to sell land on Columbia road for municipal purposes-recommending reference of the same to the Committee on Finance.

Report accepted; said reference ordered.

ONE DAY IN EIGHT FOR POLICEMEN.

Coun. KENNY offered an order That the Corporation Counsel be requested to furnish to the City Council an opinion as to whether the City of Boston, through the Mayor and Police Commissioner, has the authority to grant one day off in eight to the members of the Police Department of the City of Boston under the existing laws.

Coun. KENNY-Mr. President, I am in favor of the one day off in eight, so called, for the Boston Police Department. We all know that last year a bill passed the Legislature which authorized the Police Commissioner to give to the members of the Police Department one day off in eight. That bill was vetoed by his Excellency the Governor. I have been over the statutes of the Commonwealth applying to the administration of the city Police Department and am of the opinion that state legislation is unnecessary, that the result desired may be obtained directly through the action of the Mayor and the Police Commissioner of the City of Boston. The act which was vetoed by the Governor was subject to the approval of this Council. As I remember it, the Governor did not go into the merits of the question at all, but was rather inclined to favor the legislation, fecling, however, that it should originate with the city authorities rather than with the Legislature itself. I believe he even intimated that if the bill should come to him with the indorsement of, or at the instance of, the Boston city government, he would sign it. It would take months to bring about legislation through the General Court, and we are now about to enter upon a new financial year. It seems to me the entire subject may well be dealt with in the coming budget, and that, if I am correct in my opinion that the matter may be consummated by his Honor the Mayor and the Police Commissioner, a great deal of time can be saved. I think this is a matter that will meet with the approval of the Council. I understand that we are all practically unanimous in favor of granting the Police Department one day off in eight. If any member desires to have the matter referred to the Executive Committee under the rules, I have no objection. I believe, however, that we will save time by passing the order now.

The rule was suspended, on motion of Coun. BALLANTYNE, and the order was passed.

PROTEST CONCERNING MAIL SERVICE.

Coun. COLEMAN offered the following: Whereas, The City of Boston has been compelled to spend $33,714,700 upon rapid transit subways in order to relieve the intolerable congestion in its streets caused by its natural topography and narrow streets; and

Whereas, The substitution of motor trucks in place of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of first class letter mail will increase the congestion of its streets by restoring to the surface traffic which is now carried on efficiently and expeditiously underground; and

Whereas, The restoration of this traffic to the surface of our streets will cause the business men of Boston to suffer loss and inconvenience through delay in the delivery of their mail which is sure to arise because of the inevitable slowing up of the mail service, which will be made still worse by the congestion and bad weather conditions in the winter

season;

Resolved, That the City Council of Boston protest emphatically against the discontinuance or diminution of the pneumatic tube service for the transmission of first class letter mail and the substitution therefor of motor truck service; and

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the Comgressional Committee of Post Offices and Post Roads now sitting in Washington.

Referred to the Executive Committee.

PUBLIC HEARINGS ON COST OF LIVING. Coun. McDONALD offered the following: Resolved, That, in the opinion of the members of the City Council of the City of Boston, the com

mission appointed by the Governor to investigate the high cost of living should give public hearings and give all citizens who desire to do so an opportunity to appear before them publicly and present their views.

Coun. MCDONALD-Mr. President, according to this morning's newspapers the commission appointed by Governor McCall to investigate the high cost of living say that it is not going to give public hearings. They think that better results can be had by having private individuals appear before the commission in private. I think, and I have no doubt every member of the City Council will agree with me, that that is a very important matter, one in which every citizen of the Commonwealth is interested, and that they should be permitted to go before the commission and have what they say made public, allowing the public to know what kind of an investigation the commission is carrying on, who appeared and what they said, and when they appeared before the commission. I trust that we, as members of the City Council of the largest city in the Commonwealth, will request the commission appointed by Governor McCall to investigate the high cost of living to at least have public hearings.

The order was declared referred to the Executive Committee.

