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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1888
Page
4
On an April day in Boston the public spaces glow with mild air and bright attire. People sketch at the Public Garden pond while columnist notes Cynic views on Conkling and a Bangor languages program led by Professor Ventura, ending with a Maine law joke about a husband thinking in French.
The Boston Post reports Senator Cunner of Rhode Island used the Dakota bill debate to expound on alleged corruption in Rhode Island elections. He asserts the State was flooded with Democratic money and accuses the Mugwump free trade organization of Massachusetts of liberal contributions, calling Crace’s remarks nonsense.
The high-license bill, pushed as a party measure in the House, stalls in the Senate where Democrats oppose it as partisan. Republicans trail by one vote for a Senate majority, with enough cross-aisle support to block passage. The temperance measure is deemed reasonable but ruined by partisanship, risking defeat before a constitutional referendum.
The Ways and Means Committee debates tariff reform while no rival revenue-cutting bill appears from Republicans. Western lawmakers press tariff revision, party cohesion weakens, and opposition leaders fail to offer a concrete policy. Mills bill gains Republican votes as unity frays.
A correspondent critiques our piece on England’s cost of living. He notes tenants pay many rates and taxes, water charges, parish and school expenses, and insurance against fire. These burdens, while varying by class, increase housing costs for English tenants beyond US leases.
A remark notes that one’s own resources in English cities remain far smaller than those in the major population centers of the United States, highlighting the urban economic disparity between nations.
The Boston Journal counters Post claims about New England fishermen being aliens, arguing the opposition to the fisheries treaty is led by non resident capital seeking monopoly profits. It alleges alien crews and cheap foreign labor are used to undermine American workers, with evidence and a pledge to provide further figures on aliens in the Massachusetts fleet.
The Civil Service Reformers praise a new Maryland election law passed by the Democratic legislature despite reformers’ losses. Key provisions include a Baltimore city registration overhaul, minority representation on election boards, precinct registration by boards with minority members, watcher's presence in polling rooms for each party, and the use of glass ballot boxes.
The article reviews how the Reform League election law influenced new provisions, noting omitted items such as biennial registration and precinct judge roles. It condemns ballot box manipulation history in Maryland, critiques the Governor’s pardons, and contrasts past and present transatlantic steamship progress and speed trends.
Fifty years ago on April 23 1888 Sirius and Great Western arrived in New York marking half a century of regular steam navigation. The Sirius sailed Cork to New York April 4 and the Great Western followed with 15 day voyage, sparking excitement and paving the way for Cunard and other lines. Earlier attempts dated to 1819 with Savannah and 1828 with Curacoa, but true regular service began with Britannia in 1840 and grew through paddle wheel wooden ships to iron screw steamers by 1852. The era altered transatlantic travel and mail for decades to come.
Next month a performance of Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York honors Mr. Lester Wauiack. A cast of distinguished artists is assembled including Booru Barrett Joan Gr- BERT Mopseska D. P. Bowris and others with Jefferson Mayo and Coghlan among principals. The event aims to recruit top talent even among supernumeraries, promising an ideal production in tribute to Wallace.
Publication of M Francois Couriers poem is praised for urging that Alsace and Lorraine be returned to France as a gesture of lasting peace. The Transcript notes Frederick’s precarious state and doubters Coppie’s appeal as largely impractical and symbolic rather than achievable.
Harper's Weekly notes Senator Hale's committee signals reform momentum and public interest shaping the presidential campaign. It cautions against delaying reform, urges restraint amid high expectations, and emphasizes reform as a cause beyond any one man or party.
A quoted dissertation argues that tariffs above government revenue burden the general public, favor monopolists, and raise prices for workers. It frames tariff reduction as emancipation for the people, especially laborers, while contrasting with immigration of semi paupers harming native workers. Source: New York Commercial Advertiser.
Secretary Whitney injures his ankle in a recent paper hunt and cannot yet bear weight. Worcester’s Joseph H. Walker donates 6000 dollars to the Natural History Society for land on Lake Quinsigamond to support the society’s summer school. Lindsey Muse, a 50 year longtime Navy guard, ages and may retire. Robert Louis Stevenson takes a health trip to Maryland after a period in the North Woods. Eliza Garner of Charleston plans to run for county school commissioner as the first southern woman to seek the office. Smiling Mickey Welch joins Trinity College Hartford as baseball instructor, boosting the college team. Annie Besant, famed English thinker, described as a determined and poised speaker with a pleasant voice. A report about Supreme Court Justices Lamar and Harlan owning homes contains clarifications. Justice Harlan owns a Washington house completed about a year ago, cost over twenty thousand dollars, in University Park on Fourteenth Street.
The new Dr Holmes poetry collection appeals to local pride as a Cambridge era memorial. It salutes Longfellow Emerson Hawthorne Agassiz and others, with poems on 1829 reunions and 1888 themes, including The Angel Thief and verses about the aged class survivors and the tube and orbs celestial in their march.
A brief note on Oliver Wendell Holmes volume Before the Curfew and Other Poems 1888 from Houghton Mifflin. It lists the Harvard commemoration poem Centennial Ode and Stratford-on-Avon fountain verses among the largely late-year poetry. The collection includes nearly all Holmes’s recent pieces along with a few earlier works.
A major blaze in Bethel Home at Olive and Main streets in Maine destroys a four story building housing 90 to 120 residents. Fifty to sixty escape, with at least one body recovered. Fire declared under control at midnight as upper floors collapsed into debris.
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