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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1889
Page
8
The holiday season began with Christmas trees and concerts in churches and missions. Seamen's Chapel hosted events while many charitable homes displayed greenery and gifts, spreading the spirit of peace and good will. Holly and mistletoe adorned spaces as the community felt Christmastide's influence.
The Trinity Church Christmas program featured a central tree with two side trees and colored beads, lit by a calcium glow. After simple exercises, gifts were distributed by Dr. Brooks as children approached Santa Claus rewards, creating a pretty scene and marking one of the most successful trees in church history.
More than 250 youngsters from the Second Church capered through a festive afternoon. They sang carols in the chapel and heard readings before parlor gifts and a supper. Superintendent J. E. Thomas led the event with Dr. Brown assisting. Santa Claus appeared to distribute presents amid laughter and happy faces.
At First Church Eliot Place Roxbury the Rev James De Normandie led Christmas services citing Romans 8 9 urging focus on spiritual Christianity over nominal practice. He urged deep heart faith to bring peace humanity and goodwill as the choir performed the announced musical program.
At Shawmut Universalist Church 225 children and parents attended a cantata titled The Song of the Sleigh Bells led by Rev. G. L. Perin. Santa distributed gifts as teachers spared no effort with class gifts. Next Saturday the church sewing society will host another gift event.
Christmas Eve joy filled the Boston Baptist Bethel on Llanover Street as North End children and visiting sailors enjoyed two large Christmas trees laden with gifts. Reverend Walter J. Swatfield presented stereoptical views with stories, and food and clothing were distributed to the deserving poor.
The Young Men's Christian Union presented its annual Christmas Eve entertainment. Professor Moses True Brown read Dickens's Christmas Carol in four stages. Music featured Mrs Barry, Miss Norton, Miss Sibley, George Mendall Taylor, and H Lorenzo Teetzel on piano.
Young residents at the New England Helping Hand Society on Carver Street enjoyed a quiet Christmas gathering last evening. A modest tree and supper preceded an entertainment by local talent, with recitations reading and singing by the Carver Street Chorus.
A Christmas event at the North End Mission rooms featured a festive tree and gifts for women residents. Missionary Youngkin spoke, Lillie Vaughan read, and Conley and Wood sang. Mrs. Youngkin and Vaughan handed out presents. Forty current and former inmates enjoyed the evening despite Mt. Ope Home children missing due to sickness.
Inmates sang hymns and a piano duet by Miss Condin and Miss Woods, with songs by Miss McGregor and a reading by Miss Vaughn. After a tree was stripped of its presents the group enjoyed refreshments. Mr Youngkin thanks the public for donations aiding the home’s residents.
Visitors from the Associated Charities and the Cooperative Society of Visitors Among the Poor prepared a quiet warm Christmas. Gifts go directly to homes including blankets toys and a turkey. A visitor recounted scenes of gratitude and hardship, from a grateful woman who offered her heart to a child’s Christmas tree party at Chardon place kindergarten.
Nearly 300 sailors gathered at the Boston Seamen's Friend Society chapel at 175 Hanover Street for a Christmas festival hosted by Chaplain and Mrs. Nickerson. The event featured maritime decorations, gift loaded Christmas trees, comfort bags with items and New Testaments, and a Cambridgeport Lochman family performance. Walter H. Boggs served as Santa Claus as the program closed with a large collation.
Santa Claus delivered gifts at the Marcella Street Home where 400 boys and girls gathered in the chapel for exercises led by Dr. A. B. Heath. The trees were stripped as Misses Morrow Garland Paul Crowell McCarthy Chattin helped, with J. E. Heymer and E. P. Webster entertaining. A turkey dinner followed with all the trimmings. From 1885 to 1889 the home housed 1373 inmates, a record high.
The Christmas Card Mission led by Rev. Daniel R. Waldron distributes over 20 000 cards and leaflets this morning to city hospitals and charitable institutions. Cards come from many sources including L Prang Co. Waldron’s Beacon Street office buzzes as barrels from Sunday schools are unpacked by volunteers for the city poor.
About 150 children and parents gathered at the Boston Industrial and Temporary Home on Davis Street to enjoy a Christmas tree and gifts. Superintendent J T Roberts avoided lit candles after last year’s burn incident and music and talks followed from Rev Charles A Dickinson and others, with thanks for generous donations to the institution.
In Seymour Connecticut fire destroyed the Sey mour Beach block and damaged Bassett block with Beach likely losing 9000 dollars and 4000 insured. A Hebrew merchant Eddlestein arrested. In Providence Rhode Island the Slater Mill building fire caused 5000 dollars in losses. In Cincinnati Emery sons candle works burned with 100000 dollars loss. In Fall River John Waters barn and contents burned likely incendiary with unknown loss.
