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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1895
Page
4
A hopeful note appears in Boston's baseball record after yesterday's victory, snapping a season of poor form. The ex champions have struggled on the Western tour and sit in fifth, but improved fielding and a brighter outlook suggest a turnaround may begin this week.
A Maine man predicts Reed as the Republican presidential candidate while nationwide enthusiasm centers on an unnamed Democrat. The country sees a summer boom of prosperity as wages rise and industries reopen, strengthening support for the Democratic ticket through November 1896.
Yachting experts argue the Valkyrie is too tender to beat the American Defender. The Valkyrie, broader and sail wide, contrasts with Defender narrower with no centreboard. Defender’s build proves sturdier in breeze, suggesting American genius in construction over British adaptation and likely keeping the cup in American hands.
The United States will seek reparations and protection for American missionaries in Kiacheng without joint action with Great Britain. America intends to handle its interests in China independently, avoiding entanglement in European power rivalries and preferring to act alone in pursuing demands and guarantees.
The piece argues that banning fruit sales outside produce dealers would hinder trade and inconvenience buyers, noting Boston’s long habit of sidewalk fruit selling. It says tacit exemptions exist, but if conducted with public convenience, this year's opposition grows. calls for agreement between dealers and the Board of Police.
If the street rules were convenient, they would regret moving the attractive fruit stands and hiding their glowing fragrant contents inside.
The New York Times lists 6% establishments raising wages since end of March, employing 514,000. The New York Tribune cites half a million wage increases, with 200,000 more workers added by resumed mills. Overall, about one million workers benefited, tied to Democratic tariff and administration policies.
The column reports Rev. C A Dickinson of Berkeley Temple ill in Westminster Vermont with water on the lungs and high fever, notes a six months leave of absence, and mentions Norton charities and local figures Gordon Babbitt, Sullivan, Turner, and Freeman. It also covers locomotive speed feats, Bill Nye joining Lyceum League, Alberta Stuart mystery, long-time Post readers, trout pictures by Baldwin Coolidge, and changes of office by Harvey Hadlock.
In a happy scene near a pond locals chatted with a portly man fishing who, unaware, was labeled as Cleveland. The scene shifts to a post office exchange where residents realize the fisher is President Grover Cleveland, both groups astonished as Democrats. A separate tale celebrates Rev Julian Smythe paddling a 75 mile Saco River canoe voyage with his wife and two daughters, living off improvised provisions.
The colonel's widow debates love versus fortune then yields to passion with Arthur at a moonlit garden party. A letter from Arthur ends their affair as the $3,000,000 bequest looms, leaving readers to label her a cold blooded flirt as society weighs her choices.
Castle Square Opera presents La Grande Duchesse with Tillie Salinger as the leading soprano. Hattie Ladd, Wanda Edith Mason, and William Wolff deliver engaging performances. Chorus and scenery impress, as next week Amorit a stars Edith Mason with Salinger.
Theatregoers were surprised by Kismet ending its Tremont run this week. Last night’s crowd was large and advance sales for remaining performances were strong. A gala bon voyage with souvenir watch chains will close the Boston engagement Saturday before The Sphinx opens Monday with Edwin Stevens and others plus new cast members and a larger chorus and orchestra.
Bowdoin Square Theatre opens its new season with Lost in New York as the week’s feature, featuring regular matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. Monday brings William Dean Howells's Samson, praised for Walter Kennedy’s exemplary portrayal that elevates the character with vivid temper, gaiety, and force.
The Garrick Theatre burlesque troupe of New York rehearses Thrilby at the Casino New York for an opening at the Boston Museum on Monday evening August 19. Authors Joseph W Herbert and Charles M Puerner have had success with their travel travesty on Du Maurier. The Italian quarter New York setting and a novel hypnotic feature mark the act. Cast includes Alexander Clark Adele Ritchie Carrie Perkins Margaret MacDonald Edith Murray Louis Wesley Willis Sweatnam Mark Murphy Edward Herbert.
