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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1887
Page
8
City Hall was lively as aldermen met at noon to act on the appropriation bill. The Whitmore amendments were rejected unanimously. The Mayor issued a message calling a special session for 8 30 p m, and the council, after wrangling, voted to concur with a minor legal expenditure amendment. The measure will go to the Mayor today.
The aldermen met at 1 pm with the Mayor present as spectator. The Mayor vetoed the transfer order for street privileges to the American Conduit and Construction Company and warned that underground rights for telegraph gas electric and water works burden taxpayers unless public benefit is clear. The corporation counsel questioned the 1881 license as dead, and Aldermen Carroll and Lee supported the conduit while others urged delay or table. The veto was overridden 8 to 3, and further council business included an appropriation bill dispute and a pyrotechnic display by Mr Whal from Ward 7 as sensory entertainment. The session ended with adjournment to May 5.
The council held a special meeting called by the Mayor with forty seven aldermen present. Whitmore condemned the seven hour notice as unfair and an improper use of power. He urged a conference committee while arguing the action lacked emergency justification and quoted Corporation Counsel Nettleton. Fellow members argued differences in opinion and questioned the proceedings as legal and political theater.
At a meeting of the British Charitable Society the president was authorized to purchase five Mt Hope cemetery lots for the burial of British deceased in Boston. The lots total 1860 feet for 1125 dollars, about 65 cents per foot, with ninety feet between lots. Queen Victoria's jubilee spurred talks of funding the purchase.
Pupils from English high school presented declamations by A T Lord R C Larra bee W H Pease H B Harding J V Neary J K R Abbott J P Nowell A Marzynski M Bruce and George D Meston. Essays by C H Innes J P Crosby Walter Smith and J Dennett Jr. A violin solo by T C Cummings a song by F L Rimbach and a piano solo by M I Myers. The First Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Smith performed calisthenics then a dress parade closing the drill corps worthy of note. The annual street parade is set for May 15.
Steamship officials predict record immigration this year with thousands shipping from London weekly. Ahearn of Anchor line cites 3000 weekly departures and 7500 arrivals since the season began, mainly Swedes and Danes, many farmers bringing tools. Bridgewater of Allan line expects figures higher than any year since 1882, with Cunard adding two extra steamers to meet demand and Edwards noting arrivals double that of recent years, likely continuing through summer.
A trustee sale in Boston will auction the Beach street parcel from No 109 to No 117 with corners at Utica street and Utica place. The sale is set for Tuesday, May 3, under the summer of Mr Samuel Hatch, reflecting trade driven change in this district.
Forest and Stream prints a June challenge from the open boat Cruiser of 20 feet 6 inches seeking matches with boats under 22 feet. Notes numerous yard improvements, launches, and fittings for Boston area vessels including Gracie, Lady May, Marie, Mabel, Thelga, Adrienne, Tempest, Whitewing, Magic, and多. Details on launches, alterations, trials, and open regatta plans, plus listings of owners, yards, and new craft like the Uno and Janica.
A Boston market tale highlights how discrimination costs a twelve child family a chance at the famed shop. A Norwich to Boston woman seeking garments ages four to eighteen faced snobbery and expulsion when suspected of shopping for provincial outlets, illustrating pretensions in luxury retail.
The undersigned acknowledges receipts totaling 1526 dollars for General Charles P. Stone's family from multiple donors including VT Jefferson Coolidge, Aobert Lawrence, William Minot, John C. Ropes, William Amory, Stephen Deblois, Joseph Story Fay, and others. Joan C. Ropes, Treasurer, 50 State Street. Also notes a sensational aside on earth's motion and a marketing plug for G. O. Taylor Old Bourbon and Pure Rye Whiskeys sold by Chester H. Graves & Sons in Boston.
Nelson J Robert Smith fined 25 dollars plus costs for maintaining a retail liquor business without the special tax. Superior Court first session on April 29 lists replevin and tort actions with various parties including John P Constantinedes v Louis De Pas and Margaret Welch, and John J Dorey v City of Boston over sewer work on Heath Street. Verdicts favor defendants in several cases. trials continue with schedules and motions noted for May.
April 29 entries: John J. Flaherty assignee v William C. Wonsen seeks reconveyance of vessel property tied to Charles J. Wonsen estate in Gloucester. decision reserved. Fred W. Savory et al. v Massachusetts Relief Association seeks recovery of a beneficiary certificate. beneficiary misrepresented age 38 as 28. finding for plaintiff. Court adjourned sine die.
In the case Daniels v Childs the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 315 dollars with H G Sleeper for the plaintiff and L H Wake field for the defendant. The record notes No 1288 Mary Deignan vs Patrick Berger involving damages for destruction of a drain when the defendant entered the premises and dug up soil depriving the plaintiff of use of the drain with P H Cooney involved at trial.
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