Coun. STORROW-Mr. President, I happen to be a member of that commission. I noticed this morning's papers, but I think Coun. McDonald is unduly concerned, because I am not aware that the commission has declined to have public hearings. I am not aware that anybody who wants to appear before the commission is going to be excluded, and I assume also that the Press is welcome at the meetings of the commission. I know of nothing to the contrary, and I have been to the only meeting the commission has had. I have no objection to the passage of the resolution if the Council wants it passed, although I shall vote against it. I believe it to be entirely unnecessary, as far as I can

see.

Coun. MCDONALD-Mr. President, I have just sent for a copy of the Boston Post of this morning. As there reported, the chairman of the commission, Robert Luce of Somerville, said positively that the commission would not have public hearings, that better results could be had through private hearings and that, so far as the commission was concerned, it would not have public hearings. I don't know whether the commission acted on the matter or not, but I think it is important enough to have the City Council say at least that we think the citizens of Boston are entitled to public hearings. I have no doubt that the councilor who preceded me, Coun. Storrow, will do what he can to have public hearings. I am, however, going to quote from the Boston Post;

Robert Luce, chairman of the State Commission, told the Post yesterday he is convinced public hearings would not be helpful or tend to advance the inquiry as to the causes of high prices. 'Such affairs do not furnish facts and as we already know that certain conditions exist there will be no occasion to hold meetings merely to receive complaints,' he said:

"'We want to get at the causes and through investigators learn what legislation is needed. I do not want to discourage any information that private individuals might have, and we will be glad to receive all communications that would throw light on the subject of our investigation.'"

Certainly if the chairman of the commission was in favor of public hearings he would not have said what he did say in the papers today. I think we ought to tell the chairman of the commission, at least, that this Council representing the people of Boston demand that there be public hearings on such an important matter as this.

President HAGAN-The Chair will call the attention of the Council to the fact that the matter has been referred to the Executive Committee.

in the paper means a lot. It said that I was "a political trimmer." I feel that I have accomplished something, any way, when this association admits that it is a political organization, pure and simple, and that when they have accused other political organizations of trying to nominate and elect political candidates they were sailing under false colors; that they now admit that they are a political organization. But the particular statement to which I take umbrage is the one in which they say that I was elected on a pay-as-you-go platform, not borrowing money for current expenses, and that I have repudiated the platform. It is true that I was elected on a sound financial platform. That was true three years ago, six years ago, and has been true all through my political career, and I have voted in accordance with that platform all the time. They are not fair enough to say that, however, but they do say that I no sooner got into office than I immediately voted to borrow money to repair our streets. That is true. I voted that way and I said at the time, while I voted that way, that I did not think it was good financial policy to borrow money for that, but that the city did not have any money and that the people were clamoring to have our streets repaired. The Boston American indorsed what I did at that time, saying in an editorial comment that I was justified in doing what I did. The loan I voted for principally was a five-year short-term loan, which would expire before the guaranty would expire, because we had only $40,000 in the Reserve Fund and had a million and a quarter available to borrow. They had a right to say that about me, but I take exception to the next part of it, which is absolutely untrue, which is printed against me purposely to deceive the public, because it deals with my record here in the City Council. What I have done here is a matter of record and should not be misrepresented; and the statement that I did not believe in or did not vote for segregation is absolutely untrue. stood with my three colleagues for segregation all the time and said so, but I did not believe in the kind of segregation that is made up in the Parker House or somewhere else by outsiders and handed to me here to accept, and attempted to be forced upon members of this Council who did not see it until they were acting upon it. If that is segregation I am not in favor of it. But I want it distinctly understood that I favored the system of segregation voted on by this Council when we voted to adopt the system of segregation, and that I stood for it. True, I absolutely refused to vote for the reduction of salaries or the striking of names from the pay roll. To deceive the public they further say that this was to be done without reducing a salary, but they did not do it without reducing a salary, because they recommended that the Mayor strike from the pay roll all increases up to November 1 of that year or the year before. If the Mayor did that he would have to reduce salaries, if it were not for the way things have been handled, and I don't know whether they will have to be reduced yet or not. But I do want to make this statement, and make it a part of the record, because I will be responsible for what I say and do to the public, and I wish the public to understand my position. I cannot, of course, spend money to have my position understood as it is spent by the association. I have not the money to do that, and I cannot send out those booklets to explain the state of affairs. All I can do is to see the people, talk to them and try to explain the situation. But when they say these things about me, things about my personal record and otherwise, that are absolutely unfair, I must object. I have refrained from criticising them at any time or place up to today, and I thought they would be at least fair enough to tell the truth about me and my record in the City Council. For these reasons, sir, I make this

