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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1894
Page
4
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More than eight thousand young children rode the swan boats on the Public Garden Pond last week inviting repeat trips to ensure the count. The Post calls the swan boat season a clear success bringing happiness to thousands and brightening dull days.
Boston observes a citywide Fourth of July with parades in Charlestown and other districts. Fireworks concerts and yacht races are planned, reflecting the absorption of Charlestown into the metropolis and the continued echo of the celebration across West Roxbury and Dorchester.
Colonel Conger of Ohio asserts McKinleyism is dead and criticizes the McKinley bill stance as sure defeat for 1896. He argues Governor McKinley and allies should not bind the Republican party to a risky policy. The piece calls the idea a foolish, life-less political humbug.
Distinguished citizens of the country prepare an invitation to William Ewart Gladstone to visit the United States. The piece asserts his high moral standing and compares him favorably to monarchs, arguing Americans would welcome him warmly in Boston and nationwide.
The Pittsburg district coal miners return to work today after a convention led by Miners' Union President McBride. About twenty thousand men resume labor as concessions from the Columbus convention are deemed satisfactory, with violence blamed for thwarting a national settlement.
A legacy of suspicion surrounds the Legislature as investigations intensify into corporate influence. Reports cite the Telephone Company and elevated railway bills, with patronage allegations and special favors fueling public concern. The Observant Citizen notes civic oddities, from a fish tale to a bizarre city damage claim, while the Post reports unusually high Sunday paper sales amid ongoing public intrigue.
The speaker urges honest legislators to form a recess committee to investigate the 1894 lobby, the methods used to mold public opinion, and how legislation was influenced, arguing the State House faces intolerable corruption and demands action to cleanse the Commonwealth.
An amendment to grant broad rights to the Boston Elevated Railroad Company threatens to alter the city’s streets by permitting multiple tracks and a Meigs or other system. The Senate is urged to fix the measure and submit it to a popular vote amid public concern over street safety and urban design. Also noted are a crowded South Boston bath crowd, political gossip about Mrs Jack Gardner, and Boston police adopting white gloves on Sundays as a Commissioner Martin innovation.
The Vigilant completes the fastest sloop passage to Britain, challenging British claims that American yachts are only racing machines. Yankee boats and seamanship have proved superior so far, with Gould sailing an American crew and skipper against the Prince of Wales’s yacht, aiming to win.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is said to be 88 by Hartford Times reckoning though commonly listed as 82. The piece notes birth years of Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher as 1811 and 1818, based on an old family Bible. It also mentions Raymond Blathwayt touring India, and various aging or notable individuals including Lady Maria Forester and Florence Nightingale’s Crimea mission.
The Shawmut Universalist Church led by Rev. Dr. Perrin aims to open seven days a week for a mass community reform effort in Boston. A $50,000 goal backs the plan with $19,600 pledged so far as a meeting at Shawmut Avenue Church promotes reading rooms clubs and coffee houses to elevate the masses and curb city vice.
Right Rev William Lawrence delivers a plain eloquent sermon on social and economic duty for Harvard graduates. He urges blending business and charity with humanity, cautions directors and citizens to uphold public trust, and stresses political responsibility and national righteousness. The address ends with a class hymn.
President Capen spoke to Tufts graduates in Medford on June 17 using Mark iv 3 as his text. He urged sound doctrine and highlighted intellectual power and high moral purpose as essential to far reaching influence. He congratulated the class and urged them to become sowers and fulfill their duties with the alma mater watching over their welfare.
Northampton June 17 The baccalaureate sermon at Smith College was preached by President L Clark Seeley at the First Church. The topic The Christian Soldier praised Christian education as leaven for mental power and unity of the human soul, noting gains in gentleness alongside virility.
Principal William Rice Newhall preached the baccalaureate sermon in Wilbraham on Endurance from Hebrews xi 27. He argued human effort fails without an infinite power and that endurance grows from recognizing invisible persons and responding to the divine.
The baccalaureate sermon at Monson Academy was preached by Rev. F. S. Hatch from Genesis thirty two five with the theme The visions of youth. He urged that visions should be encouraged but not replace character or energy and that thinking should include wider horizons for new stars to emerge.
The college’s baccalaureate service at Amherst featured Rev. Charles S. Walker delivering a sermon from Matthew 6 1 33. He outlined Christ s kingdom on earth as unity of individuals and the collective in purpose sympathy and thought forming one organism.
In Andover on June 17 the Abbott Academy class heard Rev. Judson Smith D D of Boston preach The Right Ideal of a True Life at Old South Church. In the afternoon Phillips Academy heard Prof John Phelps Taylor of the Theological Seminary speak on Character the End of Education at the chapel.
The Mt Holyoke Seminary seniors were addressed by Rev. Kk. B. Webb of Wellesley in a baccalaureate sermon at the chapel. Seniors in cap and gown marched in as elaborate music filled the service. Webb also spoke to the Y M C A in the evening.
Greenfield June 17 D I Moody delivered a four part baccalaureate sermon before Mt Hermon school and Northfield Seminary graduates. He urged self examination self control self denial and self forgetfulness with Moodyisms and stories. He cited Erastus Wiman’s disgrace as a cautionary tale about forgery.
Tonight at the Tremont Theatre The Pirates debuts George Frothingham as the police sergeant and Peter Lang as the pirate lieutenant. Cora Van Tassell debuts at the Museum in Tennessee’s Pardner while Miss D Arville sings The Star Spangled Banner. Bunker Hill Day festivities accompany the program.
The Central Labor Union met early with delegates in shirt sleeves. Delegate Pike attacked the Legislature as corrupt and pro moneyed interests, pushing a reform note. Seamen’s relief, silk weaver aid, and Labor Day plans were discussed. Child labor talks featured Horace Goadlin and advocates urging a return to age sixteen.
At St. Rose Hall 17 Worcester street a preliminary meeting created a women's court of the Catholic Order of Foresters with 25 Cathedral parish members. Jeremiah Hennessey of Boston chaired. High Secretary-Treasurer James F. Supple spoke. Affiliation with the main body is planned and more courts are hoped citywide and statewide.
Evangelist Rev Drew T Wyman formerly a Louisville pastor now a regular evangelist will conduct the noon meetings of the Evangelistic Association at Bromfield Street Church throughout the present week starting today noon. No meeting is omitted due to the holiday.
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