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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1900
Page
9
A 1899 inspector's report notes 30 445 meters inspected with 29 960 new or repaired and sealed before use. It advises placing meters within six feet of the floor for easy reading and includes steps to read dials from left to right and compute usage by subtracting prior state.
The controller's annual report notes increased county indebtedness across three years. 1899 shows a smaller rise than 1898, which jumped by 674 000, while past increases total only 286 600. Four counties show rises, most notably Franklin. Essex and Nantucket are debt free, Suffolk excluded by law.
The Rev Lucy Bowker Whittier resigns as Romsey Chapel pastor in Dorchester due to demands of final year at Boston University Theological School. She preached her farewell sermon Sunday evening and will devote full time to school studies until graduation. Miss Whittier, 26, is a Boston native and the city’s only evangelical woman preacher.
The Nilsson groups display at the old Providence station on Park Square has gained wide popularity among art lovers and those studying life of Christ. Described as a miniature Palestine during the era of the Saviour, the exhibit is open daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., including Sundays.
Review praises The Greatest Thing in the World as a strong American stage acquisition with fine performances by LeMoyne De Belleville Ewett Edeson and Rose. It also extols May Irwin in Sister Mary with a lively supporting cast and witty songs amid clever situational humor for a two week engagement.
A Boston stage notices strong performances from Snader as Silver Joe and Mitchell as Mortimer Drew with a cast of capable leads including Bresen Phillips and Philips. The program features varied acts, musical numbers, and multiple plays with next week's lineups and Julia Marlowe at Hollis Street Theatre.
The week showcases strong burlesque and vaudeville at Howard Theatre with Charming Ruth Beecher leading a lively cast. Artie Hall debuts in vaudeville with coon songs, followed by a breezy comedy A Rube's Visit to the Theatre Francais and a suite of acts from Phil Mills to the Golden Gate Quartet.
Sparkling Clara Lipman and witty Louis Mann headline a light farce at the Park Theatre last night. Lipman portrays Liane Tourbillion a Paris actress with a charity bet of 10000 dollars to spend a day in Paris recruiting barracks while Mann as Je Bardy the chocolate magnate plays a social foil amid mistaken identity and romantic entanglements. The duo have drawn large New York and Boston audiences in prior hits and promise strong laughs in this comedy of errors.
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