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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1887
Page
7
Wheat prices steady to firm in Minneapolis and Chicago with No 1 hard near 77c cash. Cincinnati and St Louis show pork and lard quiet to mixed, while butter and cheese hold firm. Oats barley and rye trend steady, with flour supplies tight in several locations and freight rates to Liverpool steady.
The report tracks hogs in St Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago with price ranges from 4.70 to 6.20 per hundredweight, notes slow attention in Kansas City, easier hogs in Peoria, and in Chicago a broad market with cattle shipments around 2000 and hogs 15000. Strong entities include St Louis Kansas City Peoria Chicago and various price figures.
Net receipts and stocks from Augusta to Consolidation show mixed activity with most ports steady or dull. Major transfers include exports to Great Britain and the continent, coastal shipments, and varying sales levels. New York and Baltimore note notable outbound trade while Louisville and St. Louis show steady to quiet markets.
A historical cargo list from April 19 1887 records steamer cargoes to Hamburg Palermo Montevideo Economy Antwerp and Glasgow including Wetherby Lord Warwick New Guinea Scandinavian and other vessels. Items include glassware woollen goods books musical instruments potash rags raw sugar steel billets bricks and various imports and orders with numerous firms and partners in Baring Bros co J Moors co and others.
Yard and harbor records show Steamer Dominion carrying 625 barrels of flour and 11500 pounds of cargo including 575 empty lobster crates 113 pieces furniture 1 case book 3 cases boots and shoes 1100 feet of black walnut 15 bales chairs 1 box glass 20 tarts cottonseed meal 1118 pounds.
Readable aboard listing from London shore with items cleared April 14 to 17 including boots shoes organs cots cribs beds windstone frames bales leather firearms machinery hardware rope oil cases lumber seeds piano chair seats and various canned goods. Notable totals include 74 boots and shoes 20 boxed organs 228 windstone frames 133 bags 200 bales cotton drillings 46 cases and 608000 tbs cheese among many others.
A ledger style list catalogs staple goods shipped by major railroads including New York & New England Boston & Albany Grand Junction Old Colony Providence Fitchburg and Boston & Maine. Items cover cotton wool flour beef bacon butter cheese eggs potatoes leather hides tea and more with quantities noted per railroad and entries by sea.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast with two wheat arrivals and three cargoes waiting sales. Wheat quiet, corn dull in some markets. mixed American corn at 185 6d 18s8 9d. Paris wheat and flour quiet. Liverpool spot wheat moderate demand, corn weaker. India shipments to Britain 22,500 quarters, to the Continent 30,000 quarters. Breadstuffs: Wheat quiet, corn quiet. Winter wheat at 7s 2d, spring wheat 6s 10d7s, club wheat 7s 11d. Peas 5s 1d. Pork 678 6d. Bacon 39s 6d short, 38s 1d long. Cheese 64s. Tallow 22s 3d. Lord 3s 6d. London 5 0 m. English country markets noted.
London wool sales showed good attendance and strong prices with crossbred and fine wools advancing. Detailed Melbourne and colonial lot prices appeared, including New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Swan River, New Zealand, Tasmania, Cape of Good Hope, Natal and Falkland bales with scoured, greasy, and locks and pieces pricing in shillings and pence.
A long inventory lists names of salesmen and firms in cities from Atlanta to Toledo, including Edwin Bates & Re, Moore Marsh & Co, Mason Bros & Perry, Reed Jones & Co, Phelps Dodge & Palmer, and many others across Georgia Illinois Ohio Michigan Indiana Texas Kentucky Missouri and beyond, indicating a broad network of commercial agents and firms.
A long list of property transfers across Melville Avenue Rochester Street Davis Street South Street Albion Street Shawmut Avenue Huntington Avenue Dorchester Avenue and other Boston area streets dated April 4 and 5 with prices including 1 and up to 4300 and 25000 and mortgage details. Names include Melville Ave Cornelius Vinson Juliet Spaulding Michael Collins John Daley Abby Hassaum Louis Abrams Theo Parker Adeline Bartlett Edward Ellis Jacob Seaver Boston & Providence Railroad Co Oliver Ditson Eva Baker Rogers Barstow Winthrop Merrill Joseph Harris Alessandro Morton Michael Brett Rodney Brown Hub Carbon Co Chapman Seabury Bernard McEnroe Charles Putnam Louisa Carr James McFlynn Jeremiah Sullivan and others.
Mortgage on and buildings of Hoosac Tunnel Company in Charlestown to Suffolk Savings Bank dated April 6 for 500000. Marianna FE Clarke transfers to Mt Auburn Cemetery proprietors land and buildings as indicated.
