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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1891
Page
4
Notice text fragment from Boston Post includes mailing and payment instructions for the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY with an address and names Corcoran Building Fifteenth and Wasameron Oyvick.
Tremont Treats on Tremont Street feature Goer Tusarre at S-Lew Dock stader's Minstrels and Nellie Mc Henry in A Night at the Circus with Boston Turarre on Washington Street. Tuxedo with George Thatcher's Minstrels at Boston Museum Tremont Street. Roland Reed presents The Club Friend at Grand Opera House on Washington Street. Fabio Romani performs at 7:45.
The Boston Post cites yesterday’s New York papers reporting two officials who launched excursion boats to Coney Island in dense fog. Overloaded with passengers and traveling at full speed, they nearly caused a disaster. The piece argues such lax safety persists elsewhere until lives are lost and public outcry follows.
The Civil Service Commission recommended dismissals of several Federal workers in Baltimore for using Civil Service to aid Harrison delegates at primaries. President Harrison has shown leniency, shielding those indicted, citing future primaries, raising objections about his rationale and loyalty.
The piece critiques Merziger and Douglass pamphlets claiming inside history on Haiti cession talks. It asserts Admiral Guiterardi protected by denouncing insinuations linked to Blaine policy. Merziger’s motives tied to railway concessions and pamphleteering while an unconnected “individual” may be a state department insider.
A historical note questions how a figure gained intimate knowledge of State Department secrets and why Mr. Blaine linked the St. Nicholas Mole cession to a subsidy for a private enterprise. The passage suggests political maneuvering and irrelevant fiscal favors shaping policy discussions.
A Republican candidate faces critique over a reciprocity stance. Willia M Eleroy Curt is portrayed as aiding Blaine and McKinley by endorsing reciprocity with equality. The Ohio source suggests Curtis’s testimony boosts McKinley’s tariff position amid the GOP’s political pressures.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Pennsylvania Republicans back the current coinage act and free coinage of all silver from American mines as a compromise President Harrison may offer. It warns of inflation, gold discrimination, and a shift toward gold in contracts and bonds, citing Boston Journal criticisms of the act.
The article argues that forcing vast silver into parity with gold is unsustainable and politically demoralizing. It claims Congress cannot sustain silver at gold parity and accuses silver advocates of subjugating eastern Republicans, predicting the national convention will endorse silver inflation.
A reflective piece on the Chautauqua Circle at Chautauqua New York noting its large student body three year programs and graduates worldwide. The author debates whether it spreads culture or Philistinism while recognizing potential benefits and risks to intellectual life.
Article reports clashes involving the National Alliance in Georgia and a NC figure Colonel Potx. Editor Captain Ajax derides Potx as cowardly. a critique links the Alliance to selfishness and ignorance. Mentions Jerry Simpson urging railways be government controlled to exit politics and warns of post office revelations affecting rail policy.
Fragmentary notes recount rumors from Brussels and Berlin about a malarial Capitol and ventila tion failures in Massachusetts like a political gag bag. Mention of Emperor Wilhelm and Arctic relief missions threads with a vain boast of power and a queen rumored insane, all framed as overheard chatter.
The body of Captain William Renton, a foremost Washington settler, was buried in Seattle. Born 1818 in Nova Scotia, he built Port Blakeley mill, expanded lumber exports to foreign ports, and supported public works. Despite seventeen years of blindness, he managed vast mills and estates, funded rail subsidies, and never foreclosed on a poor borrower.
A hotel venture at Oakland Beach failed under Bradford & Swain of Boston. Attachments were placed on several boarders for money owed the lessees and against the National Bank of Commerce and Bradford & Swain. Assignment was made to Edward L. Dol l. The Oakland Beach Association will run the rest of the season.
Legislators arrive by train in Montpelier as Governor Page and others head to the capital. Officials expect the session to last only a few days up to a week, with a Friday close anticipated by a majority of members.
A collage of short items notes a 27 pound potato from Bayou Sara Louisiana, a citizen longing for Italian immigrants, comical quips about manners and pianos at fairs, and curious snippets on relic hunters at the White House. It also reports on Amelie Chanler’s plans to split years between painting and writing, and a Jesuit treasure hunt on the Indiana Ohio riverbank. The Farmers Alliance hub in Washington is described as a busy center where campaign papers pile up and party talk fuels local journalism.
The Clarkson civil service reform is in force with four sub-postmasters removed and Republicans installed in Boston. The Springfield Republican notes this aligns with the President and recent changes at Custom Houses. The action is to prepare offices for partisan work in 1892, though Republicans may still tout civil service loyalty in their platform.
The London Daily News notes that the strong American harvests this year offer the United States another opportunity to escape the effects of its economic mistakes. The piece argues nature has long provided chances for prosperity, sparing the reckless and blind to some extent.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes a trend of farmers in Kansas striving to settle debts this year. It praises honest debt repayment over speculative booms and partial repudiation via currency debasement, lauding financial responsibility despite hardship.
