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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1898
Page
2
Boston leaders and citizens debate a city holiday and elaborate welcome for the returning sailors from Santiago. Mayor Quincy, police officials, and Aldermen press for a hearty, patriotic reception with possible ship roundups and government backing.
The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association reports the U S S Olivette will reach Boston today carrying over two hundred sick soldiers. A medical committee will assign men to hospitals while Adjutant General Dalton offers thirty Signal Corps volunteers to help move casualties.
General Calixto Garcia recounts the July 1 to 14 assault on Santiago de Cuba, the capture of San Juan and Caney, and the eventual Spanish capitulation. He notes American and Cuban cooperation, heavy fighting, and the arrangement to evacuate and transfer troops to Spanish control before handing over to U.S. forces.
News from New York reports Captain Evans of the battleship Iowa may be brought to Roosevelt Hospital late tonight or tomorrow morning for typhoid malaria treatment. From Bridgeport, Admiral Schley is confined at his Westport summer home with a fever and restricted access by attendants only.
The report from the house last night shows Colonel Logan of the Ninth in marked improvement and able to take small solid foods. He conversed freely with attendants and family as well wishers' letters and telegrams arrived, and a few more days of progress could let him review his mail.
Jack Downey of Brooklyn and Danny McBride of New York City clashed at the Greater New York Athletic Club in a long awaited hit and get away bout. After twenty five hard rounds referee Alec Brown could not decide the winner and the match ended in a draw.
The Navy Department will construct a torpedo boat hauling-out station in Boston at a cost of 150000 dollars. The project, supported by all three technical bureaus, is deemed essential for the care of torpedo craft.
Distinguished audience attends the first AAAS session at the Institute of Technology. Governors, mayors, bishops, and academics from Boston and abroad join officials and scholars including Desire Charnay, A Sasse, Benjamin Howard, Conrad W Cooke, G Stanley Hall, Thomas Mendenhall, E E Hale, James de Normandie, and Edwin Miller for a week of lectures, excursions to Salam, and Cambridge visits.
Hundreds of children from Boston gather at North End Park for a gala swimming day led by Peter McNally. Girls perform with grace in events from 20 yard dashes to underwater swims while boys follow with dives and trick swimming. Judges include Harting Nissen and Professors Abrams and McGivern.
Ellen Quain, a 33-year-old Somerville dressmaker, jumped from the Harvard Bridge around 9 am and died en route to City Hospital. Identified by her sister, she had suffered nervous prostration and long walks were prescribed. She lived at 15 Beacon Street, Somerville. Dudley Hall, Roxbury, hosted a lively meeting about Mt Howe cemetery land. motion to table failed and the vote to postpone passed 42 to 32 after multiple ballots.
An organization named the Society of the Army of Santiago has been formed in Santiago to preserve archives and memories of the invasion campaign and battles ending with the fall of Santiago de Cuba and the Spanish army's surrender on July 1.
Mayor Quincy plans closing City Hall and declaring a city holiday for the funerals of Major Grady Major O Connor Corporal Joe Lane and Private Carey whose bodies are being escorted from Santiago by a Boston delegation. The delegation led by Senator Gallivan Father O Connor and doctors will travel to New York on Wednesday to meet and escort the bodies to the city.
The Baltimore Club notified outfielder W. J. Holmes he is suspended for the season to align with national board rules. Holmes plans to file an injunction through his lawyer to restrain the club from enforcing the league mandate.
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