The 1889 year ends with Sylvester Brown named master of Martin School and teachers confirmed at several institutions. The committee authorizes Lloyd work at Appleton and Concord streets primary schools, approves land purchases in Jamaica Plain and Charlestown, and discusses physical training and hygiene amid debates on corporal punishment. Mr Murphy explains transfer practices, Chapin bans pupil gifts to teachers, and Gallagher receives official thanks before adjournment.
A stove overheating sparked a fire at the Hotel Harvard a three story wooden structure at Main and Harvard causing $1200 damage, insured. Shortly after 3 PM a basement fire at a brick building 23 Union Street alarmed by Box 16 caused damage described as rifling and noted as being owned by Fifty Associates.
Patrick Flanagan of Newton Centre employed by Cornelius Murphy fell from his seat while driving a heavy team on Hammond street Chestnut Hill yesterday afternoon. The wheels passed over him, crushing both legs and causing internal injuries. He was taken to the Cottage Hospital.
Deerfoot Farm sausages made from dairy fed pork are sold fresh daily by first class grocers. Beware of imitations.
James Hardy Ropes of Harvard writes to a New Haven editor defending Harvard and condemning an anonymous Post correspondent who said scholarship harms social standing and invites public judgment. He argues such talk is unworthy of Yale’s defender and praises Harvard’s strong standing.
The quotation touts 10 mills per cent and 2% dimes per bottle as a boon to the afflicted. It claims Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup sells for 26 cents a bottle and promotes Salvation Oil as a remedy option.
As holidays approach both sides claim signatures for caucus calls in a Barrett versus Wardwell clash over lobbying. Faction leaders say many signatories remain undecided or refuse to commit. A prior Barrett defense of lobbying in a state campaign is debated amid ongoing political maneuvering. The pause is to be followed by resumed campaigning Thursday.
The burned district reopened to the public after Thanksgiving fire. Fire commissioners paid 50 to families of fallen firefighters Laker Buckley Murnan. Rev Dr Lorimer weighs accepting Warren Avenue Baptist call. Governor's Council received Ziba C Keith nomination for State Board of Lunacy and Charity vacancy. Frederick B Davis to retire as Traders National Bank cashier and join Third National Bank. Fourth grand assembly of Favorite Associates of the South and West Ends held at Wells Memorial Hall with Wrights Orchestra. Mayor Hart discussed electric light price reductions with power firms but no deal reached.
The Rev Stavford Wentworth Brooke led funeral services for Colonel Francis W Palfrey at First Church Berkeley Street with the King's Chapel burial rite. Delegations from Society of the Cincinnati Loyal Legion and other military groups attended. Resolutions praising Palfrey’s honor service and self sacrifice were adopted by the standing committee.
The Maritime Fair plans a big Christmas spectacle with a mammoth illuminated tree, 165 incandescent lights, and gifts for all visiting children funded by generous donors. Free entry tickets for children include a prize, and performances by the Somerville Sons of Veterans Drum Corps and a Gilder piano recital are scheduled, with complimentary tickets not honored today.
Mr Stoddard announces popular lectures to be performed as Saturday matinees at Boston Music Hall on January 4 11 18 25 and February 1 The topics include The Rhine Napoleon From Corsica to the Throne Napoleon From the Throne to St Helena Berlin in 1889 and Switzerland Lectures have drawn large cultivated audiences in other cities and will feature illustrations reflecting the lecturer’s travel and study.
Postmaster Corse resumes duty after several days of indisposition caused by a cold and army exposure, risking a severe illness prior to recover.
Officer J J Burns of Station 1 arrested John Warino on the charge of assaulting Joun Smith with a knife on Endicott Street last evening.
An advertisement claims Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery cures torpid liver biliousness indigestion humors and skin ailments with a guaranteed refund if not effective. It asserts it can reach scrofulous affections including lung scrofula when taken timely and fairly trialed. Also touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy priced at 60 cents.
A morning of organ preludes and choral anthems fills Emmanuel Roxbury and St James Roxbury with works by Rheinberger Stanford Stainer and Sullivan. Church of the Immaculate Conception presents Mozart Liszt and Mendelssohn offerings with a 75-voice chorus. St Patrick’s features Capocci Messe Solennelle in A with soloists and a large mixed choir. first U.S. performance of Capocci mass.
Mr. Joseph W. Henderson of Texas spoke again at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church on The Race Problem. His address continued the themes from his previous talk and served as a response to Mr. Grady’s recent Merchants' Association banquet speech.
Seven year old Ada McGahey was knocked down by a wagon owned by George F. Foss on Main street Cambridgeport around 6 30 last evening and sustained severe injuries. Dr J E Dwer attended the girl and she was taken home to 154 Franklin street.
