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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1894
Page
4
All subscriptions to the POST must be paid in advance and will be discontinued without further notice on expiration. If you cannot obtain the POST regularly from your newsdealer or newsboy, please notify us by postal at once. A. GROZIER, Editor and Publisher.
The trial voyage of the Priscilla marks a significant addition to coastwise transport. The Old Colony Steamboat Company leads in elegance and safety as this new steamer is praised for comfort strength and advance in maritime construction.
The conference report claims the statehouse will drop the stock watering bill unless the Boston and Maine railroad is exempted. The writer denounces the legislature as subservient to a railroad corporation, opposing the delay of needed reform supported by business groups. The piece argues the bill is judicious and necessary for the people.
The Sugar Trust gains Senate support against enforcing foreign corporate returns in Massachusetts. The body rejects aiding the attorney general to compel annual returns, sidelining state law, while the case continues under existing statutes. The episode highlights a Senate alignment with the monopoly over the attorney general's enforcement efforts.
Editorial urges immediate amendment to stop a proposed $30,000,000 stock gift to Bell Telephone. It argues the public should not bear interest on new stock while the company gains subsidies, lobby access, and favorable treatment beyond smaller firms.
An editorial opposes the Meigs bill in the Senate describing it as surrendering Boston streets for an untested experiment. It argues against passage without citizen consent and asserts residents still hold rights the Legislature should respect.
The passage argues against amending the charter to shift control from the people, warning that such changes could alter the form of government, city council elections, police licensing, and street use without consent. It insists the Meigs bill be allowed only if the people approve the surrender of Boston to an unknown corporation.
Senator Hill of New York urged free coal on the free list, opposing a solid Senate. Only six senators joined him, mostly Populists, highlighting his principled stand. He argued the Democratic platform and national pleas demanded relief, noting New England manufacturers also sought free coal but failed to back him.
The piece describes a Boston reception for Frances Willard with tickets sold at local women’s groups and mentions expected speakers including Governor Greenhalge and Professors Gates Tucker and Bascom. It also riffs on fashion, household tips, and a parade of upcoming lectures by figures like William Hamilton Gibson and Conan Doyle, plus a comic verse about golf.
The first night drew London’s fashionable and intellectual elite to Daly's to see Izeyl starring Sara Bernhardt. The reception was strong though the play may not charm all London audiences as La Tosca did. Bernhardt was recalled eight or nine times after the third act and again after the death scene. Edwin Elwell the sculptor has gone to Shawme Farm in Sandwich for the summer. RK Logan of Chattanooga sues a patent medicine company for 100 dollars offering to reward those cured of catarrh.
Brussels reports say Ex-Empress Charlotte widow of Maximilian of Mexico remains in a worsening mental state with fewer lucid moments since her husband’s death. The piece notes her long-standing insanity and cites latest papers on her health.
Senator Fitzgerald presided as the Senate debated and rejected the Norwegian liquor bill and the American Sugar Refinery bill. Lawmakers debated public supervision of telephone rates, election fraud inquiries, and joint committees on Ward 17 races amid party-line votes.
Charles Reddington Joy, insurance agent and clubman, plays a hand organ on the Common opposite West street for fifteen minutes. William C. Denny pays $100 by check after a publicity stunt that draws hundreds, despite police protection and a makeshift canvas enclosure.
Ada wonders why she was not invited to Bigelown while Kitty answers with a gentle remark about the invitation. The snippet hints at social tension and a personal exchange between two women in a domestic setting.
A short, odd vignette notes a six month old boy kissing a woman's cheek and stroking her hair, with the woman not objecting. The piece shifts into a boastful, light tone about the child’s boldness.
The board sustains Edison Electric Illuminating Company's appeal from a Mayor Aldermen order granting O H Durrell and others permission to lay wires through a conduit on Essex Street. The Mayor dissents from the board's decision and argues against monopolies. An Aldermanic order requests the Mayor to have a conduit built and leased to deemed parties.
Alderman Hall offered a resolution opposing the Senate bill to incorporate the Boston Elevated Railway Company unless amended to require full abutter damages payment and proper security. The measure was laid on the table unanimously after debate. A mass meeting at Faneuil Hall tonight will urge the bill be placed before voters before final action.
Alderman Witt moved to obtain a legal opinion on the Revere Beach and Lynn railroad’s right to obstruct travel on Butler and Austin avenues near East Boston. Alder man Lee questioned the obstruction, and Witt described a solid board fence. The order passed, with streets near Orient Heights station on Breed's Island cited.
An order directs West End railroad to remove tracks within sixty days from several downtown streets including Franklin Bowker Fleet Milk Oliver High Broad Division and Foundry. A petition by B B Whittemore and 150 others asks to extend wood building bans citywide. An underground conduit for electric wires in Water Street is approved. Fireworks may be fired in public areas on July 4 between 4 am and 10 pm if permitted by the Mayor and Police Board.
A. Shuman, chairman of City Hospital trustees, asks for a 330 500 loan if approved. If no bill passes by September, trustees propose transfers totaling 57 000 for Chester Park Hospital furnishings turfing and grounds, and tents for hot weather. The beautification plan for Copley square, approved by the Mayor and committee of architects, was referred.
James Edwards, 30, was arrested in Attleboro on a complaint from New York visitor John Clarence. Clarence says Edwards stole 125 dollars in cash and a stud during a land trip from Pawtucket toward Taunton, then fled toward Attleboro. Edwards had previous Diamond ring theft conviction and served 22 months after a Blackwell's Island sentence.
The Boston Board of Underwriters yesterday allowed the New York Underwriters Agency to operate as a separate organization. The agency will replace the Guardian Insurance Company and assume the business previously controlled by that firm.
Albert Tong, known as the Tennessee Pardner villain, returns to the Boston Museum stock company. The Mascot at Park next Thursday features Manola Mason principals all earning their reputations in Boston. George C Boniface Jr. and Helen Dayne headlining roles, with Lindsay Morison noted before his name change. Austin and Stone's fat ladies draw admirers while Gumbo eyes rivals. Colonel Austin and Manager Pilling maintain high attractions. Howard Theater enjoys strong attendance despite heat under Manager Lothrop, who keeps venues cool with top bills this week.
Peter Trainor the blind newsman plans to file a complaint with city police commissioners after a brutal assault by Patrolman John B Witham of Station 6. Lawyer John W Converse represents Trainor. Judge Burke condemned Witham in court. Trainor remains hospitalized at 6 Waltham Street with severe head injuries and bloodstains reported at his home.
Gaswell asks if matches are made in heaven and the other character retorts Lucifer’s expulsion makes heaven unlikely. A brief, witty exchange from the Pittsburg Chronicle captures a humorous moral quip about fate and matchmaking.
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