No Quorum in the Senate and Essex County Banquet Twist
A quorum failed at the opening of a Senate session as members were absent prompting a roll call and laughter. Essex county lawmakers then hosted a late banquet at the Tremont House with 28 attendees, led by Senator Walter of Lynn, amid jokes, wine, and talks of county matters, while gas and liquor debates moved on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Essex County
Lieport
Hartwell
Charlie” Symonds
Jimmy
Donovan
Messrs
Campbell
Cook
Bristol
Davenport
James Donovan
Gleason
Gunn
Hathorne
Kingsley
Metcalf
Pike
Sprague
Symonds
Whitney
Baker
Clark
Collins
Essex
Crosby
E. J. Donovan
Dwineil
Evans
Fassett
Fisk
Gibson
Harlow
Hosmer
Howe
Trunt
Messinger
O'Sullivan
Palmer
Parker
Pilsbury
Stevens
Worcester-Hampshire
Norfolk
Tucker
Walker
Wheelock
George H. Campbell
Ames
Algonquin
Charlie’ Symonds
Citizens’ Committee
Walter of
Lynn
Gracey
Salem
Liquor Law Committee
Beacon Hill
Essex County League
Sohier
Cerberas
House adjourns in respect with a lengthy liquor law report
Barrington, Riley of Adams, Foote of Lee and McDonald of Pittsfield were noted as present. Mr. Brewster's motion led the House to adjourn as a mark of respect. The calendar included an Accepted Report from the committee on the liquor law detailing 1888 Municipal Court cases and the judge’s refusals to exercise jurisdiction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Committee On the
Municipal Court of
Boston
Commonwealth
Massachusetts Reformatory
Reformatory
Suffolk
Crother Hall
State Normal School
Framingham
Williams College Alumni Dinner Highlights Education and Civic Duty
Williams College alumni gathered at Parker House for the annual dinner with guests including Dr. A P Peabody Harvard College and notable figures such as Horatio G Knight and Byron Weston. President Carter outlined the college’s aims and finances while speakers urged strong liberal education and civic responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams College
Parker House
A. P. Peabody
Harvard College
Horatio G. Knight
Byron Weston
Robert G. Fitch
Dunbar
Woodbridge
J. W. Dickenson
Rogers
Board of Aldermen
James M. Barker
B. T. Hastings
B. W. Potter
Thomas W. Davis
Francis H. Dewey
Edwin H. Darling
H. Burr Crandall
F. H. Davenport
Edward B. Malley
Edward Hall
Walter A. Davis
William W. Adams
Charles A. Dewey
John H. Dennison
Horace E. Scudder
Theodore Harold
John C. Dewey
Joseph R. Draper
Herbert Underwood
James D. Colt
Bentley W. Warren
Henry M. Clapp
Arthur F. Winslow
Emerson W. Judd
Josiah M. Lasell
George W. Anderson
Robert M. Kemp
F. Alaric Pelton
Arthur T. Safford
Charles R.willcomb
Joseph D. Bartley
W. 8. Hyde
John D. Hendy
Thomas W. Hague
N. F. Wilcox
M.A
Kelloge
F. N. Peloubet
W. T. R. Marvin
Judge Barker
President Carter
Carter
Peabody
Harvard
Alderman Rogers
Justin Dewey
Homer Rogers
Francis H. Davenport
John D. Hardy
Charles D. Wheeler
Lumber Shipments to South America Boost Boston Wharf
Shepard and Morse Lumber Company signs a contract with New York and New England railroad to move Canadian lumber to Boston over NY&NE tracks. Lumber bound for ports on the Platte will load from Congress Street freight houses, expanding usage of a premier Boston wharf and boosting shipments to Buenos Ayres Rosario Montevideo and other South American ports. Company treasurer H S Shepard says demand rises daily and expects tens of millions of feet shipped this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepard & Morse Lumber Company
New York & New England Railroad Corporation
Boston
New York & New England Company
Congress Street
River Platte
South America
Buenos Ayres
Rosario
Montevideo
South American
Canada
Maine
Platte
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Charlestown
Northern Railroad Company
Old Colony
Walpole
Eh Teen
Boston Corporation
Cambridge Rail Road Matters Special Meeting Adopts No Action
The Boston Executive Business Association met at the Master Builders' rooms to discuss Cambridge mayor hearing on abolishing the Boston and Albany tracks. William Blaney urged opposition citing 600000 tons more freight and loss to Cambridge firms. Ex Mayor Russell urged restricted service. others opposed. No quorum, action postponed with plan to endorse chamber of commerce at next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Executive Business Association
Master Builders’ Association
Hersey B. Goodwin
Chamber of Commerce
City of
Cambridge
Boston & Albany
William O. Blaney
Grand Junction
Boston
Blaney
William FE. Russell
Ele
Mills
