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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1895
Page
5
In New York Gotham courts debate if bronze paint covers the nude form at the Casino. Judge Simms, a young jurist, calls the statues art rather than a moral danger while artist J. G. Brown and manager Aronson defend the bronze figures as faithful sculptures.
Bessie Stanton guards a bronze statue as old Justice Simms declines posing in the casino over concerns the scene could be deemed suggestive. The exchange highlights social mores facing visual art in public spaces.
The Casino display featuring bronze painted models faces charges of outraging public decency with Miss Bessie Stanton Perham Nahle and Professor Otto Kahler among the figures. Detective sergeants Titus and Rogers witnessed the exhibit describing a form clad only in trunks-like paint. Artists including William M. Chase testified the works were pure bronze art not indecent, while manager Von Preitwitz Palm argued the figures were less suggestive than living pictures.
Pedestrians crowded the sidewalk in front of Shepard, Norwell & Co on Winter Street Tuesday as a flower window display drew an estimated six thousand visitors. Orchids, crocuses, azaleas, violets, lilies and roses framed by moss-green velvet filled the scene, with wax models and intricate costumes. The store also showcased new upholstery and foreign silk displays, plus gowns and Plisse silk bodices. A Monday curtain-raiser promises a sensational scene next week.
Elias J. Hale of Dover, a wealthy Maine citizen and influential figure, shot himself in Dexter on March 28 around 2 PM. He prepared his accounts and sent for an undertaker after a business call, and was found dead in his office with a gunshot wound. Hale was 76, long prominent in politics and finance.
Over the past thirty years he served as judge of probate for Piscataquis County. No cause of death given. He leaves a wife and an adopted daughter.
Dr Orrin Fitzgerald of Boston, staying with his parents in Dexter, issues a long statement denying recent newspaper charges about an attempted suicide. He says the chloroform taken on the train was for pain relief and notes a long history of stomach trouble. He plans to return to Boston next week.
Trustees elected Francis H. Appleton of Peabody as president to fill the vacancy from Daniel Needham's death. Appleton is known in agricultural circles and has long served as secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. The society voted to hold its next fair at Rigby Park in Portland, Maine.
Insolvency Court actions begun yesterday against Willard K Dyer son of Mrs Micah Dyer for failure to pay a 1500 note dated June 18 1894 due February 18 The petition was filed by Lemuel E Demelman of 113 Devonshire Street and the case will be heard soon
At a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday afternoon the nomination of Francis Gaskill to the bench of the Superior Court was confirmed and he appeared to qualify for the office.
Boston audience greeted Beerbohm Tree in Hamlet at the Tremont Theatre with curiosity. Critics noted strong Ophelia scenes and a few effective passages but called the overall portrayal unfinished and sometimes declamatory.
Scott Foster, president of the People's Bank, was attacked by his brother William H. Foster at Grand street and South Fifth avenue. He suffered a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder, and a fractured skull. A policeman witnessed the incident and arrested William H. Foster, who was arraigned before Police Justice Simms and remanded until tomorrow.
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