Massachusetts to erect Bartlett statue at State House grounds
The Massachusetts House votes to honor Maj. Gen. William F Bartlett with a $20,000 statue on the State House grounds. The tribute follows eloquent remarks by Sleeper, Callender, and Luce as Casey of Lee is publicly moved. Bartlett rose from captain at 21 to major general, surviving Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Spottsylvania, and Gettysburg era battles.
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Massachusetts House of Representatives
Bay State
William Franklin Bartlett
State House
Messrs. Sleeper
Winthrop
Callender
Boston
Luce
Somerville
Sleeper
Casey
Lee
Bartlett
Harvard
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court
Ball’s Bluff
Yorktown
Port Hudson
Forty-ninth
Grant
Spottsylvania
Fifty-Seventh
Infield Scott Hancock
John Ei. Cesey
Petersburg
Danville
N. C
Ninth Army Corps
Europe
Pittsfield
Rail lines promote tourist sleepers Chicago to California
Chicago Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railways run through the area offering daily tourist sleepers from Chicago to California. On Tuesdays until April they sell colonist tickets for very low rates from Boston. For tickets and information call or write Northwestern Line 38 Washington Street.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Railways
Chicago Toalifornia
Corres i Y
Boston
Northwestern
Washington Street
Nine jurors May Approve Civil Verdicts Senate Bill
In the Senate Manning of Worcester urged a constitutional amend ment to allow nine jurors to reach civil verdicts reversing the current unanimous rule. Attwill of Essex opposed citing lack of demand and risk of more nonfinal rulings. Sullivan, Shaw, and Chamberlain supported. Post and Fitzgerald opposed. The measure passed to a third reading 18 to 8. A street railway bill would let railway companies carry United States mail and newspapers as common carriers subject to city ordinances and general laws.
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Senate
Manning
Worcester
Attwill
Essex
Messrs
Sullivan and Shaw
Suffolk
Chamberlain
Plymouth
Messrs. Post
Berkshire
Fitzgerald
Committee On Street Railways
United States
Boston Law Dismisses Eight Hour Bill Challenge
In the House Mr Harrington of Boston opposed rejecting the bill that would fine any department head $1000 for forcing workers to break the eight hour law for municipal employees. He said Boston’s eight hour law is violated with impunity. Mr Healey of Boston said the ferry department openly violates it. Mr Hull of Millbury defended the report as the vote stood 64 to 3 percent. The bill was rejected.
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Harrington
Boston
Healey
Hull
Millbury
Bill Makes It a Crime to Knock Over Stone Walls
The bill makes it a criminal offence to topple a stone wall whether by accident or while chasing game. A fine of $10 is set for each offence. The measure passed the House 73 to 47 amid laughter from some members.
Subways in Boston debated as committee hears final arguments
The metropolitan affairs committee heard final arguments on subway bills in Boston. Dr. Morton Prince proposed an amendment on subway use and elevated construction with Transit Commission approval. Fox backed Harding bill to minimize city debt. Pillsbury warned company stance depends on later developments.
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Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Boston
Matthews
Morton Prince
Transit Commissioners
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Transit Commission
Fox
A. E. Pillsbury
Remarkable Crippled Child Endowed by Lawson at Industrial School
K Frank Gardella, a standout student at the Industrial School for Crippled Children endowed by Mr. Lawson, is pictured writing with his feet. Born without arms, he benefits from Lawson’s gift to the West End Nursery prize babies program where an incubator aided his career.
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West End
Lawson
Kfrank Gardella
Industrial School For Crippled Children
Davenport Elected Secretary of Metropolitan Board
The Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board selects Hon. W. N. Davenport of Marlboro as secretary. Officials and clerks of both metro boards will stay in place until reorganization is finished.
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Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
W. N. Davenport
Marlboro
Metropolitan Water Board
Metropolitan Boards
Water and Sewerage
East Boston Club Honors Samuel B. Franzburn with Gold Watch
Samuel B. Franzburn, noted in East Boston social circles, received a gold watch and chain from the Young Ladies' Violet Social Club at the club headquarters, 3 Union Place. Miss Ida Goldstein gave the presentation address, followed by a collation and vocal selections by Misses Dora Silverman, Rose Miller, and Annie Skelskie.
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Samuel B. Franzburn
East Boston
Young Ladies’ Violet Social Club
Union Place
Ida Goldstein
Dora Silverman
Rose Miller
Annie Skelskie
Charity gifts from Lawson aid crippled and infant care
Checks for 5000 dollars each were sent by Thomas W. Lawson to the Industrial School for Cripples and the West End Nursery and Infants' Hospital. The latter treats infants under two, runs a nurse training program, and seeks a new building funded by Lawson's gift and a growing permanent fund.
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Boralma
Lawson
Industrial School For Crippled Children
Newbury Street
West End
Blossom Street
Thomas W. Lawson
Mr. Lawson
Post
The
Industrial School For Cripples
Lapwaon
Miss Perry
Beihe Te Mtar
Frank Gardella
Boot and Shoe Union Flourishing and Fund Highlights
The Boot and Shoe Workers Union reports strong growth with 56 new locals added in the past year. Membership surged 300 percent, $14,201.11 was added to the sick fund, $17,187.87 to the strike fund, and total benefaction reached $31,388.98. Advertising of the union stamp expanded to about 20,000 spent and many new firms issued stamps.
