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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
4
Boston faces a deadlock crisis as reformers push increasing the Aldermen from twelve to thirteen so elections become citywide. Critics warn against district voting while noting past reform experiments failed and urge a nonpartisan remedy to ensure smoother governance.
A proposed reorganization would place all school expenses under the school committee and fix the annual levy. The plan aims to concentrate control of funds for buildings repairs maintenance and instruction with the elected school board to hold officials accountable and remove diffuse blame.
The piece urges a genuine Senate inquiry into the Massachusetts cotton mill strike, emphasizing business practices and corporate profits. It backs Senator Filynn's order for broad access to papers, warning against a sham inquiry that would fail to reveal links between 16 percent dividends and wage cuts.
An 1897 Boston gas poisoning pattern shows high fatalities with accidents often arising from pressure changes and aging mains. Experts note many incidents occur without user fault and demand safer distribution, including replacing batteries and correcting irregular pressures to prevent underground leaks.
A law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of gas containing the insidious poison linked to the death of forty seven people in Boston last year is under consideration.
The article argues Britain seeks commercial freedom in China by denying concessions to any powers that would revoke equal treaty rights. It states the United States supports England, expecting open treaty ports and new markets, benefiting global commerce and American interests.
Observant Citizen Robert T. Lincoln visits Boston in good health at Young’s Hotel. Hemenway estate files plans for a fifteen story office building at Reade and Broadway in New York costing about a half million dollars. Actress Marie D Shotwell shows a London riding habit at Back Bay Park. Captain Aubrey Crocker ill with heart trouble in Cohasset. Public official Mc Laughlin praised for aiding reporters. German restaurant joke features “a plate of stars and stripes.” Miss Snow urged to stay for postponed sleigh auction. Four stylish women on a Warren Street car defend weather wear. Boston parks praised under ex Superintendent Doogue. Michael the midget cyclist cited as American citizen by adoption. Aldermanic deadlock recalled via Dyar ballots. Burns celebration storm and Highland parade on Boylston and Tremont. Dudley Centre milestone stone recalls ten miles to Dedham preserving Roxbury identity.
A playful verse describes Cupid discarding arrows as he adapts to modern life. He dons a cap bib and book, brightens his aimless gaze, and learns cooking, transforming from a mythic figure to a wiser, culinary student.
Miss Helen Gould and William Rockefeller emerge as rivals in growing roses and orchids. Gould recently received a palm from her Egypt agents worth about $20,000 and over a century old. The late Charles A. Dana, famed connoisseur of oriental pottery, owned the largest private American collection aside from Walters of Baltimore. Senator Hoar is courteous to all, recently aiding an old sea captain who praised the senator’s effort.
In Brainford, Dr. Blake recalls a stormy night visit for an infected tooth, a highway ambush, and a later arm fracture case that logic reveals he unknowingly helped cause. The tale ends with his quiet admission that this case satisfied him above others.
The page lists daily meals from breakfast to supper including items like apples and bananas Irish oatmeal lamb chops and oxtail soup. It also provides detailed recipes for plum pudding mock cherry pie and cold pressed beef attributed to Mrs Madison Dixon of Pembroke Street.
Mr and Mrs Lamont Q Burnham hosted a Bay State Road receptive evening for about five hundred guests from 3 to 10. The Burnhams with Mr and Mrs Frank Magee greeted visitors in the drawing room while attendees wore formal dress. Attending women wore blue brocade and pearl gray gowns with diamonds or violets. Guests included Franklin J Burnham Robert Carter Robert A Yerxa Albert Tenney and Charles H Millet.
A New York importing house presents a summer shirt waist with a removable white pique guimpe and high linen collar. Garments for summer feature varied colors and plaids with tailored fit emphasized, many made at home or to order to avoid bagging. A club of New York girls, The Shirt Waist Circle, meets weekly to sew waists under a teacher, aiming for stock by summer at low cost.
A Washington Star quip stories a canvasser trying to sell a portrait commission to a woman. The canvasser suggests oil portraits of the husband or children, while she notes the family’s ancestral pictures are rent with the house in Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Hon. John D. Long was unanimously re-elected president at the annual meeting. He praised public school pupils taking the pledge. Bishop Mallalieu urged better observance of the Fourth of July and criticized frothy school singing. Directors and officers were named, including four new directors: Mrs. C. H. Nash J. W. Higgins Richard Burns and Dr. D. B. Ingalls.
Professor Alexander Agassiz, head of Calumet and Hecla Mining and Cambridge’s top individual taxpayer, will relocate permanently and has registered in Newport. He paid 1566.25 in taxes last year. motive for moving is not stated.
Washington January 26 Justice Joseph McKenna took his seat as an associate justice of the Supreme Court today, joining the bench.
Edward H Dunn resigns from the school committee amid factional friction within the body. He cites too much politics in the committee as the reason, while Chairman Huggan defends his reorganization and appointments as fair and inclusive.
