Electric Line Extension Brings Main Trunk to Nantasket Beach
The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad extends its Nantasket Beach electric system to East Weymouth three and a half miles along the Plymouth division main line. The overhead trolley is abandoned in favor of third rail contact, marking the first use of a ground conductor powering a main surface steam railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Nantasket Beach
East Weymouth
South Shore
Plymouth Division
J. C. Sanborn
West Side & Lake Street
Chicago
Charles P. Clark
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
C. Peter Clark
New England Railroad
N. H. Heft
New Haven
Schenectady Works
General Electric Company
Power House No
Nantasket
Nantasket Junction
Pemberton
Notable Leaders Inspect Local Road Under Col N H Heft
Colonel N H Heft personally supervised a road inspection yesterday attended by Bridgeport mayor Frank E Clark and a roster of executives. The group included Charles P Clark R Kendrick George Connor E Allen J C Sanborn Kendall C Peter Clark Dr F B Downes D F Reed Henry Setzer Jr Gardner Wells W J Clark Omen Pierce B Davis S H Libbey Philp L Saltonstall from General Electric and editors N H Heft W G Bushnell among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. H. Heft
Frank E. Clark
Bridgeport
Conn
Charles P. Clark
R. Kendrick
George Connor
E. Allen
Old Colpe System
J. C. Sanborn
Plymouth Division
Ee Kendall
Old Colony System
C. Peter Clark
New York & New England Railroad
F. B. Downes
W. G. Bushnell
New Haven
Hospital for Hebrews planned by local Jewish leaders
A meeting of doctors and businessmen at Dr. S. Goodman’s rooms discussed creating a hospital for Hebrews and others, to accommodate religious dietary needs and language barriers. A rented South End house would be used until funds allow building a dedicated facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Goodman
Cunard Servia sails with 500 saloon passengers to Queenstown
Over 500 saloon passengers booked for the Cunarder Servia departing next Monday for Queenstown and Liverpool. many are Ancient and Honourables. The Catalina will take out 151 saloon passengers at 11 a.m. today, the largest number yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Servia
Queenstown
Liverpool
Catalonia
Third Rail Power Carves A Rail Path For Steam Line
A steam road becomes the world’s first to use a third rail for motive power. The system on the Nantasket line feeds from power house No. 1, with cars using two sliding shoes to contact the rail, and automatic safety circuits isolating sections if needed. Sixteen open motor cars will run, each with two GFE 2000 motors and automatic breakers, replacing older baggage cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pemberton
Nantasket Junction
East Weymouth
Nantasket
Bids Placed On City Loan For Boston Projects
City Treasurer Turner received bids on a 2 1/2 million four percent Boston loan divided into a 700000 twenty year highway loan a 1000000 forty year Blue Hill avenue loan a 500000 thirty year schoolhouse loan and a 300000 twenty year loan for various municipal purposes Blake Day bid 109 784 and Lee Higginson Co 105 232. Bids were also received from local and New York bankers. The award will be made Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner
City of Boston
Blue Hill Avenue
Blake & Day
Lee, Higginson & Co
New York
Music at South End by Baldwin's Cadet Band Tonight
Baldwin's Cadet Band performs at Columbus Square this evening starting at 8 o'clock. The program includes Eldorado March, Around the Hub overture, Bay Point cornet solo, Three Star, Potpourri from Wang, La Czarine Russian dance, Life in New York, Zanzibar Caprice galop, Bicycle, and other pieces conducted by J Thomas Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Square
Baldwin
New York
Muller
Gilder
Galop
Koppitz
J. Thomas Baldwin
Lauriat Avenue project nears final approval
Lauriat Improvement Association wins final layout for Lauriat avenue after sewer installation. Street department announces construction to begin, with a July 18 deadline for repairs. Dorchester Gas Company plans to lay additional pipes along the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauriat
Another Fine Building in Boston Real Estate Trust Plan
The Boston Real Estate Trust plans a six story building on Congress street and Atlantic avenue ground. It will front 180 feet on Congress, 200 feet on Fort Point Channel, and 200 feet on a new 40 foot passageway parallel to Atlantic. The site spans about 28,000 square feet per side roughly totaling 1 acre, with estimated cost near $300,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Boston Real Estate Trust
