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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1890
Page
8
A Boston campaign rally centers on Moody Merrill denial of labor contract bias and defense of city meter policy. Merrill recounts his Tremont Meter Company involvement, losses, and critique of city handling, claiming the Water Board sabotaged the venture and that the meter scheme proved impracticable.
The Boston Common Council discussed revising city building laws with a report from the commissioners and proposed drafting amendments for the Legislature. The Mayor urged $200,000 for street department work and $12,000 more for the inspector of wires, with referrals to finance. An order to petition the General Court about caucus election reform and a Dorchester Avenue paving loan were also brought up for action.
The Boston building law revision report to the Common Council proposes a two part structure with safety first and maintenance aftercare. It notes prior laws were flawed and cites the 1889 Thanksgiving fire to illustrate material and design risks. The act sets height limits, egress rules, fireproofing standards, elevator shaft requirements, and specific provisions for theatres tenements and lodgings, plus a repeal of conflicting state chapters.
Trade and public notice that a six story building at 85 to 91 Essex Street will be vacated about Jan one. First floor and basement 11 000 square feet to be used for Feltings sales. Upper floors will house Remnants and Seconds of cotton dress goods and related fabrics, with Bleacheries secured. Stove 107 Kingston Street to be vacated and offered for rent.
The act establishes in Boston a department for building inspections with a chief appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen for a three year term. It creates a Board of Appeal from the Inspector of Buildings with three members: a lawyer, an architect, and a master builder, each with specified appointment methods and terms. Members may be removed for misfeasance or neglect and receive at least 25 dollars per day.
A Harriman Tenn dispatch reports John Hopewell Jr of Boston has been chosen president of the Harriman Manufacturing Company a new firm with one million dollars authorized capital of which three hundred fifty thousand is paid in to promote new industries in Harriman Several large enterprises are negotiating for location The East Tennessee Land Company has declared its second semi annual dividend of eight percent
A. F. Seeberger & Co of Chicago file in the United States Circuit Court for a receiver for Potter Lovell assets. They allege fraud with note hypothecations to National Bank of the Republic National Bank of Redemption and American Loan & Trust. They accuse collusion by the assignors and assignee, claim large liabilities and insufficient assets, seek enjoining banks from disposing of notes and appointment of a receiver, with hearing set for the first Monday in January.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Massachusetts held a School of Methods at Bromfield Street Church yesterday followed by a mass meeting. John G. Woolley discussed the High License issue. The union plans further meetings today. Dr A M Beecher lectured on Heredity for the Ladies' Physiological society.
Public health claim extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal remedy for scrofula salt rheum and all blood diseases asserting it benefits all who take it. The tone promotes widespread misery and presents the product as best available cure.
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