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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1887

Page

3

The New Steel Sloop and Thistle Centreboard Mystery

The article details the spar plan for a new steel sloop with measurements for mast boom and spars, notes on East Boston builders, and references to the Mayflower comparison. It covers regatta plans, prize classes, and entry details for the South Boston Yacht Club Decoration Day event. It also reports Lt Henn suggesting the Thistle may have a centreboard and recounts Boston’s baseball results against Washingtons.

Messrs. H Pigeon New York Yacht Club South Boston Yacht Club South Boston G. F. Clark Boston Yacht Agency Milk Street Boston New York Clyde Henn Jones William Bell Watson Syndiite

Stolen bases and scores from Sunday baseball games

Time 2 hours 30 minutes Umpire Weeden. At Philadelphia Philadelphias 15 New Yorks. At Pittsburg Pittsburgs 6 Chicagos 2. At Indianapolis Detroits 15 Indianapolis 12. At New York Harvards 12 Columbias 0. At Princeton Yates 2 Princetons 1. At Lynn Lynns 23 Salems 3. At Lowell Manchesters 14 Lowells 11. At Lawrence Lawrences 18 Haverhills 1. Sunday games At St Louis St Louis 14 Clevelands 13. At Louisville Louisvilles 3 Cincinnatis 4.

Pittsburg Pittsburgs Chicagos Indianapolis Detroits New York Harvards Columbias Princeton Yates Princetons Lynn Lynns Salems Lowell Manchesters Lowells Lawrence Lawrences Haverhills St. Louis Clevelands Louisville Louisvilles Cincinnatis

New England Amateur Rowing Seeks 500 for June 17 Regatta

The New England Amateur Rowing Association plans a June 17 regatta on the Mystic River and hopes the Bunker Hill committee will allocate 500 from the 3000 for prizes. Last year the national regatta drew 10 000 spectators on the Charles River and the local event could attract 15 000. Also reported are Longwood and Harvard cricket, with Brown’s team winning 93 to 53, and Harvard lacrosse beating Cambridge 8 to 1 with bbot, 87, as referee.

New England Amateur Rowing Association Bunker Hill Mystic Charles River Longwood Harvard Messrs R. D. Brown Harvards C. Pickering Longwoods Brown Ellis Clark Dutton Hubbard Barney Prince Cambridge Bbot

Jumbo the Elephant's American Arrival Remembered in Circus History

A reminiscence recalls how Barnum Bailey and Hutchinson secured Jumbo the elephant from London. Warner’s Europe search leads to a £2000 sale offer, bipartisan backing from rivals, and a sensational British uproar over shipping the famed beast to the United States. Jumbo’s arrival sparks massive public excitement and boosts profits for the firm.

N. ¥. Times Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson Grand Trunk Railway Company Jumbo Warner Europe St. Petersburg Jo-Jo Bond Street Bailey London Zoo Eddie Mr. Mott Barnum Forepaugh Hutchinson Davis Newman America London Great Britain British Museum St. Paul’s Alice Shakspere Stratford-on-Avon New York-on-Hudson Victoria United Kingdom Cables United States

South Boston Iron Works Produces Eight Inch Projectiles

The South Boston Iron Works manufactures projectiles for eight inch rifles for the U S government. About 300 projectiles are turned out weekly to fill an order of 6000. Sabots are cast in house and attached to the projectiles before shipment to the New York arsenal. Additional government work includes a twelve inch breech loading mortar body cast iron on Rodman system, reinforced with steel hoops, expected to finish in about two months at a cost around 14000. The firm also makes eight inch muzzle loading projectiles after the Butler pattern for the Navy Department.

