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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1899
Page
6
The Superior Court in equity session heard a bill from Miss Elizabeth J. Pye challenging church actions at Harvard Avenue Congregational Church. Judge Bond questioned jurisdiction, noting no property rights involved, and granted a continuance to hear the matter later on a demurrer or on its merits.
Golf clubs across the region schedule open and handicap events today. Wollaston hosts the main open plus morning preliminaries for the Wollaston cup and afternoon first rounds. Nearby clubs list medal handicaps and mixed foursomes including Newton, Oakley, Alliston, Medford, Winchester, and Lexington events with various formats.
In Newton Centre the Spring Cup qualifying round saw 29 golfers compete, 16 advance. Harvard freshmen then suffered a 6-5 loss to Yale in a late baseball exhibition at New Haven, breaking Harvard's long winning streak.
The open amateur handicap games at Lynn promise a record turnout with large entry lists and handsome prizes in silver. First prizes include wearing apparel. athletic goods are banned by the CAPER America League. Junior 190 yards action begins at 9 15 with the pistol shot at 9 30.
The Revere Yacht Club held a recent opening night at its new clubhouse with yachtsmen from nearby towns attending. Edward III. Broders John Dwyer and James Bonar performed gongs and served as secretary. Actor Rob Evans presented The Quarrel Between Cassius and Brutus Expanded and Up to Date and sang, followed by the Benchlemont Orchestra, Matthew Ryan recitations, and instrument solos by RK Hudson J H Waterman.
Wheelmen gather at the Copley Square hotel to launch the annual spring meet of the division. Aaron Wolfson and local officials manage badges memberships and tickets while II news of races, new members from multiple states, and plans for Charles River Park events unfold.
The Veatham Athletic Park Company lists entrants for the ree meet sprint events at Veatham Park in Waltham. Entries include One-third mile races with Button Powell Robbins and many others, Norumbega handicap two miles with Frank Maye and notable riders, and one-mile tandem handicaps featuring McFarland Becker and Hen shaw. Charles Marl and pacemakers from Kings County Wheelmen travel from Brooklyn to pace ten miles before the event while Everett H. Ryan plans a five mile ride with a self propelled pacemaker. Exhibition by Wenney and Minnock to follow. The venue is reachable by steamer, electric car, or bicycle near River View station.
The interscholastic regatta semi finals were rowed on the Charles yesterday in windy conditions causing slow times. Noble Greenough defeated Malden High with a broad lead while Stone’s School edged Brown and Nichols for a close win in the second heat.
Chicago reports that the racing board has lifted suspensions on Frank Waller and F Edward McDuffee of Boston after payment of fines. Sanctioned race meets include May 20 in New Bedford and June 1 in Burlington with noted participants Spear and Spindle City Wheelmen.
President Porter resigns as club treasurer to focus on Consolidated Rubber duties in New York. Executive meeting set for tomorrow noon at Treasurer Perkins office. Frank Wing to run a twelve mile handicap road race at Salem on June 10 with wheel prize and diamond and gold prizes. Handy denies century ride claim. reports twenty five miles to Norumbega Park and back then on to Acton. McPhee calls Newburyport century course fair, time about 3 hours 10 minutes unpaced. Murphy plans a experimental mile behind locomotive with Long Island Railroads support, race slated June 29 to July 1. Plans for five mile straightaway laid between rails with engine coach and timers. Owens Kimble and Moran to race ten miles in Baltimore as Kimble enters middle distance. Eddie MacDuffee relocates to Philadelphia with wife seeking permanent residence.
The South Boston Yacht Club hosts its ninety sixth regatta and dedicates a new club house. Yachtsmen from New England compete off City Point at Marine Park at 1 PM in the open regatta with top eastern waters boats. Special classics entries are listed.
The Country Club announces weights and entries for today’s five races led by the Duke’s up steeplechase with Trillion and Diversion among the contenders. Races include a hack purse of 250, a one mile handicap, a one and three quarter mile hurdle, the Duke’s cup at about two and a half miles, and the Challenge cup with noted entries such as Trillion, Van Ship, Be y Rolfe, and Decameron among others.
