VOL. 118 - NO. 3 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 17, 2014 $.30 A COPY William B. Evans Appointed Police Commissioner of the Boston Police Department William Gross Named Superintendent in Chief root causes of violence and agement team as Superin- Department. As a Patrol make sure everyone feels tendent of the Bureau of Officer he spent many years safe in our city,” said Mayor Field Services. Commis- in the Gang Unit and Drug Walsh. “He understands that sioner Evans is a 2008 Control Unit, as well as serv- we can’t just react to crime graduate of Harvard Univer- ing as an Academy Instruc- — we must work together to sity, John F. Kennedy School tor. He rose through the prevent it from happening in of Government and recently ranks, achieving the ranks the first place.” completed a certificate pro- of Sergeant and Sergeant Commissioner Evans is a gram for Senior Executives Detective and was promoted 33-year veteran of the Bos- in State and Local Govern- to Deputy Superintendent in ton Police Department and ment and participated in 2008, where he became a has held leadership roles the National Preparedness member of the Command within the Department for Leadership Initiative, John Staff of the Department. As several years. Evans has F. Kennedy School of Gov- Deputy Superintendent, had notable roles in the suc- ernment/Harvard School of Gross served as the Com- cessful, peaceful handling Public Health as well as mander of Zone 2, which Superintendent in Chief Boston Police Commissioner of the 70-day occupation of National Post-Graduate is comprised of Area B-2 of the Boston Police WILLIAM B. EVANS Dewey Square by Occupy School & U.S. Department of Roxbury & Mission Hill, Area Department Mayor Martin J. Walsh ap- Boston, the City’s response Homeland Security, Execu- B-3 Mattapan, Area C-11 WILLIAM GROSS pointed Interim Police Com- in the aftermath of the Bos- tive Leaders’ Program. Dorchester and Area C-6 (Gang Unit) and the School missioner William B. Evans ton Marathon bombings and “I’ve known Chief Gross South Boston. In this role, Police Unit. In 2012 he was as Police Commissioner of the capture of alleged terror- for many years, going he coordinated with District promoted to Superintendent, the Boston Police Depart- ist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. back to the early days of Captains in their develop- Night Commander, respon- ment and Superintendent William Evans joined the my career as a state repre- ment of strategies to address sible for oversight of all po- William Gross as Superin- ranks of the Boston Police sentative in Dorchester,” crime trends and attended lice responses to incidents tendent in Chief of the Bos- Department as a patrol of- said Mayor Walsh. “I know community meetings to ad- on a city-wide basis in the ton Police Department. ficer in 1982 and rose his deep ties to our commu- dress specific neighborhood evening hours. Throughout “Commissioner Evans through the ranks becoming nity and broad experience crime concerns. his career, Chief Gross has shares my belief that we all Captain of area D-4 in 2006, give him a uniquely quali- In 2010 Deputy Superin- maintained a strong con- must work together — in the a post that brought him in fied perspective on address- tendent Gross became the nection with the commu- community, across depart- close contact with religious ing violence in Boston’s commander of the Field nity, and has been awarded ments and with state and leaders, community groups, neighborhoods.” Support Division, which in- numerous awards for brav- federal partners — to build and business owners and William Gross is a 28-year cluded command over the ery, meritorious service and collaborations to attack the most recently to the man- veteran of the Boston Police Youth Violence Strike Force community partnership. News Briefs Remembering the Great Molasses Flood by Cyn Donnelly by Sal Giarratani To the uninitiated, men- tioning a Great Molasses Good Luck to New York Flood might conjure up With the election of Bill de Blasio as Mayor of cartoonish images of molas- New York City, it appears that the Big Apple is ses flowing through the going back to the future with a John V. Lindsay streets. But to those in Bos- redux. As bad as Michael Bloomberg was with his ton and more specifically the wanting to ban all things he deemed bad for ev- North End, the molasses eryone else, we now have a new mayor in New flood was no joke. Ninety-five York who seems to be like all those Obats want- years ago, on January 15, ing to pit the mean rich against the good people. 1919, a disaster befell the More moonbats to the rescue. Bill de Blasio can’t city the likes that hadn’t help himself. He grew up in the Peoples Republic been seen before. of Cambridge after all. Tax the rich and help the It started at the Purity Dis- 99 percenters out there, right? tilling Company’s facility Now, New Yorkers will see the push for more which, through the distilla- hearing what sounded like children, older men, house- Headstart and more universal Pre-K for all. That tion of the molasses into al- machine-gun fire (which wives and laborers alike lost is the answer to everything. That will solve all cohol, produced ethyl alco- turned out to be the rivets their lives that day. our problems. Meanwhile he wants to ban all horse hol. A tank on Commercial shooting out of the collaps- The tragedy could have drawn carriages that tourists love when they go Street, holding about ing tank) while the ground been even worse if not for to Central Park. Like their liberal cousins in Mas- 2,300,000 gallons of molas- quaked as if a train were the USS Nantucket being sachusetts, these liberals are out to save the ses, collapsed on that mod- passing by. Buildings in the docked at the nearby Navy horses and end pollution from you know what. erately-temperatured Janu- area had their foundations Yard. Moments after the The liberal playbook will be alive and well. The ary day, sending molasses swept out from under them flooding began, cadets from only good I can say about de Blasio is that he is gushing through the streets and many city streets were the training ship arrived by Italian-American and more importantly, says he with such force that the gird- flooded in up to three feet of foot in the North End and is a member of Red Sox Nation. I can only hope ers and railway lines at molasses. Among the wreck- began pulling people out of he holds to his word and doesn’t pull a “Mayor Boston’s elevated railway on age it would eventually be the molasses to safety while Bloomberg from Medford” on us by switching over Atlantic Avenue were dam- discovered that twenty-one keeping curious onlookers to the NY Yankees. aged. 26,000,000 pounds of people died during the flood- at bay during the rescue. (Continued on Page 8) molasses barreled through ing, varying in ages from 10 Eventually, other members the streets at about 35 miles to 76 years old. The disaster per hour. Witnesses recall didn’t discriminate. Young (Continued on Page 6) THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, JANUARY 17, 2014 Res Publica by David Trumbull Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 20, 2014, applied only to government CATO THE ELDER will mark the Rev. Dr. Mar- workers in the District of This week we continue a history of the First and tin Luther King, Jr., federal Columbia. It was not until with our series on those great Second Punic Wars. holiday. This leader in the 1885 that all federal workers literary Latin’s. In previous De Originibus was evi- movement for civil rights for got Washington’s Birthday columns, we divided all of dently the result of a great African-Americans is one of off. Roman literati into four gen- amount of scholarly activity three men honored with a Abraham Lincoln, the eral categories namely: and had it been preserved, federal holiday. Great Emancipator and sav- 1. The Early Age, 2. The it would have given us much Christmas Day, in a reli- ior of the Union, is not, even Golden Age, 3. The Silver Age valuable information about gious sense honors Jesus of now 149 years after his and 4. The Later Empire. We early Roman history. Cato Nazareth, a man, but as death, honored with a fed- noted that in the Early Age also appears to be the first a federal holiday, in a repub- eral holiday. The third Mon- there was Andronicus Livius, Roman who wrote on the lic with no established day in February is, colloqui- a group called the Scipionic subject of medicine. He church, it is probably more ally referred to as “Presi- Circle and Cato the Elder. included foods that were correct to view it as a desig- dents Day” to honor both During the last two issues recommended for the sick nated holiday due to the fact Washington and Lincoln, we discussed Andronicus and ancient remedies from that most federal employees whose birthdays fall near Livius and also the Scipionic herbs.