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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1892
Page
4
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A list of showtimes across Boston venues including Shiboh at Boston Theatre and The Nominee at Tremont Theatre, Incog at Hollis Street, County Fair at Park Theatre, A Lost Paradise at Columbia Theatre, The Devil's Mine at Howard Theatre, Sinbad at Glaze Theatre, London Assurance at Boston Museum, Cyrene and Dora Wiley at Palace Theatre, and The Police Patrol at Graxp Opera House with times mainly in the 7:45 to 8 o'clock range.
The Rapid Transit Commission announces public hearings on a proposed scheme for the congested business section. The plan envisions elevated roads tunnels sunken ways and surface tracks forming a circuit around downtown and linking the steam railroad stations. The hearings are expected to clarify points and spark lively discussion.
Captain Nathan Appleton contributes a vivid Santo Domingo sketch in the latest Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. The piece surveys the city as oldest in the hemisphere and expands to history and island resources, offering a fascinating portrayal of the Diamond of the Antilles.
The Post urged D K E men at Harvard to end their initiation rubbish and stop the farce, and Overseers welcomed the overtures. Hope remains that this marks the end of a troubling sensation and its effect fades.
The Overseers met yesterday and accepted the club’s pledge to discontinue practices that discredit the college. They endorse President Exter’s policy and arrange supervision of university social clubs. The decision is described as a sensible conclusion to the matter.
The governor transfers Hon. John E. Sanford from Harbor and Land to the Railroad Commission, a move praised as sincere and capable. Henry W. Swift is chosen to succeed Sanford on the Harbor and Land Commission, noted for his level head and energy. Deputy Superintendent Joseph F. Scott is named head of the Massachusetts Reformatory, a direct promotion from his deputy role to lead the institution.
The Boston Merchants' Association plans another push to have Congress enact the Torrey bankrupt bill. Senators Hoag and the force bill are cited as factors that delayed passage, with politics expected to bar further action this session. The group remains hopeful as it passes resolutions backing the measure.
Senator Morrill of Vermont notes Treasury efforts fail to circulate over sixty million silver dollars from four hundred million coined. Coins dated 1880 to 1883 wear with heavy stuffing in a treasury vault, 85,000,000 dollars in seventy-cent pieces locked away to benefit silver miners and taxed on citizens. Wall Street quotes the metal at 93.5 cents an ounce, seventy cents per dollar. How low will it go before the people see?
Senator Quay claims Treasury meddling hurt federal backed candidates and helped him craft a solid Blaine defeat. In Philadelphia Wanamaker led a purge of pro Blaine officials, replacing them with Harrison loyalists, with party organs urging full support and public fealty from officeholders.
The piece reviews Republican delegate results in Indiana and Pennsylvania, noting federal officeholders backing Harrison and Blaine factions amid calls of coercive influence. It cites President’s displeasure, past civil service ideals, and contrasts with social quips and poems on random topics.
A new Republican handbook issued under General Clarkson presents itself as a pocket-sized messenger of “actual facts.” It claims to promote the party’s achievements, citing Behring Sea settlement, the Billion Dollar Congress, and tariff benefits. The piece questions the document’s pretensions while noting its bold assurances and home uses.
Curious readers inquire about a margin imprint on the first page. The Post withholds the secret, noting it is a novel device recently introduced in Boston journalism.
A weathered column notes a dangerous Brighton road ride riddled with mud hazards. Despite humor, the piece underscores how a sudden storm or climate can trap a traveler eight miles from town, leaving them without grease, umbrella, or overcoat, amid a hystercal climate.
A verse dialogue explores whether life is worth living through four voices a priest a lawyer a pessimist and an optimist each giving a view. The doctor adds a punch line about the liver suggesting perspective shapes meaning.
A collection of humorous clippings and essays on social life and manners. The Everyday Woman extols brass buttons as guides for travelers, while debuts, spinsterhood, and women’s education are celebrated through vivid vignettes of Boston society and cultural pursuits.
President Arthur Sewall of the Maine Central Railroad travels toward Samoa with his son on an excursion. Maine residents aged 81 and 75 illustrate long lives and odd anecdotes. A Bridgeport ghost tale is debunked as a morphine fueled prank by Miss Minnie Parrott, a boarder, revealing staged rappings.
The Lowell News notes Mr Josiah Quincys proposal at the Young Mens Democratic Club dinner that a United States Senator candidate be nominated at the May Democratic State convention to select delegates to the national convention. The debate centers on John E Russell and Gen P A Collins as strong possible nominees who could bolster the party in tight legislative districts.
A Lowell Citizen dispatch notes a demand for the buoy at Boo-hoo ledge to be accurately located and shown on naval charts, reflecting a call for clearer hydrographic marking and safer navigation.
Arctic explorer Dr Frithjof Nansen will lecture in England during February and March on polar ocean currents. Proceeds will fund his next expedition likely to start in early 1898 in search of the pole.
The Lowell Times reports cities in Massachusetts demand home rule and oppose a state commission to regulate municipal police systems. Local self government advocates say they must unite to resist efforts by critics who would keep sensible residents unsettled.
The Fall River Globe reports that a letter Blaine was to send to Boston merchants during a banquet last week did not arrive. The piece hints Blaine may have hesitated due to past letters to a Mr. Mulligan in that town.
A vivid caricature of Representative Frederick W. Bliss of Boston. The profile notes his baldness, rosy face with a cropped beard, dark clothes, and Masonic ties. It praises his debating skill, recalls his stand against a redistricting bill, and suggests he may be a delegate to the Republican national convention in Minneapolis to back Blaine.
C. T. Copeland reports on a February afternoon program by Hopkinson Smith and Thomas Nelson Page in Chickering Hall. The readers presented Meh Lady and Colonel Carter of Cartersville and other pieces, praised for voice, dialect, and artistry, with Page praised for southern charm and Page’s Uncle Billy narration.
The program opened with Uncle Edinburgh’s Drownain a plantation tale told in slave-era voice. Colonel Carter of Cartersville’s The Council of War followed with Allusion to a Yaller Dog. Two pages from Mr Page featured Uncle Gabe's White Folks and Little Jack about a Richmond terrapin seller. Mr Smith closed with Six Hours in Squantier.
Edward Bok notes in The Epoch that practical husbands aid literary women by handling editors and publishers. Lorin Deland, Herbert Ward, and Charles Rohlfs manage Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Burnett Green and others, keeping business affairs efficient while many authors distrust the business side.
Sumner’s study reviews Robert Morris’s pivotal role in financing the American Revolution. It details the chaotic Confederate finances, Morris’s grant of power, reforms at the Treasury, and the clash with Congress and states. The portrait covers his public achievement, fraught governance, and later debtor’s prison despite enduring legacy.
The Epoch notes thousands of fair minded Republicans nationwide favor Cleveland over any Democrat, asserting he would be elected president if the choice were clear. The piece emphasizes patriotic support and broad Republican preference for Cleveland.
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