Car maker plans 60000 cars to order in six months
A leading car builder says that 60,000 cars will be built to order in this country within the next six months. Several of the large automakers are now two months behind on their orders.
20 Jan 1883
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1883
Page
1
A leading car builder says that 60,000 cars will be built to order in this country within the next six months. Several of the large automakers are now two months behind on their orders.
Special Despatch from Washington reports Leopold Morse will honor Mr Hoar's re election tomorrow evening. Crapo denounces a telegram withdrawal forgery while his true stance remains non candidate. The piece calls the caucus result the greatest cheat in Congress and outlines timetable to pass the tariff bill amid partisan maneuvering.
The Star reports Mr. Crapo says he did not send a despatch withdrawing from the Massachusetts senatorial contest yesterday. He did send a note to Mr. Clifford of New Bedford, but it had no withdrawal reference. Crapo suspects no such despatch exists and that friends shifted support to Mr. Hoar to avert a prolonged race. He notes his aides urged unity, not withdrawal.
The Guincy house, a large Quincy hotel, burned this morning. Guests on the third floor rushed to the street as fire spread. no lives were lost. Servant Katie Butler was badly burned. policeman William Stockelback was injured rescuing occupants. The four story building, owned by J. L. Morris and leased by G. P. Fay, was valued at $30,080 with $15,080 in furnishings lost. Fire from a defective source caused the blaze. the hotel housed about 50 regular boarders, 15 transient guests, and 42 servants.
Peter Tevan owned the building at 581 Shawmut avenue where a blaze trapped 34 year old Peter Bannon. Firemen Hinssey Gargan Le Cain and Marshall rescued Bannon but he died shortly after. Building and contents damaged $200. Two Tevan horses were saved. A married man, Dannon, had not lived with his wife for some time.
Eddie Hepworth, 12, son of Joseph C. Hepworth of Biddeford, was fatally injured Thursday night while coasting. The report notes additional local crimes and incidents including a burglary sentence, a suspected murder due to strychnine, a false imprisonment suit by Frank M. Fogg, a Lewiston prison sentence for Farl D. Robertshaw, a fatal clothing fire in Chesterfield, and plans by Pepperell Manufacturing of Biddeford to expand with a new cotton factory amid strong foreign orders.
A report of Brig Gen Joseph M Clough of New London intends to resign is deemed unfounded. Concord to inaugurate city government Tuesday, but council organization may stall due to alleged illegalities in ward elections. Portsmouth Young Men’s Club disbands and donates about 112 to Chase Home for Children.
A series of revival meetings is announced to be held at the Universalist church in Ludlow next week. The report notes local social and business updates including a street accident in St Johnsbury and a bank directors’ election in Proctorville with changes in officeholders and a 4 percent semi annual dividend.
A son of Avery Jones of Bolton sustains fatal injuries while coasting. Mrs Barker, a Mil ler's Falls boarding-house keeper, reports losing 110 to highwaymen. Rev Frederick Burgess of Grace Church Amherst accepts a call to Pomfret Conn effective Feb 1. South Framingham shows outrage over delays in disease control as scarlet fever and measles spread with about 40 cases, schools remain open, and authorities take no action yet.
Yale Boat Club received a Harvard letter urging Yale to appoint a joint committee to settle race preliminaries before they are set. Harvard says crews are too invested to decide themselves. Yale must act by January 18 to accept the challenge. a meeting is planned for this afternoon.
Westerly dispatch reports the jury found for defendant ex Gov Sprague in the Canonchet ejectment case. J Barry, a Newport tea merchant from New York, says his store was entered Friday morning and a box with $1,000 stolen. he suspects his missing clerk.
A proposed Harlem Hartford road would place the main office in Hartford after surveying a route across 20 city streets. In a separate incident, a hotel guest bought 11 photographs of actresses to display around his mirror but they disappeared. a chambermaid admitted discarding them for moral reasons.
Lawrence Mass January 19 The stallion Pemberton a 2 24 record was driven to a sleigh on West street when he became unmanageable and dashed into a picket fence one picket pierced his breast causing instant death. Driver escaped with minor bruises. Owned by Henry C Nevins Methuen principal owner of Pemberton mills Nevins also runs mills in Methuen and Salem The horse valued at 10000 he had trotted in recent races in Lawrence and Haverhill and expected to show better speed next season.
A fierce blizzard grips Minnesota and Dakota with temperatures from 15 to 30 below zero. Rail lines including the Hastings and Dakota, Omaha western branch, Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern, Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Sioux City and Pacific are blocked or abandoned as snow and wind halt trains and shipping.
Scheller, alleged Newhall house incendiary, was brought back to jail quietly this morning. Evidence shows he removed his stock the day before the blaze and even took balls from seven billiard tables. Stock valued about $1,000. Ruins search found one body, totaling 46 recovered with three still unaccounted for.
In New York the Bowdoin College alumni annual dinner was held with guests including ex-Gov. Chamberlain, Bowdoin president, Prof. Dunn, Cullen Sawterle of the class of 25 linked to Longfellow and Hawthorne, Rev. Newman Smyth of New Haven, President Goodwin of Trinity College, Prof. Brackett of Princeton, and Gen. John M. Brown of Portland. Longfellow’s memory was honored in silence.
In Urica New York on Thursday night Harvey Taylor of Richfield Springs killed his wife and mother in law then hanged himself. The incident occurred January 19 with authorities investigating the double murder suicide.
In Washington the tariff bill discussion centers on an amendment by Mr. Miller to set a lower duty on filled bottles, which failed. Senator Vance argued that protecting American labor leads to importing foreign labor. Dawes and others pressed for domestic production, while debates touched wages, farmers, and the impact of tariffs on both industry and agriculture. The session included remarks on glass imports, Chinese labor, and the broader push to shield American workers from foreign competition.
