Wages Of Railroad Men Examine Nationwide Pay Study
Washington April 1 Colonel Carroll D Wright delivers a nine hundred page fifth annual report of the Department of Labor on railroad wages. The study tracks 241,910 employees across 1718 railroads, shows 224,570 on time pay and 17,340 by mile or piece, with average earnings about 2438 dollars per year and notable migration between jobs and districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washrneton
Sproran
Harrison
Carroll D. Wright
Wright
Department of Labor
Interior Department
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Becaus
Great Britain
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Health Boost
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy to overcome tiredness, purify blood, restore appetite, and increase brightness and strength. It urges purchase from druggists.
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Hood
Slow Second Day At Leonard’s Paintings Sale
The second day of Leonard & Co.’s modern European paintings sale closed with slow bidding. Millet’s Peasant Woman and Child led at 8800 while several French works sold for modest sums. Corot and Rousseau pieces fetched 520 and 500 respectively. The sale resumes this afternoon with more French school canvases to be disposed of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard & Co
State Street
Millet
V. Tojelle
E. Tines
Corot
New York
Rousseau
Fontainebleau
C.J. Linne
Paris
Turner
London
Grotto
Place du Carrousel
Vicente de Paranes
Order of Isabella
Charles II
Spain
Durant
Solitude
A. G. DeCamps
Daubigny
Roumeyous
Paul Seigmic
Girard
Asl
Creditors Meet at Ave The Hotels Over Boston Tavern Affairs
A meeting of creditors and others interested in the Boston Tavern affairs was harmonious. A committee will report later. Possible rent reduction by owner D. L. Demmon could ease taxes totaling about $23 000. if objected, Robinson & Fitzsimmons may claim damages for late delivery. MIT "K25" held a monthly meeting with papers on phosphorus in pig iron condensed milk and water analysis. Unoen No. 1 of the Union Endowment organized at Parker's with officers named. Newton Boat Club held its annual dinner at the Thorndike with seventy five attendees. Curtis Lawyers Club dined at Young's. United States Hotel hosts a New England Railroad Agents' Association meeting. Newspaper Club met at the American House. Notable arrivals and guests listed from multiple hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
D. L. Demmon
Messrs. Robinson & Fitzsimmons
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
K25
Young's
McKenna
Weed and Fuller
Unoen No. 1
Union Endowment
Parker’s
J. E. Casler
American House
Vewxpomp
C. W. Plummer
Anna Rotch
New Bedford
W. W. Dunnell
Providence
R. J
J. W._ Minturn
Minturn
Appleton
New York
Brunswick
Mme. Sautin
E. H
Peas
Samuel I
Flint
England
Foster Elliot
Halifax
J. H. Chapman
Tremont
W. W. Bierce
Memphis
Tenn
J. Fowler
Springfield
W. J. Florence
A. E. Curren
N. Y
E. S. Comstock
F. H. Johnson
Bath
United States
A. M. Cale
Akron
E. W. Eager
H. M. Chase
Philadelphia
M. E. Barber
T.J. McNamara
Towanda
Penn
J- G. Hickey
Rochester
N. Youne
C. H. Weston
Chicago
C. E. Austin
Buffalo
W. P. Allen
St. Paul
Minn
Leslie
Hart collection sale at Libbie's auction rooms highlights rare books
Yesterday marked the third day of Libbie's Hart collection sale with items such as a 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle, 1570 Ortelius geography, a Lyon edition Ovid, Pasquier on Love, Piron, Bullart portraits, Ptolemy geography, Rabelais, Regnier, Shakspere second folio and Villon works among the notable lots. The programme at Music Hall Sunday night features Gilmore and his band performing fourteen numbers with several soloists.
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Hart
Libbie
Nuremberg
A. Roberger
Abraham Ortelius
Antwerp
Ovid
Lyon
Jean de Tournes
Estienne Pasquier
Tatbaron Joly
Paris
Alexis Piron
M. Piron
St. Favoral
Trantz-Bauzonnet
Bullart
M. Pouchot
Canada
Claudius Ptolemeus
Johan Ruysch
Quebec
Rabeleies
Francois Rabelais
Gilmore
Music Hall
Massachusetts Caucus Reform Bill Shakes Nomination Process
The General Court reports a bill to regulate caucuses for nominating candidates and selecting delegates. It sets thresholds for party eligibility, defines conventions and ballots, requires notices, and details officer roles and penalties for violations. The Metropolitan Sewerage Commission also seeks amendments to allow easement acquisitions rather than full fee purchases.
