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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1895
Page
4
The Advertiser and Record misrepresentation is challenged as opposes the subway. Commissioners reduced original estimates, contractors propose building entire line at 10 percent less. Boston Merchants' Association reaffirms approval. Wages from digging go to Boston workers. Will the Legislature halt the project?
Citizens decry high costs and demands for excessive fares, arguing rapid transit delays would set back the subway project by two decades. Officials defend pricing while urging momentum, insisting the plan must move despite pushback.
Boston faces a pivotal choice as lawmakers debate halting subway work. Proponents argue stopping would waste contracts and deprive workers of employment, while the project promises relief to the congested Public Garden and Tremont Street area. Critics claim cost risks and seek street-level electric rail access. The stance is clear: the subway should continue to complete public transit and protect the Common.
The overseers and Harvard College’s athletic committee favor reform to cure abuses in intercollegiate football without ending the sport. Intercollegiate games will continue, likely improved, with a pledge to restrict play to college grounds. The piece hints at reduced gate receipts and less outside interest. It contrasts this with a proposed subway project and the builders Jones & Meehan quoting a much lower cost.
The revival of pre-reduction wage levels by Mr. Borden signals improved conditions in Fall River and across the industry. Restored earnings boost purchasing power, aiding merchants and workers after last year’s strike and lockout. The piece questions a plan to eliminate subways in favor of surface cars across the Common.
Mayor Curtis favors a single rate of one dollar per thousand cubic feet for gas citywide. The Post urges his support to advance the plan, noting Dorchester has joined and East Boston, Charlestown, and Jamaica Plain remain. He has backing from the Board of Aldermen and cites Mayor Matthews as an example.
The Republican House rejected the Norwegian liquor system and municipal woman suffrage as political moves aimed at securing votes. The piece argues morality is secondary to party gain and notes Boston laborers building the subway, urging continued support for labor interests.
The observant citizen reports aldermen Flood Presho Dyar and Councilman Norris enjoying pool. The St Marys Infant Asylum to hold April 19 and 20 festival in Armory, with women supporters. Ex congressman ONeil and Col Francis Peabody avoid eye contact on School street. Rejane the French actress draws interest. Boston stores receive foreign publications ahead of her arrival. A disturbing incident on an inward bound Huntington avenue car shows a woman smoking opium while wearing a veil, causing nauseated passengers and revealing a face marked by drug use.
A stylish woman, followed by a colored hotel attendant, left a prominent hotel early last evening amid speculation of trouble. She paused and declared she would return to confront an onlooker, then delivered a sharp rebuke at the entrance. The crowd wondered about the motive for the scene.
Members from many colleges gathered in Youngs Hall for the twelfth annual New England Association reunion and banquet under Amherst Ma-Deuteron Charge. Officers elected included Irving P. Fox president and E H Capen D D vice presidents and a slate of notable fellows from Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts and other institutions. Toasts followed with speeches by Hosea M Knowlton and others, including Capen of Tufts.
Alder man Barry’s resolution calls for $1 gas in Jamaica Plain West Roxbury Charlestown and East Boston. Mayor Curtis backs the effort and will press gas commissioners to lower rates promising to push toward dollar gas citywide within a month after current prices range from 1.80 with 15 percent off to 1.25 in East Boston.
The article notes the weather favoring short capes as sanitarians opposed them earlier. It praises the cape as a versatile wrap that can vary in shape and trimming with multiple materials sewn to a foundation and lined with silk. Velvet capes with lace, plaited mull, jet, and ribbon rosettes emerge as stylish combinations.
Fashion notes describe passementerie in show windows and rising cape sales like spring jackets. Moire capes are cheap signaling its decline. Service capes use moire poplin for elderly and brown cloth capes suit young women. The most elaborate remain church capes and opera wraps with black satin and jet embellishments forming a yoke and fringe.
A Boston correspondent complains that Hon J E Hayes was unjustly barred from participating in a Faneuil Hall gathering on April 10. The letter notes the public invite urged supporters of repealing resubmission to speak, while questioning Hayes's place on the floor and in the galleries.
Class 9 of Charles Street A M E School presented a musical and literary program last evening. A large audience enjoyed a varied lineup with Ella Watkins soprano, Ida Spofford piano solo, Gertrude Johnson elocution, Charles Murry tenor, Georgie Cheeks and Pauline Hopkins readers, Hamer violin, Fisher cornet, John A flute, Osborne and Kerstone among performers.
Washington April 11 Commissioner Miller issued supplemental instructions to sixty three internal revenue collectors after considering the revised income tax law changes and prior Supreme Court decision not yet published. The directives cover treatment of interest from state and municipal bonds and rents from real estate, deductions for taxes insurance and repairs, and procedures for amended returns with affidavits. The telegrams urge collectors to print and distribute affidavits, attach them to original returns, and allow future deductions only for real estate rents. The Commissioner signals possible extended hours to April 15 for those filing returns.
Hockert, president of Western Union Telegraph Co, reports supplementary instructions to collectors and telegrams urging offices to stay open beyond hours. Commissioner Miller enforces the remaining income tax provisions and urges all taxpayers to file before close of business April 15 to avoid penalties.
Norwich report states Hon. David A. Wells of the city served as an adviser to Choate and Seward in the Supreme Court income tax contest. Chief Justice Fuller cited a letter to Wells in the leading opinion opposing the law. A parallel circuit court challenge in the state is anticipated, akin to Wednesday’s Illinois Central action.
Aboard the four masted Kansas, bound from Liverpool to Boston, the steam vessel lost its propeller ninety miles off Boston lightship. Pilot John Leary relayed the emergency to Warren & Co. and agents. Taurus and other towboats were dispatched. The Kansas, 8455 tons net, 6276 gross, 486 feet long, 43 feet 8 inches beam, carries 70 crew and 1800 tons merchandise. Towboats Taurus Herald Storm King aim to bring the ship to port by Saturday morning.
Internal Revenue Collector Edward J. Donovan named ten income tax collectors and assigned them to headquarters at the federal building and other cities. Names include Slade Quincy Furie Charlestown McMahon South Boston Carroll Peabody Couch Taunton Riley Worcester OToole Amesbury Mead Lowell Stapleton Springfield Wilcox North Adams Ashley Westfield. Nearly 100 visitors paid taxes at Boston. about 6000 had complied by day's end. Office hours Friday Saturday and Monday run 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for collections.
Archbishop Williams celebrated pontifical high mass at 10 a.m. in full pontificals while the Cathedral, veiled in mourning, featured white and gold vestments and lights. The Holy Oils and Paschal candle were blessed, the blessed sacrament carried in a solemn procession, and the repository gleamed with exotics and white silk as the rites foregrounded a promise of resurrection.
London April 11 Notices in papers say United States Consul General Collins will provide information on the income tax to English inquirers. He explained the Foreign Office is flooded with requests and forms are being sent promptly. He added delays may see fines remitted for those unable to obtain forms or learn the law terms.
Washington on April 11 Commissioner Miller telegraphed that no power exists to extend the time for filing income tax returns. The message was sent to Thomas T. (person not fully readable) as the department clarifies deadline policies.
A Boston citizen urged Dr. I J Lansing to apologize for insulting theU S President. The President replied from Washington on April 10 that the clergyman’s retracting apology worsens the offence, and left punishment to his conscience and public opinion.
Clergy and laity of the archdiocese of Boston will host a banquet for Archbishop Williams in commemoration of his golden jubilee. The event is set for May 16 at 6 p m in Music Hall.
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