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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1885

Page

3

Elevated railroads urged as sole cure for horse car chaos

A Boston Post interview with a leading expert argues elevated railways, powered by steam, as the only lasting solution to crowded streets and horse car blockages. He cites speed, reduced surface traffic, and longer trains as key benefits, while noting electric motors lag current practicality. He favors state oversight via a governor‑appointed commission or the railroad commission for surface and elevated schemes, with provisional charters likely for practical suburban lines.

Secretary of State Post Boston Washington and Tremont Streets Temple Piece Forhem Therm Kirstof Wil Sticeig Gueshieu Wolves Pegasus Lowell Road Winthrop Io Brooklins Milton Robinson Railroad Commission

Soley Reviews Civil War Naval Campaigns and Future Navy Needs

Professor Soley’s last Lowell Institute lecture surveys Civil War naval campaigns from Fort Henry Donelson to Vicksburg and Mobile. He details gunboats, river obstructions, and key actions, praising Commodore Porter and Farragut before urging a robust future navy to deter global threats.

Soley United States Navy Institute of Technology 5Oley J. B. Bade New Orleans Tennessee Henry and Donelson Pops Fort Pillow Stelluwet Union Ioves Memphis Corinth Caldwell Crosby Usly Vicksburg Mississippi Commodore Porter Mobile Moodiie Bay Gaines Morgan Tuco Tennesses Farragut Richmond Boston

Wet Mames for Special Delivery Letters at the Post Office

Two dozen boys in costumes acted as messengers delivering special delivery letters in a Boston post office. They lounged between duties, waited for more letters, and joked about the cold, with eight cents per delivery and a rotating system from the elevator to the balcony. The scene illustrated the labor and humor of daily postal work amid winter conditions.

Post Office Fiame Jagzie” Zhem le Banda Incord Navy Nubob Commonwealth Poe Devonshire Street

Hotels Undergo Extensive Renovations In Boston

Four leading Boston hotels the Revere Tremont Parker House and the Quincy reveal major renovations reflecting a pickup in travel. The Revere adds a marble cafe hairdresser and rebuilt kitchen with fresh furnishings and a 100 guest capacity. Tremont adapts a new ground floor entrance rotunda marble stairs and expanded dining rooms. Parker House advances a rotunda and ornate public spaces while Quincy enhances rooms and overall comfort to stay in the city’s front rank of hotels.

Boston Revere Tremont Parker’s Quincy the Revere Revere House Tremont House Tremont Street Fentlemen Tremont Place Parker House Fehoo! Street Beaton

Current and Coming Attractions An nounced for Local Theatres

Local playhouses announce a busy slate for January and February. Misa Clars Morris comes to Globe Theatre on Feb 1, while Comedy of Errors enters its second Boston Theatre week. Upcoming acts include W A Mestayer, Ka Mulle, Sol Smith Russell, and Mme Nilsson forecast for spring tours. Christmas matinees at Boston venues and cyclorama updates at Gettysburg are noted among many listings.

Misa Clars Morris Globe Theatre Boston Theatre W. A. Mestayer We, Us & Co Ka Mulle Bijou Dimples Louise Pomeroy Charles H. Hoyt Sol Smith Russell Park Theatre Felix McKustick Mierzwincki Boston ‘Theatre Kelly and Maron The Tigers Frank Mayo Norceck Manseer Harris Howard Mme. Nilsson Ety Hollis Street Victories Loftus British Blondes Windsor Theatre Two Johns Gilmora Mme Acelina Latti Mapleso Charles Barron Rover Hugh de Brasin Boston Museum Hugh Conway der. Comyns Carr Gus Williams Howard Tonight Lawrence Barrett Lanciette Yorick Cassius Bernedick David Garrick Gringoire Victor Hugo Hernani Charlotte Walter New York Boston A. S. Phillips U and I Robert Franz E. Humphrey Allen Saran C. Fisher Hattie J. Clapper Messrs. Whitney Mockridge Myron W. Whitney Museum Erwin Booth Brutus Variety World’s Museum Windsor Winnett Tot Annie Jones Captain Decourcey Colonel Goshen Gaunt Arem Tne

New York Financial Market Snapshot December 19

The day shows money on call at 2 3 percent with firm Sterling and strong government bonds. Rail bonds steady, markets dull with a cautious wait until January. exports and imports large, West Shore bonds chosen, and notable activity in railroad shares and various central securities.

Boston New York Sterling New York Bank Sterling Exchange Dulness Lackawanna Europe Havana West Shore Winslow, Leurer & Co Texas and Pacific Missouri Kharsas East Tennessee Bloomington Western Ohio New Orleans Pacific Kansas Pacific Missouri Pacific Southern Pacific California St. Louis Vandalla Terre Haute Lawson & Co Drexel, Morgan & Co New York Central Chicago

Market report notes visible supply rise and weak wheat pressure

A late update from Chicago brokers reports a further rise in visible wheat supply with holders selling freely and foreign markets weak. Delineated prices show declines across cash and near term contracts while corn remains weak and weekly export volumes from Atlantic ports stay near 1,000 600 bushels.

