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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1889
Page
8
In a Dorchester Club meeting report General Paine discusses start timing for the Dunraven race. He favors delaying starts for finish certainty and notes a rest day helps crews and equipment. He supports a multi day format if contestants agree and appreciates the Dunraven letter as fair.
Captain Josiah W. Lawlor and two companions prepare to cross the Atlantic aboard the Norton lifeboat yacht Neversink leaving Chelsea for Havre at 3 PM. Provisions for fifty days, 150 gallons of water, and safety gear including anchors, a canvas parachute drag, oil bags, extra sails, and a water tight canvas interior are aboard to prevent accidents on the voyage.
A special meeting of the Dorchester Yacht Club was held at the club anchorage in Harrison Square with Commodore Soley presiding. Routine business was transacted as progress on the Eastern Point clubhouse, a landing on Atlantic Avenue for yachts, and plans to dredge the club channel were reviewed. A light lunch followed adjournment.
The Hull Yacht Club canceled its special meeting at Young's last evening due to no quorum and rescheduled to meet at the Parker House at 1 o'clock today.
News on City Point yacht activity with multiple vessels under repair, fitting, and launch. Merlin and Mariquita near readiness. other Burgess boats, sloops, and cutters undergoing overhauls, rigging, and repainting. New steam yacht and Troubadour edging toward season readiness as crews push to commission.
A fleet of local boats including the Pastime, Grimalkin, Myrtle, Gracie G, Cimara, Skylark, Nelka, Kitty, Urchin, Cumbria, and Cumbria owner Bibber receive overhauls, new paint jobs, and planned launches from early June to the coming week at Dorchester and South Boston Yacht Club moorings. Colonel W F Davis resumes summer residence. Laney supplies a tender. Hutchings caulks and launches yachts. multiple vessels near readiness for season.
About twelve hundred boys from the Boston School Regiment paraded through the city under clear skies, forming at the English High School and marching a route including Tremont Winter Summer High Congress Milk Broad State Washington School and Beacon to the Common. Mayor Hart reviewed the regiment near City Hall and Lieutenant Governor Brackett reviewed again at the State House with Adjutant General Dalton and several colonels present. The dress parade followed as school board members and officials gathered near the regimental standard on the Common.
C F Libbie and Co held yesterday afternoon’s sale of books drawing many architects from a Boston library collection. Notable bids included 17th century works and illustrated editions with prices ranging from modest sums to registry items such as Browne’s Religio Medici at 2050 and Hudibras parts at 3675, with the sale to continue today.
A three months' volunteers gathering at Pem berton square adopted a constitution and bylaws, set a 50 cent admission, and formed a committee of Hincks Wardrop and Newhall to seek a special medal of honor from Congress for 1861 volunteers. The group adjourned to June 5 at 7 30 p m.
Michael J. Fallon faced a preliminary examination on manslaughter charges in the May 10 death of Francis J. Mahan. Dr. Holmes testified that life might have been saved with surgery and attributed death to abdominal lining inflammation. Fallon is held on $10,000 bail and committed to Charles Street jail if bail is not posted.
A timetable of campus events from May 19 to May 25 includes the Appleton Chapel sermon by Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and faculty meetings at University 5 on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. The Divinity School Library hosts a debate and a Glee Club concert at Sanders Theatre on Wednesday.
The funeral for Allen Thorndike Rice will be held tomorrow at Grace Church with Bishop Potter and Dr. Huntington officiating. The body will be sent to Boston for interment, with Mr Cotting of Boston and ex-Mayor Cooper in charge of arrangements.
Tur Wooncuirr a large and elegant hotel on the coast of Maine at Ort Point Stockton Springs with one hundred twenty five airy rooms and modern conveniences. It promises a healthy summer home with easy access by Boston and Bangor steamers or the Boston and Maine Central railroad for visitors and departures.