Boston & Albany Railroad
Albany
Claflin
Alden Speare
Edwin Reardon
Roxbury High School Fellows Hold Fourteenth Reunion
The Roxbury Hirsh School Association gathered nearly 300 fellows at Orienta Hall for its fourteenth reunion. A literary and musical program followed by dancing and supper concluded around 2 am. President Walter S. Frost and orchestra at J. Howard Richardson led remarks and entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roxbury Hirsh School Association
Orienta Hall
J. Howard Richardson
Walter $. Frost
Association
Charles H. Currier
Dorchester Yacht Club Lecture On Navigation
Dorchester Yacht Club members heard Commander Eaton U S N lecture on navigation and dead reckoning at winter quarters on Boylston street. Black board illustrations clarified the subject, followed by a general discussion with Dr Sayer Hasbrouck and Dr R Herbert Carver as special Rhode Island Yacht Club guests. Commodore W H Low of Rhode Island Yacht Club was detained at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester Yacht Club
Boylston Street
Eaton
U.S.N
Sayer Hasbrouck
R. Herbert Carver
Rhode Island Yacht Club
W. H. Low
Notable guests fill Boston hotels in social week
At Youngs and surrounding hotels, prominent visitors socialized over dinners and gatherings. B P Cheney hosted a complimentary dinner with about seventy five EXPRESS employees, MIT class of 1873 held a dinner, and numerous figures from the rail, banking, and shipping worlds stayed at Adams Vendome Brunswick Tre mont and other hostels. Names include George Pullman party Hullen Gardner Morrison Baker Willis Osgood Stanwood Clarkson Cook Hoagland Van Horne Berry Morgan Weston Baker and many more from New York Montreal Philadelphia and beyond. The events showed a bustling wartime era social circuit with business leaders visiting the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. P. Cheney
Young
United States & Canada Express Company
Thomas K. Hale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francis H. Williams
Young’s
Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Dispensary
Fremont House
Citizens’ Committee
Samuel Sterns
C. S
C. S. Sterns Lumber Company
Bangor
Adams House
Mr. Sterns
South
Josephine
A. R. Hullen
New York
Harry Lyons
Philadelphia
E. W. Gardner
Brooklyn
Tron Lake House
Adirondacks
Smith Stanwood
Springfield
W. D. Clarkson
David M. Cook
T. C. Hoagland
G. H. Sanford
Bridgeport
Conn
Canadian Pacific Railroad
George J. Berry
Hotel Vendome
A. G. Morgan
London
Eng
Brunswick
Byron. Weston
Dalton
Mass
Tremont House
Miss Weston
Miss Baker
Pittsfield
James M. Baker
Wis
H. K. Richie
Montreal
W. S. Foster
G. H. Kent
W . Marachesi
F. E. Foster
Mrs. Foster
Providence
the Revere
One Cummings
Detroit
B. F. Townsend
Buffalo
H. C. Pike
Newark
Bishop Huntington to Preach at St Pauls Church
The Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington will preach at St. Pauls Church tomorrow morning and evening. Public invitation extended. He will also address the Episcopalian Club dinner at the Hotel Vendome next Monday night with several clergy expected to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Huntington
D.D
New York
St. Paul’s Church
Bishop Huntington
Episcopalian Club
Hotel Vendome
Samuel Eliot
William Lawrence
Endicott, Peabody
Douglas
Boot and Shoe Buyers in Town From Leading Firms
A roster of buyers and representatives from numerous shoe and leather firms across the United States appears in town. Names include Penn, Haas, Grattan, Vogel, Fuller, Shays, Leonard, McGraw, Cowan, Watkins, Nussbaum, Heffelfinger, Tracy, Rowe, Lang, Owens, Keet, Obendorf, and others, listing firms and cities from Cincinnati to Washington, Detroit to Selma. This display signals active merchant commerce and interstate trade in footwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boot and
Town
Nee
Penn
G Leonard
A G
Leonard & Co
Detroit
Mich
McGraw
McGraw & Co
Irun
J D Cowan
Cowan, McClung & O
Brun
Lexington
G E Spencer
Watkins & Spencer
G W Terry
Rowe & Terry
Pittsburg
H.J Lang
M Lang
J F Owens
W H Chaddock & Co
U. St Joseph
City notes and events readied for week and week end
Thomas Paine birthday observance is set for Sunday at the First Spiritual Temple with music and an address on The Rights of Man. The Conveyancers Title Insurance Company reports $200000 capital subscribed, to be called in shortly. George Batchelor lectures on Unitarianism and Ethics at Channing Hall. A package of bobbin silk worth $100 was stolen from L D Brown's Lincoln street store by a thief posing as American Express. A roofer, James Boyce, fell thirty feet from unstable scaffolding on Quincy street, sustaining internal injuries and hospital care. Park commissioners accept bids for granite curbing with Vernon at $157 per ft awarded. others bid higher. Y M C U members invited to concert and readings next Wednesday, tickets available Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Paine
