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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1887
Page
4
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The Irish leader Parnell remains a topic of debate as to his health, with uncertainty over details and successors like Justin McCarthy. In Washington, the Garfield statue unveiling nears, as ex-Speaker Kerr delivers a controversial oration and the committee plans a artillery salvo to punctuate the event. General Sheridan and President Cleveland will speak briefly, Keifer facing the challenge to address amid a four gun battery close by.
The Interior Secretary asks the Supreme Court to rehear the Maxwel land grant dispute, contending the government’s case was inadequately presented as the original 96 000 acre grant was expanded to 1 714 764 acres. The piece also notes political spats between Governor Hunt and the New York Legislature over a proposed constitutional convention and the governor’s veto, viewed as a moral and political win.
The New York Tribune rebuts the Post by arguing the administration did not revert to treaty provisions. It asserts the President in December 1885 urged Congress to create a U S Britain international commission to settle fishing rights on North American coasts, not revive the Washington treaty.
The State House hearings on constitutional prohibition begin today as the Prohibitionists push for a people’s vote. Mass abstinence society plans strong attendance to demand the amendment’s submission, warning that failure could unsettle party loyalties and political drift.
A committee hears H H Sprague unveil a refined expansion plan for the State House. It preserves the existing façade while extending rearward across Mt Vernon Street via a connecting bridge to a new structure. The scheme includes interior modernization and uses the old reservoir lot transfer to facilitate a northern Derne street frontage for future growth.
The Epoch installments by women with field experience examine women wage earners excluding domestic servants. They present a pessimistic view of the typical worker as untrained and lacking ambition, contrasting with expectations of broad female entry into labor. The opening essay cites lack of training and incompetence as key reasons for limited success.
The Epoch writers discuss American women workers facing low pay and poor conditions. They cite unskilled sewing labor, scarce wages, and reliance on husbands or marriage, with unions like the Working Women's Protective Union reporting hundreds of fraud cases and wage recoveries.
The Spectator praises American short stories as superior to English work for high artistic quality. It notes how American writers like Hawthorne and Poe stand out, with many American authors producing brief, original tales. The piece contrasts American abundance with English limitations and cites Harper's Monthly example How Faith Came and Went.
The essay argues the story and the novel serve different ends with distinct methods. It notes American storytelling’s strength while urging caution not to overvalue the form. It ends with a Boston note defending the National Opera Company and praise for local support.
The London opening drew a large crowd of diplomats and nobility including the Duke of Marisorowner, Lady Ranpouper Churchill, and various countesses. Burrato Biri emerges as the main attraction, with a correspondent noting he risks being lionized. English visitors likely view the Wild West show as truly representative of American life.
A statue to Bauzac will be erected in his native city of Tours. The organizing committee includes MM Goset Berraever and Jules Clairetip with other influential men such as M Clovis Hearns. An unpublished dramatic fragment by the great writer will be performed at the Comédie Française, with proceeds added to the statue fund.
A Boston observer recalls a brief parade by the Independent Fusiliers featuring vivid color and the revived pioneer corps, noting the display as more decorative than practical and contrasting it with older units. The piece also criticizes Back Bay building names such as The Princess for echoing foreign fashions and urges a move toward American, democratic naming.
The article reflects on Boston’s distinctive hotel names like the Tremont Revere Quincy and Adams, linking them to historical figures and local pride. It notes Frederick Tudor the ice king and his brother William Tudor connected to the North American Review, praises Boston’s cultural links, and praises New York Stock Exchange honors for Bostonian Francia H Underwood.
A Philadelphia Record essay argues that free traders in the United States endure despite immigration, noting Massachusetts and Minnesota as horizons. It asserts American ideas and Anglo-Saxon ancestry define national strength and enduring free institutions, with a vehement defense of protections.
The piece argues professional politicians form a privileged class who control primaries and election machinery, opposing reform laws as interference with appointive rights. It contrasts this with tariffs that shield favored manufacturers, noting a small beneficiary group gains while others lose.
The New York Tribune notes that respected labor leaders urge arbitration to secure fair justice with less strike disruption and public confidence in workers' claims. It cautions that widespread worker resistance to honoring such agreements weakens the system, harming labor as a whole even if certain groups gain.
A New York Times opinion excerpt argues that a very low skilled American worker can save enough in five years to take a six month holiday and travel. It mocks Knights of Labor for their soap and whiskey talk and labels Hungarians as an objectionable scale. It cites Henry George and references Cardinal Gibbons and Manning in commenting on labor under capital.
Correspondence from the London Telegraph notes opposition to ball blancs where young girls not yet debuting attend. It likens infantine balls to veterans and notes older debutants suffer under watchful duennas. The piece questions whether opposition can curb Parisian debutante rituals versus English and American practices.
Ticknor and Company publish Edwin P Whipple's American Literature and Other Papers in a five essay volume. Whipple surveys American writers from Edwards and Franklin to Emerson and King, with critical praise from Whittier. The collection includes notes on Beecher Holmes and Webster and reflects a mellow, aged, lucid style for readers of earlier literature. Price 1.50.
The May English Illustrated Magazine continues Gay’s Journey to Exeter with Hugh Thomson’s charming pictures and notes on Stray Lines from an Angler’s Pocket-Book. It also features Mrs Craik’s Irish journey, London monuments, Farjeon and Clementina Black fiction, outdoor Outing pieces, and an essay on the Curve Ball theory. The Church Magazine offers Beecher recollections and North Germany glimpses, while Dr Hale’s Lend a Hand discusses organized philanthropy though its moral tales seem weak.
The Protestant Episcopal Churches in the diocese of Massachusetts began its ninety seventh annual meeting in Trinity Chapel with Rt. Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock presiding. The bishop read his report detailing progress, noted clergyman deaths, and sought six to eight months of leave in 1888 to attend Lambeth conference.
A collage of disparate notes reports notable figures like Queen Kapiolani and Edward Hen, debates on liquor laws and politics in St. Louis, Berlin meat inspections, a two-cent stamp spree in Michigan, young U S senators, Harvard Crimson sports focus, Hearst and Stanford riches rivalries, Canadian liquor declines, Ruskin misidentifications, country aunts letters, and a seismologist warning of sun earth collision bets.
The Rev. William Henry Brooks L. T. D. reflected secretary and Leander Winchester named assistant. Standing committees for admission of new parishes constitution and canons finance unfinished business and executive formed. Afternoon session focused on church affairs with reports read and a motion to restore the sermon in opening service carried. The convention adjourned to 3 oclock with further sessions planned.
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