The Republican State committee’s Humphreys era favorite Jerry McCarthy, long attached to Charlestown veterans, is put forward by General Banks for internal revenue collector, replacing John E. Fitzgerald. Seen as a shrewd, machine loyalist, he held a prior custom house post under Democratic rule. Critics label him a laborer, though supporters say he is an inspector and a seasoned party operative.
The Chauncy Hall School battalion held its annual prize drill at Winslow's skating rink with packed seating. Companies C B A performed through twenty eight evolutions, followed by medals for sergeants, corporals and privates. Awards went to Company B for colors, and three open medals to Corporal Kurt Listemann, Corporal William R Hill, and Sergeant-Major Gordon M Keating.
J C8 Parcher of 58 Boylston Street retires selling to Miss M A Driscoll. A pioneer male dressmaker once mocked for style, he built a successful firm and now tours the world. He has European travel in progress and may enter dry goods on return to Boston.
Workmen uncover a gravestone reading Anna Greenough aged 3 months who died May 18, 1674 near the Robert Newman house. Nearby, another upright stone for Robert Stanton, son of Mr Robert and Mrs Elizabeth Stanton, aged 1 year, died Sept 10, 1748, seems washed into the old cemetery.
Yesterday's Baptist anniversaries featured a lively Morgan Park Seminary reunion at Taft's cafe. About forty attended as Hon. E Nelson Blake was elected president and N E Wood served as toast master.
The Nantucket hotel at Brant Point Nantucket Mass will open for the 1889 season on Saturday June 29. It accommodates 200 guests and sits directly on the beach near the lighthouse offering a cool sea breeze. Most rooms have ocean views with Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic on one side and the harbor and town on the other. Bathing facilities and a safe sandy beach are available for children.
The Colchis Mining Company of New Mexico declares after May 26 stock will rise from five dollars per share. Directors have invested over $200,000 at their own risk to prove mine value. Boston agents: R Ht. Whitney & Co., 48 Congress Street.
Dr Grancer Stewart of Edinburgh describes Brights disease with blood chemistry changes. He notes reduced density, deficient corpuscles and albumen, increased water and elevated urea, urging active treatment with Warners Safe Cure when blood is overcharged with urea or uric acid.
In the United States Circuit Court on May 17, the case of The Simonds Counter Machinery Company versus David Knox and others proceeded over patent No 147,288 dated Feb 10, 1874. The defense contends the machine was in public use well before filing and that defendants do not infringe. Counsel: Chauncey Smith and William A. McLeod for the plaintiffs. Fred P. Fish and W. K. Richardson for the defendants.
Supreme Judicial Court details a bill by Ernest M. Howell for the benefit of William Threlkeld alleging that guardian arrangements and an October 1887 agreement with Daniel W Crosby concealed an assignment of a valuable invention. Assets include $26,250 cash plus stock in several companies, now held by Crosby and associates, with claim that proceeds and stock belong to the plaintiff. Insolvency proceedings against Crosby and challenges to ownership of bank deposits and trust property. Hearings underway with multiple attorney representations.
Tort actions against Eastern Middlesex Railroad from Aug 19 1888 passenger collision. Dockets list multiple cases with plaintiffs Sullivan Taylor Adams McKay and others. verdicts and damages noted. various attorneys named for plaintiffs and defendants. second and third sessions listed with further cases and adjournments.
Superior Court Norfolk County on May 17 hears petition for damages to petitioners estate taken for widening Walnut street. Attorneys: C Robinson for petitioners and C Everett Washburn for defendant. Multiple docket entries listed, including related cases and references.
The Superior Court Middlesex County session under Mason J. adjourns to Monday next after hearing motions for new trials and related matters. The entire uncontested divorce list will be in order then.
Superior Court proceedings list multiple sentences from May 17 in Essex County. William H Clark of Haverhill faced trial for an April 14 assault with intent to kill. interpreter used. Others include Everett Goodwin for liquor law violation, $100 fine plus $3773 costs, nine months jail with four more months if fine unpaid. Mary A Teague for drunkenness sent to Woman's Prison. Mary Marshall for assault one year in state prison. Benjamin McPherson for liquor violation $75 fine plus costs and fornication $35 with costs. Charles Butler for drunkenness $10 fine and costs.
