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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1894
Page
4
The Hon. Frank W. Bird, a renowned Massachusetts figure, died after a long life marked by independence in politics and active public service. He was respected as a private citizen and public participant, a warm friend and helpful neighbor, leaving the Commonwealth poorer by his death.
A gala reception for British ships and Admiral Hopkins marks a week of festivities. Spectators praise the Blake as the fleet’s gift to a peaceful naval rivalry, while locals compare Britain’s best to Massachusetts and the New York.
The Wilson tariff bill splits opinions in Congress with free ore and low pig iron duties. Senate rates a 40 cent per ton ore and $4 per ton crude iron, angering Massachusetts and the Atlantic coast iron trade. Massachusetts industries seek higher protection on crude iron pig and scrap to preserve jobs and wages.
Senate tariffs on iron ore and pig and scrap iron reduce the McKinley rates but remain far from free ore. Ore taxation drops from 7 percent to a low per ton rate, with mixed effects on different ores. Pig iron and scrap rates fall from 6.72 to about 4 per ton, still not satisfactory to New England manufacturers.
The piece urges the House to reject Senate amendments that would allow Bell Telephone and Boston & Maine Railroad to water stock or lease without standard restrictions. It argues such threats from favored corporations are improper and calls for the House to back its original passage and resist pressure to concede special privileges.
The bill aimed at decimating Boston saloons ends as a tinkered version of existing law after House and Senate changes. Critics say the Legislature spent months and state money on lobbyists, producing a result that repeats the old policy rather than yielding reform.
The State House should extend sessions to every evening and throughout the week to finish business before summer. The legislature, not overworked, has skipped workdays, and with summer near, needs to intensify effort in closing days to meet its duties.
Senator Teller of Colorado, though eccentric on silver, urges passage of the pending tariff bill for the country’s business. He argues the people want to know what tariff they will get and how soon, and he offers to help secure it promptly.
A town movement quietly forms a branch of the Society for the Reformation of Husbands with a proposed publication Household and Husband. Women plan a culminating exhibition placing men in classes, while Moody Merrill faces disbarment and expulsion from the Boston Bar Association amid a widening scandal.
The article sketches a Cambridgeport party hosted by Miss Della Regan with fifty guests, reports a Lowell Street arrest where Miss Bella Goldstein and Morris Silverman were fined for assault on Constable Wrighten, and notes the death of J B Regan's son from Essex Street Dorchester with his funeral planned at Meeting House Hill Catholic Church.
Frank Damrosch directs a popular New York singing class for youths paying ten cents weekly and plans a yearly public concert. Mrs. Cleveland nears Washington to settle at the White House before the President arrives. Jockey Fred Taral shows money sense and reads more. Garrison embraces flamboyant living. Henry Irving’s wife, Miss O Callahan before marriage, stays in a quiet London home supported by £1000 yearly. Thomas Nast moves to London to work for Pall Mall Gazette in political caricature.
Rock Moacham aged 61 of 189 Harrison avenue fractured his thigh after collapse in the Hudson Street School yard and was hospitalized. A straw barrel fire at Mrs. Keefe 693 Shawmut avenue caused a minor alarm. John O Neal 31 of 200 Eliot street arrested for alleged larceny of $10 from James J. Coleman of Lowell. Henry Black 36 was injured when horses trod on his right leg at Beverly and Causeway streets. Henry West 29 of Cambridge held for alleged larceny of tools from Allegro Santero 108 Merrimac street. Winslow Nash 23 of Quincy and William Morse 37 of Shamrock street arrested for alleged larceny of a watch and chain from John Murphy of Roxbury.
Solomon Bullekan, 27, of South Boston, was sentenced by Judge Bond in the Superior Criminal Court to one year in the House of Correction for embezzling jewelry valued at $600 from A. D. Cairns & Co. He pleaded guilty ten days prior and has since made restitution totaling $515 plus an $110 obligation, and he surrendered $225 to the pawn loan company. The court appearance brought tears to Bullekan and his mother.
Captain Sam Fisher of the Peaked Hill Life Saving Station rescued a man adrift in a dory near the station last night. The unnamed Portuguese rescuee, Save August, had lost oars and his sailboat and drifted toward the breakers. Fisher launched a dory unaided, pulled through the breakers, landed the man at the station, and kept him there overnight.
