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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1904
Page
3
Wall Street and Boston markets showed dull trading with little price movement. Amalgamated Copper and Amalgamated stock faced pressure while United States Steel rose on pig iron news. Quincey and Osceola posted small gains and losses amid mixed activity.
Dorchester guests gathered at 34 Rosedale Street for the second anniversary of Mr and Mrs William Jardine marriage. The event featured a daytime dinner for relatives and an evening reception attended by over 300 social figures including Boston dry goods merchants from the Gilchrist Company. Gifts included a silver salver and tea service.
Ex-dividend status noted as first instalment paid. Market totals show 842 listed stock shares and bonds valued at 27 200 dollars, plus 2633 unlisted stock shares.
The fifth week of the book and job composi tors strike shows both sides confident of victory. Typographical Union 15 reports 41 of 51 offices have full compositors, 194 on strike, 897 working, and says unions will win by standardizing conditions citywide. Three offices have signed the union scale. International President James M. Suwynch may visit Boston to meet local leaders.
President Lynch head of the International Typographical Union departed Indianapolis on February 29 bound for Boston.
It has been arranged to allow union sailors to join fishing fleets with 30 already aboard yesterday and 50 or more expected today. The four masted schooner E. S. Greeley shipped a union crew yesterday. Port sailors are under 100 due to a wage cut attempt of five dollars per month.
Boston Musicians Protective Association votes to suspend union prices during the Grand Army encampment in Boston. Musicians may volunteer services and arrange terms freely. Local Grand Army men applaud the move for the national encampment in August.
Waiters Union 80 reserved 64 applicants and planned open mass meetings. A committee was appointed to arrange them. Consolatory resolutions honored Ernest Mundt. D W Foster elected president of the Boston Stereotypers Union Mutual Benefit Association with 93 members. Officers named include W B McPeters secretary G Fred Moore treasurer D J Reagan auditors G W Williams J J Delaganni J McGuire. Sympathy resolutions were passed for S Zorn's wife and funds donated to Gloversville glove workers and Indianapolis hardwood finishers.
The Chelsea Board of Aldermen passed a 75000 loan for the completion of the new high and grammar schools by an 11 to 3 vote. Aldermen Collier Soley and Williams voted no, Morse absent. Mayor Willard vetoed the last meeting’s 8970 salary appropriation, action to be reconsidered. Willard named six new police officers: James C. Wiley Henry B. Spinney John M. Bartley Thomas F. Gainard John E. Parsons and Thomas E. Flynn.
The Exchange Club, comprised of music supervisors in Boston and nearby, held its annual ladies night at the Quincy House with Charles Boyd presiding. The event was praised as delightfully informal. Massachusetts State building displays feature a dozen landscape views by the Boston & Albany railroad along its line in Massachusetts. Two specimens are shown at 366 Washington street, with photos by Herbert W. Taylor and watercolors by Sprague & Hathaway.
All men facing decline in strength or stamina are urged to start Palmo Tablets. The ad claims the tonic makes you look and feel younger, priced at 60 cents per box with volume discounts and a guarantee. Sold by multiple druggists including Walker-Rintels, Dewey Street. Bradbury, Beach Street. Putnam, Schoe Street. Eaton, Friend Street. Klein's Tremont and Boylston. Knight's Court and Hanover. Sawyer Tremont and Hollis.
Boston’s Dave Sullivan is outboxed by Young Corbett in San Francisco as referee Graney stops the featherweight title bout in round 11. Corbett dominates all rounds delivering heavy body and head blows. Sullivan shows grit but cannot recover after a brutal late surge.
Round by round, Corbett dominates with sharp rights to the jaw and body as Sullivan staggers. Sullivan answers with flashes of lefts and infighting but fails to hold. Corbett repeatedly floors Sullivan with a series of blows, threatening a knockout by the end of Round 4.
Governor Bates Lieutenant Governor Guild and staff Majors Hooper and Clark attended Liberty Lodge Knights of Pythias eighth anniversary banquet in Webster Hall East Boston. About 800 people were present with a grand march led by Harry Goldbund and Miss Sadie Levy, followed by 100 couples. Notables included Captain Thomas C. Evans of Police Station 7 and Past Grand Chancellors George E. Howe and Robert R. Herriman.
In San Francisco the Young Corbett versus Dave Sullivan featherweight title bout drew below average attendance. Corbett favored at 3 to 1 odds. Sullivan reportedly risked 1500 to 100. Eddie Graney refereed. Sieger and Rafael fought to a ten round draw with Rafael landing the sharper blows but Sieger leading more, though overweight.
Dartmouth College faculty and students filled Rollins Chapel for a memorial service for Henry Judson Hooper who died yesterday. President William J. Tucker presided as Alpha Delta Phi and the freshman class escorted Hooper’s remains to the railway station for burial in Exeter.
T. J. Ryan faced Municipal Criminal Court Judge Ely charged with short accounts after an employer Freeman H. Kendall claimed Ryan owed about $100 while Ryan countered that Kendall owed him $80.
Movers have moved goods from 782 to our old Washington Street store and overcrowding forces a sale. Six floors priced about half regular, 570 pieces offered. Purchases may be stored free until needed, delivery available in Boston or to depots, no C O D, stamps with each purchase. Sale lasts four days starting Monday February 20.
Edwin B Marshall 20 faces forgery charges after allegedly passing checks signed with his father’s name. He married a 21 year old vaudeville actress and, drifting from a life of luxury, lived in a Florence street garret as legal action proceeds. Marshall is held in $2000 bail for the grand jury.
The Saxon King from Rotterdam via Shields reported an uneventful voyage with high winds and head seas but no major damage. The Caledonian was sighted near Boston light, two ships ahead, while the British schooner Canada reached Barbadoes in distress. Imports and exports for the port showed a weak foreign trade showing.
Maritime notes show arrivals including Caledonian and Saxonia with merchandise to Frederick Leyland & Co and Seaboard Road. Other vessels such as Tallahassee and Luther T. Garretson arrive with passengers, while Saxonia and Herman Winter depart for New York and Philadelphia respectively.
A Leap Year party hosted by the Boston Lancers was held in the armory on Bulfinch Street. About six guests attended, with a grand march led by Mrs. George H. Proctor and Captain Frank T. Hitchcock, and roughly 100 couples in attendance. The floor was supervised by Mrs. George H. Proctor with help from Mrs. Edward B. Wadsworth and Mrs. Carroll Whittemore.
The Massachusetts committees schedule hearings on March 4 at the State House. Topics include probate court power to sell real estate for heirs’ distribution, divorce jurisdiction transfers to probate courts, administration of non resident estates, and faster trials for contested wills. Also docketed are hearings on probate notice publication reforms, and harbor and bridge projects in Boston and Dartmouth Dock.
For sale a hand laundry business at 2 St James Avenue near Berkeley and Boylston Streets. Apply I F Baker. El-
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