Philadelphia Record reports that Almy of New Hampshire, an escaped jailbird and burglar who resisted arrest, is exposed as a brutal criminal. The paper warns against romanticizing his murder and notes his dangerous past has been unearthed in time.
In a Louisville Courier Journal item, President Harrison’s son and father dispute public remarks. The piece questions the son’s persistence and notes friction with Secretary of State Blaine, touching on implications for the President’s second term ambitions.
General Alger declares he knows nothing about Secretary Blaine's aims yet can secure the Republican nomination if desired. The remark is dismissed as predictable and unnewsworthy, even by Mr. Harrison, implying no new development in party politics.
Benjamin Harrison is expected to resign from his long held ambition within days, as political fate imposes a silent retreat. The editorial tone hints Cromwell inspired caution, signaling an imminent change in leadership and public stance.
Isidor Elbe, a diamond jewellery manufacturer at 42 Maiden Lane, New York, made an assignment today. He granted preferences totaling about 12,000 dollars to creditors.
A reader laments newspapers publishing private details of non public figures in society notes. He contrasts respectful behavior with gossip about Miss and Mrs and critiques summer resort letters. He argues for honest ads and questions the intrusion into personal charm and privacy, ending with musings on climate and philosophy attributed to Taverner.
General Morgan of Alabama, a Tennesseean by birth, is described as a tall spare figure regarded in the South as a leading authority on constitutional law, with comparisons to Edmunds. John W. Doane of Chicago hosts at The Ledges in Thompson, Conn., entertaining Judge Walter Gresham of Indiana and Major-General John M. Schofield, noting The Ledges as a premier Connecticut country seat. Chief Justice Blake of Montana, Harrison’s appointee, is remembered for territorial and state bench service and is identified as a strong Republican and Blaine supporter.
In a letter to the Post dated August 24 1891 James Russell Lowell praises patrons including Bubastis and Hon. Martin Brimmer with gifts totaling 500 dollars. The notice urges donations of five dollars or more and describes benefits, publications, and the Egyptian Exploration Fund contact W C Winslow at No 626 Beacon Street Boston.
In northern Lancaster County on August 24, a storm produced the heaviest rainfall in sixty years. Seven bridges were swept away along with several buildings, sheds, and fences, and many cattle drowned. An immense iron oil tank was carried about 100 feet at Millway. The Reading & Columbia railroad suffered washouts with half a mile of track at Denver destroyed.
The Grand Opera House features Fabio Romani a lurid melodrama about an Italian nobleman buried alive who seeks vengeance on his wife's lover and conspirators. The plot relies on disguises duels madness and punished vice with strong scenery and impressive effects including a Bay of Naples eruption and an earthquake. Performers Lawrence Missfield and Farwell power the cast as the piece runs through the week followed by Kit on Monday.
Lew Dockstader’s minstrel group opens the Tremont Theater season with a well presented show. The house is in good order and staff friendly. The program features a funny sketch President Harrison and the afterpiece Hotel Punch de Leon. Matinee slated for tomorrow afternoon.
Ed Marble presents Tuxedo a mingling of minstrelsy and farce with a connected story and feminine choruses. The lawn setting at a cottage in Tuxedo, pretty scenery, and love scenes add novelty. Thatcher and company deliver strong voices and comic parts. notable newcomers Mamie Gilroy Ida Fitzhugh Blanche Hayden Grace Hamilton Laura Munck Winetta Barry. The show runs this week with After Dark due Aug 31.
Miss Nellie McHenry stars in a new farce at the Globe with music and merriment. The troupe shines through lively dancing and sprightly acting, supported by a refined company including Reynolds Harrington McDonald May and Byron. The show runs for the present week with Mr Barnes of New York to follow on Monday.
The Howard Atheneum debuted its 1891 92 season with a refreshed interior and fresh carpeting enhancing the venue. Tony Pastor and Miss Maggie Cline drew the warmest audience response amid a long variety program, with next week promising Daniel Boone and its large company of auxiliaries.
The Globe Theatre will stage the romantic drama Mr Barnes of New York next week with an unusually strong cast including Hue Toland May Wheeler and Sheridan Block. Seats go on sale Thursday morning and the engagement lasts a single week. Also news of Mr Roland Reed’s A Club Friend at the Museum and upcoming openings Yerlie Trouble with Henry Guy Carleton Aug 31 and Mr Macaroni with George F Marion at the Tremont starting Monday night.
W C Carton of Washington Street West Newton woke on a piazza last Saturday evening to find he had been robbed of 12 dollars and a 100 ride ticket book for Boston to West Newton. The incident has been reported to the police.
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