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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1899
Page
4
The committee on mercantile affairs will hold a hearing at 10 30 a m on Thursday February 23 at the State House to consider telephone reform. All interested parties are urged to attend.
The State Board of Trade endorses the Post telephone bill and urges prompt legislative action. The report condemns the Legislature for defeating the prior measure and calls for public relief from the telephone monopoly. Boards of trade statewide support supervision, hoping the board’s opinion influences forthcoming legislation.
The bill restoring three days of grace on sight drafts moves to the Governor after passage in both legislative chambers. Bankers argue bookkeeping simplicity, but business interests prevail. drafts often arrive before merchandise is delivered, tying up capital. Abolition of grace for promissory notes is unnecessary, but sight drafts need grace to avoid idle balances, aiding merchants and supporting timely payments. The governor’s approval is anticipated.
The Rev Dr John Watson lauds imperial policy linking America and England, urging a privileged governing aristocracy and a large standing army to run imperial affairs, echoing Ian Maclaren’s call for an American aristocracy to govern the new empire.
General Miles concedes the phrase embedding that the embalmed beef was issued under "pretence of an experiment" was unfortunate and not intended to imply fraud. He suggests the wording should have been "on the theory of an experiment" a change McKinley cited to justify Eagan's court-martial reversal. The Washington beef inquiry continues with related political and legal commentary.
General Miles explains his statement about Eagan and the six year vacation and $33,000 pay. The exchange prompts questions about replacing a dishonorable discharge with a costly settlement.
The article warns that President McKinley’s push for an army reorganization bill amounts to imperialism by empowering the executive. It questions an extraordinary session threat after March and argues the measure threatens republican institutions by concentrating power in the presidency.
The Boston audience will see a strong representation as dogs arrive, including Dr C A Longest with a mastiff Black Peter and a kennel of bloodhounds from Europe. Local fanciers plan large party attendance while con artists in sailor disguises circulate selling safe wood souvenirs.
A creature described as tall with raven hair and pale crafted face remains calm like a lamb until anger erupts. It suddenly roars and bites the air, revealing power that shocks onlookers who compare it to a lion bursting from a fragrant bloom.
A stylish costume features a skirt fullness below the hips created by fitted panels and a bolero bodice with surplice fullness below the bust. Materials include peau de soie, brocade, and a small V shaped chiffon vest. The latest design aims for a slender silhouette.
A collage of quotable lines from era newspapers and magazines. Jests about money and housing schemes, college advertising as football, a plumber’s view on punctuality, humorous song requests, and a senator described as hired by trusts. The snippets reveal social humor and light political commentary.
In a village drama the spinster Hepsey leads an old fashioned minuet at Miss Villiers dance class recalling youthful romance with Mr Brooks, a former suitor lurking in the wings. The town hall crowd cheers Hepsey as their beloved partner returns after four decades, uniting Hepsey and Brooks at the Grange while Villiers watches as the catalyst for reconciliation.
The Post invites women readers to submit original short stories of 700 to 1000 words. Weekly prizes include Ter dcellars (810) for first, $5 for second, and $2 each for four other stories. Entries must be single-sided with full name and address, prepaid return postage, folded, and mailed to the Short Story Editor. Winners to be named in Sunday Yost.
In a New York gossip note the late Jules Ferry is slated for a statue in Tunis rather than Paris amid mixed French public opinion on his colonial legacy. The piece also highlights E. J. Berwind, a Baltimore coal magnate famed for owning a lavish New York City residence on East Sixty-eighth Street with a $10,000 mantelpiece and tapestries valued at $8,000 to $15,000.
Yale address by Dr. John Watson warns US risks corruption and incapacity in Philippines and Cuba under current system. He calls for an American aristocracy, a trained governing class, a large standing army, and a strong Anglo American alliance of two navies to ensure peace and civilized influence worldwide.
AColonial era meal plan lists Cream of Tomato Soup Roast Beef Browned Potatoes Currant Jelly Mashed Squash Nut Salad Salt Wafers Macaroon Pudding Sponge Cake Coffee Sweet potato croquettes Six large sweet potatoes boiled mashed seasoned with butter salt and pepper formed into flat balls fried in lard Mrs J Jewprit 177 Hancock street Everett Mass
The Boston Post offers five dollar weekly prizes for the best three meal bills of fare submitted by women readers. Each entry must read like a menu with preparation directions. Meals should feed a five person family, with weekly food costs capped at ten dollars. Submissions to Cooking Editor, The Post, Boston. Rejected items will not be returned.
The American Academy proposal invites nominations for ten charter members of a proposed Academy of American Immortals. Responses received up to February 14 indicate ongoing discussions and candidate suggestions.
An audience will be asked to imagine 1899 as a century past for a unique fundraiser at Perkins Hall Boston on Washingtons Birthday. Living portraits, readings, music and seven Gibson drawings recreate Atlantic Monthly 1899 content with costumes and period stagecraft.
February 21 9 30 a m natives of Paco make a bold attempt to burn the First Washington Volunteers quarters setting huts adjoining the rear. Wind shifts fanning flames destroying twenty shacks opposite the church ruins. Incendiaries escape. Signals along enemy lines suggest planned attack but nothing materializes as rebels move toward Singalon.
A complimentary banquet at the Exchange Club by Boston Lodge of Elks No 10 honored Congressman-elect Naphen. About 110 members attended as Mayor Quincy and Albert C. Smith toasted him, and Exalted Ruler Charles A. Kelly presented a golden Elk charm. City Messenger Leary spoke on fellowship and public life.
General Miles detention before the commission investigating army supplies delays his appearance at the Boston Merchants' Association dinner. The event is postponed and will be rescheduled in March once the commission's timetable is clearer.
Edward Atkinson spoke to the Unitarian Monday Club criticizing the President and the war. He called the attack on the Filipinos a disgrace, blamed Senator Proctor for driving the U.S. into war, praised Aguinaldo’s forces, and warned that fewer than half of Manila troops would return home.
The Massachusetts legislature reported against a prohibitory liquor measure by a unanimous vote. The House reversed an earlier decision and ordered an investigation into the Marlboro strike, led by Representative Balcom. Debate covered salaries, street railway petitions, canal projects, tenement and building laws, and police matters.
This morning at 10:30 the committee on federal relations will hold a hearing on resolutions related to the Spanish war, expansion, and Senator Hoar's Senate speech of January 9. Hoar’s friends and an Anti Imperialist League delegation including ex Governor Boutwell, J J Myers, Senator Parsons, and Representative McAlen are expected. Some Lodge supporters say no action is warranted while the treaty stands. The hearing is expected to be one of the year's liveliest at the State House.
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