statement.

RECESS TAKEN.

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The Council voted at 2.55 p. m., on motion of Coun. STORROW, to take a recess subject to the call of the President.

The members reassembled in the Council Chamber and were called to order by the President at 4.58 p. m.

Coun. STORROW in the chair.

FINANCE.

Coun. ATTRIDGE, for the Committee on Finance, submitted the following:

1. Report on message of Mayor and order (referred November 20) for loan of $20,000 for purchase of land for park purposes in Dorchester Center, on Washington street, from Washington street to Claybourne street-that the order ought to pass.

The report was accepted; the order was given its first reading and passed, yeas 9, nays 0. Coun. Kenny's vote in the affirmative was recorded in his absence by unanimous consent.

The order will take its final reading not less than fourteen days from date.

2. Report on message of Mayor and order (referred November 27) for loan of $200,000 for park and area bounded by Salem, Stillman, Cross and Endicott streets that the order ought to pass.

The report was accepted, the order was given its first reading and passed, yeas 9, nays 0. Coun. Kenny's vote in the affirmative was recorded in his absence by unanimous consent.

3. Report on communication from Finance Commission (referred November 20) on proposed changes in the Stillman and Morton street section -that the same be placed on file.

Report accepted; communication placed on file

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPORTS. Coun. COLEMAN, for the Executive Committee, submitted the following:

(1) Report on petition of Thomas Kelly (referred today) to be retired under the provisions of chapter 765, Acts of 1914-recommending the passage of the following:

Ordered, That the Retirement Board for Laborers be hereby authorized and requested to retire, under the provisions of chapter 765 of the Acts of 1914, as amended by chapter 63 of the Special Acts of 1915, Thomas Kelly, employed in the labor service of the City of Boston.

Report accepted; order passed.

(2) Reports on petitions (severally referred today) for permits for children under fifteen years of age to appear at various places of amusementthat permits be granted, viz.:

William L. Aldrich, for D. Frances Aldrich, to appear at the Copley-Plaza on the evening of January 4, 1917.

Elsa B. Taylor, for Henry Johnson and others, to appear at Mechanics Hall, December 11-20, 1916.

Lilla Viles Wyman, for Gertrude Lemon and others, to appear at Mechanics Hall on Saturday, December 16, 1916.

Dorothy Carmen, for Edith Carmen and others, to appear at Peabody Playhouse on the evening of December 15, 1916.

Mrs. William H. Marden, Jr., for Eleanor Halliday and others, to appear at Dudley Street Opera House on the evening of January 29, 1917.

Mrs. William H. Marden, Jr., for Mary and Lillian Carney and others, to appear at Owl's Hall on the evening of February 7, 1917.

Reports accepted; permits granted under the usual conditions.

(3) Report on petition of Suffolk Loan Office (referred today) for permit to sell, rent or lease firearms at 1904B Washington street, Ward 12that permit be granted.

Report accepted; permit granted on the usual conditions.

(4) Report on order (referred today) concerning public hearings by commission appointed by Governor to investigate high cost of living-recommending passage of resolution in the following new draft:

Resolved, That, in the opinion of the members of the City Council of the City of Boston, the commission appointed by the Governor to investigate the high cost of living should give one or more public hearings and give all citizens who desire to do so an opportunity to appear before them publicly and present their views.

