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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1897
Page
5
A prominent estate spent about $2,000,000 on a mansion and associated foundation projects, but the foundation failed, leaving large funds unutilized and questions raised about the use of private wealth in regional water relief efforts.
New York December 2 a long feature on George Vanderbilt leaving Biltmore after spending 10 million on the estate including a 2 million mansion water problems and failed farming schemes. The piece notes the 120000 acres surrounding Biltmore seven years to build the house and that Vanderbilt fled to India after a water shortage and structural issues.
George F Boujard assistant senior civil engineer with the New York Central amp Hudson River railroad is missing since Friday December 17. Police issued a general alarm though family friends and authorities still hope he will reappear soon.
Nathaniel Goldstein of 28 Poplar Place was arrested yesterday afternoon charged with receiving 50 dollars worth of cigars knowing them to be stolen from Sidman Landon & Co. tobacconists at Green and Stamford streets on Christmas Day.
Rev Henry Varley will address the Evangelistic Association noon meetings at Park Street Church through the coming week. Today's subject is The Christian's Christmas Stock Taking with Mrs Abby Ford Bertholf presiding at the organ and the Pacady gospel choir singing.
Morris Ableman presided at the Hebrew Democratic Club of Ward 8 meeting held at No. 41 Barton Street. Charles Bornstein served as secretary. Hyman Weinberg, who ran the last state and city campaigns, thanked the club and was elected leader and representative to protect its interests.
Philadelphia heiress Lillie Wanamaker is not engaged to Mahomet Ali, heir to the Egyptian throne. John Wanamaker calls the reports a scheme by native party conspirators to discredit Egypt's rulers and inflame anti foreign sentiment. The story traces from Paris gossip to Cairo press, with denials from Lillie and her father amid broader anti foreign sentiment in Egypt.
Colonel George Whitney of Royalston died after a month of illness. Born in 1817, he once drove a Royalston to Boston stage line for fifteen years. He later ran lumber and chair businesses and then woollens manufacturing. He served in the Legislature and executive council and was active in the militia. He leaves a widow and one son.
Moses Edison Worthen aged 60 died in New York from typhoid fever. He heroically shaped Passaic N J business life as president of the County Court House Commission president of the Dundee Woollen Company and held vice presidential posts at Pantasote Leather Passaic National Bank Washington Loan Trust and Hamilton Loan Trust. He was born in Charlestown Massachusetts and is survived by a widow a son and a daughter.
Harry Knight a prominent young actor and favorite with New England theatregoers died after a lingering illness at his sister Mrs J C McGarvey residence 2787 Washington street on Saturday evening.
Augusta Nack sent a basket of fruit and a personal letter to former lover Martin Thorn in Sing Sing prison. The note urged Thorn to seek the Lord and accept his imminent death as law determines. Thorn read the letter, scowled, and destroyed it while accepting the fruit.
Five shootouts erupt in Newport News during Christmas celebrations leaving Charles McElroy gravely wounded after Ernest Saunders fired three times in a dispute over a woman. Other affrays involved Black residents with pistols in a general melee in the city’s negro section.
In a Charlotte letter D A Tompkins of Atherton Mills argues the Southern cotton industry cannot be monopolized by one region. He urges North and South to cooperate to revive trade, notes wage, housing, and labor differences, and cites mill counts in Piedmont and neighboring states as looming supply pressures.
At 6 2 p m a slight basement fire at 412story brick building 336 Main street caused $60 damage. Thawing pipes at 232 p m in a three story frame stable 10 Richards street Charlestown owned by A M Richards and occupied by C L Davenport caused $25 damage. A child tipped a lamp at 547 p m on the first floor of a two story frame dwelling 115 Revere street owned by J J Costello caused minor damage. At 6 16 p m a kerosene lamp explosion caused a slight fire on the first floor of the three story frame dwelling 356 Bunker Hill street Charlestown owned by Mary A McConnell and occupied by Thomas Hinkley with damage $10.
Police raided 16 Florence street and 24 Dover street yesterday. At 16 Florence street Julius Peace 9 Genessee Morris Weiman 22 Minot Max Weiman and Henry Zadorski all of 16 Florence were arrested for Sunday gaming. At 24 Dover street Louis Willison 9 Colonia Joseph Horovitz David Lampel Solomon Young all of 2 Dover were arrested with Samuel Peltz held for presence.
A telegram reports the Japanese Diet formally opened by the Emperor on December 2. A vote of no confidence was proposed in the House, the Diet dissolved on the 2nd, and elections are set as the new Diet must convene within five months after dissolution.
Robert A. Van Wyck will become Mayor of New York at noon next Saturday succeeding William L. Strong. The transition will be simple and businesslike with few formalities, reflecting a new era under Tamany's influence and Richard Croker's guidance.
Citizens labor through Christmas to ready the civic parade and night carnival marking the city birth. A naval battalion will steamship Constitution model float with forty four guns, escorted by a fife and drum corps. A City Hall midnight chorus and flag raising with artillery salute conclude the events.
The article outlines major planned enhancements in New York City including three East River bridges, Harlem and North River bridges, a new aqueduct, underground rapid transit, subaqueous tunnels to New Jersey and Long Island, the Grand Concourse and Riverside Drive extensions, river parks, libraries, gardens, museums, baths, docks, and a parkway system for Queens shorefront. It notes Bronx street system and Richmond highway improvements as part of the urban expansion.
A polite thief with a revolver accosts a passerby and requests a Christmas present. The victim, trembling, pleads for options while the assailant insists on taking everything the victim has. The incident reflects a bold street crime in progress.
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