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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1893
Page
2
An interview reveals few inside details on a proposed combine in the sole leather trade. A named insider dismisses stock plans under New Jersey law, estimates capitalization near 850 million, and says seven eighths of local leather men will join while others stay out to run their own tanneries and benefit from the market.
The Back Bay dumps nuisance drew attention at a joint committee session in City Hall. Colonel Morse described the dumps as 15 percent burnable material with 800 000 tons of ashes yearly, much within city limits, and urged sanitary disposal by cremation to reduce odors. Dr. Durgin noted presrecible waste needs better handling than current offal collection. Board of Health powerless to act on complaints.
The First Universalist Church of Cambridgeport celebrated paying off its $7500 mortgage with a parish supper attended by nearly four hundred. Pastor Rev. George W. Bicknell led the event, noting plans for the coming year as former pastor Rev. C. A. Skinner and others spoke. The church, about 75 years old, is debt free with property valued at $55,000.
Neponset resident Charles Horn testified that the Tremont Tremple fire began hours before discovery, noting a very warm passage and hot plaster near the Meloia. He initially blamed a nearby boiler, but Assistant Chief Reagan’s opinion later supported the likelihood of a fire between the wall, suggesting the blaze smoldered before ignition.
John Culbertson supreme chancellor of the Order of Commercial Telegraphers of the United States and Canada arrives from Chicago to confer with President Eckert about relations between the company and its operators. Eckert has refused to meet or recognize the order as Western Union officials take calmly the report of an impending strike by its employees.
The Senate debated a ten hours in twelve work day bill for street railway workers, amending it to exclude employees under written contracts. The Boston & Maine and Concord & Montreal stock purchase bill was engrossed with added rule approvals. Committees reported on fire safety in buildings and federal relations for a government telegraph service. An agenda item sought highway improvements and aid for towns. An amendment to appoint state officials by governor and counsel was reported, and a bill to group Australian ballots by party was rejected.
City Council committee probing management and efficiency of the Boston fire department continued the hearing at City Hall. Fire Commissioner Fitch and tire commissioner Innes testified on badges, duties, horses, apparatus, and inspections, with adjournment set for 2 PM today.
The Court of Arbitration for Great Britain and the United States met in Paris at the French foreign ministry with all members present. Delegates include Harland Morgan for the U.S. and Courcelles Grama Venosta Venosta for France Italy Sweden plus Hannen Thompson for England. Agents Phelps Carter Blodgett and Lansing attended for the United States with British agents Tupper. Develle welcomed the court. The session was formal. Barber de Courcelles elected president and meetings set for 11:30 a.m. daily through April 4 to review arguments. The court will conduct debates in English, journal in French with an English version. All members visited President Carnot and were welcomed as foreign dignitaries.
Dr. Alexander Walter, a Russian practitioner, left Hew Haven in a hurried manner amid cholera panic and prior lawsuits. He faced suits for carbolic acid overdosage and aggravated assault on a servant girl, with a $1500 bond posted in civil actions. He claims to have served the Czar and advertises an extensive list of titles before relocating to Providence.
Great Barrington on March 25 reports Mrs FE J Miller, owner of the Miller house, offers to donate a town lot for a library building if she can occupy the top story for life, or sell it for half its appraised value.
In this city on March 19 the Reverend Adolf Biewend officiated the rites for Diedrich Voss and Janihe Auerbach whose deaths are noted in the notice.
Death notices list Isaac R Atwood 75 Brainerd Sarah A Brainerd 60 Briggs Josiah A Briggus 20 Bent Elijah Bent 638 L0 Brooks Lucey A daughter of George H Brooks Clayborn Sarah Lucinda wife of James M Clayborn 42 Maria Franklin widow of Charles Russell Pegen Margaret Gilbert 6 Susan Hobart wife of Eliab Latham 7 James L Lancaster former Boston Albert W Nelson 25 Charles M Paine 80 Sarah Ann Saunders 65 George Cheyne Shattuck M D 79 Gretchen M Talbot 1 Mary YP Tamplin widow of James B Tamplin Lillie Knowles Wilmarth Rufus Wilmarth L Wood 23
Names listed include George Kent and Mary Keating, William McCloud and Mary McKay, Walter Burrill and Mary Riley, Owen Tierney and Mary Hudson, John Foley and Catherine Madden, James Fitzgerald and Catherine Naughton, Richard Koett and Maria Stieninzer, James Brown and Margaret Dunne.
A new claimant to a share of the Bean Batts $2,000,000 is A W Hayward of Malden Massachusetts. He alleges his mother was Morrell Bean's sister and says Morrell later used the surname Phones in Texas. Hayward sources his claim through family letters and kin in Texas and Massachusetts.