Report accepted; resolution passed.

(5) Report on message of Mayor and order (referred October 17) concerning alterations and so forth by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company on West First and other streetsrecommending reference of same to Finance Commission and Chamber of Commerce for study and report.

Coup. MCDONALD-Mr. President, while Coun. Kenny is not now here, he and I both voted against this in the Executive Committee because we both felt that the people of South Boston were entitled to be considered in this matter. We both favored reporting back "Ought not to pass," upon the matter. I simply wish to have that understood, both for the councilor from South Boston and myself.

The report was accepted and the recommendations adopted.

(6) Report on message of Mayor and order (referred today) charging expense of Civil Service Commission to the Reserve Fund, said expense amounting to $116.40-that the order ought to pass.

Report accepted; order passed, yeas 8, nays 0.

EAST BOSTON RESERVOIR FOR

PLAYGROUND.

President HAGAN offered an order That the unused East Eagle reservoir in East Boston be and hereby is transferred from the custody of the Public Works Department to the custody of the Park and Recreation Commissioners, with the intention of having said unused reservoir filled in so it may be used for park or playground purposes.

Coun. HAGAN moved a suspension of the rule that the order might be acted upon today.

Coun. MCDONALD-Mr. President, I move that the matter be referred to the Corporation Counsel to find out whether we can legally take this action or not. I want to say that I favor the order. I claim the distinction of being the father of the original order to convert Eagle Hill reservoir into a playground. I have been over to East Boston time and time again, and the gentleman will bear me out, advocating the very thing that this order calls for. I think the people over there are entitled to it; I think they should have that particular spot made into a recreation ground for women and children. I went over the thing two years ago, and the Metropolitan Water Board sent us a report that the thing could be done at that time, that the land was not used and was not necessary. But at the time of the break at the Malden Bridge for five or six minutes they had to turn on and use that water, and that was used as an argument at the time why it should not be taken. They have since, however, discontinued the use of it. The people of East Boston should be given a playground, and this is the best, most available spot. It is a nice place at the top of a hill, a beautiful place for mothers and children in East Boston to go to for recreation. I would like to find out what our authority in the premises is. If it comes to a vote, however, I will vote for it, because I think it is something that should be brought about.

Coun. BALLANTYNE-Mr. President, I shall vote against suspension of the rule because I think the matter should go into the Executive Committee. An order passed by us has been turned down by the Mayor, and he gives his reasons for it. This order cannot become effective without the approval of the Mayor. I think we are wasting time. I am as much interested in the project as the councilor opposite, and I will tell Coun. McDonald and the gentleman opposite that I am the father of it, because I put the order into the Board of Aldermen nearly nine years ago to have this used as a public park. I am very much interested in it. I think it would be a splendid breathing spot for the people of East Boston. But why not refer it to the Executive Committee and have it before that committee for consideration. We can then call in the Commissioner of Public Works and the Mayor and see why they are opposed to it. It has been vetoed by the Mayor today, and I believe we should now send the matter to the Executive Committee where it can be thoroughly discussed.

Coun. HAGAN-Mr. President, I am very glad indeed to give full credit to Coun. Ballantyne, as well as to Coun. McDonald, for the paternity of this proposition. It evidently has two fathers, so I now claim to be the mother. I wish to be a good, zealous mother, as long as it is my child, and to push it along and go through with it. I don't want to see objections or obstacles thrown in the way by the fathers of the order, either. I expect, as does my good friend Ballantyne, that the Mayor will veto the order again, if it

is passed, and I want to give him that very pleasant duty to perform. I want him to go on record before the people of East Boston as vetoing the order. I want to stop him stalling in the matter, and have him on record. If he is going to veto it again, very well. I want to have the thing set right. Let us pass the order now, and let the Mayor record himself absolutely on the question. Coun. BALLANTYNE-Mr. President, wouldn't it be much better to get all the information we can before passing the order a second time? That information can be had by referring the matter to the Executive Committee. I have no desire to stand in the way of the East Boston people getting their playground. I hope Coun. Hagan will succeed in having the thing put through, and in having the ground used by the people of East Boston, who should use it. But I don't think we are going to gain anything by passing the order today, and I hope the motion to suspend the rule will not prevail, but that the order will go to the Executive Committee.

