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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1893
Page
4
The piece centers on Hart denying plans to demand dollar gas at the State House while Boston Mayor Matthews backs a dollar gas reform. Hart’s camp attacks Matthews, claiming the mayor’s actions saved households money and reduced expenses next year. The Boston electorate faces a pivotal choice over gas policy.
The Post urges readers to share comforts this Thanksgiving by aiding others. Give from your store of plenty to a less fortunate family without pauperizing them, and the act will bless both giver and receiver, creating a Thanksgiving Boston has never known.
Boston politics clash as Mr Moorfleld Storey lauds Mayor Matthews for a do-something approach. He cites annual gas bill savings of 1.0e3 10 to 4.61e2 for gas and public lamps and argues Hart’s plan would cost Boston over half a million dollars yearly, urging citizens to back faithful public service.
The new tariff bill is praised by Democrats as a progressive reform aimed at industry and trade, while Republicans call it disappointing. Voters recognize the shift from specific duties to ad valorem taxes and the removal of hidden burdens on necessities, benefiting workers, manufacturers, and consumers.
Congressmen from coal and iron states face political risk in championing tariff reform. The head of Ways and Means, J. Wilson, accepts a national duty to cut duties on coal coke iron ore and pig iron, aiming to serve the whole country rather than a local interest.
The letter questions whether Mr. Hart endorses manager spoken insults calling Mayor Matthews a swindler. It decries the language as indecent and demands Hart disavow or face voter backlash, urging accountability for officials in municipal politics.
The Photographic Society of Philadelphia photographer Charles R. Pancoast and Walter G. Chase of the Boston Camera Club will show work at 60 Bromfield Street from December 6 to 16, daily 10 am to 3 pm. Miss Catharine H. Spence, Australian delegate to Chicago charities, visits Boston to study social issues and will speak at the Church of the Disciples on Thanksgiving morning. Commodore John N. Roberta closes the house on Peddick's Island ending the eel fishing season. he leads the Massachusetts Fish and Gene Commission's event planning.
The text notes easy camaraderie at a seaside shanty with generous hospitality and seasonal visitors. Ex Superintendent John Adams visits Fitchburg and receives a diamond stud from Fitchburg line officials. Captain George G. Spear leaves for Pasadena on a six month medical leave, unsure if he will return.
A Delhi Gazette man, Y. A. Parshall, has set type in one room for 55 years with only two weeks away. An American tale recalls Edmunds praising Philadelphia and Independence Hall. Baroness Margit Lipthay escaped a bear’s charge on her Hungarian estate when her husband’s shot missed. Hawaii’s Liliuokalani faced a women’s committee over lottery and opium bills, wept, prayed, then signed both laws after the charity performance by the missionary mother leader.
A late night fire on the top floor of the five story granite building at 51 Commercial Street was quickly controlled. Originating in Johnson & Glover papier made goods work rooms, losses to Johnson & Glover and water damage to other tenants total about $1000 each. The Silas Peirce estate owns the building and damage to it is minor.
Nathan Matthews is praised as one of Boston’s best mayors in South Boston notices. Voters are urged to support him as Hart’s job ends, claiming Matthews runs city affairs on a businesslike, taxpayer friendly basis.
A Roxbury letter to the Post endorses Mayor Matthews as leading candidate for alderman. It defends independent contenders like Patrick Maguire, praising his democracy and labor support. The writer predicts Matthews and Maguire will win, noting strong Democratic backing for Maguire.
A special meeting of Park Department Employees Assembly 7576 K of L in Chickering Hall endorses Mayor Matthews for his park leadership. The group notes Thomas N Hart opposes a legislature run and opposes further park loans despite Matthews securing a large loan in 1891, $3.5 million, set to exhaust by 1894. A copy of the resolution will be sent to the Mayor and to the press.
Jacksonville II Nov 28 The grand jury indicted officers of the Central Hatness Banking and Savings Association which closed Aug 25. Managers say they will strive to pay creditors in full despite the action.
The annual sale of unclaimed goods in the police department will be held today in the Bromfield Street auction room. Items include knives and revolvers among a large collection of miscellaneous articles. a new home sewing machine at 160 Tremont is listed.
A Boston labor coalition reports 40,000 jobless, with many families facing hunger and cold this Thanksgiving. The Municipal Employment Society, led by Herbert N. Casson, seeks city action, state park work, census of unemployment, and charity to fund immediate jobs for the unemployed. Clergy appeal urges churches to support Work for the Unemployed, highlighting hunger and destitution and calling for municipal employment.
At the annual meeting stockholders demanded a 10 per cent dividend supported by reports showing daily earnings up over last year and a growing surplus. They urged directors to restore the 10 per cent rate for the next semi annual payout and maintain it if earnings warrant. New board members were elected including Bowditch Braman Fitz Higgin son Hooper Hunnewell Hyde Jordan Little Parsons Spencer Swan Weld Whitney and Winsor.
Patrick McCabe a moulder at the Weir Stove Company poured molten lead into his shoe and will lose his foot. The heel and one toe remained in the shoe as solid metal after he removed it.
The Catholic Union of Boston will hold a high Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Thursday November 3 1883 at nine o clock Rev William H O Connell of St Josephs Church will preach the sermon The choir under Monsieur De Seve will perform Gounods St Cecilie mass Unfold ye Portals from the Redemption and Ave Verum with 200 voices in a memorial tribute to Gounod.
The obsequies for Mrs Lizzie J Ross Lillian Wood wife of W Ross of Hoboken N J and daughter of W K and Jennie Wood were held yesterday at 218 Columbus Avenue with Rev James B Brady officiating The pallbearers were Dr Thayer and James Blake F Clark and Crile Ireson Interment followed at Mill Hoge Cemetery
Dr Walter Fleming hosts a surprise dinner for a group of prominent New York women at 11 Mott Street Chinatown. The guests, including Mrs Frank Leslie and Mrs General Morris, are led to a dim room as the menu features duck eggs and fried pigeon. The night ends with guests laughing and struggling to eat with chopsticks.
The B Y M C Union hosts the twenty third annual Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at 1 p m. The event promises social enjoyment for members unable to be with relatives. After-dinner speeches will follow from invited friends and the young men, with chorus singing and plantation songs by the Tuskegee quartet and Booker T. Washington invited to attend.
An infernal machine was found at Broadstone railway terminus with four detonators. Patrick Reid was killed near Sir John Rogersons quay after a dispute with two dynamiters who tried to flee to America. Police doubled guards and warnings were sent to ports as investigators link Reid to the dynamite conspiracy.
Washington reports deny Para joining revolutions and Brazilian minister Mendonca sees no such move. Charles R. Flint & Co notes the Nictheroy cruiser arriving in a Windward island port as America sails toward Brazil. Some support for Mello noted in Rio and Pernambuco amid Peixoto’s restrictive regime. London dispatches describe fighting near Rio and Curitiba with heavy casualties and government reinforcement at Santos.
In this city Eva B Clark aged 80 died November 26 wife of Iene Clark. In Roxbury Moses Chiase aged 1 year 0 months died November 25. Martha Freeman widow of James Freeman of Portland Maine aged 70 years 11 months died November 26. Austin Huntington of Isle of Martinique aged ? died November 8. Paul Lincoln of Naica Plain aged 78 years 3 months died November 27. Robert Lop of Farmerville New York died November 27.
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