Congress Street
Atlantic Avenue
Fort Point Channel
saBies
Ieeal
B& N Bs
West End
Atchison
Iny
Nh&h
Mining Atlantic
Eee
Boston & Mont
Butte & Boston
Cal & Heec
Nie‘als
Osceola
Tamarack
American Bell
Pullman Palace
Reece B. H
Westing Bloc
Bay State Gas
Merced Asst Pd
U S
Osini i
Textiles Plan Sourced Shutdown of Mills in July and August
Lowell and Fall River mills move to halt 1.5 million spindles for four weeks as signatories pledge to stop over half the spindle capacity in the city during July and August. Agreement, posted in Boston yesterday, aims to curb production with broad mill participation likely. Barnaby Gingham Mills to undergo general overhaul next week as part of annual practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
Arkwright Club
Boston
Manufacturers’ Association
M. C. D. Borden i S
Barnaby Gingham
Uncertainty in Lowell cotton curtailment plans
Lowell observers discuss potential shut-downs as New England mills consider curtailing cotton output. Excising the market, some see advantages in delaying new crop supply whereas others urge immediate action amid competition with England and a volatile Washington policy climate. Massachusetts mills resist obvious curtailment while Tremont and Suffolk declare a 4 percent dividend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
New England
Arkwright Club
Boston
England
Washington
Capitol
Massachusetts
Hamilton Company
Tremont
Suffolk
Lonsdale Mills to close alternate weeks with Knight
Lonsdale Company and B B R Knight sign agreement to shut cotton mills on alternate weeks during July and August in Providence R I. Both firms will operate on a biweekly schedule to reduce output and costs through midsummer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. IL
Lonsdale Company
B. B. & R. Knight
Boston Fracas Over Immigrant Remarks Stir Catholic Responses
In Hudson June 26 W A Morey’s lecture on From the Top of Gray's Peak drew ire by claiming immigration is a menace and describing Boston as Cork and Dublin moved west. Rev Thomas F Cusack replied with an open letter praising Irish ancestry and defending Boston as still Boston despite worries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Cork
Dublin
Service on the Common on Boston Common
The Benevolent Fraternity of Churches hosts a Sunday service at 5 p m on Boston Common second tree on Charles street mall north of the walk. Addresses by Rev. B F McDaniel of Newton Centre and Rev. Charles F Dole of Jamaica Plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
Boston Common
Charles Street Mall
B. F. McDaniel
Newton Centre
Charles F. Dole
Jamaica Plain
Charles Street
B. F. McPaniel
Sunday Religious Services Across Boston Churches
Sunday religious services listed across Tremont Temple Old South Church Tremont Street M E Church and other houses of worship. Sermons by Rev George Lorimer Rev George A Gordon Dr Alberto Diaz of Cuba Rev Joseph Slattery and others. Free seating and services at 2:30 5 and 7:30 pm plus Sunday school prayer meetings and communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
George
Old South Church
Third Church
George A. Gordon
Joseph Slattery
People’s Temple
Columbus Avenue
John. Boyle O'Reilly
Purgatory
Slattery
Carter and
Root
Sidney Woodward
Tremont Street
M. EB
Tremont and
Concord Streets
John D. Pickles
R.S. Torster
A. Littlefield
First Presbyterian Church
Berkeley Street
Scott F. Hershey
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Dorchester Street
Boston
Charles J. Cameron
Brockville
Ont
Old Dominion stock notes and copper market chaos
Friday evening observations describe Sugar market strength in London and New York with short covering and a rally, while Old Dominion plunges to 14.25 cents, insiders liquidate, and a warning emerges about copper moves. Calumet & Hecla sold copper to actual consumers at 11.2 cents, contradicting expected prices. Pinkham notes a turbulent session across textiles and metals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Old Dominion
New York
Butte & Boston
Merced
Old Dominon
Post
Butte
Bears
Boston
Montana
Calumet
Sears
Calumet & Hecla
Lake
Pinkham
Boston Stock Exchange Official Day's Sales Report
The Boston Stock Exchange presents the official daily sales report listing the highest and lowest prices of the day along with closing figures, bids, and asks.
