Civil service rules push for competitive exams across the service
The text discusses appointing officers bypassing or enforcing head-of-list certifications, the role of the Civil Service Commission in testing applicants for health and character, and the push to extend competitive rules. It notes plans to include postal clerks, inspectors, and Indian school teachers, and to lower the pay threshold for application. It also covers objections to a removal confession rule and why the President rejected it.
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Appoents
Pearson
New York
Tis
Civil Service Commission
Customs Service
New York Custom House
Civil Service
Lyman
George William Curtis
Essrs
Qoberly
Edgerton
Mr. Curtis
Horticulturists Eulogize Gray and Feature Peach Talk
The Horticultural Society held a meeting with a eulogy for Professor Asa Gray delivered by President Walcott. J H Hale discussed peach diseases from experience with 12,000 trees, advocating high dry plantings and bone meal with potash as key. Prizes awarded for freesia, hyacinths, dandelions, lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes, rhubarb, and cut flowers.
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The
Horticultural Society
Walcott
Asa Gray
Society
Parkinson
J. H. Hale
South Glastonbury
John L. Gardner
George F. Stone
Cephas L. Brackett
Charles Winter
Winter Bros
George Sanderson
Brackett
F. R. Hayes
E. M. Gilla
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspectors Lead Public Welfare Efforts
The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company reports strong growth for 1887 with capital rising to 500 000 and total assets of 1 096 515. Net surplus stands at 112 163 with a policy holder surplus of 612 163 while earned premium liabilities rose by 154 000 yet surplus remains steady. The firm emphasizes public safety through its steam equipment inspectors led by manager C E Roberts at the 86 Pemberton Square northeastern department office.
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Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Hartford Company
Pemberton Square
C. E. Roberts
Das W Coid
Aixmvants
Norfolk County Democrats Hear Saltonstall Codman Tariff Talk
At the Norfolk County Democratic Club dinner in Boston, Collector Saltonstall and Colonel Codman spoke on tariff reform and civil service, praising President Cleveland. They contrasted free trade with protection, stressed the need to reform tariffs, and defended Democratic principles amid Republican opposition, with attendance thinning due to the storm.
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Civil Service
Norfolk County Democratic Club
Tremont House
Saltonstall
Charles R. Codman
Gaston
Corse
Thomas Riley
N. Mathews, Jr
Bushrod Morse
Ira C. Hersey
J. W. Hart
William G. A. Pattee
E. M. Phillips
Thomas Curtis
Quincy
William N. Eaton
Thomas H. McDonough
Bernard Dolan
Stoughton
John Sweeney
Brookline
William Aspinwall
Norfolk County
United States
Fisher Ames
Massachusetts
Washington
Democratic Party
Sofar
Cleveland
Bleakie
Europe
Mr. Blaine
England
Pennsylvania
Wales
Congress
Senate
Board of Overseers
Harvard University
Codman
Republican Party
Democratic Party of the
Henry Clay
Russia
France
Germany
Italy
Boston
Colyar
Tennessee
South
Colgar
Mr. Colgar
Harper’s Monthly
Edmunds
Tom
Senator Edmunds
Jackson
Lincoln
New England
Leopold Morse
House OF Representatives
Washington, D. C
Tra C. Hersey
Norfolk Democratic Club
Court Street
Tariff Debate at Cereal Club Echoes 1840s Split
At a Nashville hotel, guests discuss tariffs with Beard King Shepard and Hardy debating protection versus reform. They cite 1846 and 1883 experiences, wage effects, and Treasury surpluses while noting Democratic and whiskey interests shaping tariff views.
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Cereal Club
Beard
Harvey N. Shepard
Theophilus King
Alpheus H. Hardy
King
Shepard
Hardy
Colgar
Nashville
Senator Morgan
Tariff Reform Club
Ways
House of Representatives
House
Breckinridge
United States
Republican Party
Henry Clay
Webster
Clay
Kentucky
Grand Army and club gatherings marked by veterans and invites
Grand Army day drew prominent veterans at Middlesex Club including Judge J P Rea commander in chief and General Charles Devens with speeches by Jevens Noyes Draper and others. Massachusetts Club welcomed John Jarrett and John Scanlan and elected new members while planning Lincoln birthday events and police chiefs met to discuss permanent appointments.
