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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1890
Page
5
Washington February 20 The Treasury Denies Boston request on wool schedule. Bonds offered today for government deposits totaled 269000 with 215000 of 4 percent and 54000 of 4 1/2 percent bonds. Total acceptances under second call rise to 4890000 with sixty five of eighty banks favorable. Some banks exit the system. call lasts until March 1.
Wool men expect Ways and Means to adopt the schedule agreed by Wallace and Sanford despite protests from some growers. Judge Lawrence and Mr Harpster resist, possibly influencing Major McKinley. Other committee members favor acceptance to avoid a renewed revolt by carpet interests.
A House labor committee vote of seven to three favors reporting a bill to adjust accounts of laborers and mechanics under the eight hour law. It would pay for each eight hours worked by government employees since June 25, 1868 at a full day’s rate and refer overtime claims to the Court of Claims for adjudication. The measure previously passed the last Congress but stalled in the House.
Messrs Wellman Hall Co of Boston asked the Treasury to recognize merchant certified invoices from Canadian port towns without local consular officers for Boston imports. The Secretary of State advised declaring via an agent under consular rules, Treasury concurred and denied the request, noting no sufficient reason to require consular invoices.
Captain Bates presents his House committee on merchant marine and fisheries a financial outline. The first year bounty totals 3,906,581 dollars, with 2,056,023 for sailing ships and 1,906,581 for steam ships. About 500,000 dollars would come from the Treasury via tonnage tax. Bates expects first decade annual bounty not to exceed five or six million dollars due to shipbuilding and decay timelines.
The Taylor Torres bankruptcy bill was approved by the House judiciary committee and chairman E B Taylor was authorized to report it favorably to the House. Several amendments were added but none deemed radical. Congressman Cal Leison of Texas was cleared to report a minority version of his introduced bankruptcy bill.
Captain Philip Hichborn assistant to the chief constructor of the navy will go tonight to Boston to attend to matters connected with the construction of cruiser No. 11 at Loring's yard. He will return Sunday.
The Advocate announces the retirement of 90 editors and the resignation of W B Cohen 91. Sophomore editors take charge for the first time in the paper’s history under H M Landon president. Board includes J R Corbin C Bull A Tassin T G Bremer F W Nicolls. Harvard Athletic Association shifts events to handicap format in winter. Delphi fund committee chaired by Dr M H Morgan seeks 500 dollars.
Judge Sanger of the Third District Middlesex courts exonerates police in the John W. McGregor case. The inquiry found McGregor died of natural causes after a Feb. 9 Cambridge incident and that officers were justified in arresting him for intoxication. Autopsy showed some injuries likely from a street fall, not from police action.
Louis Dyer closed his Lowell Institute series on The Gods in Greece with Apollo at Delos. He traced Apollo’s ties to Delos and Aphrodite, purification of the island, and the god’s chivalrous, truthful nature. Delian myths, Delos purification history, and ruins were described, with stereoscopic views shown.
About seventy ex-pupils and masters gathered for the second English High School association reunion at the Phorndike. President Charles F. Wyman opened with prayer, followed by five minute talks from representatives of classes 23, 25, 34, 37, 86, and 1872, praising the school’s founders, growth, and its record size this year of 803 pupils.
The Cambridge School Board met last evening and ordered the rules committee to revise regulations. Ella S. Danforth and Cyrene J. Flint were confirmed as teachers, with Georgie Jones and Agnes Gordon added as sewing instructors. Trigonometry and surveying were dropped from the English High School commercial course. J. L. Hildreth resigned from Ward 1, and a convention with the Aldermen is set for March 11 to fill the vacancy.
A letter responding to the Cunard subsidy debate argues the £180,000 payment was value for mail service, not a bounty. It contends government supported rapid, reliable transatlantic links, fosters maritime enterprise, and questions why American lines cannot receive similar terms to boost competition against British subsidized vessels. The piece cites Bayard and compares Cunard, Collins, and independent Clyde lines, urging policy parity with England.
The New York market opened steady as professional traders shorted ahead of a Bank of England rate cut to 5 percent and higher reserve requirements. Banks faced losses from Treasury operations while shares like SoC, BL & Q, and Rock Island saw selling with buyers returning later. Northern Pacific preferred and Oregon Transcontinental edged up near session end. London buying Louisville and Union Pacific intensified on the rate move, while Chicago brokers sold Louisville & Nashville. Ahead of holidays, bears expect a weak bank statement. a stronger close could occur if short-covering rises.
A large turnout of business men attended the funeral of George Hillard Bradford at his Beacon Street residence. Rev James De Lee and the Ruggles Street Quartet led prayers and hymns, with burial at Forest Hills Cemetery. Harvard class of 1876 members gathered at Young's Hotel to decide on action regarding the death caused by a West End electric car, with a committee to decide further steps.
Marriages recorded include George K. Bickford to Minnie D. Clark in Oxford Massachusetts on February 19. George Edward Bonney to Harriet Elizabeth Cheney in Medfield on February 15. James K Forrest to Mary J Coughlin in the city on February 18. Marland Cogswell Hobbs to Elizabeth Frothingham Satford in Salem on February 18. and John Callender Livingston to Louise Bowler in a Berlin church ceremony conducted by English chaplain Reverend K B Earie.
Deaths across towns record Martha M Belknap Mrs C Bauckman William Furlong Lawson D Gray Frederick P Howland Emma F Macomber Thomas J Mumford Artemus Meysinger Annie Varsaniee Charles J Stone Charles H Stearns William Wilkinson Charles Harris Wilder Funeral services set for West Newton Street Church of the Unity with burial private notifications indicate ages and homes across Dorchester West Somerville West Cambridge Grenada Miss and New York among others
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