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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1896
Page
5
The Central Labor Union met at 45 Eliot Street to discuss non union waiters and catering contracts as part of local efforts amid a school shortage with a possible conference and a banquet celebrating union defeats by biennials.
Librarian Mr. Herbert Putnam announced that the statue was removed before the library opened at 2 o clock to allow trustees and interested parties to view it privately. The Art Commission has not communicated a ruling, but word says it saw no objection to a public exhibition while awaiting its decision possibly to be set again in place by Monday afternoon.
The October 12 art commissioners meeting considered accepting or declining Mr. McKim's offer of the Bacchante and voted to inform the Public trustees the secretary is to be instructed.
Superintendent Benjamin P. Eldridge and Chief Inspector William B. Watts of the Boston police announce a new book Our Rival the Rascal now in press. The work draws on their life long experience with criminals and uses records from Boston and other countries to present and distinguish every type of offender.
A Boston Theatre lobby hosts nightly bouquets for Anna Held from Harvard College with an envelope containing visiting card names. A Yale graduate allegedly courting Miss Held gained access to her dressing room claiming to write her past, and pressed an insinuating question about a Yale pin.
Delegates debated the use of union labels with Bechthold of the National Brewery Workmen speaking on brewery employee labels. The Journeymen Barbers' label was considered, with a pledge to support a fixed wage scale starting Jan 1. Professor L Vigoroux urged dialogue with locals, while other committees reported on Stationary Engineers and night school teacher shortages.
A planned courtyard display at the Boston Public Library centers on the Bacchante statue by MacMonnies. Trustees consider beautifying the court with shrubbery and statuary while defending the statue against immorality criticisms. guests include Mayor Josiah Quincy and notable art figures.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton criticizes placing a Bacchante statue in the Cambridge library building. He concedes artistic merit but argues public libraries should not display such a figure. Norton suggests the work belongs in an art museum and vows to explain his full reasons after the Art Commission rules.
The Century Dictionary defines Bacchante as a priestess of Bacchus or a woman in bacchic frenzy, and notes related terms Bacchanal and Bacchanalia describing drunken revels. It recounts Rome’s Bacchanalia, naval authorities, and William Smith's critical view of the Bacchantes with historical details about ancient festivals and ensuing prosecutions.
Division 1 officers arrested Colegero Larfe Guisseppe Stella Michele Amato Luciano Lisacco Angelo Carotto Rosario Mamato Gisualdo Ter Graz o and Gaetano Stella at 84 Prince Street. A pack of cards and $3 in change were seized.
The Odd Fellows plan a festival week starting November 24 at the Bijou Opera House under Grand Canton Shawmut. P. M. Charles Leonard Fletcher presents a lineup including Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Parisian Romance The Private Secretary Beau Brummel and a one act farce How Casey Took the Second Degree in Skowhegan Me. Rayoscope will be shown. Tuesday is lodge and encampment night and Wednesday military night with invitations extended to grand lodge and grand encampment officers.
Mrs Ballington Booth, Salvation Army officer, spoke to inmates in the Massachusetts State Prison chapel yesterday morning describing the army's prison work and recounting related incidents.
Gloucester November 15 The schooner Henry W. Longfellow owned by F P Wonson Co caught fire in the forecastle today. The blaze burned the deck and foremast nearly out before discovery and extinction. Loss set at 1500 dollars and covered by Gloucester Mutual Insurance Company.
Lawrence Jacobs was pardoned from the State prison on Saturday He had been serving a four year term for perjury and entered the institution March 28 1895 He is described as being in consumption at the time of release
A bustling theater gossip column notes Olga Nethersole may return to Boston late spring to perform Carmen. Other items include cast changes at Excelsior Jr and Santa Maria, plans for Beerbohm Tree’s American debut, and notable appearances by stars such as Leslie Carter and Herbert Kelcey with Boston engagements and theater openings.
Franklin Square Boston announces second term openings at the New England Conservatory of Music with entrance examinations daily after November 12. Frank W. Hale serves as general manager.
The piece traces Boston’s entertainment venues from Barnum's Aquarium on Washington Street to the old Public Library building on Boylston. It notes the aquarium becoming Theatre Comique where Moffitt and Bartholomew thrived, Morlacchi’s Boston debut, and Jason Wentworth’s continued streetside presence.
The Schlesische Zeitung reports Premier Molin persuaded the Czar in Paris that currency reforms in Russia were untimely and that M De Witte’s plans for a pure gold standard were checked. The minister’s position is said to be greatly shaken.
The Hibernian Total Abstinence Association met at Naomi Hall on Washington Street and debated whether the liquor license system benefits Boston. J. J. Manning and M. J. O'Brien spoke for, Maurice Dinneen and Edmund Phelan against. The group voted in favor of no license as the best system.
Early today Marshal Parsons and officers raided several liquor suspects in Gloucester. Proprieties Sarah J. Hickey Lizzie G Ingersoll and James A Lahey were arrested for keeping liquor nuisances. Several female inmates were jailed for idle and disorderly conduct with $400 bail each for appearance tomorrow.
Mrs Ballington Booth of New York leader of the Salvation Army The Volunteers of America tonight addressed a union meeting of several church societies in Memorial Hall Dedham Nov 16
The steamer Carthaginian sailing from Liverpool today carried a detachment of the Leicestershire regiment to Halifax. The voyage updates reflect troop movements during the period.
The fragment suggests a winter season tip about staying comfortable and avoiding a cough remedy labeled as Dr Bull's Cough Syrup. No clear event or entities found beyond a generic health product mention.
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