Newbury and
Exeter
James R. Carrer
L. D. Brown
Lincoln Street
American Express Company
James Boyce
Dennis Street
Roxbury
Quincy Street
Park Commissioners
James J. Vernon
Rockport Granite Company
Cape Ann Granite Company
Albert C. Libby & Co
Closing of Mails in Boston Post Office Changes
Boston Post Office cuts mail closing times from 5 30 p m to 5 p m after Feb 3 to align with a new 6 p m Western train. The 7 p m Springfield express adds a 6 p m closing for west of Springfield. 8 16 p m mail is discontinued as the 9 15 p m Boston & Albany train ends. Western mail must post by 6 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston & Albany
Springfield
Albany
Boston, Springfield and New York
New York
Christian Association to Hold Special Young Men's Service
Boston Intercollegiate Young Men's Christian Association members will skip the usual meeting and attend a special service at Cross street mission tomorrow evening at 7 30. Rev Nehemiah Boynton of Union Congregational Church will address young men at the association corner Boylston and Berkeley streets tomorrow at 4 pm. Joseph Stewart with Percy J Cooper Master G A Proctor and Charles Millen present a musical programme. The service is for young men only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Intercollegiate Young Men’s Christian Association
Association
Mission
Cross Street
Hanover
Nehemiah Boynton
Union Congregational Church
The
Christian Association
Boylston
Berkeley Streets
Joseph Stewart
Percy J. Cooper
G. A. Proctor
Charles Millen
Sunday notices from Arlington Street churches and others
Sunday notices list services across Boston area churches with times from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Notable speakers include Rev. H Grattan Guinness of London and Rev. Stopford Wentworth Brooke. Venues span Arlington Street, Bowdoin Square, Copley Square, and Roslindale, with varying sermons, baptisms, choirs, and young people's meetings.
Cotton stockings classified as cotton goods for duty
United States Circuit Court Jan 25 rules in Claflin v Saltonstall that stockings with 5 percent merino thread are essentially cotton and should be taxed at 35 percent ad valorem under schedule L as a cotton manufacture not otherwise enumerated. Judgment for plaintiffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Circuit Court
Bailin Vs. Hedden
Treasury
J. P. Tucker
T. H. Talbot
Supreme Judicial Court arguments in Boston cases Jan 25
The Supreme Judicial Court docket lists cases 2092 Winslow Guptill vs Lazer executor 2103 Nettie Coventry guardian vs McLaughlin 9111 William Lincoln vs City of Boston and Gyanah Damon vs City of Boston with counsel names. Radar docket to be taken up Monday January 2 with Nos 588 556 557 560 561 577 564 565 in order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Judicial Court
Commonwealth
Morrow
C.J
Firup
C. Allen and Houmes, Jr
Winslow W. Guptill Et al
John Lazer
W.S. Rogers
J. A. P. Fiske
Gyanah
Damon
City of Boston
Wheelwright & Richardson
A. J. Bailey
Nettie E. Coventry
Guardian
William H. McLaughlin
J. H. Pence
J. B. Seenan
W.C. Williamson
William H. Lincoln
City of
Boston
Richardson
Superior Court First Session Jan 25 1888 Actions to recover debts and torts
The record lists multiple cases in the First Session with verdicts for plaintiffs in Higgins versus Hodgdon for goods 17899 and Xavier versus Curtis for 200, plus Mary R Reardon versus Annie Thompson for land injury and several other tort actions. Sessions also note numerous numbered cases, defendants, and lawyer assignments across a long docket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Biopaerrt
Hemnan L. L. Higgins
George R. Hodgdon
Kiernan
C_R. Morse
Xavier
Henry C. Curtis
West Chester Park
W. H. Towne
William G. Reed
Edward Curtis
Mary R. Reardon
Annie T. Thompson
Pope Street
Boston
W. N. Osgood
J. A. Maxwell
J. D. McLaughlin
Mconnell
Strum
Bucek
Jones
Fible
Mahone
Ciriack
Mer
McLanughlin
Chants’ Woollenkin Maning
Downer
Monday Hearings Resume Tuesday in Divorced Cases
Hearing schedule resumes Monday with decisions in divored cases, and Tuesday will finalize the remainder of the contested list.
