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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
4
An aging narrator, born Oct 21 1845 and died Dec 18 1912, laments slipping toward the poorhouse. She recalls youth, marriage, children, and work, then grave hardship as her offspring abandon her. She begs for dignity and work rather than charity, ending with a plea that her children suffer if she does.
New York December 22. Despite illness that kept him from the campaign and unseen by friends for months, Senator Timothy D Sullivan will not abandon his annual Christmas dinner. Invitations issued in his name promise the same event as in former years for the Bowery derelicts.
Rev Cortland Myers urged at Tremont Temple that most Christmas giving is bargain driven. He argued true friendship rests on disinterestedness and the best gift is one given without expectation of return.
Boston will for the first time officially observe Christmas this year if Mayor Fitzgerald can work out his present plans in time.
The Mayor aims to place a gigantic Christmas tree on Tremont street mall of the Common. It will be lit with thousands of colored lights on Christmas Eve and night. Choral societies and a big band will provide carols and national airs, inviting public participation. If realized, a lasting custom may begin. Henry Sullivan searched yesterday for a suitable tree. If located in time, the Common could host a remarkable gathering tomorrow and Wednesday nights.
Yesterday at the Boston Opera House George Proctor delivered the finest public performance this season in the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s B flat minor concerto. The program featured Borodin’s Danses Polovtsi and extracts from Rimsky Korsakov and Moussorgsky. The audience, though small, gave enthusiastic applause and Caplet’s interpretations drew praise from critics.
A fire in the Stone block at Main and Church streets Wal tham started in the Lexing ton Cafe cellar and quickly spread to the Ball News Agency and Gately Provision Company, causing about $10,000 in damage before firefighters stopped it shortly after 1 o clock this morning.
The Handel and Haydn Society conducted by Emil Mollenhauer presented Handel’s Messiah at Symphony Hall to a full crowd. Soloists Miss Harriet Eudora Barrows Miss Mildred Potter William H Pagdin Frederick Martin and the Boston Festival Orchestra under J W Crowley supported with Ram Tucker at organ and Walter Smith on trumpet. The performance drew high praise for the chorus stamina clarity and the soloists competence as the audience showed strong enthusiasm.
Thieves broke into the residence of Charles Clements in the Aberdeen district of Brighton yesterday. They ransacked the home and took jewelry valued at $500.
James Edwin Bradshaw, the Boston broker arrested on charges of setting a fire at the Rossmore Hotel, was bailed early Sunday. He tells a Post reporter his arrest is an outrage and a mistake and that his innocence will appear at trial. He cites worry for his wife and children and says his attorney has ordered silence until trial.
Arrangements are nearly complete for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation to be held at Park Street Church on January 1. Wendell Phillips Memorial Association leads the event with Franklin B. Sanborn presiding. Congressman Samuel W. McCall will give the oration and descendants of Garrison Whitman, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier, and Clarke are expected to attend.
Rome reports the Giornale d Italia claims Henry Dal Ferrol of San Giovanni in Persiceto near Bologna was chosen to kill King Victor Emmanuel but attempted suicide instead and is in a hospital in serious condition. The notice ends with an advertisement for Adamson's Cough Balsam.
London December 22 The peace conference faces a pivotal session tomorrow if Turkey waives its demand to revictual Adrianople. Allies will then present terms for peace and move to 13 business items while Turkish telegrams and hotel conferences signal high tension over provisioning and reopening military questions.
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