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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1893
Page
4
Artists in Paris scramble to complete works for the Spring Exhibition as a “Picture Morgue” debate centers on a Meissonier collection. The effort highlights the dense activity around previews, loans, and display plans in advance of the Salon.
Special Paris correspondence notes the upcoming spring salon as painters rush to exhibit. Meissonier receives praise while Dumas reframes his image. Zola and Loti draw attention amid Bourget’s evolving Cosmopolis fame, with Emile Zola waiting on the sidelines as the era shifts.
The Lake Shore engineers and the Ann Arbor Company injunction cases move toward joint decisions by Judge Taft and Judge Ricks, to be issued by Monday. Grand Chief Arthur testified, detailing membership rules and restrictions of the brotherhood, including racial limits, with defense citing federal provisions for labor organizations.
Theatre news praises Charles H. Hoyt for A Temperance Town in its seventeenth week at Park Theatre with strong audience demand. Legislation in New Hampshire received thanks from lawmakers after the show’s pointed lines, boosting Hoyt’s reputation and a Boston run of twenty weeks next season. Also scheduled: Yon Yonson at Bowdoin Square with Heege and Osbourne, plus other engagements at Tremont and Columbia venues, as well as The Isle of Cham pagne at the Columbia with lavish production credits featuring King Pommery.
The City Council inquiry into fires and fire dept efficiency continued with comments from Charles Wise of Hollis and Wise and others. Wise urged more engines, a new fire boat, underground wires, and closer building inspections to curb blazes, while officials and property owners debated city building laws and department leadership. The session adjourned to today at 2 PM.
Readers are urged to send notices of forthcoming events in all city sections. Wednesday March 29 includes a wedding Gertrude M Wilson and William H Sanborn at Mrs Bates Alston. a Casino literary entertainment at Bea consfield terrace. a dance at Humboldt Club Fauntleroy Hall. Browning entertainment for Smith College Alumnae Fund at Miss Rankin 290 Commonwealth Ave. a German program by Miss Calder of Dorchester at Hendries Hall. At Home for Mr Charles S Andrews and Mrs Andrews at 460 West Chester Park. Unity Players Club amateur theatricals Dickens Cricket on the Hearth at Town Hall Winthrop.
Mrs Mary Sargent Hopkins the bicyclist will lecture tonight at Perkins Hall on Women on the Wheel under W F E LA. Mrs John W Mackay and her son have left England for America. Mrs Jokichi Takamine, once Miss Hitch of New Orleans, married into Japanese aristocracy. Mrs W H Smith edits the Japan Gazette. Mrs Dangerfield of Auburn leads a law class at NYU with eighty six members, eighty three men. Queen Victoria paid 2000 guineas for Lacy Butler’s The Roll Call displayed at Osborne. Russia to employ 20 percent of railway workers including women. clerical work likely.
Mrs J L Thayer and the Misses Simpkins travel from this city to New York to obtain costumes for the coming artists fancy dress festival at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Several New Yorkers will view the tableaux vivants at Madison Square Assembly Rooms on April 3 in aid of the Society of Decorative Art, awaiting which city will prove more artistic.
A fragment notes that Boston’s beauties rival New York’s and that even a child has learned which city leads in culture. The terse remark underscores regional prestige and public perception without specifics.
Women in Oak Park Illinois celebrate a surprise victory electing two of three school board members. They held secret pre conventions while men predicted ballot stuffing yet the women's candidates won, reshaping local politics and widening the gender role in the town.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe recalls the Countess of Aberdeen inviting her to a political meeting at Westminster. An elegant carriage ferried them to a dissenting chapel crowded with workingmen who cheered Lady Aberdeen with lively noises. Howe notes the rough audience despite her US speaking history.
A winter reception hosted by a famed New York literary woman introduced Mary S. Wilkins and F. Marion Crawford for the first time. Crawford, asked about Wilkins's work, admitted he was unaware of her writings, prompting reflection on whether he knows his aunt Julia Ward Howe.
The text critiques public congratulations on a woman’s engagement, arguing that polite wishes should be directed to the couple’s mutual happiness rather than personal praise for the woman. It reflects social etiquette norms about remarriage and propriety in announcements.
Kate wonders about aging and asks Polly if she looks old. Polly reassures her, noting that Kate’s women friends say she is looking younger every day, a remark captured in a Pittsburg Bulletin item.
United States steamer Alliance arrives from Samoa via Honolulu in eleven days. Hawaii’s provisional government sees annexation as the path forward. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani remains secluded while Princess Kaiulani’s status draws amusement. Paul Neuman’s State Department paper on the revolution attracts critical comment.
Obituaries list numerous local residents with ages and death dates from March. Notables include Serena L Downing 70, Merle A Foss, Paul Gates 76, John H Griffith 27, Charles M Leland 71, Catherine McCauley 63, Walter Stackford 22, Catharine Saunders 42, Lucinda Stone 73, Eliza Tarbox 66, and Hannah Trall 72, among others. Additional entries note deaths in Ashmont Ashby East Boston Chelsea Melrose Malden Peabody and Plymouth, with military veteran Elzaphon A Ravel 62 and other city residents.
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