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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1893
Page
3
2000 Solid Oak Pedestal Tables offered at 89c each for three days in our New Furniture Warerooms Bedford and Avon streets. Regular price $2.50. Lamps, book stands, jardiniere and bric-a-brac uses shown. Five floors display a varied assortment from many factories to satisfy buyers.
Memorial service in Madison Square Concert Hall honored Edwin Booth with prominent theater figures and literary leaders in attendance. Notables including Mark Twain, T. B. Aldrich, Henry Irving, and Parke Godwin heard addresses and poems while Walter Damrosch conducted an eighty piece orchestra performing Booth’s favored pieces.
In Plymouth Superior Court Judge Hopkins granted a continuance for the cases against John Sanborn and other New York New Haven Hartford railroad officials. The delay stems from a pending equity bill in the Supreme Court involving the Old Colony railroad and the Rockland Abington Street Railway Company and the legality of the indicted acts.
A massive blaze in the Wetter block on Main Street Memphis causes nearly 1 million dollars in loss. Four known dead with many injured as flames trap occupants in the Young Men’s Christian Association and surrounding menswear firms. Fire spreads rapidly after an explosion, with water damage and partial building collapse. Authorities list losses for Schmalzried Hardware Lemmon & Gale and assorted properties totaling around 500000 dollars.
The Times reports heavy shelling on Villegaignon Island as government forts endure bombardment. At Mt Co as tello troops fire at 1200 yards, while Fort Villegaignon and the warship Aquidaban answer with machine guns. Insurgents surround Desterro and Porto Alegre, aiming to seize government forces and push toward Desterro, raising risk to commerce.
An incendiary fire broke out at 12:3 this morning from Box 823 at Barry's corner Brighton. It damaged two adjacent wooden houses owned by James M. Flynn and James Heffernan, each sustaining about 500 dollars in damage. The unoccupied rear residence suffered the blaze. Police suspect arson.
The Aurora crew reports sighting the Ripple wreck in Baffin’s Bay after two Swedish scientists left St John in June 1992 to collect Greenland flora and fauna. Two cairns with human remains and a note ask for papers to be sent to Baron Nordenskjold or a consul. Skeletal remains may be those of one scientist.
William Marlow, a noted Connecticut crook, was captured by State Officer Joseph Shaw and brought from the Connecticut State Prison to Lynn. He previously escaped Salem jail with accomplices, stealing 200 dollars and revolvers. Requisition papers were signed by Lt Governor Wolcott. he will be sent to Salem to serve thirty two months. Marlow, age 22, has family in Boston.
The schooner Peter H. Crowell of Dennis Massachusetts sailed November third for Fall River with coal. Bad weather caused flooding. by November fifth five feet of water in the hold. The Sutherland sighted the Crowell thirteen miles off Body Island with decks swept and boats gone. Six crewmen and Captain MacDonald were rescued and brought to Norfolk aboard the British steamship Sutherland.
President Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber were seen driving through calm roads near his country residence. The President appeared generally well despite recent official strain, and reporters found no basis for rumors of serious illness or rheumatism.
The schooner Gem of Boston captained by Wass, bound from Mobile to Boston with lumber, reached New York for repairs on Nov 13 after a 28 hour gale on Oct 19. Bulwarks stove in hatch house washed overboard deck load shifted, a persistent leak forced constant pumping until Oct 22 when weather eased and a jury rudder was rigged. Captain Wass credits free use of oil for the rescue.
Michael S. Tynan a Staten Island Republican leader was found unconscious in his Harrison Street room and died soon after the circumstances suggest suicide. A longtime Richmond County figure he chaired the town board and served in the assembly while owning a Bay Street shoe store. He had suffered melancholia and faced impending Supreme Court papers over financial trouble.
Judge Richardson in Superior Criminal Court sentenced Frank W. Arey of B F Sturtevant Blower Works to three years at the house of correction for stealing about 3500 after pleading guilty. Lewis Henkloin received two years for polygamy after admitting a second marriage to McLeoud while still married to a first wife.
Comptroller James H Eckels met Boston bankers at the Parker House for a Boston Bank Presidents Association dinner. He urged that withdrawals by nonborrowers prove banking stability, predicted better times, and praised sound financial methods while denying a panic link to recent monetary measures.
The Columbia, a protected cruiser, is described as swift and deadly with a whale back hull and minimal armament. It is compared to the New York, noting the Columbia’s faster Philadelphia run in 13 hours 7 minutes, and its design emphasizes speed over brute firepower. The piece portrays the vessel as a formidable future threat to commerce.
The text argues that banks are essential for public prosperity when properly safeguarded, warning that unsafe conduct harms all. It cites deposit withdrawals in year and related loan contractions, asserts the need for sound money and prudent financial legislation, and cautions against cheap money doctrines gaining popularity.
The article notes speed as a top goal with lines of the Dianegpere and the Brooklyn and the forthcoming Columbia. A temporary shafting limit was overcome by adding a third screw, which increases economy and allows disconnecting screws for free revolution with little resistance. Chief Officer Aiken, a Bostonian, praises the Columbia’s other strong points beyond its speed.
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