Coun. HAGAN-Mr. President, Coun. Ballantyne and other members have been for years trying to get this thing through and to get information about it. Now we have got the information that we wish spread on our records from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Commission. They have said that they have no control over the reservoir lot, have no use for it and never will have. In spite of that fact, we are met by communications from the Mayor's office along similar lines to the one today, saying that he believes that there is going to be a use for it. That shows that they have made no study of the proposition whatever: it shows that the communication from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Commission of last week did not seem to penetrate the Mayor or have any effect on him, because his communication today is in very similar language to that received some months ago. I believe if you ask the Commissioner of Public Works about the matter he will tell you what he told me some months ago; that some time ago, at a time of a fire, there was some trouble at the Wellington Bridge, and they had to turn on this reservoir to provide water for the people of East Boston. I understand from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Commission that they did nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, this is a very hazardous, dangerous spot. A boy was drowned there last summer. It is time that something of the sort was done in the interests of the people of East Boston. It can be done at very small expense to the city, and I believe in the last analysis there will be a saving to the city if it is carried out, because, as I have suggested here, the area of the wharf property in that section can be increased by filling taken from this, and that is something that is very much needed. I certainly do not want to have any obstacles placed in the way of this matter. It is not a legal proposition, and if we pass it the Mayor will come back next week saying that the Corporation Counsel states that it is not legal. The Mayor will find a way out. He can crawl through the crack in a sliver better than any man I know of in our community. I want to give him an opportunity to veto this measure, if he wishes to do so, and I hope the Council will vote for this order today.

Coun. MCDONALD-Mr. President, I agree in everything that the gentleman who preceded says, as far as the importance of having this land used for the people of East Boston is concerned, but he is putting an obstacle in the way now, I am afraid. He says that if we send it to the Mayor now he will veto it. He doesn't think that if he sends the thing right back to the Mayor the people of East Boston are going to get what they want in the way he now suggests. Does he intend going on doing this sort of thing until ten years from now?

Coun. HAGAN-One year from now is probably

all I want.

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Coun. MCDONALD-Well, one year from now. I am going to do it three years from now, if I can. so that, keeping at the matter until the people of East Boston get some benefit from this place. want the people to get that park. I don't care whether the Mayor opposes it or not. My friend Storrow laughs; but I am with that proposition, and I say I don't care whether the Mayor opposes it or not: They should give the people of East Boston that recreation spot. The Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board told me that they used that for six minutes, and the people of East Boston did not know about it, because they had to do it in an emergency. Of course, that doesn't make any difference, but if the councilor wants action, We

why not let the Corporation Counsel tell us whether we can do it or not? Of course, we can pass and pass motions ог resolutions, an and we are not going to get anything for the people of East Boston, unless we go about this in the right way. I will withdraw my motion and let the matter go to the Executive Committee, and let Mr. Murphy, the Mayor, the Corporation Counsel and everybody else be brought before the committee. can then find out what is the trouble, and can act accordingly. Of course, if it is pushed today I will not vote against it. I want the people over there to get action. But the only obstacle we are placing in the way now is by sending the order right back to the Mayor, I believe. He voted an order similar to it, and why should we send this back immediately? We are not getting anywhere, and let us try to get somewhere.

Coun. HAGAN-Mr. President, the councilor asks the reason why we should do it? Because we want to do it, because it is clearly within the rights of the Council to do it. I have been assured by our esteemed City Clerk that it is within the jurisdiction of the Council to pass this order, and I would rather have his opinion of what we can do than that of the Corporation Counsel or nine tenths of the lawyers in this town. I think he knows, while the other people are guessing. Now, it is clearly within our jurisdiction, if my good friend McDonald will only take my version of it, and I simply want to give him an opportunity of voting for it today, not next week or the week after, but before the next city election. I want to give to my good friend McDonald an opportunity to record himself in favor of this measure which he believes in and which he is one of the fathers of, so that the people of East Boston will recognize the fathers of the order. I want to see him vote on it, and I want to have the Mayor, if he proposes to veto it again, do so before the city election, between now and a week from tomorrow.

