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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1891
Page
5
The speaker urges governance by good citizenship over strict laws, calls for citizen turnout and naturalization, and outlines reforms for Boston's city government. He compares to Mayor Quincy, supports a two‑branch council, consolidations, civil service merit, and limits on appointments, while urging prudent debt, improved streets, sewers, and a centralized City Hall.
The address warns that occupation fees could yield equitable city revenues while detailing funded debt rising from 48.6 million to 56.4 million between 1888 and 1890 due to improvements and current expenses. It notes net debt growth to 31.05 million, calls for higher taxes or debt, and emphasizes prudent borrowing, tax limits, and credit for the administration leaving office.
Official vote totals Dec 9 1890 show Matthews Merrill and Shapleigh leading for mayor with Matthews ahead by 13 253 in total votes. Aldermanic results list plurality margins per district from Sullivan Stacey Keenan Meyer Rust Leary Flood Lewis Reagan Farmer Lee Carruth with varying counts. Totals reported 92 210 for mayoral candidates and 19 957 2 043 46 for aldermanic contenders.
Miss Mary Elkinton daughter of Joseph S. Elkinton marries Inazo Nitobe at the Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia. Nitobe, Harvard and German university graduate, plans for a high government post and sails Jan 17 for Yokohama. Also reported is the Brookline marriage of Effie Haines Richardson to Charles Marshal Scudder at Major Richardson's residence with a home ceremony and later wedding tour.
Obituary notes Dr Benjamin S Warren a leading Concord physician who died suddenly at his home aged about sixty five after nearly four decades of practice He belonged to the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Patrons of Husbandry He is survived by a widow and one son Also reported are the death of Prince Chun in Shanghai and Newark abbot Jacob Zillcox aged forty two with a long clerical career and the passing of Manchester resident Stephen Danforth aged ninety one with his wife predeceased by one year
Representative Benjamin P. Pickering and wife celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at their Boardman Street home with many friends. Charles W. Jones and wife also observed their twenty fifth anniversary on Broad Street with a large turnout. The Thorndike Club presented a handsome easy chair to Mr Pickering. An elaborate booklet with a brown tinted engraving on the last leaf serves as O A Jenkins calendar at 407 Washington Street.
The article details six planned brick and stone houses on Commonwealth Avenue and Charlesgate West by John Stetson and James Thompson, to be built for Mr. J. M. Cumston with Samuel Dudley Kelley as architect. Each home about 50,000 dollars, interiors lavish, five similar exteriors, and a four story corner house. It also covers the unfinalized Farlow Building plan at State street and Merchants row by Sears & Cummings, with six upper floor offices and two elevators, plus delays in extending the Fiske Building frontage due to Cunard lease and market testing.
The annual report to the Governor notes ongoing excavation and wall work for the State House extension, with one third of mason work completed and total contracts of about 1.15 million dollars. City bids for two grammar and primary schoolhouses at Green Cheshire and Lamson Sumner were submitted. no contracts awarded. Batu Me Patten Free Library opens in Batu with deeds to pass Monday. library is gray pressed brick cost 17000. gift from Galen C. Moses.
In Southbridge on December 30 Frank H. Jackson wed Lillie Perkins both of Southbridge. In Roxbury on December 30 Arthur Leslie Phampton married Lucy Ella Richardson daughter of Warren Richardson both of Roxbury. In Somerville on December 31 John A. Saasare joined Laura J. Davison both of Somerville.
Obituaries recorded from Chelsea to Natick list Priscilla P. Danforth Fanny R. Greene Annie Greene Gusner Kimball Mary B Norris Persis M Pearson Richard Palmer Marion Ganghier Kate Ockwood Josiah Ice Charles H. Sherman Frances Elizabeth Stanton George H. Turner Elizabeth Metcalf Smith John Olman John W Walcott funeral notices, services, and burial arrangements with dates and locations across Charlestown Dorchester Malden Arlington Heights Natick and surrounding towns.
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