Became a lawyer joining the firm of his friend of his fathers, staunch abolitionist. Arthur won the case that desegregated number city street cars. During the civil war, when many were enrhythming. Thises on government contracts he was an honest and efficient quartermaster for the union army, but in years following the would his quest for wealth led him down a darker road. He became a top lieutenant to the allpowerful boss of the new york republican machine. At conklins urging, in 1872 he was appoint collector over thank you new york custom house, the largest single federal office in the nation and a fount of job and fairs that was rotten with corruption. When the custom house find merchants for violation, chet arthur took a cut. Lived in a world of tiffany silver, fine carriages and grand balls balls and had hats and coats importlandded from lon do and owned at least 80 pairs of trouser. When an old college contractsmate item him his deputy was corrupt, chet waved him away. He he said
5 00 on the dot, im chris mckinnon. Im kathryn hauser. Its disease the 10th. We are moving right along. It feels like december . It feels like october. Yeah. We are in the 40s right now. Right now this morning. We are warmer than we should be. If you like the mild weather then this stretch is for you. Currently in boston 45 degrees. Humidity at 86 . Light wind from the south. I am tracking a couple showers, a little piece of energy that needs to swing through this stand by. Time. Couple sprinkles right now stretching back through peter borrow, quick sprinkle, well east of route 11 and lower con couldnt river valley coming to hubbard stop, the rest of us mainly dry, have to keep a chance of a shower in for the morning rush hour much by lunch time the sunny breaks are coming out, 56 degrees by lunch hour. Well top out 5560 this afternoon, light southwest breeze, a mild evening, temperatures in the upper 40s as we head into the ride home. Lets get you on the roads this morning. Traffic an
Juli that s right. An mbta official said he heard an emergency call over the radio at the this morning. A a train packed with writers taking off on its own a train packed with riders taking off on its own. Mbta officials are trying to figure out how a red line train carrying passengers traveled multiple stops without an operator. An operator stepped off the inbound train just after 6 00 in braintree to check a problem. The train kept moving, hitting him, and continue to travel four stops travel four stops before mbta personnel howard the stopped the train. No passengers were hurt and the operator was treated for minor injuries. The mbta general manager is incident. He released a statement this morning saying that passenger safety is their highest priority. Wcvb newscenter 5. Emily thank governor baker is saying believes that train was tampered with. Frank holland is live at the jfkumass station. Frank the cause of that runaway train is under investigation by t police. The fbi has also
That the train was running in both directionses, but there are still severe delays. The red line here in Downtown Crossing closed down at the tail end of rush hour after a woman was struck and killed by a red line train. Mbta police say it happened around 6 40 and the 40yearold victim was killed by a northbound train. We are working on getting the victim from under the train. One of the rails arced before testing it to remove the victim. There was a slight injury, but theyre fine. They went to the hospital to be checked out. While the red line was shut down, shuttle buss were taking people to harvard or j. F. K. Station. I went to the green line, and it was a whole mess. Reporter there were long lines and frustrated commuters standing, waiting at the end of the long day. Were going to j. F. K. Our car is near the area. Something. Reporter she was one of the lucky ones. Once again, the red line is open once again, but there are major delays if youre taking that subway line. In downtown