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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1890
Page
4
Boston Post announces editor and submission policies with details on manuscript rejection, need for full name and address, and where to find financial commercial and ship news on specified pages. Includes postal and payment instructions and office locations in Boston and Washington.
A list of showings across venues from 9 a.m. to night. Russian Art Exhibition at Theatres on Washington Street opens the evening. major acts include The Soudan at Boston THEATES and She Stoops to Conquer at Tremont. Grand Duchess in Opera Company at Grand Opera House. Parlor Match at Evans and Hoey. Lilipatian Opera show. Chrysanthemum Show at Hollis Street. Sam Devere Vaudeville at Athenaeum. Mlle. Edéa in Josephine at Park Theatre. Rosina Vokes at Tremont Theatre.
On Friday morning November 14 1890 Congressman Mills enters the race for Speaker of the House and outlines a platform of free trade free labor free speech and a free press. Critics say the program is too ambitious as Speaker wields power to shape legislation and a tax on incomes adds to the controversial platform.
In Quay’s absence friends hint he will quit as Republican National Committee chairman to answer public charges. Quay has yet to speak, and insiders doubt he will directly respond, instead pressing the party to act as his neighbors did and seeking vindication by the party vote.
The Albany Journal asserts no loss of confidence in Quay yet admits the defeated leader cannot steer the Republican party. It questions the defamers’ right to judge, calls party-nomination returns for Cambridge's municipal offices a serious mistake, and notes Cambridge's past push for nonpartisan city government.
A Cambridge editorial condemns introducing party issues in local elections. It argues independents support by nonpartisan administration, warns that partisan slant will drive away independent voters and mirror earlier Republican missteps, urging strong protest at the evening caucuses.
The hearing on transporting goods in bond via Canadian railroads continues as Windom weighs a shift to require unloading and inspection at the frontier. The Port Huron plan, backed by Conger, argues it would boost American trade but risks higher costs, while supporters cite greater efficiency and reduced fraud.
The British torpedo cruiser Serpent was lost off the coast of Spain in a heavy storm. All on board perished except three sailors, with a full official account still awaited.
A Boston review critiques In Low Relief a Bohemian Transcript noting its portrayal of Bohemian life and a central journalist figure Jonny Torrington. It argues Bohemia is limited in American cities and distinguishes born, achieved, and thrust Bohemians while commenting on editors, publishers, and artists.
A column rebukes Republican peers for crying Spectre of Communism after election. It argues the fear is a hallucination caused by worry and calls for rest and calm, insisting the specter is imagined and urging opponents to abandon alarm and negative campaigning.
Speaker Revo tells New York Sun the election swing was driven mainly by women who manage households and prices. Clerks warned of higher costs under the McKinley bill, influencing husbands and fathers at the polls, echoing the idea that women steer fiscal choices.
Officials in Chicago push ahead with the World Fair project. A resolution creates three permanent exhibition buildings and hints at a water palace. Commissioners receive large salaries as the city basks in relocating the fair from New York.
The review lauds She Stoops to Conquer for its humanity and charm. Eben Plympton stars as Marlow with Miss Clarke elegant as Miss Hardcastle. Supporting cast including Wilson Boniface Addison Campbell Abbe earns praise amid a generally favorable verdict.
The seventy fifth performance souvenir of The Soudan will be issued as an illustrated book by Boston Photogravure Company. It reproduces color drawings by Schuler Matthews with text by Emily Selinger. Each page will feature colored art or pen and ink sketches done on site. The works will be given to ladies next Wednesday evening.
P Boston reports to the Post from November 13, 1890, that three cotton invoices arrived light by about 15 to 70 pounds per bale at mills, all from Lockhart Texas. He cites a correspondent blaming the Farmers’ Alliance yard control for weight discrepancies and warns buyers to avoid such shipping points.
The Boston writer reflects on Rev. Dr. Henry M. Dexter as a scholar of Pilgrim annals and a sharp polemicist, notes the Common's plank walks being relaid for safer winter paths, and admires a funeral tent device from a distant burying ground. He also reports on New York Horse Show results with Boston entries and praises judge Burdet Coutts of England and his prestigious stud catalog.
Mr Kasson delivers fourth lecture on Diplomacy and Diplomatists tracing American Revolution diplomacy with France and Russia, Panin’s neutral stance, free ships doctrine, Grotius limits, and the later careers of Talleyrand and Metternich, ending with the fall of dynastic diplomacy at Vienna.
The King's Daughters of Boston announce Rev Teofilo Gay a distinguished Waldensian preacher from Rome will speak Sunday afternoon at South Congregational Church The service begins at 3 o clock with Mr Gay discussing the history of the Christians of the Alps and the current work of that communion.
The Boston Schoolboys' Association gathered 150 members at Young's Hotel for a dinner honoring the 1840 and earlier era. Leaders praised the common schools, debated Boston's public system, and recalled Lafayette and Monroe receptions, with officers elected for the coming year.
At the Boston Athletic Association last night a diving and swimming program drew a crowd exceeding capacity. The 80 yards race had fourteen finalists in six tank lengths. Osborn edged Greaves by a neck. Dalton dazzled in shooting dive with 42 ft 4 in, Cushing claimed ten eggs, total scores 13 to 11 to 10.
The eleventh annual field trial by the Eastern Club opened in Amenia Virginia amid bad weather with scarce birds. Judges were S C Bradley Thomas Johnson and W Titus. Multiple English setters competed in successive heats with Gath and Gem, Roy Monarch progeny, and other handlers. After the first series the judges advanced all to the second, with Caths Mark defeating Miss Monarch Guy defeating Whitie Jack Madock beating Fannie M Anne F and Bettie 5.
A column recounts a jumble of excerpts from the New York Sun and Baltimore Herald. A London gentleman’s coachman tale, debates over Tolstoi and Longfellow, a Maryland historical society image, a fashionable Angola cat, a new Irish maid, and a baptist union mishap with a drenched fiddler, all hurled as witty vignettes.
W A J Cuaus recalls Otto Grundmann, praising his early music and nature, late departure from birth country, and lasting influence on students. He notes Grundmann’s diligent teaching from 1878, his robust but fading health, and the deep impact of his devotion to art and nature. The tribute ends urging emulation of Grundmann’s pure life and lasting example.
William O'Brien and T. P. O'Connor drew a big crowd in Worcester with enthusiastic overflow meetings at Mechanics' Hall and Washburn Hall. Senator Hoar chaired and backed Home Rule as the speakers delivered similar addresses seen in other cities. Door receipts and subscriptions for the event total about $2000.
Yesterday at 4 30 PM three men on the Old Colony track near West Bridgewater were struck by an outward train. KK J Finn was killed instantly. two others died later on arriving trains, one at Brockton and one at Massachusetts General Hospital with fatal injuries. A key ring bearing the name C A Emily was found on the survivor.
At last evening’s Algonquin Club annual gathering the officers were elected as nominated. The treasury report showed a balance of 14000 dollars.
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