Coun. MCDONALD-I will vote for it today, and I don't believe Coun. Hagan or anybody else can tell the people of East Boston that I am not the father of the order, because it is well known that I have introduced the order in the past. He got in at a meeting over in East Boston where the matter was being considered, got in on the job, simply because he was invited by one of the members. He

knows that that is true. But I will vote for it now. As a personal matter, I would sooner vote for it now, because I will get a lot of votes by voting for it. I am satisfied to go through with it. But the people of East Boston know, while the gentleman has been hammering at it and has done a lot of work for it, that I have done so also. Coun. Attridge did some work, too, and Coun. Ballantyne and other members of the City Council have tried to help out the people of East Boston, because they thought it would do them some good politically. At every city election for a long time the subject matter of this order has been under discussion. I did not put it in today, but I am going to vote for it. The rule was suspended and the order was declared passed. Coun. MCDONALD doubted the vote and asked for the yeas and nays, and the order was passed, yeas 8, nays 0.

GREAT WHITE WAY, MERIDIAN STREET.

President HAGAN offered an order-That his Honor the Mayor be requested to cause Meridian street, East Boston, from Sumner street to Lexington street, to be illuminated or lighted as a so-called "Great White Way"; said improvement being greatly desired by the merchants and business men of Meridian street, between the streets mentioned above.

Passed.

GENERAL RECONSIDERATION.

Coun. ATTRIDGE moved a general reconsideration on all business transacted at the meeting, hoping that the same would not prevail. Lost.

NEXT MEETING.

It was voted, on motion of Coun. COLLINS, that when the Council adjourns it be to meet on Wednesday, December 27, at two o'clock p. m.

The Council stood adjourned at 5.30 p. m.

P. Whorf, Ward 16; Timothy J. Ahern, Ward 20; John J. Kelly, Ward 20: Bernard McGlinchey, Ward 3; Finimore L. Bodman, Ward 25; Walter Kirby, Ward 21; Andrew L. O'Toole, Ward 20; Renfrew I. Edwards, Ward 21; Daniel E. Finn, Ward 11; J. Albert Brown, Ward 11; Harry V. Lawrence, Ward 10; Owen A. Cavlin, Ward 15; Thomas J. Lodge, Ward 21; Charles Cochran, Ward 12; James Matthews, Ward 19; Abram Herman, Ward 9; Benjamin F. Drake, Ward 20; Patrick Murphy, Ward 9; John T. McCormack, Ward 26; Charles J. Boodro, Ward 14; Charles W. Meier, Ward 16; Jeremiah F. Driscoll, Ward 16; Frank J. Weymouth, Ward 24; Arthur J. Bigelow, Ward 26; Abraham Silberstein, Ward 11; Henry W. Stevens, Ward 25; Michael G. Havey, Ward 18; Charles P. Adams, Ward 10; Lawrence B. Martine, Ward 10; Frank J. McCoy, Ward 8; Michele Luongo, Ward 6; Walter H. Ricker, Ward 7; Albert C. Haley, Ward 13; Charles Duffy, Ward 19; Thomas F. H. Sproules, Ward 19; James H. MeCallum, Ward 1; David Bendetson, Ward 20.