A proposal argues for issuing bonds as required to maintain silver dollars in circulation on par with gold. It contends this would stabilize nominal money and support monetary policy without abandoning metallic standards.
An East Boston Home Club party and Miss Caroline Crane song recital succeeded last evening at Music Halls Masonic building. Frank A. Kennedy on violin and Newton L. Swift on piano performed se lections including a Spanish serenade and Spring Song. Around 100 couples joined a grand marcha led by Mr and Mrs Emery D Leighton as Hayden's Orchestra provided backdrop. notable guests included Henry D Huggan and Joshua Kendall.
The fifth annual Brighton Allston Pine Tree Club ball was held at Warren Hall in Brighton with over 150 couples dancing. The hall featured pine fragrance and a Maine Welcome coat of arms painting. Organizers included William D. Wheeler C A Lindsay Miss Josephine Norton and Miss Albertina McKenny with Edward J. Pierce directing the dance and Wheeler assisting.
The Pressmen's Benefit Association of the Boston Herald held its tenth annual ball in Berkeley Hall last evening with about 150 couples present. Special guests included Colonel E. H. Woods, F. E. Whiting, and W. H. Woods. Over fifty couples joined the Brand march led by George H. Coop and Roselle M. Flannery.
The second annual ball of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and allied orders was held at Maverick Hall East Boston. Colonel Frank C. Johnson led the grand march with his wife, followed by fifty uniformly dressed members and their ladies. The floor was directed by Colonel Frank O. Johnson with Lieutenant B F Randolph and aides William G Williams John F Correa and William Heers. Nearly all couples attended.
At Indianapolis the monetary convention adopted a plan for a national department of commerce and industries with a Cabinet member as head. Ex Treasury Secretary Charles S. Fairchild praised evolving value standards while outlining a gold backed paper currency with elastic supply and full gold parity.
Miss Alice G White daughter of Mr and Mrs J T White of Dorchester married Mr William R Curtis of Cambridge at the bride's parents home. Rev R K Harlow officiated. Gracie Hayden was maid of honor. Ushers were Albert W Locke and Harry T Mathews. The couple left for a trip to New York amid congratulations.
The Massachusetts Co operative Bank League held two sessions with fifty banks from across the state. The key topic was reducing the interest rate from 6 to 5 percent amid current stringency, with postal saving system and co operative bank legislation also discussed.
Commander in chief Gobin annuls Fletcher Webster Post 13 G A R charter in Brockton. The post cheers and votes to keep organizing, dropping the G A R name after Department Commander Deane recommended the charter’s annulment for failure to elect delegates to the 1897 encampment.
The third annual charity ball by the West End Ladies Aid Association filled Copley Hall with about 1000 guests. The grand march began at 9 pm with over 20 couples led by President and Mrs. Harry Gordon. Miss Jenny Brody and R. Paterlofsky supervised the floor, aided by Lottie Weirs Annie Blam Rose Silvert Finn and several others.
Counsel for Republican and Democratic aldermen met Judge Holmes in the Supreme Court and advised that no further action was needed. Judge Holmes dismissed the case without costs.
Mr. L. F. Hyde and Mr. Charles Baxter of Hyde & Baxter assume leadership of the claims department at the Boston Elway company, succeeding W. B. signed last year after settlement talks.
May or Quincy held talks with Corporation Counsel Bailey about steps in the Superior Court injunction case to stop his interference with Lynch and Woodward at the Dover street bath house. The decision to appeal was not public. Contractors reported no guards yesterday and work continued with no enforcement.
The Times correspondent reports Baron de Calice the Austro-Hungarian ambassador and Mr Angell the American minister met with the Porte yesterday to seek redress for injuries to the American consul at Aleppo, who is an Austrian subject.
At Roughan Hall Charlestown last evening the Charlestown Workingmen's Debating Society urged an eight hour workday. Members condemned cotton manufacturers for cutting pay and harming workers while urging state and national legislators to enact eight hour protections to relieve industrial distress.
The Indian Head mill at Cordova Walker county begins operations after $600 000 construction by Arthur Amory and associates from Boston. The plant houses 25 000 spindles and 1000 looms, uses coal with fuel under 40 cents a ton, and will process about 10 000 bales of cotton annually. One thousand workers will be employed and a second plant is planned.
Letter to the editor notes a second round of wage cuts at the Wheeling Steel Plant in Benwood West Virginia affecting about 500 workers. The 12 to 25 percent reduction takes effect February 21 and tonnage men plan a Sunday meeting to decide on acceptance. Messages from Milford New Hampshire and Providence Rhode Island report additional 10 percent cuts at French and Heald furniture and McLane basket factories, with protective duties cited for context.
A Canadian visitor in Boston asks why tension exists between Americans and Canadians. He notes shared practices in business and education, contrasts stereotypes with reality, and criticizes restrictions on Canadian workers. He questions national friction and calls for friendliness.
Citizens question the future of local self-government for Borton as leading advocates seek relief from the Great and General Court to resolve the Copley square dispute and city aldermanic gridlock.
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