The Columbia yacht gains rigging and sails in a sequence of fittings. A steel boom and gaff were set on Sunday, the spinnaker pole secured, and the topmast to be erected tomorrow with a new suit of sails to be bent Wednesday.
Cornell aims for Harvard at Soldiers Field after a hard fought win over Princeton. Star quarterback Charley Young led the offense as Cornell posted a season tally against a slate of tough opponents including Virginia and Mercer, while Princeton prepares for the Crimson.
The anniversary week of Unitarians opens with the annual meeting led by Dr. Edward Everett State at Park Street Church featuring Carroll Wright on Southern problems. Mrs. Whitman reads the report as ministers’ dinners and receptions follow at Thorndike Hall and the Church of the Disciples. Speeches by Rev. Wright and others emphasize “The Thing Nearest His Heart” as women speak on homeland duties and temperance advocates discuss progress in the Transvaal and Boston saloon issues.
The General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution awarded twenty dollar gold prize medals to junior women essayists. Elizabeth Hale Tenney of Radcliffe won, with essays from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Baltimore Woman’s College, Cincinnati University, Vassar, and Ann Arbor University among others. The event followed chapel and was presented by Sarah F. E. Hunt.
The steamer China reports the murder of sailor George Ryan near Malolos in the Philippines. His mutilated body was found April 27 tied to a raft on the river, with skull crushed and arms cut off. Ryan, a Lexington Kentucky native aged about 47, had served in Hawaii's provisional army, stole the crown jewels in 1898, and was pardoned in December 1848 after stowing away for Manila.
A Hong Kong report says Captain Sewall a well known shipbuilder and politician was arrested along with the vessel master and mate in connection with a death aboard the Benjamin Sewall. The body of a sailor was found near Sarkie's Hotel and the accused were released on bail. The Benjamin Sewali had arrived from Moulmein.
A large Rathbone Wall gathering formed a permanent organization to erect a Burns monument in Boston. Delegations from many Scottish clans and societies attended, with officers elected including George D. Wemyss and William Campbell. In New York, Rev Dr Pelham Williams attacked Sunday schools at a diocese meeting, provoking strong clergy responses.
Captain Charles I Clas of the Seventeenth Infantry and Henry Clay discuss the Philippine war from Manila. They praise volunteers and regulars, warn that 1000 men are needed to hold Manila, and note high hospital rates reducing available troops to about fourteen thousand in the field.
Memorial exercises were held in most city schools with flags and emblems. pupils delivered patriotic addresses declamations and songs. A Norcross Grammar School program featured editor A Choneres praising holidays and peace, while wartime justice was defended. Additional services occurred at Bowline Phillips Eliot Wells Hugh O'Brien and numerous primaries.
May 20. A famine of pig iron is threatened in Cleveland as production drops and a surplus is exhausted within a week. Manufacturers may feel the effects soon as consumption exceeds available stock.
A fierce wind storm in Pittsburg on May 99 unroofed many houses and caused fatalities. A 10-year-old girl was struck by a live crosswire carrying electric light cables, the wire burning from ear to ear across her throat.
A severe rain and wind storm swept Buffalo and nearby areas causing heavy property damage and injuries. A 20 foot smokestack at Buffalo Cast Iron Pipe Co collapsed, fatally injuring two workers and injuring twenty others. In Lockport the Lake Avenue ball grounds grand stand was wrecked, causing one fatality and two serious injuries.
An official denial clarifies Archbishop Keane will not resume the rector role. Monsignor Conaty, retiring to bishopric, states Keane will still aid the university’s endowment at the Holy See's permission. Endowment efforts aim to strengthen Catholic higher education in the United States.
About 200 members and guests of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks gathered at United States Hotel for Boston Lodge No 10 twenty first anniversary. Exalted rulers, visiting knights, and notable city figures attended a reception and banquet with speeches by John H. Dee and others. Memorial exercises to be held at Mt Heya Cemetery.
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