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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1895
Page
6
The notice invites buyers to attend the sale on opening days to find every garment as advertised. Goods sold cannot be duplicated, so early shoppers have the best chance. Patrons are asked to take parcels with them as the delivery department will be blocked before 2 PM. Fifty experienced clothiers seek employment.
The Bemis post office seeks a man named John E Foley appointed by Grover Cleveland but no such person is found in Watertown. The town committee police directory and Foley families are listed. Wheeler waits for the appointee, while the depot post office salaries and duties remain unsettled in Fitchburg depot.
The article recalls Saint Valentine as an early martyr and explains a Scottish English practice in which slips bearing names of men and women were drawn to pair couples for the day. It notes B. F. Larrabee & Co. offering one of the season's finest valentine selections in town.
Glasgow Feb 10 The steamer Anchoria, bound from New York, arrived in the Clyde this morning unscathed after anchoring and paying out sixty fathoms of chain on the 4th and 9th to hold her head to the wind.
The Gloucester fishing fleet returns from Georges Bank and Brown Bank with large hauls, despite heavy northeast gales. Several schooners report being blown off course, with some vessels damaged and fuelled by thick weather. The Louis V Place rescue story from Fire Island adds to a day of peril at sea.
The Umbria, proceeding from Liverpool to New York, plucked four sailors from the waterlogged French bark Jean Baptiste after it signaled distress near 47.20 N 36.42 W. Captain Libot stated no effects were saved. among Umbria passengers were Elbe disaster survivors John Vevere Charles Hofman and Eugene Schlegel.
Patrons seeking good value and symphony style ambiance should visit the Silver Grill in Boston opposite Water Street for noon or evening meals with free gratis music. The venue markets itself as the best spot for dining with music in the city.
CAUGHT IN ICE. VINEYARD HAVEN Feb 10 Steam tugs report heavy ice on Nantucket Shoals. Kate Jones towed Henry of Machias Jameson Calais and Willie L Swift with lumber and coal to harbor after ice. Charles M Patterson lost anchor in ice and was towed by Storm King. Mercury towed Clare A Donnelly to anchorage near Nobska.
Captain Rubelli of the Standard Oil steamer Maverick says barge No. 58 was dropped Friday night due to dwindling coal. Ten crewmen led by Captain C. G. Farran are missing, possibly afloat after a gale as the Maverick resumes coaling and plans to search.
Newport Rhode Island February 10 Tug Right Arm towed schooner William Lorman Roberts from Block Island after a Friday storm iced her badly and swept away fore and main gaff and boom. Augusta Palmer from Norfolk to Providence and Lyman M. Law from same ports arrived badly iced but unassisted. Captain Haskell calls it the toughest weather yet. Ice fields twenty five to thirty acres drift seaward, choking the bay harbor.
A memorial service at Universalist Church honored 123 Gloucester fishermen drowned in the past year. Clergy assisted as Rev M Cook urged better vessels and capable captains to reduce future losses. names were read, with only 23 bodies recovered.
New London Conn Feb 10 Schooner Helen H Benedict Captain Brockett arrived tight and badly iced from Boston bound for Norfolk. The vessel was caught in the blizzard of the 8th and lost in a terrific blow with dense snow off Point Judith. After reaching Dutch Island the ship came to New London. Brockett will seek anchors and chains and proceed to Norfolk- he calls the storm the worst he ever experienced.
Quarantine New York February report says the schooner Jennie C. May lies at anchor off the Highlands with a frostbitten crew and heavy icing making her hard to handle. She is en route from Baltimore to Boston with coal and will sail for Boston when weather permits.
Provincetown Feb 10. The schooner Thomas W. Lawrence Handy of Pooles Landing Me arrived for Charles City from a voyage and reports losing foreboom and foresail after riding out late gales. Ten miles east of Thatcher's Island Saturday a large steamer bound west was seen in apparent distress. Also arrived were fishing schooners Mabel Leighton Mascoma and John Drinan. Wind NW clear and cold.
Noon relief brought the decision to seek shelter tonight due to the gale. The schooners Sagamore and Childe Harold freed themselves from ice in the sound around noon, both heading north at dark.
General Hyde of Bath Iron Works has conferred with the Navy on the Katahdin ram's preliminary trial plans. The vessel, now dry docked in Charlestown, is slated to sail in Long Island Sound in the first week of March. The contract calls for 17 knots speed and 4800 horsepower.
Gloucester reports four vessels arrived from offshore after a severe storm with intense cold. No damage or loss. Schooner Augusta E Herrick and Lewis H Giles from Newfoundland arrived. Augusta E Herrick had decks swept and sprung aleak. Crews say offshore storm less severe than near land.
Highland Light Feb 10 report details a deeply laden three mast schooner fighting wind and sea to reach Race Point and drop anchor off Wood End. Steamer H F Dimock passed north at two p m. One fisherman struggled all day to weather Race amid heavy ice pack in the bay.
The northwest gale continues at Chatham as five steamers Lancaster Berks Reading Harrisburg and Lebanon were driven to stand off the shoals this evening delaying arrivals and departures.
Work on the ram Katahdin at Charlestown Navy Yard advances rapidly toward completion. Fifty Bath Iron Works men are on the craft, with more to be called up if needed to meet a month-end deadline. The vessel, unique in navies, rivals only the British Polyhemus in concept and aims to deliver a 400,000 foot ton impact at 17 to 18 knots, becoming its own offensive weapon.
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