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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1891
Page
4
In Gibraltar Bay a gale driven collision between the Anchor Line steamer Utopia and the British warship Anson cost many lives. About nine hundred aboard, only roughly three hundred saved. Rescue efforts by the Anson’s crew praised. final responsibility awaits official reports.
The Governor declares removal of Mr Osborne imperative after a recent investigation and cites political considerations. He names Col Henry Stone as the replacement to avoid partisan conflict, asserting Stone’s superior intellect and experience. Council approval is urged for the public service.
A European snapshot shows Germany rejecting a petition to allow women into law and medicine amid strict limits on higher education for women. In England, Conservatives refuse women a seat on the Royal Labour Commission, despite calls from the Woman’s Council for broader representation on the National Divorce Reform League board.
The House approved a substitute bill by 201 to 56 on selling additional railroad stock above par value. The move shifts away from par allotments seen as stock watering, with merchants of Boston influencing public opinion. The debate notes that stock watering harms shareholders and the public while liberalizing railroad financing.
The text notes that many women could provide a balanced judgment for the League, offering a credible perspective by their widespread presence and thoughtful insight. It emphasizes the value of including female viewpoints to ensure fair and well balanced deliberations.
Mr Gladstone breaks silence addressing the British political scene. He counters Parnell’s Irish leadership challenge, defends Liberal strategy, and warns against any constitutional leadership for Ireland under Parnell. The question remains whether Home Rule hinges on Liberal support.
Secretary Wapiin's report to the Governor outlines two main evils in tenement house work for clothing: low wages from crowding into few jobs and dirty surroundings linked to low pay and foreign workers. Regulations could reduce dirt but must avoid raising costs or cutting hours to prevent wage reductions for workers.
The text argues that lowering prices for sewing limits demand and that competition among contractors and middlemen reduces profits. It urges legislation to reduce wage competition by promoting industrial education, enabling people to pursue other livelihoods, and by restricting immigration of foreign classes seen as contributing to competition and dirt.
The Boston Globe editorial opposes an Aldermen order granting the West End Company permission to build and maintain an iron roof over the Tremont street sidewalk at Granary Burying Ground. It warns of unsafe encroachment, unequal rights, and dangerous precedent, urging the Mayor to veto.
The Journal of Monday reprints a six week old scandal claiming Marie Bashkirtseff’s journal was revised by a family friend and does not reflect the original writings. It cites denials by M. Tuevariet who states the manuscripts, journal included, were given to him and published without additions or alterations. The Health Food Exposition at Lenox Lyceum, NYC, is noted as a related event.
In Boston, the narrator notes a dearth of spring weddings compared with previous years and jokes about rural lovers consulting almanacs. He also reflects on dogs, a clever North Carolina setter, and a club discussion about the value of modern editorial writing, ending with a tale of a Missouri editor and a pays-in-kind play notice.
A newspaper summary notes free lunches and drinks offered to visitors as advertising while Western railroad employees oppose Granger legislation. It highlights how retrenchment on railroads leads to job dismissals, showing shared interests between workers and employers when profits fall.
In a bishopric view the Bishop of London states that funerals should exhibit solemn cheerfulness as a key Christian trait. He notes the tone may shift toward brightness when the deceased leaves substantial wealth to hopeful relatives.
The seventh Cambridge series concert features the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mr. Nikisch at Sanders's Theatre This evening's program includes Goldmarks Prometheus Wagner Waldweben and Rapps Forest Symphony Kneisel performs the first movement of Brahms violin concerto Also note Carl Baermann's fifth chamber concert at Union Hall on Friday March 20 with assistants T Adamowski L Adamowski and Zach.
A collage of late 19th century items: jokes about Italian ships, Irish and Boston quirks, a punch bowl gift to Senator Gorman, a new Dam Line steamship, Italian navy cautions, duels in New Jersey, a churchgoing Boston man’s cigar gag, mining ads, Hamilton College rustication, anecdote about Chicago’s ex-mayor Roche, a Crockett monument plan, Tony Pastor’s stage decorum, Columbia Mo marriage mutual aid club.
Personal items describe Antoinette Knaggs owning and managing a 200 acre Ohio farm. The piece also notes pianist Joseph Hofmann’s growth and "no awkward age" for genius, Amelie Rives-Chandler in San Remo enjoying health improving outfits, and William Bache, Benjamin Franklin’s great grandson, turning 80 and visiting the Ledger with his own obituary sketch.
Samuel Scribner of Brookline fell from a staging at the West End Street Railway power base in East Cambridge. He sustained a fractured skull and died at Massachusetts General Hospital about 1 p.m. yesterday.
Alice Mahone aged 41, of No 4 Lovett Place, leaped from a window while in a temporary mental disturbance yesterday afternoon and sustained serious injuries. She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.
A March South Middlesex Unitarian Club meeting at Young's Hotel drew 160 as Catholic priest Rev Bodfish and Unitarian Rev Hornbrooke debated if Catholicism threatens Republican institutions. They argued church education, public schools, and church-state relations, urging careful, historical consideration and mutual respect.
A midtown Libpies sale continued the Leftingwell autograph collection with small bidder turnout and high prices for items from Captain William Munson to Major André and Isaac Newton. Key results include a Munson letter at 450 dollars, Newton folio at 325, and numerous Revolutionary and colonial items selling from 16 to 136 dollars, reflecting strong interest in notable figures and events.
The Grand Opera House draws large crowds for Mr McKee Rankin in The Cantuck, praising Canadian rural life as a novelty. Lily Clay burlesque at Howard Atheneum remains popular. Aunt Jack at Globe Theatre features Joseph Haworth and Miss Ffollett Paget with a witty courtroom theme. Ship Ahoy introduces a pigeons release from Park Theatre with messages to Standard Theatre manager, timing, and possible record-breaking flight.
Wa. C. Winslow of Boston calls for a strong diocesan leader to fill the vacant episcopate. He urges a figure with power, magnanimity, and catholicity, capable of uniting schools of thought, administrative skill, and public leadership to guide the diocese from its Boston see. He cites Bishop Potter as a model and notes the diocese has waited since 1873 for such a leader.
Lazard Frères & Heidelbach and Ickelheimer & Co each take 500000 dollars in gold coins for shipment to Berlin today aboard the Havel. The coins are in eagles half eagles and double eagles.
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