South Boston Rodman Manu- Soca Navy Department Hooksett Pittsfield Concord Gilmanton Alton Bay Boston & Maine Montreal Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada Trunk Line Association Washington Gloucester Street Railway Company Salem Gloucester American Loan and Trust Company New York City & Northern St. Paul Pioneer Press Chicago & Eastern Illinois Chicago & Northwestern Omaha Illinois Summit Branch Louisville Evansville & St. Louis New York Board Northern Pacific Railroad Reading and Coal and Iron Companies St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Oregon Railway and Navigation Company St. Louis San Francisco Oppenheim Metropolitan Trust Company

Teaching and Preaching at SATURDAY CLUBS dinner

Saturday Club gatherings feature talks on teaching and preaching with remarks by Phillips Brooks. Discussion centers on the unity and tension between church and school, the role of character in education, and the need for cooperation with other professions.

Bird Massachusetts Boston New England Literary Liberal Union Schoolmasters F. W. Bird Claflin V. Whitten John L. Stevenson Oliver Wendell Holmes F. E. Abbott Daniel B. Hagar Salem E. A. Sawtell John Wilson Cambridge University Press George William Curtis New York William Lloyd Garrison David H. Clark Schoolmasters’ Club Phillips Brooks Dean Stanley Arnold Ezekiel Cheever Pie Sigismund George Herbert Brooks Aoe Bgyden Bridgewater Normal School ST. Talbot John O, Norrs Charlestown High School S.J. W. Bradbury Normal School C. Rounds Plymouth Normal School

New England Breeders to Stage Three Day Mystic Park Meet

The New England Breeders Association selects the last week of September for its first meeting at Mystic Park with a concurrent horse show for New England horses. The three day event Wednesday to Friday will feature no prizes, stalls will be expanded, and prominent stallion owners expect three to ten horses per exhibitor. Exhibits will focus on style and conformation rather than time tests while the public judges sires and progeny on track.

New England Alcantara Alcoyne Viking ABC Pathfinder Northern Pacific Green Bay Winona & St. Paul Indiana, Bloomington & Western Waterbury Conn Meriden & Cromwell Meriden Railroad Company Wheers New York Naugatuck New York, Neweres & Hartford Connecticut

Fitchburg Consolidation Examined At Special Stockholders Meeting

A special Fitchburg Railroad stockholders meeting at Causeway street discussed ratifying the consolidation with the Troy and Boston Railroad. President Phillips chaired, George A. Torrey read the agreement, and earnings of the Troy and Boston line were cited as $475,000 last year. Polls were kept open until Monday at 11 30 a m.

Fitchburg Fitchburg Railroad Company Causeway Street Troy & Boston Railroad Company Phillips Whittemore George A. Torrey

Railways and Monopolies Loom in N H and Nationwide

Editorial warns Concord that a giant $60 million rail merger could swallow New Hampshire lines, with a $5 million buyout lure for the Concord railroad. Reports from New York outline trunk lines boycotting Western roads, while Jay Gould builds an industrial town near Carondelet Park. Other items note track construction, appointments, earnings, and mortgage filings across multiple rail firms, with Concord’s Suncook Valley extension and Grand Trunk talks also in view.

New York Pennsylvania Railroad Company Chicago St. Louis Western Roads Pennsylvania Railroad Western Railroads Western Pennsylvania Road Pennsylvania New York Central Erie Baltimore & Ohio Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Interstate Commission

A Reminiscence of John Randolph and Rhode Island

B P Shillaker writes of a Rhode Island reminiscence linking John Randolph of Virginia to the North’s industry. The piece recalls Randolph’s clashes with Tristam Burgess and others, including a famed burst when Livermore began a reply by invoking “the gentleman from Rhode Island,” provoking Randolph to flee in laughter.

B. P. Shillaker Rhode Island Lowell Manchester John Randolph Virginia Tristam Burgess Randolph Burgess John Holmes Maine Livermore New Hampshire North Vermont Judge Livermore

Weekly mortality report shows 191 deaths in past week

The board of health reports 191 deaths this week versus 156 last year. Of the deaths 102 were male and 186 white, with 112 born in the United States and 44 of American parentage. Diphtheria and scarlet fever led infectious deaths, measles high in cases, and 9 deaths from violent causes.

Board of Health United States

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