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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 27, 1872

Page

3

The Highland Railway Petition Hearing Remains Open

At the Green Room last evening the sixth hearing on the Highland Railway charter was held by the Legislative Committee on Horse Railroads. S W Bates presented receipts and miles run for the Warren street route from October 1870 to October 1871. T W Clarke for petitioners showed tables of horse work on the Metropolitan and Union roads since 1864, noting a 33.8 percent rise on Metropolitan and a 14 percent drop on Union, plus statistics on the Brooklyn roads.

Legislative Committee On Carpenter Senate S. W. Bates Metropolitan Railroad Bates Thomas W. Clarke George £. Towne Fitchburg Towne Metropolitan Middlesex Cambridge Green Room Highland Railway Metropolitan Road Warren Street T. W. Clarke Union Brooklyn Wwe Railroad Highland District South Boston New York Washington Street Boston United States Metro Olitan Road Metropolitan Company Boylston Street Moody Merrill William Whiting Highlands Cere Road Merrill Tremont Street Shawmut Avenue Temple Street Temple Place Fourteenth Ward Union Railroad State House Hiowe Draper Sodom Gomorrah Beacon Street Albany Street Summer Street Serpent

Gale Delays Vessels and Damages on Land in Boston Area

Severe coastal gale slows inbound ships from Liverpool Muscat and Cienfuegos staying in the Roads overnight tugboats on scene but risky to tow vessels ashore. On land, a large tree branch blows off damaging a store awning and window. a Sixth Street pew building under construction is blown down. a Maplewood Malden house is uprooted and moved, with much material ruined.

Lake Ontario Liverpool Barke Taria Topan Muscat Neptune Cienfuegos St. Michael West Indies Bat Washington Street Shawmut Avenue Sixth Street Boston O and N M. A. Cummings Maplewood Malden

First Annual Report on Prison Commissioners Plan

The Boston Post describes the first annual report of the Prison Commissioners. It covers the board members John W. Candler D P Noyes H G Herrick Joshua Coit with advisory members and notes expenses of 2778 65. It details attempts to create a separate women’s prison at Greenfield which was abandoned after difficulties, and describes plans to relocate women convicts to five prisons with matrons and work rooms. It proposes a new state prison for women near Boston and outlines a three story main building with wings, housing 300 prisoners at an estimated cost of 204377.

Paul Liptay New York Hungary Gilmore A. P. Peck Music Hall God Bach Damascus Costa Eli Handel Mendelssohn St. Paul Coliseum Sears Gen. Whitney Water Power Company J. B. Thayer Land Company Munson Geo. L. Ruffin Charles Summer America United States Senate Senate Hooper Massachusetts Rubin Sumner John J. Smith Boston J. B. Smith Messrs Sumner Butler Boston and Albany Railroad Railway Committee South Boston Railroad Cape Cod Old Colony Thomas G. Salter U. S. Navy National House Charlestown Connecticut Navy Minnesota New Bedford Samuel F. Buckley Peabody Buckley Tage Alanson Hawley Secretary of State Hyde Park Granby Conn Emory Willard Cambridge Brighton Boston and Albany Railroad Company Chandler and Berkeley Streets Berkeley Street E.S. Philprick D. Fitzgerald John Hooper Swampscott Salem Turnpike George W. Boynton McIntyre Hooper's John Flynn Nathaniel Mace Salem Swampscort Europe Marco Polo China Zipsago Commodore Perry Japan Niphon The Mikado Ten-shon Dai-jin Sinto Ten Show Dai Jin Corea House of Representatives Jongres Washington India Asia United States John W. Candler D. P. Noyes H. G. Herrick Joshua Coit Pauline A. Durant Ciara T. Leonard H. B. Chickering the Ear Greenfield Beooth Worcester Southton East Cambridge Ipswich A. A. Marin Lancaster Jrausaan Opera Flotow Martha Lady Henrietta Miles Nilsson Marguerite Lucia M. Capovi Lisner Mile. Nilason Miss Cary Nancy Mlle. Duval M. Capoul Sigvor Barre Little Nell Lotta Katy Nel Nell Nathaniel Spooner George M. Barnard Richard Matthews Matthews Children’s Hospital Washington Street John G. Wetherell Malden Duluth Minn Savage James Doherty South End Lincoln Guards South Boston Faulkner Suffolk Lodge Josiah Bardwell Israel G. Whitney Ambrose Eastman William M. Whitney Calley Boynton and Bowler James Dailey Kneeland Street Providence Savings Bank Connecticut Railroad Patrick Dailey Seneca Street Messrs Guild & Delano Bent & Bush Winslow Lewis Lodge Blaney Lodge Chicago

Fire at Blake and Willow corners Lynn destroys upper floors

A three story wooden building at Blake and Willow Lynn owned by City Auditor Charles B. Clough burned Sunday, with the second floor and the two upper stories consumed. Losses total in the thousands with partial insurance in several companies. Basements housed Fletcher Dwyer and T E Ward with insurance. Other firms in the building and Saxonville Mill fire and smaller incidents are noted along with insurance coverage and related details.

Blake and Willow Streets Lynn Charles B. Clough People’s Hartford Fletcher & Dwyer T. E. Ward James Phelan Narragansett Imperial Franklin” Philadelphia J. T. and D. A. Sutherland

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