The popular theatre was crowded all day and evening as eight Boston Symphony Orchestra members performed. Billy Emerson and Sam Bernard drew strong applause with song, dance, and comedy. Bernard displayed versatility across Dutch farce and dramatic impersonations of actors.
The performance featured heavy roles such as Fagin the Jew and a sympathetic Poor Joe of Dickens. Emerson scored with new songs and jokes, Barney Ferguson and Marguerite presented a comedy skit, and Alonzo Hatch offered vocal novelty. Daring acts included Napier and Marzello on bars, Daly and Devere in Irish sketches, Harrigan the tramp juggler, and numerous acts from Reed Birds to the Williams trio.
May Irwin and her company progress far in rehearsals. The Widow Jones is two weeks ahead of schedule with first performance set for Brockton on August 19. A Boston appearance follows on September 2 Labor Day, with many entertaining musical features planned.
The Howard Atheneum reopened to a crowded audience with new chairs and floral stage decorations. Adah Richmond’s burlesque company performed John Grieve’s The Bells with a strong cast and a lively program including Trilby dance, ribbon ballet, solo dances by Mlle. Eulalie and Lillian Curtis, and an Amazonian march. Vocalists Mabel Hudson Annie Carter May Walsh Ireland Ida Russell and Mabel Stanley starred among a large lineup with Rikart James Doyle and the Howard company delivering a rattling farce.
The outdoor spectacle Black America enters its fourth week with a larger than ever audience. Salsbury reports strong ticket sales in Boston and the 500-voice chorus opens each show with half an hour of melody. The act features barrel boxing tumblers and Pablo Diaz the contortionist, with two daily shows at 2:30 and 8 o'clock.
The Austin & Stone's Museum audience packed the lecture hall for the second week, with crowds for every show. Gilberti's nerve in the cage thrills audiences as William Queen performs his elastic neck stunt, Mlle. Gray reads minds, and Galetti's monkeys stage boxing and wrestling. Astarte the illusionist remains a top attraction among Edgar and Curran, Dollie Brooks, the Ferguson and Bennett groups, and other billed acts.
The burning volcano of Kilauea in the old Gettysburg building at 641 Tremont street nears its final display days. Native Hawaiian singers forming the royal quartet of the late King Kalakaua attend daily and perform at regular intervals while the exhibit remains open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Bright opening at Palace Theatre as 1895 96 season begins. Two full houses witness strong burlesque and specialties led by The Electric Hotel and A Knave of Paradise. Garrison troupe, Thompson and Burwell, Fitzgibbon family, Howard and St Clair, Lew Carroll, and Geneva Ardell perform bold acts with notable audience reaction.
The bill features Helen St. Cair with Ettie Albion in a serio comic act, Murphy and McCoy as Irish comedians, Gus Mills famed as a female impersonator, Josie Emery and Cora Williams as vocalists, Clarence Wilbur and George Donaldson among other standouts in a star packed program.
A series of railroad excursions will be held in the coming weeks to witness Black America. The first trips depart from Lowell on August 8 and from Lawrence on August 9, with Haverhill on August 16. Additional runs from Fitchburg and other towns, Campello, Brockton, Montello, Avon and Holbrook occur on August 10, followed by group parties on Monday, August 12.
Johnston and Arthur in Europe report a Paris dated July 11 notice that they will sole manage all Mme Sembwich concerts in the coming season in the United States, Abbey and Gray arranging the deal. Sol Smith Russell returns from Europe, and Boston Theatre reopens with Thatcher and Johnsons minstrels plus Raymon Moore, Tuxedo Quartet, strong orchestra and brass band.
The Cunard steamship Catalonia docked from Liverpool yesterday carrying 388 people. Among them 25 in the saloon, 34 in the cabin, and 329 in steerage. Saloon list includes Mr. Bale and family, Rev. W. F. Bradley, Miss G. Darling, and numerous others.
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