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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1894
Page
1
Bosroy Titns Bay June 28 1894 shoppers find zero time prices on all wool suits from 9 50 to 7 75 and 2 75 trousers. Three piece and frock style coats feature dove tail fronts while white vests and diagonal worsted cassimer are advertised with a money back guarantee.
In Chicago on June 27 Grand Master Sovereign urges knights to aid the American Railway Union. About 1,000 Illinois Central car shop workers at Burnside and 15 at Weldon quit in sympathy with Pullman strikers, yet the New Orleans limited with Pullman cars left on schedule. Debs notes the situation.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers says they will block Pullman cars on key lines including Illinois Central and Northern Pacific unless terms are set. John McBride of the United Mine Workers pledges support by legal means. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen may withhold aid for now.
The piece notes no immediate New England impact from the American Railway Union boycott on Pullman cars. John W. Stockton of Pullman says there is little strength for a local strike, cites high summer travel, and reports no railroad reports of employee boycott actions. Cars traveled 206,453,796 miles last year with 5,673,129 passengers, linking Boston to Los Angeles as the longest run.
Denver June 27 Owing to the Pullman boycott no through trains are running on the Santa Fe road today. Five trains are held at Raton New Mexico and one at La Junta Colorado. The company officers refuse to move the trains without Pullmans but no trainmen will handle these cars.
Cincinnati reports the boycott on Pullman cars for the Ludlow shop workers strike was ordered again after a morning meeting at Ludlow. Superintendent Phelan of the A R U spoke as switchmen from Cincinnati Covington Newport and Ludlow pledged to support the strikers and refuse Pullman cars.
Yale varsity crew and Harvard rivals faced postponement of the triangular Yale Harvard Columbia freshman race due to heavy seas in New London Conn. Referee Al Cowles declared the conditions impracticable and shifted the race to tomorrow at 11 am while spectators remained nearby and Yale practiced tonight.
New London reports Yale and Harvard rowers are in peak condition for tomorrow's four mile pull. Rog ers of Yale and Townsend of Harvard are slightly off form but expected to finish strong. Yale weighs more on average, aided by W A Cross at 187 pounds, while Harvard relies on a bone and sinew stroke in Kales.
G. W. Simmons & Co at Oak Hall 82 to 44 North Street advertise cool sleeping mats woven from straw and a range of coats including Black Alpaca and Striped Linen. Prices span 1.25 to 4.00 for coats and 0.50 to 4.00 for dusters and breeches with shoe options from 1.50 to 11.00.
In a Yale Harvard yacht regatta held today in strong southwest wind Yale won across classes. Class 1 Awa of Yale. Class 2 Tomboy of Harvard. Class 3 schooner Christine of Yale. Class 4 Tgress of Yale. Class 5 Nobska of Har orca. Times follow.
Twenty three men of Swift's Hub Industrials arrive in Olneyville after a long march from Washington. John Rogers provides meals and shoes at Kosnuth Street tenement. General Fitzgerald and Equity Union leaders address crowds before a three day march to Boston and Faneuil Hall.
Forecast for Thursday covers Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont and Eastern New York as generally fair with variable winds and cooler near Boston. Maine expects showers with variable winds.
Outfits and matchings of China, Glass and Lamps for hotels clubs yachts and families. All grades from ordinary to the most expensive specimens. The best products of the English French German Austrian Chinese Japanese and American potteries constantly arriving.
Two suspicious men claimed to lead Coxey's army hid in a Calumet house near Gray Gables for two weeks. Police searched twice without locating them. Local youths egged and fired guns at them last night, prompting their departure at dawn. One man about 60 years old. the other around 20.
The Massachusetts House rejected an attempt to override Governor Greenhalge by 115 to 49. The veto challenged a $30,000,000 capital stock increase for the Bell Telephone Co. and garnered broad praise for the governor, the Post, and leading advocates of the veto as efforts to protect public rights and prevent monopoly.
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