Messrs George E. Eldridge & Co Chicago Emery & Hodges No. 28 State Street

Foreign markets report from London and Havana trade round up

London reports mixed cargoes and steady to dull movements in wheat corn and provisions with U S prices noted. Liverpool quotes quiet wheat and steady corn while cotton in Havana shows active but restrained trade with rain hampering sugar production and freight shifts rising. Bond quotes and exchange rates indicate firm markets and holiday closings in London.

London Beerbohm Chamber of Commerce Liverpool Turk Deerer California Uplands Orleans United States Atlantic Great Western Erie Ilinois Central St. Paul Common Havana New York Matanzas Ravina Porta

Foreign Import Goods Reported On Steamers From London To Halifax

The list records cargoes aboard the Steamer Catedosia from London cleared December 16, with items including canned goods, lumber, dairy products, and machinery. the Steamer York City cleared December 17 carrying oil, books, apples, sewing machines, musk, and meats. Halifax bound ships Fearnot Linn O DES and Yar moutm carry cotton, wax, canned goods, toys, and dry foods. detailed tonnages and quantities accompany each vessel's manifest.

London Eng Sue & Thou Ondon Yora City Halifax Fearnot Steamer Linn O Yarmoush Litania

Imports at Bovion Grand River Pei Potatoes and logwood

A fragmented shipping list records schooners and cargoes at Grand River and Minnagoane. Items include Morash and Corcica boats carrying potatoes in bushels, logwood in pounds and bales, coffee and oranges, with firms Phipps & Russell and Sanborn & Co named among consignors and buyers.

Grand River Pei George CU Rockwell Hayil Dreamer Haytian Kepwbi Phipps & Ruseli Lewi Minnagoane Sarah Godfrey

Fragments of 19th Century Freight Totals Across Rail Lines

A long OCR list records diverse freight items across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, New York Central, Fitchburg, and Boston and Maine divisions. Entries show cotton bales, wool bales, corn, oats, barley, beef and pork, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, hay, lumber, hides, leather, and various crates with varying quantities. Distinct entities include railroad names, commodity types, and numeric counts, illustrating intricate midwestern and eastern trade in a single dispatch.

Boston and Albany Railroad Tgrand Junction Provdecce Reilroad Tbs Boston and Ware Saukced Boston Maine

Total Receipts of Staple Products Dec 19 at This Port

Totals of staple receipts from all shipment points, including commodities in transit, are compared with last year on Dec 19. Items listed include wool, flour, cornmeal, oats, beans, wheat, barley, leather, tallow, hides, skins, grease, peels, tea, and coterminous goods with year totals for 1886 1885 and 1884.

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Baltimore and Ohio Rail Plan Linked to Harrisburg Route

Rail developments revive Baltimore and Ohio efforts to connect with Reading at Harrisburg. A Martinsburg branch would link with Western Maryland at Hagerstown, then with Harrisburg and Potomac at Shippensburg. Progress on a Harrisburg bridge halted by a South Pennsylvania contract dispute. New line aims to cut Philadelphia distance by about fifty miles and may realign routes via Hanover Junction. Garrett signals B&O as an independent New York trunk line amid general rail changes. The New Haven Railroad loses freight depot access at Ventre and Frankun streets.

Baltimore and Ohio Reading Harrisburg South Pennsylvania Martinsburg Hagerstown Maryland Potomac Shippensburg Susquehanna Philadelphia Baltimore Harrisburg and Dillsburg Hanover Junction Hanover Gettysburg Garrett New York New York, New Haven Hartford

Consolidation Rumor Around Major Railroads. Early 1880s Outlook

Rumors circulate that Missouri Pacific may merge with Missouri, Kansas and Pacific on a one share to three basis. December week rail earnings show mixed results with Chicago and Alton down and Canadian Pacific and Oregon Railway up. New track built totals 60 miles, raising 1885 year to date to 268 miles. 1872–1885 comparisons listed. Charles St. Adair named agent for Blue Line and Canada Southern at Portland with duties from Portland to Maine Central and Ogdensburg networks. Kansas City Fort Scott and Golf earnings for December show gains. Chicago and West Michigan and Kansas City Springfield and Memphis lines report mixed totals since Jan 1.

