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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1902
Page
5
Miss Wilen M. Stone the American missionary freed by brigands arrived en route to the United States. She recounts kindness from captors including food clothing and care for a baby born in captivity. The infant named Helen later called Kismet by the brigands and a loving brigand protected by the group.
Mr Devlin M P of Belfast Ireland visits Boston to organize United Irish League branches. He attends Gate of Heaven Church services and talks with Rev Father Johnson. A Gray's Hall meeting is planned with Gargan Riley and others to form a league branch and upcoming talks in Roxbury Brookline and American House.
New York March 30 Catholic pilgrimage plans to Rome for the pope’s jubilee are fixed. Priests of the Order of Mercy will lead three divisions sailing via Naples or England with total cost per pilgrim of 470 dollars. They will meet in Naples July 18, tour Vatican Louvre and Italian cities, with side trips to Lourdes Paris and Ireland options before returning.
Trenton March 30 The passage of a bill allowing United States Steel Corp to convert its preferred stock into bonds will cost New Jersey an annual revenue loss of 12 600. Corporations taxed on issued capital stock will not pay tax on the bond issue, resulting in the state losing 50 for each million of stock.
Manila authorities report ten new cholera cases and four deaths over the past three days, signaling a worsening outbreak in the city. Health officials urge vigilance and sanitation measures amid the rising toll.
The Easter Music and Flower Mission, active for over a decade, delivered flowers and music to patients at Boston City, Homeopathic, and St Elizabeths hospitals. Volunteers including Osian Mills and daughter Homer distributed flowers, sang carols, and read stories to sick children in Ward 6 and other wards while presenting Easter cards and musical performances. The effort drew support from many Boston citizens and featured performers from the Euterpe Club and local vocalists and string players.
Easter at the New England Conservatory of Music welcomed the return of Miss Sarah Perkins after a long illness. Students celebrated with a sunrise dance, special breakfast service, and a gala dinner supervised by Mr. Phillips. Miss Wheeler sang with violin obligato by Miss Zelezny as the hall filled with lilies and applause. Many students invited guests. others joined in morning church songs and Easter hospital work led by Mr. Mills.
The piece lists many society members and families visiting New York Washington and the South for Easter. It notes Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Jaynes of the Hotel Empire with daughter Mrs. Albert L Pope, broker Harry W W Hornblower and family, Mrs. Mark Hollingsworth, Mrs. Joshua Merrill Jr, Mrs. George Blake, Miss Katherine Fay, Ralph H White, H Staples Potter, Mrs. William G Titcomb, Mrs. Eben D Jordan, John Drew, and others. Some guests are at Lakewood New Jersey and Osterville Cape Seaport, with arrangements for theater rehearsals and Coronation ferie. It mentions the Vincent Club theatricals, the Cop ley Society presidency, and travels to Rome and Europe on holiday.
Easter week social life returns with many weddings and concerts. Notable events include the Cambridge nuptials of Alice Minot Russell and John William Wood Jr, plus multiple receptions, balls, and club concerts across Harvard circles. Thursday features the Thursday Morning Musical Club at Chickering Hall and a large Daughters of Massachusetts reception at the Brunswick.
An advertisement claims a stubborn cold or bronchitis yields more readily to Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil than to any other remedy. For persistent coughing at night, a dose is said to provide immediate relief, soothing the throat and bronchial tubes. Free sample offered by Scott & Bowne, chemists, 409 Pearl St. N.
The Bostonians will visit Boston for annual engagements at the Boston Theatre and Tremont Theatre. Mrs Fiske performs Nora in A Dolls House, Kirke La Shelle returns from London to stage Ari zona at Century Theatre, and Mrs Patrick Campbell’s jewel of a pearl ring is noted. Other acts include The Messenger Boy and The Girl From Paris with early Columbia Theatre dates.
Tonight at the Tremont Mrs Fiske opens a three week engagement with The Unwelcome Mrs Hatch The Boston Theatre showcases Quincy Adams Sawyer for its second week The Rays in A Hot Old Time return at Grand Opera House Bowdoin Square offers The King of the Cattle Ring Park Theatre adds Capo Fortune with novelty acts At the Columbia the second week of A Brace of Partridges begins with strong advance sales Chimes of Normandy with Gard as the miser plays at the Bijou Bostock's Animal Arena features newly hatched chickens Onslow trio and other acts headline Music Hall bill Oriential burlesquers Mar tinettis and more highlight Howard's Master Monday Ben Hur lion exhibit at Austin Stone's and a nickelodeon stunt with two fat women
The Handel and Haydn Society closed its season at Symphony Hall with Haydn's The Creation, led by soloists Mrs Ama Juch Gertrude Miller Ben Davies and Joseph Baernstein. Baernstein drew prolonged applause as the chorus and conductor Mollenhauer delivered refined phrasing and strong ensemble work.
Arrangements are complete for the second annual ball of St Catherine's T A Society of Charlestown to be held in Roughan Hall. Delegations from neighboring social and total abstinence societies plan to attend the grand march featuring new designs. The ladies auxiliary has formed a committee to aid the main organizers.
A refined crowd gathered for Handel and Haydn Society’s performance of The Creation at Symphony Hall last evening. Notable attendees included Pierson Beebe, A Haskell, J J Grace, Henry Austin Clapp, Benjamin L Whelpley, Fred Field Bullard, Edward EB Rige, Thomas L Frothingham, Maurice H Richardson, Marion Parker, Timothee Adamowski, Augusto Rotoll, Clarence Jones and others. Soloist Miss Gertrude Miller wore white crepe de chine with cream lace and pink bow while Mme. Emma Juch appeared in white lace over satin with pink rosebuds and a pink rose chaplet dégust.
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