Oregon Improvement Plan Notice to Bond and Stock Holders
Holders of certificates of deposit representing bonds or stock of the Oregon Improvement Company may deposit with Manhattan Trust Company in New York or Old Colony Trust Company in Boston under an 1895 preliminary agreement. They may exchange for reorganization certificates or withdraw securities by August 1, 1896, under the May 29, 1896 plan. Committee members Waterbury, Coolidge, Marsh, Hooley, and Bache oversee the process. Simpson, Thatcher & Barnum counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Improvement Company
Manhattan Trust Company
New York
Old Colony Trust Company
Boston
John S. Waterbury
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr
E. Rollins Marsh
Edwin
Oregon Improvement Bonds Deposit Recommended to Reorganization Group
June 3 1896 New York holders of Oregon Improvement Company First Mortgage 6% Bonds receive notice from a bondholders protective committee urging deposit of bonds with the Reorganization Committee chaired by John S Waterbury. Terms reflect pre plan negotiations between committees as presented by F P Olcott Central Trust Co Gustav E Kissel Moses Williams and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. Waterbury
F. P. Olcott
Central Trust Co
New York
Gustav E. Kissel
Kessler & Co
Wall Street
Mysterious banded mackerel and harbor notices
A Boston harbor column reports a year old mackerel caught near Minot’s light with a white salt crusted band around its head fin, suggesting it was placed as a hatchling for tracking. The piece also covers local nautical news including a rambling small sailboat recovered near Fire Island, a rescue from a squall, and various arrivals and repairs at Philadelphia and East Boston docks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Freeman
Success
T Wharf
Provinestown
Minot
Philadelphia & Reading
Berks
Philadelphia
Fire Island
Flushing
L. I
Eugene J. Fergus
Ned Evans
Kate Jones
New York
Andorinha
Campbell
Orion
Calcutta
Boston
Yarmouth
N. S
Simpson
Wild Duck
John M. Forbes
Matteawan
New Orleans
Cunard
Carinthia
Cephalonia
Servia
Edward May
Charles Brewer & Co
Charles A. Johnson
Honolulu
J. G. McKenzie
W. Town
Kitty
Central Wharf
Zoe
Accidents Endanger Children In City Streets And Home
Three youngsters suffer serious injuries in separate incidents. Paul Seligman, 2, crushed by a Boston Ice wagon wheel outside the Hotel Ilkley on Cumberland Street. Annie Ducey, 11, fractures her skull after a 15 foot fall in a barn near Harrison Avenue. Walter Powell, 2, on Stamford Street, falls eighteen feet from a second floor window. internal injuries diagnosed at Massachusetts General Hospital, prognosis poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Seligman
Ilkley
Cumberland Street
Boston Ice Company
Annie Ducey
Harrison Avenue
Little Walter Powell
Stamford Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Watch Theft Suspect Arrested Aboard Wabash
Inspectors brand Mahoney arrested yesterday after Eliot C. Harrington, the steward on the United States receiving ship Wabash, on suspicion of larceny on May 30. A gold watch valued at $100, the property of Captain Albert Kautz, was taken from the captain’s quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brand Mahoney
Eliot C. Harrington
United States
Wabash
Albert Kautz
Harrington
Gloucester High School Graduation Exercises Held at City Hall
Grace Pentecost gave the salutatory and Reverend Charles Gordon Ames of Boston delivered the address An Outfit for Life of Personal Equipment. Ralph P. Parsons gave the valedictory as 44 graduates received diplomas from Mayor Robinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
City Hall
Grace Pentecost
Charles Gordon Ames
Boston
Ralph P. Parsons
Robinson
Foreclosure sale announced for Northern Pacific property
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company seeks to sell at public auction on July 25, 1896, in Superior Wisconsin, the first parcel the railroad main line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound plus feeder lines. Three parcels include the main line complex, assorted mortgage bonds and stocks, and feeder branches with extensive railroad rights of way. Minimum bids are ten million for parcel one, two million for parcel two, and five hundred thousand for parcel three, with deposits and court conditions specified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court of the United States
Wisconsin
Farmers’ N and Trust Company
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Acie
Circuit Courts
United States
Minnesota
Montana
North Dakota
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Illinois
New York
I. Alfred L. Cary
Superior
Lake Superior
Montreal River
Michigan
Tacoma
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Cascade Mountains
Main Line
Cascade
St. Paul and
Northern Pacific Railway
St. Paul and Duluth
Thompson
Carlton
Duluth
St. Paul
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Central Trust Company of New York
Little Falls & Dakota Railroad Company
Panesis
Sao Siersial
Northern Pacific Railroad Pany
Little Falls and Dakota
Northern Pacific, Fergus and
Sanborn, Cooperstown and
Turtle Mountain
Jamestown and Northern
James River Valley
Northern Pacific, la Moure and
Missouri River
Dakota
Rocky Mountain Railroad
Helena and
