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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1894
Page
4
The padrone system case shows legal limits, while the Employment Bureau opened by the Association for Protecting Italian Workmen aims to curb abuses with practical methods. If properly conducted, it may achieve significant good and better protect Italian workers.
Citizens of Dorchester oppose the Gibson street site for a garbage crematory alleging it destroys sacred trust, harms sanitary conditions of the schoolhouse, and would create nuisance odors in a residential area. They demand relocation away from homes, suggesting near the gas works to combine smells.
General Martin’s stance appears as if only the Governor and he decide police business. The law strictly forbids any board member or clerk from engaging in other work, regardless of appointment. The board vows to enforce the unyielding screen law and salaries may not attract outside conflicts.
The board of police and the clerk commit to giving their entire time and strength to the offices they hold, abstaining from other gainful employment and avoiding any additional salary.
The report of the Senate committee on the Sugar Trust investigation is dismissed as weightless. Secrecy angered the public and eroded trust, leaving many doubtful an honest probe occurred. The majority acquits all, the minority finds no proof but hints Democrats are wicked, ending in a partisan outcome.
The French court secret trials for anarchists permit public display by defendant and judge and Caserio uses the stage to present his case. The writer decries the spectacle as revolting yet notes France’s speed toward justice compared with Anglo-Saxon methods.
Senator Gorman warns that within forty eight hours the conference on the tariff bill will report no agreement and request discharge. He says such incompetence would be met with scorn nationwide and urges that public ambition not force a retreat from duty. He expects a practical shift in the committee before crisis deepens.
The Democratic State convention of Florida condemns Democratic Senators for resisting the House demand on tariff policy. It says the people expressed their will through the House, and warns the Senate to heed immediate representatives of the people. The piece notes growing public anger and asserts the party will hold its members to account.
The speaker extols red above all colors, praising its warmth and stirring influence. He favors red as the ideal hue for art and life, rejecting other shades and defending Western pride and independence in taste. He cites Bordeaux and Western vigor as reasons for choosing red over distant or Eastern fashions.
The Misses Justine McNaughton and Helen Higgins wow East Boston with a fancy dancing exhibition at Old Orchard, drawing a large fashionable crowd and many encores. Boston's wool imports surge amid tariff debates, with South American supply and English transit. shipowners stockpile fleece to exploit potential duty changes. Enterprise sea pupils report pleasant ports visits, Fourth of July porpoise meals noted. Governor Greenhalge visits Kennebunkport, while the Executive Council confirms Oliver H. Durrell as trustee of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, replacing Albert C. Burrage who declined.
Report notes newly appointed Transit Commissioner Durrell and the Brown Durrell firm. Executive Clerk Hamlin departs for Berkshire Hills with family, returning September. East Boston eyes electric car service. West End lands contracts for a new power house at Lexington street site. Harvard summer school session featured papers and debates on English modern language and physical science. Blue Hill kite experiments by S P Fergusson aim to record upper atmosphere data. Death of Mrs. George E. Hibbard noted at Mt. Agassiz House Bethlehem NH. Boston political row centers on Sen. seat nomination in second Suffolk District with Mahoney facing Hayes and Corbett. Poem excerpt from Boston Courier about a Boston Common scene ends with lyric refrain.
Calve intends to sing extensively across Europe next year but will not visit America. The tour aims to boost her earnings ahead of a planned marriage, with the couple seeking a substantial dowry from the bride’s fortune and earnings.
A collage of quips and witticisms from various papers features mock dialogue and comic exchanges. Lines touch on business, astronomy, counterfeit bills, romance, insurance, ships, editors, and everyday misadventures, showcasing late 19th or early 20th century humor and social observation.
A feature on General Hugh Cameron of Glen Burn Douglas county Kansas whose campaign gimmick centers on his immense whiskers. The George Washington Corps of Home Protectors backs an independent tramp candidacy with beard performances and farm outreach while Cameron touts prize whiskers and a motto of free whiskers for everybody.
Wall Street whispers a cooling of ties between Russell Sage and George Gould. Sage, longtime adviser to Jay Gould’s heirs, allegedly opposes George’s social ascent and ocean sojourns, while Missouri Pacific debt battles loom. Sage’s floating claims may press George to return home as Sage's burdens grow.
The coming season promises new entertainments at Tremont Bowdoin and Museum houses. Davy Jones returns to Boston with notes of the theatre while Madeleine improves at Tremont. Columbia opens Aug 25 with Young America. Lothrop sails soon. Howard and Grand Museum run full. Enoch Arden leads Grand Museum as renovations begin at Boston Theatre.
The Winthrop Hotel hosted the opening of the dancing season with Lawrence O Connell's Boston Orchestra guiding about 150 attendees. Notable guests included Dr and Mrs Lighthill and Miss Trix Friganza, while Mrs M J McFadden led management and Mrs Frank Morse oversaw floor direction. The St Johns Mission fair also proceeds with Lawrence Neebe aiding entertainment efforts.
A busy fair concludes sales with a compliment to the counters for their appearance and conduct. A large throng visited Point of Pines, with picnics from Lawrence and Lowell. Tomorrow features races plus performances by R. J. Jose, the Tuxedo Quartet, and the Lynn Cadet Band, with another appearance Sunday. A bicycle tournament opens next Wednesday on the race track.
A Boston motorman writes from Charlestown praising General Martin for placing officers at Warren bridge, noting the bridge has been unusually free of blockades since then. He argues Boston teamsters enjoy many privileges, more than needed, based on years of experience in transit and freight traffic shifts.
In the Louisville Courier Journal an appeal notes the Woman's Federal Labor Union has declared to stand for man and against mammon. It asks members to send their addresses and photographs, praising those who publicly support "for man" during a era of material temptation.
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