A record of multiple April mortgage filings in Boston area counties shows transfers of land and buildings on streets including Washington Street Beale Street Fifth Street Campbell Avenue Lowland Street Dorchester Avenue Milton Street and Bartlett Street. Amounts range from four thousand to three hundred forty five hundred with lenders such as Boston Marine Insurance Company Wellfleet Savings Bank Hub Carbon Company Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank and others.
Australian merchants Mann and Stagdale failed with liabilities estimated at 80 000 to 100 000. Several assignments followed across the U S including Aldrich in Marshall Minnesota and Herriman in Ogdensburg North Carolina. Creditors meet April 22 to confirm trustees as others like Goulding Mills Boston go insolvent. Boston creditors close Newaygo Furniture and Manufacturing Works in Michigan, impacting 250 workers.
Funeral services for Robert Aldersey Vinal of Somerville were held at his Walnut street home yesterday. A large crowd packed the house to hear Rev. D. M. Thomson of the First Unitarian Church deliver the eulogy. Delegations from Masons Oasis Odd Fellows Royal Arch and fire department members attended along with city officials. The Weber Quartet performed softly as floral tributes surrounded the bier. Pallbearers included Austin Belknap Franklin Henderson George Tapley William Hall and others. Interment followed privately at Mt. Auburn cemetery.
Boston station Causeway Street lists through service to Tilton Laconia Weirs Meredith Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White Mountains and Montreal with morning departures to Plymouth and St Johnsbury Local Boston routes include Manchester Concord Nashua and Peterboro Hillsboro Greenfield and Nashua schedules with frequent daily runs and Pullman and parlor car options to Montreal and via Central Vermont and Passumpsie routes.
Full timetable of local and through trains serving Lawrence and nearby towns. Includes Wilmington Walnut Stoneham Woburn Winchester West Medford College Hall Winter Hall Concord Billerica Lexington Arlington Bedford and other stations with numerous daily departures and Sunday listings. Information attributed to C. S. Mell en and George W. Storer general superintendent and assistant general passenger agent.
Central Massachusetts R R and Lowell R R announce new schedules starting Monday February 21 1887 from Causeway Street Boston. Trains depart for Elefterson and Way Stations at 6 05 pm Express with multiple daily departures to Belmont Waverley and Waltham areas including 9 10 11 50 am 2 45 and 5 05 express services. Officials GPN SUS ULGeM and Gem note station duties at Way pd and Belmont. Aust Gen Passg r Agt C s ME LL N Gen Supt.
Train schedules list Augusta Haymarket to Causeway Street and Pier 1 connections, with arrivals and departures at multiple stations. Services include Portland, Halifax, Saint John, Lewiston, Manchester, Concord, and North Station routes, with times around 7 to 12 across the day and coastal lines via Central Grand and Maox railways.
Trains run westward from Boston Haymarket, listing destinations such as Bay Rochester Barclanton Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Maveric I Keanebunk Biddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence Lowell Malden Medieva ry Wakefield Wilmington and other stops with numerous departure times daytime and night sessions. The Day and Night trains include multiple routes with varying hourly and half hour departures to connect to regional towns and cities.
Eastern division timetable lists trains from Boston Causeway Street to Amesbury Beverly Middeford Chesea vere ct Addover and many towns with dozens of departure times for weekdays and Sundays. The long list includes Great Falls Rochester Hampton North Northampton Epswich Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Salem and more with varying morning afternoon and evening slots. City office at 306 Washington Street names James Turiz era manager and P D J Flanders general vereen.
Detailed weekday and Sunday train times listed for multiple routes from Boston to New York via Fall River Line and connections. Timetables include Ashmoni, Marnwable, Yarmouth, Braintree, Brockton, Buzzard's Bay, Cape Cod Division, Cohasset, Hingham, East Weymouth, Weymouth, Nantucket, Newport, New Bedford, Taunton, Whitman, South Weymouth, and other stations with specific departure and return times, plus notes on service changes beginning April 18 1887 and final line authorizing J K Kendrick as General Manager.
Schedule outlines daily and Sunday departures from Boston for Shore Line Fast Express and other routes to New York Providence Pawtucket Fall River and intercity stops with return times and notes on delays and special weekday adjustments. It details morning and evening departures to New York Providence Park City and towns including Mansfield Stoughton and Warren with special conditions for Sundays and holiday changes.
Boston departures for North Adams, Troy, Albany and west with multiple daily trains, sleeping cars, and drawing room cars to Albany, Buffalo, Chicago. Includes Sunday options to Newton Lower Falls, Wellesley, Brookline and Newton branches. local and through tickets on sale in Boston offices.
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