Grippe Epidemic Curtails Services

• Although many of the Boston Protestant churches closed yesterday because of the epidemic, the closing was less general in the city than in the suburbs• The Catholic churches each celebrated an early mass• Pastors took every precaution possible in conformity with health authorities’ plans, opening windows and doors of the churches and everything possible was done to keep the air fresh• As the Public Safety Committee’s request covers next Sunday it is probable that the same conditions will apply then• The offer of the Cardinal to the health authorities to turn St. John’s Seminary into a temporary hospital was commended on all sides, as was the action of the Knights of Columbus in offering the old Notre Dame building on Berkeley with some 400 single beds as another temporary hospital• There will be few, if any, evening services in the diocesan churches this weekNewspaper article1,