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Middlesex Club
J. P. Rea
Grand Army of the Republic
Charles Devens
Jack Crawford
William F. Draper
Massachusetts Department
Jobin
Cressy
Evans, Billings and Merrill
E. W. Hincks
Jevens
John W. Billings
Charles J. Noyes
Griffin
Texas
John C. Linnehan
Massachusetts Club
John Jarrett
Pittsburg
John F. Scanlan
Chicago
Henry S. Hyde
Springfield
Chester W. Kingsley
Cambridge
Horace G. Wadlin
Reading
John C. Milne
Fall River
Edward O. Shepard
Boston
Henry Parkman
Ezariah B. Harris
James F. C. Hyde
Newton
J.O. Wardwell
Haverhill
Andrew J. Jennings
Clarence Lovell
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander H. Rice
John Conness
Chiefs of Police
Young’s Hotel
Chief Cloyes
Cloyes
Parkhurst
Somerville
Hart
Salem
Washburn
Worcester
Richards
Malden
Chase
Brockton
Vose
Lawrence
Douglass
Gloucester
Burleigh
Waltham
Hammond
New England
Lincoln
Thorndike
Western Freight Rate War and Burton Stock Car Meeting
The Western railroad rate war continues with a cut from 25 to 15 cents per 100 pounds for packing house products from Kansas City to Chicago, with Omaha reports of a 13 cent rate. The Pullman Car Company plans locomotive manufacture, aiming for giants hauling 75 to 100 loaded cars. Burton Stock Car Company calls a February 7 meeting in Portland Maine to elect directors, discuss raising capital by 100,000 shares to 2,000,000 total, authorize stock disposal, and consider dividends by July 1, 1888 amid new railway contracts. late earnings reports from St Louis San Francisco, Toledo Ohio Central, and others show varied monthly and weekly gains.
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Western Railroad
Kansas City
Omaha
Missouri River
Chicago
Pullman Palace Car Company
Burton Stock Car Company
Clarence Hale
Exchange Street
Portland
Clarence Halk
St. Louis
San Francisco
Toledo & Ohio Central
Inc
Colorado
Hocking Valley
Toledo
Evansville
Evansville & Indianapolis
Evansville & Terre Haute
Cairo
Vincennes
Monthenneey Staten Sens
Indiana Coal Railway
Canadian Pacific
New Colored Illustrations Spark Cosmopolitan Revolution
A New Departure at Cosmopolitan Magazine features colored illustrations in its February issue. Manager Mr Schlicht says the feature will be a regular, marking a distinct era in magazine literature. He credits improved health from Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey for renewed energy and business growth.
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New York Times
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Ballet
Paris
Schlicht
Schlicht & Field Company
England
France
Germany
Berlin
America
New York
Duffy
Cosmopolitan
Insolvency notices from Boston court of 1888
Insolvency notices report warrants issued by the Court of Insolvency for Suffolk County against Edmund R. Davies of Boston and creditors meetings set for February 17 and March 2, 1888. Also notices appointing Walter Goodwillie as assignee, Blanchard insolvency, and a probate citation to review the fifteenth account of William W. Hutchings and David W. Foster trustees for Julia M. Pearce and others.
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Boston
Court Room
Court Square
Suffolk
John B. Fitzpatrick
Walters
Goodwillie
Winthrop
Charles H. Blanchard
George H. Wilbur
Devonshire Street
Massachussetts
Samuel Pearce
William W. Hutchings
David W. Foster
Julia M. Pearce
Boston L’est
John W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
John F. Gilroy
John W. A. Schafer
Mary Shields
Mary Shiels
John A. Duggan
Admi
Court St
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Irving Richardson
Isaac Gardner
City of Boston
Otice
Charles Leve
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Roya Boxing Pownderr Co
Wall St
8. R. Knights & CO
Washington St
Bostom
Main St
Cambridgeport
Tremont Street
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Rogers
B. W
Northampton Street
Columbus Avenue
Samuel Hatch & CO
Congress Street
Daniel W. Beckier
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N Street
Third Street
Stetson
Keckler
Deborah A. Sears
Beckler
John M. Porter
Charles S. Judkins
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Picqua
Palermo Oranges
Palermo
Iske’s
Florida
City of
Macon
Francis Henshaw & CO
Merchants’ Exchange
Boston Stock Exchange
Hares Lowell Mfg
National Bank of Republic
National Tube Works Co
Boston Marine Insurance Co
Hares
Manchester
Hares First Ward
Nat’l Bank
Amoskeag Mfg
Do Lyman Mills
Androscoggin Mills
Pacific Mills
Action Amoskeag Mfg. Co
Khaea Manhaan Fae Ma
Sumi AL Vunctay Juis
West End St. Ry. “Co
Burton Stock Car Co
Ogdensburg
Lake Champlain
Boston & Lowell
Naumkeag St. Ry. Co
N. E. Mtg. Sec. Co
Vineyard RR. Co
R. L. Day & Company
Brokers & Appraiser
State St
Merchants’ Exchange Building
National Bank of the Commonwealth
Dedham Natl
Dedham
Mass
Reece Button Hole Mach. Co
Femigewasset Natl
Plymouth
Ware Natl. Bank
Ware
Hamilton Woollen Co
Old Colony Rd
Portsmouth RR
River
McKay
Asso
Fire and Marine Ins. Co
Boston & Maine
Eng. Mort. Sec. Co
City of Augusta
M. L
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Mt. 63
Union Pac
S. F
Louis
Evans
Georgetown
Portsmouth
New
A. 5. Richards & CO
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Wilmerding, Hoguet & CO
White St
Townsend & Montant
Leonard Street
Albert Howe & CO
Market Streck Brighton
Brighton
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