In the senate Bald win of Essex sought review of section 220 of the public statutes governing railroad contracts. Barres introduced a social statistics abstract distribution resolve. Tufts presented a petition from the College of Physicians and Surgeons to confer degrees. The House met briefly, with petitions on pharmacy regulation and land compensation, plus historic state-to-federal land transfers. Several committee motions and reports followed, adjournment concluded the session.
Aged Joseph Hawkins found dead in a water closet at Boston and Maine station. Bertha Long suffers severe hand injury in Beeching cork factory accident. Metropol itan conductor Richard Hogan struck by wheels in South Boston, losing a leg. Constable John H French assaulted by tenant George Barnes at Moon Street. A woman with a dead baby seen in Tremont Street area later identified as Nora Beaty. doctors deem natural death for the infant. Silas Wheeler audited a 12 foot elevator fall at West Second Street, hospitalizing him. James Callahan sustains a compound fracture after horse accident Friday.
Rev A A Miner society held a parish party at Berkeley hall with over 200 guests and a Cadet band. New church party at Oda Fellows hall featured dancing from 8 30 and supper at 10. A Boston bookbinders reunion at Paine hall drew 250 couples, with H E Brady directing. Union Literary club and Woman's Union hosted events including speakers by Dr Bernard Carpenter.
The 12th Massachusetts Webster’s regiment reunion is at the Revere House today. The Law and Order League meets Monday at 4 P M to act on the supreme court liquor store ruling near schools. Henry Ward Beecher lectures Thursday at Ruggies Street church on Evolution and Revolution. Episcopal bishops convene in St Mark’s West Newton street Tuesday and Wednesday. Boston Commandery plans a grand ball and reception at Mechanics’ Building on the 31st, with New England and other states guests and strong ticket sales.
The Norfolk probate and county courts hear wills of Reuben Chenery Medfield and Joseph Edwards Hyde Park detailing bequests to Medfield Second Congregational Church as parsonage, and to Missionary and Home Missionary societies. Additional notices cover church presentations, public notices from Marblehead, Woburn Journal expansion, crime reports, railway gifts to Hyde Park, and local civic appointments.
The notice catalogs brick and wooden buildings including three fruit-storeroffice blocks at Kneeland street and numerous dwelling houses. Notable entries cover two story and one story structures with pitched or mansard roofs in wards 12, 14, 21, 23 and 24, with owners such as R J Monks Samuel Faulkner Byron Atkinson and others.
The regular monthly Social Temperance union banquet gathered about 75 attendees on Friday afternoon at Wesleyan hall. President Long Keng was absent. Vice President Miner chaired. After a short social period, the Olympian quintette led singing and speakers including Hon. Henry J. Wells urged moderation and cautioned against hasty legislation. Rev. W. T. Chase and others spoke, while letters from Tufts President Capen, Speaker Marden and Hon. Neal Dow were read. A sympathy resolution for Dow, whose wife recently died, passed by rising vote.
A Bangor Commercial report recounts a Maine railway official granting a section man a pass home after a humorous exchange about farmers helping workers. The man accepted the ride, highlighting a light moment in local transit lore.
President EK B Phillips of Toledo Cincinnati and St Louis may return to Boston by the 21st. Francis Murphy, famed temperance advocate, heads to Philadelphia after nearly three years away. Ex Gov Long begins a western tour, including Kansas. Gov Bruter invited to speak at Washington County New York fair next September. Saxtons Vermont Academy receives 12000 gift from Barnes Estey Estey Fuller, boosting finances. Rumors persist of Brig Gen Clough’s NH guard resignation amid debate on military tithe donations. Catharine A Pettingill of Bridgeport leaves 75000 for a public library, 10000 for Connecticut Humane Society, 5000 for hospital, 35000 for St Johns church, and 10000 for other uses and relatives. Col Coppinger and Miss Alice Rlaine plan to wed February 6 at Secretary Blaine’s Washington residence, a quiet ceremony following Mrs Blaine’s sister’s death. couple to reside at Fort Leavenworth.
A reader asks the Boston Post which English port handles the most tonnage. They question whether Liverpool or London holds the record and note the paper carries extensive shipping news.
A Amsterdam despatch reports a catastrophic gunpowder factory explosion at Muiden near the Zuider Zee. Over 40 people died as houses and villages were severely damaged, with twelve bodies recovered and many workers unaccounted. The town, home to under 2,000 inhabitants, mourns as occupants flee and officials assess the scene.
Senator Hoart loses bid for reelection as a coalition of Democrats and independent Republicans drives the result. The maneuver is said to be engineered by Ben Butler. Hoar warns that Ben is a dangerous adversary to underestimate.
The Journal of Education cites a small New England town near Boston with 1200 residents where a five month seasonal influx of French Canadians skews literacy figures. The author argues the illiteracy rate reflects temporary workers, not local schooling efficacy, comparing it to Paris suicide statistics and water supplies on the Seine.
The Louisville Courier-Journal attacks the Boston Post and Springfield Republican over Ben Butler notes of dis continuance. The piece mocks the Post for bad grammar and a joke about Konnecticutt, while expressing sympathy for the Republican. Butler’s decisive stance dominates the discourse.
A Jasper County Georgia newspaper note recalls a man long ago near Hillsboro with a remarkable name comparable to Praise-God and adds a curious flourish about his lineage or nickname.
A new railway station for St John is proposed at a cost of 150 000 with plans drawn. Foundations will start immediately. The brick and stone building is sized to meet the city’s needs for years.
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