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Metropolitan Sewerage Commission
Newton Seeks 500000 Water Loan Authority
Under a suspension of the twelfth joint rule the petition of the Mayor of Newton for authority to make an additional water loan was submitted. The amount the city asks to borrow is 500000, for which notes and scrip are proposed to be issued.
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Metropolitan Sewerage Commission
Senate
Metropolitan Sewerage Comission
Newton
Three Bills Favorably Acted Upon In Legislature
The house debated a Senate bill to incorporate the Security Safe Deposit and Trust Company in Lynn. Supported by Watt and Howland, opposed by others, it was ordered to a third reading. A cemetery bill passed to be engrossed after slight amendments. The wage deduction bill for weaving employers, with amendments, also passed to be engrossed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Security Safe Deposit & Trust Company
Lynn
Watt
Gloucester
Howland
Chelsea
House Bills and Reports on Wages and Public Works
House bills report changes to fishermen wages under trustee attachment, and leave to withdraw on Merrick Thread for bridge extension Holyoke to Chiconee. Taylor seeks canal from Boston Harbor to Lowell. Inexpedient reports cover employer discrimination, salaries of $1600 per session, railroad labor limits, and plumber license law changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOUSE
Merrick Thread Company
Holyoke
Chiconee
Frederick Taylor
Boston Harbor
Lowell
Senate Acts and Committee Actions Highlight Early Massachusetts Session
The Senate reported bills authorizing gas and electric company consolidations within towns, and reform on police tenure in cities. It debated liquor sale at public bars, reviewed Women’s Prison management, and considered preserving agricultural society property. Several reports deemed inexpedient included a Boston police force proposal and Weymouth agricultural bounty.
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Senate
Committee On Manufactures
Commonwealth
Catlin
Sherborn
Boston
James Emerson
Willimansett
Hulyoke
Wheaton Female Seminary
Framingham
Greenfield Electric Light & Power Company
Weymouth Agricultural and Industrial Society
Mr Williams Goes South
The House misses the clear voice of Representative George Fred Williams of Dedham due to a throat illness. His physician advised rest in a milder climate, and he is now en route to the South with plans to return when his health allows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR. Williams
George Fred Williams
Dedham
Williams
Theatrical Week Brings Mansfield to Boston Stages
The Boston theatre scene announces Richard Mansfield in Richard II on Monday followed by A Parisian Romance and Prince Karl on subsequent nights. Ed Munds is set for an early US debut, while The Gondoliers continues at the Globe with Miss Esther Palliser’s enhanced Gianetta.
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Richard Mansfield
Boston
Prince Karl
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Edmund Kean
Mr. Mansfield
Globe
Esther Palliser
Gianetta
Bettina Padelford
Theresa Vaughn
Aunt Jack
Fremont Theatre
Olympic
London
Planché
Charles Dance
Paphian Bower
Venus and
Adonis
Miss Pettifer
Britannia
Hoxton
Cupid
Mmne
Vestris
James Bland
Tully
Benjamin Webster
Miss Pincott
Alfred Wigan
Mary Summers
Pickwick
Strand
Hammond
Juliette
Mrs. Stirling
Mlle
de Brion
Walter Watts
Globe Insurance Company
Newgate Prison
Literary News and New Works from Various Presses
Longmans will publish The House of the Wolf by Stanley J Weyhan detailing three brothers amid the St Bartholemew’s Day massacre. Awards include The Leader journal's medal at the Paris Exposition. Bret Harte and Macauley works appear in May issues. Henry George article in New Review. Millets house gatherings noted. a geography manual by Jacques Redway promised. Donahoe’s May features Gis. New England Magazine portrait of George Kennan in May. philosophy series edited by E N Sneath with volumes planned for Descartes to Hegel. Henry Holt & Co publish.
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Longmans, Green & Co
Stanley J. Weyhan
St. Bartholomew’s Day
Lhe Leader
New York
Lippincott
Bret Harte
Springs
Millet
Scribner’s
T. H. Bartlett
Barbizon
Corot
Daumier
Barye
Rousseau
Diaz
Henry George
April New Review
Prince Biswarek
Building and Loan Associations
W. A. Linp
D. GC. Heath & Co
Jacques W. Redway
Donahoe's
Atlantic Monthly
Giordano Bruno
God
Robert Ingersoll
Bishop Spalding
New England
George Kennan
Hamlin Garland
Howells
Marion McBride
Dorchester
E. N. Sneath
Yale
Descartes
Ladd
Spinoza
Fullerton
University of Pennsylvania
Locke
Russell
Williams
Denhsesy
Porter
Hume
Sneath
Hegel
Royce
Harvard
Kant
Comte
Spencer
Henry Holt & Co
Mason Regulator Company's Milton Factory
A modern factory near the city, built by the Mason Regulator Company at Milton Massachusetts, manufactures steam regulation patents. The plant produces reducing valves steam damper regulators pump governors and pressure regulators used in large steam plants and fire pumps. Office at No 10 Central street Boston.
