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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1897
Page
4
The State Senate tabled the free transfers bill while awaiting action on the elevated railroad measure. Voters and three legislative majorities support free transfers on surface lines like Boston’s, a matter independent of any elevated road plan and to be decided on merits.
Crowds flock to view the battleship Massachusetts as it opens to the public. Report describes not only its defensive role but also the beauty of its design and workmanship and the impression of power it conveys.
A Harvard College statue of John Harvard at Cambridge was vandalized on Saturday. The editor condemns the act as a weak imitation and urges undergraduates to discipline the perpetrators and uphold decency without waiting for faculty action.
The Boston ceremony for Colonel Robert G. Bhaw featured the colored veterans led by Colonel Hallowell, with visiting militia and naval personnel. The event revived patriotism, stressing public spirit and love of country amid somber weather.
The Senate pushes the Aldrich tariff toward passage. The plate glass tax favors cheap furniture makers while large good glass for the wealthy stays low. Expected action includes sugar trust, wool, hides taxes, with progress framed as satisfactory to the great senatorial combine.
A rainy day dampens outdoor sports while theatres boom with crowds. A philosophic policeman at the State House offers calm guidance as bicycle safety, insurance rates, and clever coin tricks at stores spark local chatter. Harvard names Lehmann premier mascot in sports.
A fashion note describes the season’s gowns featuring tucks and cordings, with sunburst accents fading in popularity. Tea gowns dominate with tucked waists and puff sleeves, including a white and heliotrope gingham dress and a gray lawn number with yellow mousseline back lace bolero fronts and yellow ribbons.
The piece compiles short notices on Fraulein Hermine C. Stuven’s teaching credentials in Germany and America, a Nebraska effort to fund a grave monument for W. A. McKeighan, a Californian donation of land for Salvation Army beet farming, social navet items about Baron Krupp's calling cards, sugar refinery help for Austrian nobles, Admiral Brown choosing Indianapolis for retirement, Foraker family origins, Times involvement with Cecil Rhodes, and Whistler and Sickert exchanges.
The piece argues for a real Senate investigation into the sugar scandal, urging Tillman to push a thorough inquiry. It calls for uncovering any improper influence on votes, compelling testimony, and full disclosure, regardless of brokers or magnates.
Nonsense snippets from Yonkers Statesman, Puck, Brooklyn Life, and Truth parody jokes about domestic life, friendships, debt, magazines, and opera. The quips mix mishearings, missteps, and social foibles in a playful collage of period humor.
Annie Thaxter faces a pistol wielding robber in her Bedfordshire home while her father and villagers pursue Johnson Fairfield alias James Jackson. She traps the assailant, helps locate the hidden money, and earns a $5000 reward for bravery.
A Lowell column lists a dinner menu with consomme roast lamb mint sauce and sides plus a dessert of sponge drops and Velvet cream. It includes a recipe for sponge drops and Velvet cream with measurements and baking steps, citing 406 Merrimack Street Lowell.
A discussion in New York suggests trading the repudiated Macmonnies Bacchante to Central Park for Boston’s J. Q. A. Ward statue of the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim statue, nine feet tall in bronze, stands on a rise overlooking the east drive and was unveiled June 6, 1885. Boston critics said the Bacchante did not fit the park, while Central Park surroundings suit the Pilgrim.
The twenty first annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the Boston archdiocese convened yesterday at Boston College lecture hall. Delegates met in morning and afternoon sessions, with President James H. Conley and Edmund Phelan presiding. secretary Edwin Mulready reported receipts of 234.95 in admissions and assessments. Bishop Watterson of Columbus addressed the gathering praising abstinence and citing Pope Leo on the noble resolve of pious associations to abstain from intoxicating drink.
Hazel questions Mrs Talker's stories while Nutte argues they lack terminal facilities. The exchange centers on the truth of storytelling and the need for proper infrastructure.
Thousands of spectators toured battleships off State Street as rain fell. Lt Laird and Capt Casey answered questions aboard the New York while Texas and Massachusetts hosted many visitors. Sailors polished arms and prepared ceremonies as crowds filled Atlantic Avenue wharves for a cannon salute to the Shaw monument.
James B. Angell indicates Turkey is weighing his acceptability as American minister. He notes sympathy for mission work and cites a reported interview about hoping Turks will match Greeks. He cannot say when he will leave for Turkey, only that he may go though timing is uncertain.
The United States ambassador Colonel John Hay and his staff joined the Prince of Wales levee at St James Park. Among the crowd were Philadelphia figures J Sergent R H Davis Anthony Drexel Barton Van Voorhis New York and Frank Andrews of Washington. Colonel Hay presented the Hon Levi Page.
Reports from May 31 describe a seismic event moving from south to north with shaking felt in cities from Spartanburg to Pittsburgh. The Weather Bureau instruments recorded a 5 minute disturbance beginning around 1:58 p.m., with shocks lasting seconds to a minute in multiple urban centers.
Calhoun says Pepper, a Washington reporter who teamed with him, is independent of the death investigation commission. Fitzhugh Lee rejects claims of American consul influence on Havana dispatches. Pepper, back from Guanajay, views the Diario de la Marina critique as unwarranted and amused.
May 31 report lists pensions from the May 18 issue. Original grants to Joseph W. Poole Rockland William C. Straw Malden Edward P. Morse Lowell. Restoration and increase Patrick Griffin Salem. Increases John Condon Groton Roland C. Judkins Lynn Edwin L. Hartley Granville. Widows Margaret Geary Pepperell Maud F. Mead Pittsfield. Renewal special May 22 Minor Daniel G. Pitts Worcester.
The new St. John's French Catholic Church in Pawtucket Rhode Island was dedicated today by Bishop Matthew Harkins of Providence with Father Lauval of Fall River and about twenty five clergymen. The oration was delivered by Bishop Langevin of Manitoba.
Mrs Dovey Anderson who backed the Schweinfurth colony in Lexington until its collapse has made an assignment totaling 100000 dollars in assets. Her son Blythe also assigned. Anderson, once wealthy, promoted a Heaven house with Schweinfurth angels and enlisted two score of Lexington women. The venture faltered as key workers moved away and leaders departed.
About 1000 guests attended Boston University senior class events in the College of Liberal Arts. Jacob Sleeper Hall hosted receptions and a farewell ode sung to Auld Lang Syne with seniors and special guests including professors, trustees, and notable Boston figures.
The new steamer Plymouth docked at Winthrop wharf at 7 a m and left at 11 a m for summer service. Built by Neafie & Levy in Philadelphia, commanded by Captain A F Wade, she set a 17 knot trial in the Delaware River and covers Philadelphia to Plymouth in 44 hours. With 900 passenger capacity and 16 knot guaranteed speed, she will cut the Boston Plymouth run to about 2 1 2 hours starting June 16.
On Memorial Day the Boston waterfront featured ferries and tugs in harbor activity. The bay tug Juno, painted and polished, drew praise as a standout, while the Plant line steamer Halifax brought passengers and cargo from Charlottetown. Harbor work slowed due to fog, and vessel departures were limited, with no major sail departures recorded.
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