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Boot and Shoe Union
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
Albany Building
Chicago
Cincinnati
Bocheater
Syracuse
Brockton
Hirsch Club Plans May Party
The Hirsch Social Club announces a May gathering with likely informal activities attended by members from the community. Details remain unclear in the fragment, but organizers indicate a social event to be held indoors at a local venue.
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Hirsch Club
The
Hirsch Social Club
Mast Bos- Gee Cae
Renovations Redesign Young's Hotel First Floor
Major alterations ongoing for over a month at Young's Hotel aim to reconfigure the first floor. Plans show a new ladies reception room, relocated bar, expanded main office, moved barber shop, and cafe conversion, with two additional elevators and extensive marble and oak finishes. Completion expected around July 1 with full electrical and telephone rewiring.
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Young's Hotel
Court Square
Legislature debates sending Massachusetts to Pan American Exposition
A House bill seeks a 5000 appropriation to send 42 state officials and lawmakers to Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition. Four of eleven committee members oppose the trip, while supporters argue it would honor the state and avoid discourtesy to the Empire State.
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Buffalo
Committee On Federal Relations
House
Massachusetts
Senate
Committee On
Federal Relations
Huntress
Somerville
Mead
Everett
Twombly
Winchester
O’brien
Abington
Codman
Boston
Sparks
Lowell
Salter
Lynn
Hancock
Brockton
Boylston
Fenton
Briggs
Taunton
Dewey
Westfield
70 Cent Gas for Boston Prompts Hearing
At a manufactures committee hearing Frank J. Horgan urged passage of 70 cent gas for Boston arguing that promises of 50 cent gas in 1896 were broken and that the Massachusetts Pipe Line franchise supported high gas company capitalization with poor service. He predicted a larger turnout at a future public meeting and a possible April 2 additional hearing.
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Boston
Committee On Manufactures
Frank J. Horgan
Whitney
Massachusetts
New England
United States
Organ
Horgan
Quincy Goes Abroad on Majestic to Liverpool
The White Star steamer Majestic departed New York for Liverpool with a near full saloon list including Hon Josiah Quincy Captain H Lem ley A A Mr Francis Hubbard Sir John Lister-Kaye Hon C M Stafford Northcote Charles Scribner Miss Queenie Vassar and Professor Hugo Becker. Mr Quincy sails to advance his inventions with abroad interests.
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Majestic
New York
Liverpool
Josiah Quincy
H. BR. Lemley
Francis 8. Hubbard
John Lister-Kaye
C. M. Stafford Northcote
Charles Scribner
Queenie Vassar
Hugo Becker
Quincy
Boston Theatre Scene Heats Up With Star Logs and New Arrivals
William Gillette wraps up a Boston run at Hollis Street Theatre with three more shows, as John Drew and Richard Carvel bring Winston Churchill’s colonial romance to town next week under Charles Frohman. The era’s touring acts include Mrs. LeMoyne in She Greatest Thing in the World and Primrose and Dockstader’s minstrel show, while Ben Hur draws Manchester visitors to the Colonial Theatre. (continues with: Dainty Hattie Williams, A Guilty Mother at Grand Opera House, Shenandoah planning, Rory of the Hills closing Bowdoin Square, Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Monday, vaudeville sensations at Columbia, Sidmans touring, Keith’s Real Life sketch, Bessie Lamb vaudeville, Treland as It Is last days, Musice Hall sketch, Cingalese dancers retained, and Cartoon Musee mentions.)
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William Gillette
Hollis Street Theatre
Boston
John Drew
Richard Carvel
Winston Churchill
Charles Frohman
Empire Theatre
New York
Drew
Mr. Mann
Miss Lipmen
Primrose
Dockstader
Manchester
N. H
Dainty Hattie Williams
Park Theatre
Praeline
Grand Opera House
Bowdoin Square
Rory of
Coen
Bessie Lamb
the Howard
Treland
Grand Theatre
Filson
Errol
Music Hall
den Musee
Chamber of Horrors
Austin & Stone’s
Ward 22 Seeks Playground Hearings On Petitions
Ward 22 park commissioners plan a hearing on petitions from Representative John Steller Alterman Gerry and 16 others plus 487 Ward 22 schoolboys for a nearby playground. Hearing set for Tuesday March 29 at 3 PM at 4 Wember ton square.
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Posten Park
John Steller
Alterman Gerry
Wemberton Square
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Primrose & Rose & Dockstader
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George W. Magee
Tremont
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Isaac B. Rich
William Cillette
Sherlock Holmes
Tlobrblodeoni
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Hazard
Monster Creole Convention Theatre
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Chee
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Eve
Mats
Sarah Cowell
F Movne
Henrietta Crosman
Nell
Samuel D. Parker
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Lipman
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Maxim
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Qreat CO
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Rory OF the Hills
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Avon Street
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