Superior Court Docket Summary January 25
In Superior Criminal Court on January 25 J Catherine Mullen was jailed for one year at the house of correction for drunkenness. Bridget Gaffney was fined $50 and costs for violating liquor law. Dennis McLean faced probation for receiving stolen feeds. Patrick Riley was charged with breaking and entering and assigned to Massachusetts reformatory. William Felt was fined $50 and costs for liquor law violations and received ninety days in jail for contempt of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Criminal Court
Dunbar
J. Catherine Mullen
House of Correction
Bridget Gaffney
Dennis McLean
Patrick Riley
Massachusetts Reformatory
William Felt
Municipal Court Jan 25 assault and larceny case
George A Bell jailed four months in the house of correction for assault on William Morgan. He was bound over in 200 dollars bond to appear Jan 29 at this court to answer larceny of a watch and thirty dollars from Patrick Jagle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardy and Forsairn, Jr
George A. Bell
House of Corsection
William Morgan
Patrick Jagle
Damages sought in tort action against Cambridge police officer
Superior Court Middlesex County case No. 8282 filed by Daniel Isaacs pro ams against John Wiley alleges assault on December 9 1887 at Union Hall Cambridge and twelve hours imprisonment in police station. Defense claims acts were within lawful duties. Jury deliberation ongoing with counsel A 5 and G A A Peavey for defendant. Additional docket items listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. A. Peavey
Mills
Durgin
North
Murphy
Troeder
Smith
Town Con
Baldwin
City Cord
Somerville
Murray
Adm
Chabot
Morse
Littlefield
White
Farnum
Deveraux v Boston & Maine railroad at Salem depot
In Essex County Superior Court Jan 2, Elizabeth I. Deveraux sues Boston & Maine railroad for injuries after a baggage truck struck her at the Salem depot. Defense denies. Jury out. Counsel: Moulton for plaintiff Lincoln for defense. Related case sequence listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deveraux
Boston & Maine Railroad
Taintiff
Elizabeth I. Deveraux
Salem
H. P. Moulton
S. Lincoln
Old South Society Buys Land Amid City Real Estate growth
Real estate transfers include the Boston Wharf Company selling to A E Greely at Congress and A streets for 50000 with mortgage back. Caleb A Curtis sells 17293 sq ft at West Chester park and Falmouth street for about 70000 with mortgage back. Waldo Adams trustees sell 5600 sq ft on Boylston street for about 35000, mortgage back 30000. Old South Society purchases 5376 sq ft on Newbury street near Dartmouth to control future occupancy. Mortgages arranged include Baker to Andrews 90000 on West Chester park and Webster to Brewster 25000 on Bulfinch place. Multiple leases and building permits listed across downtown areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Wharf Company
A. E. Greely
Congress and
A Streets
Caleb A. Curtis
J. T. Pope
West Chester Park
Falmouth Street
Grantor
Waldo Adams
Silas W. Merrill
Boylston Street
Henry Holton
Old South Society
Newbury Street
Dartmouth
Society
Bis
Francis A. Peters
M. A. Gleeson
Albert B. Hill
A. Wentworth
India Street
Wharf
Welles Streets
Nathaniel J. Bradlee
H. Williams, Jr
Waltham Street
Caroline F. Atlen
FE. A. Williams
Worcester Street
Albert K. Page
Worcester Square
E. C. Gillis
George Smith
John Quincy Adams Et al
Essex Place
Charlotte B. Richardson
D. M. Weston
Lenox Street
Seth R. Baker
K.H. Andrews
David L. Webster
W. Brewster
T. R. White
G. W. Nason
Commonwealth Avenue
Stubbs
Westland Avenue
Sullivan Bros
N. Z. O'Sullivan
C. W. Robinson
C. A. Folsom
Tremont Street
8. Murphy
B. H. Nash
James Smith
H. A. Gould
Hartford Street
Mercantile Puposes
Webster, Dixon & Co
Brooks Adams
Beacon Street
