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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
10
A late night meeting in Boston saw a four member committee appointed to canvass hotel proprietors across the state about extending hotel operating hours. The aim is to keep establishments open for longer or all night if permitted, with legal counsel engaged and a service of counsel ordered to obtain a ruling or ordinance. The exact outcome remains undecided.
Caracas dispatch reports former President Benjamin Harrison received $100000 for services in the arbitration of the boundary dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela. The settlement also includes the American mixed claims and interest on foreign debt.
The Institute of Technology will observe an eight day Christmas vacation this year instead of the usual three days. Booker T. Washington spoke to the students yesterday afternoon in a formal address.
Samuel Goldstein alias Abraham Eppstein, dubbed one of the East’s slickest pickpockets, was arrested by Inspectors Douglass and Knox in a Tremont street department store after several attempts to lift wallets. Identified as a 1898 city arrestee, he carried $31, hotel cards, and a Bertillon record.
Father Thomas F. Murphy of Dobbs Ferry will christen the daughter born November 23 to William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and Virginia Fair at St Patrick’s Cathedral. The ceremony unites Vanderbilt relatives and features an India muslin gown with Paris embroidery, Shetland wool underskirts, white socks and kid bootees. Several nurses will accompany the christening party.
United States engineers plan to deepen the Governors Island ship channel to twenty seven feet for five hundred feet width in February, then widen to one hundred twenty feet. Dredging aims to allow Saxonia and Ivernia to sail full loaded, with further expansion to thirty five feet pending Congress funds. The ledge across the channel is slate and fractured by blasting from a scow using dynamite. About seventy feet daily drilling depth yields heavy rock removal at sixteen dollars per cubic yard. The Eleanor A. Percy six mast schooner grazed there entering the harbor.
The Worcester mayoralty contest will be argued in the Supreme Court this forenoon. Frank P. Goulding, counsel for Philip J. O Connell, sought an order of notice and an injunction. The court issued a notice returnable today seeking a writ of certiorari to prevent a special election due to the tie after recount. If the petitioner succeeds he will be the next Worcester mayor. if not, a special election will be held.
A meeting at New Old South Church last Sunday evening raised funds for the Tuskegee Institute. The latest report shows substantial contributions, with additional amounts added to the fund since the prior report. Names mentioned include Mr. William Davis and Mr. William H. Baldwin.
In Mineola New York on December 2 the Duryea family battle over the Glen Cove fortune continues in Surrogate Court. Grace Spriggs testifies joining sisters Marcia and Eva in alleging the father Edgar Duryea was a habitual drinker and mentally incompetent when making his will. The sisters accuse lawyer Edgar Payne of conspiring to defraud them amid broader claims of undue influence.
A man in Esterhazy is described as starving with no money or clothing. He receives a meal at a local workhouse and seeks warmth by going into churches and museums.
London reports Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, central to the Dreyfus case, remains defiant. A letter from his estranged wife’s guardian details his alleged misery, lack of funds, and plea to his children amid accusations he cannot defend.
In New York a memorial drive reports almost 17000 contributed toward the Admiral Philip fund. Planners hope to reach at least 60000, with income going to Mrs. Philip during her life and thereafter to the naval branch of the Y M C A in Brooklyn.
The Congregational Club held a ladies night in Lorimer Hall with 650 attendees. President Charles A. Hopkins presided after the reception and collation. Reverends Dinsmore Herrick Smith spoke on progress of nations in the nineteenth century along with General O. Howard and Alexander McKenzie.
A band of Russian gypsies in Boston, many in two room quarters at Pitts Street, will start today for Chicago and surrounding regions. The group includes men who have taken first naturalization papers, some work as copper miners, others as gypsies. They reportedly have funds and state aid offers may cover part of their travel expenses.
From yesterday’s Globe general Curtis Guild Jr. says there is no foundation to reports he will run for Lieutenant Governor on Bates’s ticket. He notes friends have urged him to declare, but he issued a flat denial at 12:15 PM and will prepare a formal statement.
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