John Laurie was found unconscious on the sidewalk at 64 Marginal Street East Boston around 4 30 in the morning. He had a broken back and died shortly after. Laurie resided at the house where he was found and is believed to have fallen from a second floor window while sleeping.
A silver water service and butter dish were presented to Mr H P Whittemore of the Boston Museum by the supernumeraries last evening. The presentation speech was delivered by Mr A Allen Taylor.
The biggest Christmas tree ever raised in New England will be on display at the Maritime Exposition in the Mechanics' Building. It is loaded with handsome and useful gifts for distribution and lit by several hundred electric lights, sure to delight many children today.
Officer Walsh of Station 4 arrested Frank Mulvey of Providence and John McKenny, no home, on charges of breaking and entering the dwelling of Timothy Twohig at 39 Utica Street and stealing clothing valued at $20. The property was recovered.
Daniel Dutell a switch man at Rice's Crossing on the Boston and Albany railroad was struck by an engine yesterday afternoon and sustained serious injuries. He was taken to the City hospital for treatment.
Catherine Curtin of 140 Fourth Street South Boston fell from a third story window yesterday afternoon and sustained a serious head injury. She was taken to City Hospital.
The train leaving at 11 a.m. on the Springfield line now completes its journey in six and a half hours, arriving at the final destination at 5 30 p.m.
United States Circuit Court on December 24 held the power to restrain a complainant from suing purchasers or users of a patented article exists. The court found the numerous suits against defendants' customers vexatious and oppressive and granted the injunction as prayed for. Attorneys for the complainant and defendants appeared.
The International Trust Company of Boston sues the International Loan & Trust Company of Kansas over near identical names. The Missouri firm, with 1 million dollars capital, operates mortgage bonds secured by real estate and maintains no banking deposits in Boston. Hearings showed over 1000 bondholders and potential public confusion, with the judge undecided and an injunction possible after full bench review. Judge Holmes adjourned to attend General Palfrey's funeral.
Lists of actions intended for trial at the January sittings must be handed the clerk on or before Saturday 28th.
In Salem on December 24 Superior Civil Court recorded first the uncontested divorce decrees. Cases include Downing versus Downing for intoxication with child custody, Rutherford versus Rutherford for cruel treatment with custody, Abbott versus Abbott for gross and cruel treatment with custody, Goldsmith versus Goldsmith for desertion with custody, and Carey versus Carey for desertion. The court adjourned to Friday to finish uncontested cases with juries to reconvene Monday.
In December Judge Victor Hinton heard cases including larceny with $500 bond, profanity charges, and multiple liquor law violations. Defendants such as Lawrence Talifero Michael yet Reuben A Hall Catherine McIntyre James Keenan Thomas Cullen and others received fines from $5 to $100 plus costs or placement on file.
In Middlesex Superior Court the plaintiff, a married woman, sues William F. Gallagher alleging he sold liquor at Albany House in South Framingham to her husband and a man named McGill. McGill allegedly assaulted her husband, causing a broken leg and incapacity to support his family, with damages sought at 3000 dollars. Jury out. Attorneys listed for both sides.
Municipal Court records for Dec 24 show Curtis J Mark A Isaacs ordered to recognize 2000 for January term appearance to face forging charges on a 40 dollar promissory note. John Moore bound over to Superior Court on 1200 bond for breaking and entering Hotel Bellevue. Patrick Kenny sent to House of Industry for four months for stealing a coat valued at 15 dollars. George H Strong fined 10 dollars plus costs for larceny of two boots valued at 230 dollars.
A writer questions mad dog scares across eastern Massachusetts towns. He notes constant notices to muzzle dogs and law enforcement by selectmen and constables, while claiming few doctors have seen hydrophobia. He asks for expert input to calm community fears. East Acton, Dec. 21.
Lasell Seminary Auburndale reports student travel during three week holiday recess. Weights range from 89 to 173 pounds with an average of 119 1 10 pounds. Largest gain observed from September to December is 22 pounds. overall average gain 6 41 100 pounds. School to resume January 9, 1890.
The piece promotes the Chumley driving coat as essential for sleighing season. Sold ready made at G. W. Simmons & Co. Oak Hall for 16 to 28 dollars or custom made from 40 to 50 dollars, underscoring its warmth and versatility for street wear.
Christmas services announced for South Congregational Cuuren Newbury Street and Execer Street corner at 11 o clock with Mr Hale to preach Arlington Street Cournce hosts a Christmas festival service at 11 a.m. Emanuel Church on Newbury Street led by Rev Leighton Parks holds Christmas Day services and holy communion at 11 o'clock.
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