. Ahern, head of the it was explained.
 Harvard university's seismograph t Harvard, Mass, 30 miles west f Boston. also recorded the tenn lors. But there, also, the de- ailed record was not immediately vailable.
 Connecticut In It's Path
 New Haven, Conn, Nov. l.--(uPl A pronounced earth tremor, mich lasted from l2 to l5 seconds. las felt throughout Connecticut at :o0 a. m, to-day but so far as .4. d. ....a.