William Robinson of Lawrence faces $6 fine for illegal transportation of liquor with $75 and costs. Patrick Connelly of Lawrence convicted of assault, three months in the house of correction. Johanna Harlihey of Salem charged with liquor law violation, $100 and costs plus three months in the house of correction. taxed at $2433.
City officers prepare for hearings on unlawfully opened mail cases. Green, jailed as a suspect in a murder, is moved to Tewksbury as a pauper. City Architect Atwood takes office, dismissing clerk Gallivan. Auction sale in Brighton real estate nets $7,587. Community events include a park concert and a YMCA address on national defense. A Crawford-style fraud claim unsettles locals.
Superior Criminal Court items condemn multiple defendants with sentences including two years for Barry for breaking and entering and assault on an officer and varying terms for Pearce, Talbot, Lang, and others. The list enumerates Commonwealth and Saime cases, liquor and drunkenness violations, larceny, non support, assault and battery, exposure, manslaughter, aquar and liquor law infractions, alongside many “Same vs.” defendants and numerous docket numbers.
The city’s new park commissioner is Livermore, with the colonel taking duties alongside the commission. Alderman Murphy cites a sequence with ex Senator Wilbur who says he declined the nomination when first offered and asked the mayor to wait for the next Monday. Wilbur denies any deal or arrangements beyond his decision to defer.
Allister Dukeshier appeared before United States Commissioner Hallett on a counterfeit silver money charge tied to Slade and Bust of Manchester. He was discharged as a defendant but held on $300 bail as a witness in the cases against the other men after a lengthy Secret Service interview. Dukeshier reportedly implicated other gang members in a statement.
The adjutant-general issued commissions naming Edward G. Thayer of Amherst to captain, Company K, Second Infantry, vice Yowne, resigned. Henry E Messenger of Amherst to first lieutenant, Company K, Second Infantry, vice Thayer, promoted. and Sergeant Frank A Bardwell of Amherst to second lieutenant, Company K, Second Infantry, vice Messenger, promoted.
A circular to U S paper makers notes that September 1690 marked the first paper mill in America at Roxboro Philadelphia on Paper Mill Run near Wissahickon Creek. It identifies Wilhelm Rittinghousen later anglicized as William Rittenhouse and proposes a Philadelphia meeting in September to plan a bi centennial celebration with sketches, an oration, and a banquet. Horatio Gates Jones issues the circular and awaits response from prominent makers before deciding future action.
A dense Sunday notice listing sermon times and speakers across Boston churches. Preachers include Rev. Grindall Reynolds, Rev. M. K. Deming, H. Grattan Guinness, and others. Associated events feature missionary jubilees, Bible classes, youth meetings, and Union lectures at locations in Boston like Bowdoin Square Charnon Street and Boylston Berkeley corridors.
The spring season brings a shift in wardrobe as old winter wear is cast aside. Macallar Parker & Co. offers hundreds of suits of high quality fabric and make at 400 Washington Street. The stores feature a larger assortment and a new boys clothing department drawing favor.
After a Cambridge lecture on memory, Dr Edward Pick agreed to teach his system. He will offer five lessons at Lyceum Hall Harvard Square starting Tuesday evening May 21.
The Narragansett Hotel in Cottage City Massachusetts stands on a premier avenue and is described as strictly first class. Now in its ninth season under Mrs. A. A. Bill, it emphasizes hotel quality with cottage life freedoms and has drawn guests from nearly every state each season.
The well known Boston banking firm J. C. Davis & Co. at 12 School street conducts large scale loans on merchandise furniture stocks and real estate collateral. Davis & Co. has 22 years in business and a recognized position for fair dealing. It is a satisfaction to negotiate temporary loans with such confidence.
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