Sheriff Lynch captured Samuel Clemens in Appenaug for stealing a horse and wagon from Roscoe Briggs of Foster on Monday night. The thief had traded the property, which has not been recovered.
Judge M A Shumway in Hartford Superior Court ruled this month that the New Britain School Board cannot be compelled to admit unvaccinated children to public schools.
The Rev. Dr. A. St. John Chambre was chosen archdeacon of the Lowell archdeaconry covering Essex Middlesex and part of Suffolk not in Boston. The Rev. J. W. Hyde of Calvary Church Danvers was named secretary. Next meeting June 7 will elect treasurer and executive committee.
The Post invites readers to submit letters on how to spend a two week vacation for a $10 gold prize. Entries must be under 200 words, single sided, include writer name and address, and be received by May 4. Earlier dates favored among equal merit. winner announced May 27.
At Huntington New Hampshire a deserted farmhouse offers cheap lodging for vacationers. Bring blankets and furniture to stay, buy straw for beds, and enjoy abundant blueberries. Some say the place is haunted but no one has died there. Rates for two weeks for four people run about 15 to 20 dollars. Evelyn Dill Roceland Massachusetts.
John I. Ivester promotes a cost effective tour through Charlottetown known as the garden of America. The itinerary includes Florida steamship service via the Canada Atlantic and Plant line to Charlottetown then Fastnet to Hawkesbury Marion to Sidney Bras d Orr lakes for scenery and salmon fishing. Concludes with Florida steamship return to Boston to avoid Boston heat.
Five girls sign a pledge to spend a carefree vacation at Nahant for a moderate cost. They plan biking, bathing, yachting, clambakes in week one and barge parties and seaside sports in week two, returning home cheerful and none the worse for travel.
A poetic tour praises Salem Willows Magnolia Manchester Beverly and Gloucester as ideal spots for visitors and locals seeking scenery birds waves and quiet reflection. It contrasts the artist and the angler with each locale offering distinct charms in the North Shore.
Firemen's Memorial Day set for June 10 with ceremonies at Firemen's Hall Washington street. Fire Commissioner John R Murphy named orator and Samuel Abbott Jr chosen chief marshal. Associations from Boston and vicinity will assemble before 10 o'clock, march to the cemetery for graveside exercises, then return to headquarters.
A Post reader asserts the Young Ladies Baseball Club of Boston with a Pine Street base does not exist and denounces another paper for repeating the names of several young women. Observers claim the reference is a deliberate, unsafe attack masked as truth and view the affair as a calculated hoax.
The rapid transit debate centers on a 400 foot liquor license rule tied to public schools. Senators adopt an amendment narrowing the rule to the same street, leaving the law largely unchanged. Mayor duties rise with jury lists while transit plans for elevated lines face House opposition and shifting support.
Foresters' State convention in Lawrence voted down a constitutional amendment to switch grand court sessions from annual to biennial. Officers elected include Grand chief ranger L J Smith Lowell and Grand treasurer William H Harrigan Lowell. Installation followed at the evening session, with closing ceremonies.
The Boston Theatre hosts William Harris's testimonial today with a detailed schedule. Overture at 1am and acts/performers listed with precise times from Henshaw to May Irwin and Dailey, with Camilles fourth act finale assisted by volunteers.
The wood mantel industry at Paine's furniture warerooms has developed into an enormous, standalone sector. Readers planning house building or renovations should compare Paine prices before ordering mantels elsewhere.
Hartford May 2. A committee of prominent New Britain citizens found Chairman James W Ringrose of the Board of Water Commissioners acted as a law unto himself. The other commissioners ratified his actions after they occurred and would have impeached him for unauthorized expenditures.
Prospect for purchase of house lots at The Heights Revere for rental housing hints that a Railway Certificate offers a 3 cent fare on the electric road Boston to The Heights through 1900. Wood Harmon & Co. 13 School St Room 47 provides details.
A Pall Mall Gazette letter, allegedly from a cabinet insider, claims Rosebery struggles to hold the government together. It says he aims to bolster Asquith as leader in the Commons, notes two cabinet factions, and suggests Gladstone’s resignation stemmed from isolation. An election could unseat Rosebery.
In Providence today James Coggins and his wife filed a $50,000 lawsuit against the Union Railroad Company claiming injuries suffered by the wife.
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