Forty traverse jurors, Superior Civil Court, Second Session, January Sitting, to appear January 2, 1917:

Robert M. Otis, Ward 23; Lloyd N. Young, Ward 17; Solomon Hamburg, Ward 8; Frank R. Cauley, Ward 3; Frederick A. Purrington, Ward 25; John J. Cloney, Ward 17; William J. Mitchell, Ward 20; Michael J. Haley, Ward 3; Frank M. Frost, Ward 16; Patrick O'Callaghan, Ward 25; James A. Higgins, Ward 21; John J. Kennerley, Ward 2; Jeremiah Scannell, Ward 16; John J. Kiernan, Ward 22; William Stephen Connolly, Ward 17; James J. Nicholson, Ward 15; Herbert Benton, Ward 21; Daniel B. Sydleman, Ward 21; Walter C. Harris, Ward 25; Joseph F. Curran, Ward 1; Arthur E. Rabethge, Ward 1; William O. Lynch, Ward 16; John J. Smith, Ward 18; E. Eugene Morse, Ward 23; William J. Tighe, Ward 20; Frank J. Wainwright, Ward 24; Herbert C. Hartwell, Ward 21; Edward J. Geishecker, Ward 21; Frank H. Chambers, Ward 22; Fred G. F. Eklund, Ward 20; Harry J. Norton, Ward 20; William J. Quinn, Ward 20; J. Myles Standish, Ward 20; John F. Shaughnessy, Ward 24; John Mahoney, Ward 18; William Cohen, Ward 2; Walter A. Webster, Ward 20; Bernard G. Vorbrink, Ward 25; George G. Parlee, Ward 20; John J. Moran, Ward 26.

Forty traverse jurors, Superior Civil Court, Third Session, January Sitting, to appear January 2, 1917:

John J. Kelley, Ward 21; Michael J. Lyons, Ward 2; James D. O'Malley, Ward 20; Eugene J. Mulvey, Ward 16; George W. Armington, Ward 21; Frank Cook, Ward 19; Walter Pritchett, Ward 16; Hugh J. Arbuckle, Ward 20; Alexander D. Ritchie, Ward 17; Ralph F. Nichols, Ward 21; Edward A. Smith, Ward 18; Charles Brackle, Ward 21; William J. Glavey, Ward 22; Harrison W. James, Ward 21; George L. French, Ward 23; Charles W. Carter, Ward 12; John McCarthy, Ward 4; John J. Manning, Ward 15; Daniel J. O'Leary, Ward 13; Chester A. Wilson, Ward 25; Arthur E. Messer, Ward 1; John S. McAdams, Ward 5; Abraham S. Bearse, Ward 8; Daniel J. Kane, Ward 10; Aubrey W. Benjamin, Ward 16; Frederick L. Wilder, Ward 20; Arthur H. Saunders, Ward 20; Granville E. Foss, Jr., Ward 11; Rudolph G. Widmer, Ward 23; Joseph T. Walsh, Ward 20; Paul G. Anderson, Ward 2; Thomas J. Sullivan, Ward 25; Alden T. Cleveland, Ward 26; William M. Tolman, Ward 23; Frank P. Moriarty, Ward 25; Charles Kean, Ward 7; William D. Murphy, Ward 19; Allen A. Smith, Ward 20; Andrew Carroll, Ward 12; Charles D. McInnis, Ward 25.

Forty traverse jurors, Superior Civil Court, Fourth Session, January Sitting, to appear January 2, 1917:

Daniel G. Finnerty, Ward 19; Thomas J. Tighe, Ward 23; Albert F. Brown, Ward 24; James E. Dalton, Ward 1; Matthew Fenyus, Ward 22; Charles W. Bradlee, Ward 11; Mark E. Kelly, Ward 23; Simon Newhoff, Ward 21; Peter Welch, Ward 15; Bernard M. Hession, Ward 16; Harry D. Cheney, Ward 5; Everett M. Gilpatrick, Ward 12; Charles E. Mayer, Ward 23; John Carlson, Ward 16; Andrew J. Abel, Ward 16; William W. Duncan, Ward 1; Patrick J. Kane, Ward 11; James McLaughlin, Ward 20; Richard C. Sharman, Ward 20; Jeremiah J. Murray, Ward 20; Frank J. Hackett, Ward 4; Neil Harol, Ward 21;