Four warrants rest on Daniel Minahan of South Boston alias James Sullivan aged about twenty, arrested by Patrolman Harris for alleged shoe thefts from an express wagon. Two warrants are held by Officer Kenefiek. A pursuit last June left Kenefiek injured after leaping from a window. Minahan fled, with a claimed October theft from Boston and Maine railroad.
A historical ad style note extols Spring Medicine as essential for purifying blood and cleansing winter impurities to restore overall health in preparation for summer, claiming universal satisfaction with its use.
Speyer and Co of New York consider criminal action against Reading president and receiver McLeod for alleged misrepresentation during an $8 million loan. Bankers reportedly refuse to back a 4 percent extension of the $2.7 million second mortgage bonds due October, citing the company's insolvency. Speyer men express satisfaction with their collateral in the $8 million loan, making further legal action unlikely.
An advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla is the most successful and popular Spring Medicine to restore strength when feeling weak and tired, promising renewed energy and overall wellness.
List of marriages reported to the city registrar with dates and officiants. John H Hosterman and Mary A St John wed March 17 by Rev E W W Darst. Richard Ulvadahl and Emma Harson wed March 16 by J P F W Hagar.
Washington reports that the First National Bank of Ashburnham Massachusetts has had its corporate existence extended to April 11 1913.
Twenty five delegates from as many organizations attended the Massachusetts State Board of Trade session at the Revere House. President Charles R. Adams presided. The Cambridge Citizens Association joined as a member amid protests and resolutions on railroad and street railway legislation and stock watering safeguards.
A heated Board of Police hearing reviewed clashes between firemen and police over an incident at the Lincoln street fire. Complainants William S. Field and Willian Ryan accuse Patrolman Frederick C. Stall of Station 6 of assault and blocking fire line access. Police and fire witnesses gave conflicting accounts as the board studies veracity and weighs who was truthful.
Boston and Maine has contracted to install pneumatic interlocking and block signal systems in the yards of the new union station on Causeway street and at Prison Point Charlestown. A single operator will control all tracks and switches from a well placed tower using levers to open and close electric circuits. Compressed air moves the switches via valve control.
Nathan D. Allen of Springfield has been tendered the position of inspector of the State Prison. He has served fifteen years as deputy sheriff of Franklin county and nine years as jailer and master of the House of Correction for Franklin county.
The article lampoons Collector Alanson W. Beard for posing as a civil service reformer at the Boston Custom House. It details changes in classified and unclassified staffing from 1890 to 1893, noting vacancies, reinstatements, and salary figures while asserting Beard’s motives and the era’s civil service context.
The United States sues Fred Williams of South Boston in the circuit court to recover 101 dollars for duties on five bushels of potatoes imported in November. The total duty was 851 dollars, Williams paid 250 dollars and refuses further payment. Williams’s property up to 100 dollars may be attached to cover costs.
A fine programme was presented last night at the grand concert at Columbus Avenue Presbyterian Church. The program featured John Thomas humorist Annie McNissick a soprano W Downing tenor E L Hathway contralto John di Thomas bass Professor Gerard Russo harp solo Minnie Ford pianist J H Mipley organist and accompanist and J B Campbell as accompanist.
A last evening entertainment at 004 Washington Street by the Fusilier Veteran Association featured a minstrel act that drew loud laughter. The finale titled a punk?bmit ran from 1861 to 1893, followed by a hat trimming contest among company members.
A regular Society of Arts gathering met last evening in Room 22 Walker building with a sizable audience. The discussion topic was The Action of Compound Dynamos When Run in Parallel. Mr. W L Pulsifer of the Institute of Technology rendered an able presentation.
The John Brown bell of Harper's Ferry fame will be dedicated by Post 43 G A R on March 28 with a camp fire and banquet featuring speeches by prominent G A R men.
In Austerlitz MicH a local town paper extols Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. Citizens Mr. Thomas Carson W. Warner and Mrs. Mary J. Warner praise its cure for liver disease nervousness insomnia and faint spells. The ad promotes a spring vegetable remedy from Dr. Greene of Boston with free consultations.
The Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society elects E. K. Rand G. R. Noyes H. C. Lakin R. K. Shaw G. C. Fiske H. C. Wellman J. R. Oliver M. M. Skinner as the first eight from 1894. Additional 93 members include I. W. Dallinger H. O. Marey H. N. Berry and others with 1898 cohort Cornelius Townsend toasts. Rand is orator and Oliver poet.
George W. Smith, a Malden bookkeeper for E. E. Lock, was arrested in Colorado Springs on embezzlement charges. He left with about 800 in cash and checks, did not return, sent a Boston postmarked letter with the checks, and confessed after arrest.
Margaret Flaherty aged 16 of South Boston was caught in Butler's store during the fire sale by Inspector Knox. She admitted the thefts, tossing a pocket-book. another was found on her. Owners are sought at headquarters.
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