Detroit Pittsburg West Minneapolis Omaha Galveston New York Boston Philadelphia Chicago San Francisco Cleveland Colimbes Memphis Hartford New Haven Peoria St. Joseph Springfield Syracuse Lowell Dicate Maine Iowa Iowa Falls Sioux City California New England Journal New York and New Haven Boston Road New York Herald Boston and Albany Boston Air Line New York and New York and New England Boston and Lowell Boston and Lowell Railway Corporation Manchester Works Worcester Nashua Rochester Sonora Aitchison Company Kansas Bell Telephone Lamar Erie New York Commercial Bulletin Baltimore Calumet Quircy Hancock Mining Herald Hamlet Pewabic Mason Shakespeare Hil Tory Stark Continental Hamilton Laconia Merrimack Naumkeag Washington York Atlantic Langdon Lyman Boylston Eliot Everett Globe Mt. Vernon Old Boston Fourth National Redemption State Blackstone Exchange Monument North America Tremont Blue Hill of Milton Dedham First National of Lynn Naumkeag of Salem Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio Cincinnati St. Louis Steary Baldwins Incer Carthaginian Lombard & Sons Simons, Jacobs & Co St. Andrews Cape Cod Red Top Jersey Manila York State Centennial Beacon Light Head Kentucky Missouri, Kansas and Pacific Missouri Pacific Chicago and Alton Canadian Pacific Oregon Railway and Navigation Charles ST. Adair Blue Line Canada Southers Lines Portland Mr. Adair Maine Central Ogdensburg Kansas City Fort Scott Golf Inc Svyringfield Tnc West Michigan Utah-Wyoming John J. Sorew Samuel A. Bigelow Uinta Ana Wyoming Hook “B Theoby Gail S Ten Bigelow Charles T. Stevenson Sevn Apoum Union Pacific Hallway Company Hilliard Range Afillara Hayden Bear River Hayden's Park Fish Creek Hilliard Flume and Lumber Company Bald Company Utah-Wyoming Improvement Co Hiliera Uinta Mountains Territory Utah Wiliam K. Stoan Utah Wyoming Improvement Company Ivory Kean Charlest Stevenson Bay

Multiple Insolvencies and Attachments Across Firms

The report lists several bankruptcies and arrangements including Vittum boot and shoe, Lynn. Hathaway nurgeryman Oxford. Leavitt Old town carpenter. Solomons & Co. Boston. Shattuck & Son Neshus. Spooner Easton assignment. Mowry & Co. Spragfield compromise. Lee & Co. Shirtings. Walker New Bedford grocer. a disputed mortgage against Kiregie Kiley. Cook Haverhill. Huyett & Co. Detroit. Hargreaves Liverpool New York Chicago. and Suffolk County real estate attachments detailing cases against Wakefield, Newall, Milmore, Wetmore, O Douvel, Kaulbath.

Vittum Lynn A. S&s. Hathaway Nurgeryman Oxford Charles R. Leavitt Oldtown Mitchell A. Solomons & Co Atlantic Avenue Boston Solomons Lim A, Shattuck & Son Neshus N. H E. P. Spooner Easton L. C. Southard C. L. Mowry & Co Spragfiela S. E. Lee & Co William H. Walker, Grocer New Bedford Kiregie Kiley G. W. Cook Haverhill Me. D. Huyett & Co Detroit Mich John Hargreaves Liverpool New York Chicago

Rockwell and Churchill Issue Giary Leader for Notes and Memoranda

Rockwell and Churchill, the well known printers, publish the Giary Leader. It is a fine specimen of the art preservative and arranged for notes of the past and memoranda of the future. It is neat and likely to be very useful.

Rockwell & Churchill

Milling stock closes in San Francisco on December 19

The official closing prices list milling stocks. Lest and Belcher Eds quote at 144, Hale and Norcross at 4, Bodie Con at 0, Eureza Con at 1 1/2, and Caia & Va and Savaz Con show minor values amid a fluctuating market.

San Francisco Val Lest & Belcher Hale & Norcross Bodie Doglimong Caia & Va Eureza

Doyleh Blaker at Boston Deco 15

Rev D Brad Lee reports on a ceremony in Boston Deco 15 where John T Doyle transfers to Amanda Blake. The event features attendees and a formal name change or bequeathal noted by the clergy.

Doyleh—Blaker Boston Rev. D Bradlee John T Doyle Amanda Blake

Death notices from Boston area locals December deaths

Susan L Smith of East Lexington dies at 63 widow of Wiliam H Smith services at residence with brother R W Holbrook on December 22 burial private. Anna Fugler daughter of J C Converse of Boston to be married at Mt Auburn chapel December 24. Calvin W Angier dies suddenly in South Boston at 77. Dexter of Dorchester Parkman Dexter aged 62. Elizabeth Joe Mackenzie of South Boston aged 52. Eleanor Clarke of Sherborn aged 68. Samuel Marden of Newton aged 77 years 10 months 16 days.

Clarke Sherborn Eleanor Clarke Marden Newton Samuel Marden

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