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Mason Regulator Company
Milton
Mass
Central Street
Boston
Marine and Coast Subjectes At The Art Club Exhibit
The Art Club exhibit features harbor scenes and coast studies by many artists. Francis Draner Mary King Longfellow and John B Foster gain praise for color and fidelity while J M Barnsley Marshall Johnson Jr and H W Roe show strong maritime works. The collection emphasizes vivid sea tones and precise depiction across many coastal Maine and New England subjects.
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Art Club
Francis Draner
Mary King Longfellow
John B. Foster
Gloucester Harbor
Old City
Brace’s Cove
James M. Barnsley
Marshall Johnson, Jr
Thatcher’s Island
Ben Foster
Wiscasset
Henry W. Roe
Ticonderoga
Dwight Blaney
Bermuda
A. A. Hallet
Port
W. J. Bixbee
S. P. R. Triscott
Wellfleet
Cape Cod
Marsh Island
J. C. Nicoll
Nantucket
Bass Rock
Gloucester
F. K. M. Rehn
James G. Tyler
H. Peabody Flagg
East Gloucester
J. F. Hurd
Talbot
Marblehead
Carlton ‘T. Chapman
Mr. Chapman
Jacob Wagner
King’s Beach
Swampscott
Charles River
Watertown
Notes to Ctavner the Postman's Box in Jamaica Plain
Letter writers discuss placing a postbox outside doors to speed delivery in Jamaica Plain. A second reader questions Boston’s growth since 1833 and a third recalls a pair of dog tales from Texas and Dorchester, with a curious rabbit anecdote and a wary warning from an elderly Bostonian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taverner
Jamaica Plain
Styles in Hats at Jackson and Co
It is the season when gentlemen seek current hat styles and Jackson & Co. at 126 Tremont Street offer hats from R Dunlap & Co. of New York. They assert their hats are correct in style and flattering to faces, with Jackson & Co. as sole Boston agents for the brand.
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Eliza Proctor Otis
Pauline
Proctor's Theatre
New York
Miss Otis
Saturday Review
Jackson & Co
Tremont Street
Hoston
R. Dunlap & Co
New York Bats
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Colorel Wright
Leonard's
Libbie’s
Committee On Election Laws
Massachusetts
Caucns
Congress
Coun
Poliical Committee
Bhall
Chaitin
Wring
Uariots
Auhorze Thelemporary
BILLS
Witch Times
Salem
McCavnl Opera Company
Tremont Theatre
Millocker
Symon
Eugene Ondin
DeWolf Hopper
Geeeee
MN Lindsay Morison
Prince and the
Pauper
Hollis Street
Elsie Leslie
Frank Daniels
Puck
M.seum
Grand Opera House
D. H. Wallick
Sam Houston
M’gleven
Philip A. Shea
Blue Officer
Madison Square Theatre
Ary Bdlaw
Brussels
Madison Square
Miss Mane Burroughs
Rose Eytinge
Louie Balte
Harry Lee
George Osborne
Henry Holland
Clarence Handyside
Charles Evans
Charles Dade
Thomas Joyce
A. Rankin
Lyceum Theatre
Frohman
Mr. Gillette
Lyceum Company
Hooley’s Theatre
Henrietta Crosman
Mr. Frohman
Mr. Daly
Lyceum Bac
All
Knights of Tyburn
Niblo’s
Alexander Calvini
Park Theatre
Salvini
Naples
Don Cresar de Bazan
Romeo
Marie Hubert Frohman
London Telegraph
W. G. Wills
Joanna
Court Theatre
Helena Modjeska
Wilson Barrett
Frank Dicksee
Opera Comique
Frances Ivor
Lyceum
Irving
National Theatre
Paul Kangar
Cecil Howard
National ‘Theatre
Lemberg
Adelphi
Leonard Boyne
Sims
Buchanan
Goldsmith
Criterion
Charles Wyndham
Mary Moore
Mr. Giddens
Thalperg
Winifred Emery
Thomas Thorne
Young Marlow
Literary News
Riverside Literature
Rome
Thomas Babington Macaulay
George Wharton Edwards
Ctaverner
the Postman’s Box
Texas
Merrinrack
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