Jefferson County
Red Mountain
Missoula and Bitter Hoot Valley
Helena and Northern
Drummond and Philipsburg
Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte
Spokane Falls and
Wisconsin Central Company
Wisconsin Central Railroad Company
National Bank Or Trust Company
Money
Bpootal Meath
Turner, McClure & Rolston
William Street
N. Y
Motorman Complimented at Brookline Hall Presentation
In Hibernian Hall Brookline a gold watch with chain was given to T Swan a West End street railway employee on the eve of a holiday departure. The gift came from fellow workers and friends after twenty seven years service. O Neill spoke praising Swan’s courtesy and esteem among colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hibernian Hall
Brookline
T. Swan
West End Street Railway
Land of the Thistle
T. Sullivan
Mr. T. Swan
Messrs
J. J. O'Brien
D. McKinnon
E. McGrath
P. J. O’donnell
M. Quigney
Mr. Fowler
P. J. Bourke
H. J. Luby
F. Clifford
Morgan
Z Conway
O'Connell
J Darragh
D. Sullivan
J. Meehan
M. Meehan
Lacy
J C. J. Caseysack
F. O’ Raurise
P.sey
Harry O'Neill
Mr. O'Neill
Swan
Mr. Swan
T. S
Dan O'Neill
Tanner
Sullivan
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Hospital For Hebrews
W. S. Appleton, Jr
F. Ackroyd
Charles R. Adams
Charles Barrows
E. E. Booth
James S. Bent, Jr
George Burr
A. E. Burr
Cc. N. Bynner
J. P. Bassett
W. Ballard
Josiah Barnett
E. C
William B. Durgin
Charles E. Hall
Hill
William Houston
W. A. Hitchcock, Jr
W. M. Ingraham
H. C. Ives
S. L. Jacobs
Edwin Clifford Johnson
Philip W. Jones
E. F. Kimball
Ester Lake
H. C. Little
Bertha L. Noyes
Tenah Porter
C. G. Palfrey
F. W. Palfrey
C. H. Parker, Jr
D. D
Helen Winchell Pickles
Charles A. Pooke
Florence A. Pooke
Helen C. Pooke
John Pilling
E. L. Diesel
Anna F. Dowse
G. A. O. Ernst
Sarah Otis Ernst
Roger Ernst
Aren Evans
M. C. Ferguson
de JS. Fisher
Fisher
Wes
George Fishe
A. M. Forrestadl
Bessie Fawkes
L. M. Friedman
Maude Gilchrist
J. Galpin
A. E. G. Goodridge
M. B. Gray
E. L. Gay
Fe.g. Gay
F. W. Griffin
Lawrence F. M. Gent
Catherine M. Gates
George C. How
Elenor B. Hammond
Alma Hubbard
Nannie M. Hines
Thomas Horsfield
James Kay Horsfield
Walter P. Rankin
Isabel P. Rankin
Sarah G. Robinson
C. J. Rueter
Annie Ray
H. Ramsden
F. M. Sherman
William Sawyer
Herbert Sawyer
F. A. Sawyer
Harriet Sawyer
L. Mabel Sawyer
William T. Shepherd
Bess C. Shepherd
Philip B. Stewart
J. F. Sweeney
Staley
H. N. Sheldon
Wilmon H. Sheldon
Robert T. Sagar
Levey
George Thackray
Dorothy van Baalen
Frances van Baalen
Rebecca van Noorden
Lt. Way
K. S. White
Walter Walmsley
Henry White
Hattie M. Wyman
Charles Whitney
Ellen Brown Wheeler
W. F. Whitney
Celena M. Whitney
Frank D. Somers
J. Edward Somers
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Arcade Hall
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All Welcome
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Gospel OF Spirit Return Society
Minnie M. Soule
Hiawatha Hall
W Unitarian
BR. Y. M. Christian Union
Union Hall
Boylston Street
Leslie W. Sprague
Damon
E. Elfreda Damon
Nettie Damon
Dora P. Damon
Mamie O. Damon
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Colorado Mining Stock Exchange
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Bangkok
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Justice Genese
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Miscellaneous Stock Exchange
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Terminal
Boston & Cripple Creek
Simpson, Thatcher & Barnum
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Oregon Improvement Company First Mortgage
Moses Williams
State Street Safe Deposit & Trust Co
Third National Bank
Mass
W. H. Albertson & 60
Bankers & Brokers
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T. E. Ward & CO
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McKay Metallic
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NEW York Stock Sales
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Pacific Mail
Reading Rock Island Se
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St Paul & Omaha
Tenn Coal & Iron
Texas Pacific
Union Pacific
Gloucester High School
Presbyterians For Peace
Glasgow
Presbyterian Convention
Great Britain
Board of Arbitration
Northern Pacific, Fergus & Black Hills Railroad
Los Ciel Iocule
Ok Wind
Seanes Fund
Oesres
Duluth, Crookston & Northern Railroad Company
Fargo & Southwestern Rail
UG Sae
Northern Pacific
la Moure
Missouri River Railroad
Sanborn, Cooperstown
Turtle Mountain Railroad
PNY
Budo Fy Vise
Jamestown & Northern Railroad Company
Jamestown & Northern Extension Railroad Company
Southeastern Dakota Railroad Company
Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railroad Company
Rocky Mountain Railroad Company
Northern Pacific & Melee Railway Company
Helena
Jefferson ‘County
Northern Pacific Railroad
Am't
Crookston Northern Railroad
Northern Pacific, Moore & Missouri River Railroad Company
Peete
Northern Pacific & Manitoba Railroad
Compan
Spokane Falls & Idaho “Railrou
Northern Pacific & Cascade Railroad Company
Northern Pacific & Puget Sound Shore Railroad Company
Tacoma, Orting & Southeastern Railroad Company
Clealum Railroad Company
Rocky Fork & Cooke City Railroad Company
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Green River & Northern
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