State Street Exchange
State Street
Kilby Street
Exchange Place
Congress Street
Postoffice
Williams Street
J. Y. Mainland
Hales W. Suter
Washington Street
RK. Gilbert & Son
Society O Redemptionists
Smith Street
Bumstead Lane
F. J. Rockwell
Miller Street
W. B. Cameron
Isaac Pratt, Jr
Cambridge Street
H. C. Porter
Reno Street
Harvard Street
F. Cummings
Hutchins
Day Street
B. F. L. Berg
Park Street
Clayton
J. McVane
Westville Street
Geneva Avenue
W. J. Sebling
M. F. Perkins
Bowdoin Avenue
Geneva Street
W.tobin
E. A
M. A. Moran
Parker Street
Ward 22
H. W. Ball
Boston Electric Light Company
Atlantic Avenue
Horsford’s Acid Phosphate Aid for Night Sweats
An old remedy claims to ease night sweats from consumption with speedy benefit. The statement presents a patent medicine tone typical of historic medical ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horsford
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William Weld
Portland
St. Louis
Omaha
Abraham Lincoln
C. A. Welch
Daniel Dorchester
London Temperance Provident Insurance Company
Kansas
Iowa
H. B. Metcalf
Rhode Island
Providence Journal
E.S. Tobey
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
F. I. Johnson
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society
Hugh Montgomery
Messrs. Mcattrick and
Sanger
Gas Commission
Chicago
Lowell
Worcester
A. W. Perry
Boston Board of Aldermen
Summer Street
W. B. Pattison
John H. Wells
Henry H. Faxon
Oakland Garden Association
Franklin Park Land Company
C. B. Crockett
Medford
P. H. Alexander
New England Electric Exchange
Evening Schools
Melien
New Bedford Real Estate Association
Messrs. Barker
Malden
Brewster
Barrett
Messrs. Brewster
Giddings
Great
Cambridge Railroad Matters
Theoston Executive Association
Roxbury High School Fellows
Melvin Preble
Quincy House
Richard H. Moody
Belfast
Robert Stanford
Halifax
Christian Association Notes
Arlington Street
Brooke Herford
Holt
Minnie Brown
Everett Locke
J. Frank Sumner
Charles G. Taylor
Christadelphian Bible
Chandler Hall
Essex Street
Bondage
Jerusalem
Cuuren
Discipless
Brookline Street
Warren Avenue
Charles G. Ames
Emmanuel Courneuh
Leighton Parks
Berkeley
Marlboro Streets
Stopford Wentworth Brooke
Unitarian Church
First Spiritcar Temple
H.S. Lake
Kine
Unitarian Church ‘Leimperance Society
King’s Chapel
Lemperance
Co. EF. Dole
James DeNormandie
John R. Anderson
Total Abstinence Society
Kine’s
G. Milstead
Melrose
E. A. Whittier
Szconp Catrol
Copley Square
Edward A. Horton
Wil
South Congregational Cournci
Exeter Street
T. R. Slicer
I. St. Joan’s Courci
Loston Highlands
Vernon
Linden Park Streets
Christian Ciuren
H. Bernard Carpenter
Steinert Hall
Lia. m
Justin D. Furton
Pauline Propaganda
A. J. Gordon
H. Grattan Guinness
F.R.G.S
Boston Music Hall
Guinness
England
Fulton
Rome
People’s Church
Columbus Avenue
Tremont Temply
Emory J. Haynes
Sarveran
Logan
Bancroft
Namgan
Com
UN. Assur. Co
Adsit
Allard
Wal H
L’arsons
Stickney
How
Ayer
Waterman
Ard
Sherman
Anniball Ferrari
Henry Murray
J. L. Eldridge
S. Z. Bowman
N. A. Prime
Nora Campton
Edward D. Kellogg
T. J. Gargan
P. M. Keating
R. Clark
Spence
Paul
Benson
Spear
Chandler v. Board
Lull
Acc
Tman, RR. Co
Te Ee
Chand
Burrows
Hougher
Aldrich, J
Edmands
Spaulding
Tuttle
Dearborn
Sharp
Chelsea Sav. Bank
Butler
Perkins
Wheeler
Pitman
John McNamara
Fitchburg
Michael McNamara
Paiee
Fred E H. Robinson
McNamara
Littleton
B. C. Moulton
Cc. F. Loring
C. H. Sprague
George R. Torrey
Boston Gaslight Company
Robinson
Fitch
Verge
Dowburg RR
Burrage
Black
Same
Fried
Clifford
Lloyd
Balcock
Old Col
Quinn
Perham
Dow
Dutt
Laturop
Minard
Maine RR
Adm’r
Boston & Maine RR
Boston & Maine
Itoag
Va Perkins
Assignee
Ve Calliver
Warswick
Armstrong
Morgan Vy
Lane
Burton-on-Trent
John Fennell
Bevonshire
Bestes
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