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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1888
Page
4
The week brings Mrs Brown Potter to Boston with mixed reviews at the Globe. Clara Morris debuts in Renée de Moray while The Arabian Nights opens the Grand Opera House with a steam curtain and lavish ballet. She, A Tin Soldier, and other shows update audiences across Boston stages with new casts and arrivals.
The New York press notes the Saturday half holiday has damaged business by closing banks and limiting weekly trade. Bank superintendent Paine urges the Legislature to repeal the law, arguing it hurts profits and offers little recreation for workers. The piece compares the holiday to Massachusetts labor policies and stresses political gains from repeal.
Embattled Essex county farmers at Tops field urge Congress to impose a 40 percent tariff on all vegetables poultry eggs and bed feathers. The proposal claims protection would lift farming from unprotected status and align it with the tariff system, noting potential boosts to egg and feather production and crops like Bermuda onions and Malaga grapes.
The Massachusetts Civil Service Reform League issues an address detailing the reform system, its operation in Massachusetts, and the progress achieved. It refutes claims that competitive exams favor students, cites three years of work, and clarifies veteran preference for soldiers.
Republicans win a strong majority in France with 57 of 75 seats decided and Conservatives at 21, leaving seven races undecided. This marks a gain of three seats for the Conservatives, though results remain incomplete.
The French Senate is elected by the people for nine year terms with one third chosen every three years. The National Assembly selects seventy five senators to bring the total to 300 who hold life appointments. The piece notes that the senate’s makeup lags public sentiment more than the U S. and that another Assembly election could reveal the current mood.
The Blair Bill proposing 79 million dollars in federal education aid for the South has lingered in Congress for six years. Proponents cite illiteracy and poverty, while opponents note Southern progress and insist the plan weakens local responsibility.
A critique challenges a Advertiser misquote about James Russell Lowell and international copyright. It argues copyright and patents share ground, defends Lowell’s moral stance, and cites Lowell’s Senate testimony and remarks asserting rights of authors over protectionist framing.
The speaker argues that if the educational bill gains approval for promoting public schools he should easily win backing for a plan to end the merchant marine as a temperance measure.
The speaker argues that one can discourage literary theft without relying on protectionism and can support tariff reform while opposing a broad basis for international copyright.
The plan, recently funded, targets a Cape Ann or Vineyard Sound site in Massachusetts. The project aims to connect teachers and students with rich coastal life, supporting summer learning during the winter academic year. An eight lecture series by eminent specialists accompanies the push.
Intangible property holders hunted from Boston by local assessors settle in Manchester by the Sea and similar towns. Nahant bears a high rate of 6 per thousand while Manchester Gosnédld Groton and Northbridge enjoy lower rates. Taxpayers seek residence where levies are lighter.
The piece argues Anthony Comstock's pamphlet on morals versus art lacks logical merit and mocks his anger at what he calls the secular press. It suggests the secular press may judge morals and art more soundly.
In Providence circuit court a jury awarded Mme Janauschek twelve thousand dollars against the Perry House proprietor. The case hinged on whether the stairs were dangerous or inadequately lit and whether her own eyesight contributed to the fall.
Brief notices profile diverse figures including Benjamin Johnson elected Kentucky House Speaker at 29 who does not smoke. Mrs. Jeremiah Porter remembered as an 80 year old Santa Barbara nurse and Chicago’s first teacher. Other items cite Flagler’s hotel spree, cowboy evangelist Kosure’s wealth, Salvini père wine, Harvard Shelley manuscripts, and Longtime senator Beck’s tenure.
A stand pipe exploded in the Quequechan mill in Fall River yesterday morning. It shattered windows in the upper mill and wrecked a slasher cyreuler. The damage is estimated at $1000.
The article lists appearances and preparations of a wide troupe including T. W. Robertson Charles Dodsworth J. W. Pigott Miss Rose Coghlan Mrs. Abbey Mme Ponisi and others at Wallack's and in Philadelphia and Chicago. It notes scenery work ensemble changes and new staging for ZL Abbe Constantin with Clinton Stuart adapting. Major engagements include Booth Barrett as Hamlet with Wallack benefit in May, Clarke in Morton's Speed the Plow, Vokes in Philadelphia and upcoming Patt Rosa and Denman Thompson in the same city. Chicago houses report strong audiences and a run of The Begum Lagardére Faust Jingle Held by the Enemy and Warde at the Columbia.
In Boston a columnist mourns the loss of the city’s “oldest inhabitant” weather lore as meteorology and the signal service eclipse the familiar voices. He also notes growing street commerce a tin coffee pot lunch stand and frequent moves in the downtown area amid year‑end mercantile notices. He fears protection for whortleberries and recalls a reader letter about iron bars in carts and pedestrians endangered by unsafe ends.
A collage of observations and quips on royalty salaries, New York construction, flight, college freshmen, Nile travel, beet vs cane sugar, rocking jokes about wheels, labor and debt, blue eyes, leap year marriage, a Norwich Bulletin doughnut anecdote, and London luggage thefts with cab tricks and a buck ruse.
The country should look to business leaders rather than politicians for tariff reform as Congress debates continue. Public mood favors study of each industry and distrust of partisan ungrounded claims, with sober groups seeking practical changes and facts over rhetoric. The Providence Journal comments.
A Times independent item questions Representative Boutelle of Maine, suggesting he sees himself as author and owner of the sectional issue. It asks if his constituents in Maine’s fourth district share his persistent patriotism or feel fatigued by it.
The Springfield Republican notes the Senators in Boston went through a caucus form as a display of deference to King Caucus, calling it not a sign of strength and dismissing the procedure.
The Chicago News argues that politicians use tobacco rhetoric to divert from failing to ease life’s essentials. It says Congress should repeal duties on food clothing and fuel, but instead offers a tobacco token. The piece compares this to a serpent offering fish for free while poisoning the public.
Mr Dallen pursues a promising sculpture. Mrs Phoebe Jenks proves versatile with portraits of men women and children. John Sargent's portraits include two children and works of Mrs Fairchild and Mrs Boit. William Ordway Partridge in Rome works on a sculpture at his Trinita dei Monti studio. Hubert Herkomer plans a larger art school at Bushey England this year.
The New York Tariff Reform Club will hold its inaugural dinner at the Metropolitan Opera House on January 21. A banquet for 400, with over half the tickets sold, aims to showcase tariff reform. Congressman Breckinridge, David A. Wells, and S. Cox have accepted invitations. the presiding host is unnamed. Tickets are six dollars.
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