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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1887
Page
4
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The Boston Post notes Sunday disturbances in Westminster Abbey with anarchist leaders leading disorder and desecration of monuments. It urges police action to confine rioters and restore order during religious services.
A Paris dispatch notes a Parliament member saying Blaine stunned guests including Lord Salisbury with a fierce attack on the Irish problem at a dinner party. The piece weighs reasons for Blaine's behavior and whether it signals a new anti Irish line for the coming campaign amid Tory influence and recent aides reactions.
The Philadelphia Press canvass is blamed for stirring Sunday law fears. The Times warns enforcement would bring fines arrest and imprisonment for minor acts like giving a drink at home. The piece likens Philadelphia to Boston where laws are treated as easily broken patchwork statutes.
Philadelphia business figure WHARTON BARKER reports that American Chinese capital joint bank, treaty port telephone service, and a Pekin to Canton railway project are valid concessions not yet completed. Barker expects six months to organize these modern Chinese commerce ventures.
The Reina Regenta steel cruiser built by Messrs Thompson of Glasgow for Spain promises top speed among steam vessels. It features five inch deck thickness, waterline cellular belt, ten machine guns and six breechloaders able to pierce nine inches of armor, and displaces 5600 tons, larger than its class.
The Reina Regenta reportedly reached nineteen knots under natural draught and an estimated twenty and a half knots under forced draught on trial trips. If sustained, this would rival the Etruria and could ship from Queenstown to New York in about five and a half days. Spain plans four more cruisers of similar power, with similarities to designs proposed by Mr. Whitney for U.S. navy vessels.
A faction of thirty five delegates secedes from the Knights of Labor at Chicago after a Minneapolis convention. The fallout cites mismanagement and distrust of funds, signaling a shift toward decentralized autonomy and reduced power of the general executive board. The event foreshadows a smaller, more manageable Knights of Labor.
A critique of European diplomacy praising a treaty plan to keep the Suez Canal open in war. France and England settle colonial disputes in the Caribbean and Pacific, while Russia Austria and Germany back a convention. Egypt could defend the canal if needed with Turkey assisting.
The text likens recent European diplomacy to an Indian summer that promises peace yet hints the warmth will end in frost and a bitter tempest. It argues the arrangement leaves affairs as they were, and disturbing the peace dream would be unkind. The metaphor warns of brief, shifting stability.
The steamer Alleghany arrived safely after striking an abandoned vessel near shore. With storms past, derelicts drift in busy waterways, posing constant navigation hazards. The piece argues for both government action and private initiative to remove wrecks promptly.
The article discusses the possible abolition or merger of the Oxford professorship of poetry, noting the tradition and value of Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave’s lectures, the role of the chair in guiding readers to English literature from Chaucer onward, and the mixed legacy of past holders such as Warton Arnold and Keslier.
The text contends Oxford may abolish its poetry chair as academic pedantry grows while praising genuine literary taste over narrow scholarship. It notes Harvard and Oxford trends, the value of Germanic philology, and warns against losing literary sensibility for linguistic minutiae. It also reflects on urban poetry and scenes from Westminster Bridge and Beacon Hill.
A columnist notes one million London residents lack adequate food with many children affected. A Shoreditch girl’s death underscores hunger and neglect amid poverty, drunkenness, and parental cruelty. A church congress speaker cites a two and a half year old child living independently, seeking a mother in pubs and drinking gin.
A visitor praises a Mechanics' fair in Boston with lively exhibits and a remarkable girl at a furniture desk. He notes rough iron plate pavement on Court street causing pain and a peculiar winter hazard, and ponders a casuistry about switching suppliers between Jones and Robinson while reflecting on city poetry and urban nature.
Fechter dominates a lavish Globe Theatre revival of Lagardére with vivid Henr de Lagardère acting. Scenic effects impress though ensemble acting runs high and at times overdone, while Gilmour, Floyd, Tracy, Sedgwick, and Lytell contribute varied turns as the large audience applauds the spectacle.
Miss Morris opens a week at Park Theatre performing L Article 47 as Cora with Mr. R B Graham as George Duhamel. Critics note her intense but uneven style and call the piece morbid though gripping. Three more representations follow with Alixe replacing later in the week.
Sophia enters its second week at the Museum to a large audience. Boucicault begins second week at Hollis Street with Phryne then The Shaughraun. A Run of Luck remains Boston attraction with fiftyith performance and souvenirs for ladies. Maud Powell violin concert at Music Hall tomorrow evening with Hastreiter Margulies Mockridge Gori and others. Tickets half price for students for this concert and next Saturday.
Mr Rolfe’s edition of Scott promises a complete text with notes appendices and editor preface. It will include original illustrations costing over 25000 dollars and many added plates. Houghton Mifflin will publish two volumes Memories of Coleorton with letters from Wordsworth Southey Scott and Coleridge to the Beaumonts 1808 to 1833.
The November Harper's highlights Howells's April Hopes concluded with Dan and Alice's marriage and Newport lectures on wealth and virtue. It praises Newport as a summer university of refined living and social examples, contrasts American progress with European snobbery, and notes pieces by Miss Rives, Mr. Child, Mr. Curtis, and others.
In the November St Nicholas Miss Alcott's Pansies appears with a popular sketch How Jake Obtained Miss Alcott's Autograph showing an ingenious boy securing the name. Mrs Fréchette contributes a story and Lepage the French peasant and winter is featured with an interesting portrait. The issue offers a mix of stories sketches and jingles.
The issue features Amanda B. Harris's The Luck of Edenhaill with tales about Edenhall and the Musgraves, plus enriching contributions from Mrs Frémont, Margaret Sidney, Mrs Davis, Miss Guiney and others. A wholesome sketch honors the late Miss Henry, author of Castle Daly and A Doubting Heart.
Senator Hale writes from Germany that he expects to sail for home this week. John S. Blair, richest man in New Jersey, eyes new money-making projects despite vast wealth. Rev. John W. Chadwick, Brooklyn clergyman, plans to sail Nov 6 and preach Nov 20. Henry Norman, Pall Mall Gazette staffer and NY Evening Post correspondent, tours Boston Cambridge en route around the world.
A collage of notes covers London unrest, Italian weather, Edison’s talking machine, Henry George’s poverty solution, Banvard’s matinee prime, Barnum’s museum purchase, Lord Lovat’s Scottish castle, fake gems from Oberstein, slang via Ah Sin, schoolroom quips, undertaker banter, and musically shaped impressions.
The New York Tribune argues that New York should not claim self governance or sovereignty. It claims New Yorkers cannot prevent the destruction of their streets and questions what actions can be taken to change the situation.
A World columnist notes Lincoln’s statue in Chicago and an older Union Square effigy both wear unsightly trousers. The piece argues clothing cannot define character, yet laments how artists leave Lincoln looking undignified in the era.
A New York Herald note praises peace envoys from Britain calling for arbitration over war. The piece references General Phil Sherman’s view that military force, while deadly, often coerces nations to rethink war before committing troops.
A Springfield Republican writer recalls Frank Bird’s birthday dinner at Parker House in Massachusetts. Veterans at the table recount heroic days and contrast them with modern campaign receptions, arguing for biennial elections as a vital reform.
The Philadelphia Record notes Senator Evarts mocks a Democrat push to cut federal taxes to 100 million dollars a year. It argues he sees this as trivial while taxes drain clothing, food, and medicines from the working poor and alleges hidden revenue siphoned through customs. The piece counters that taxes affect workers, making the issue no laughing matter.
John Donaghue may exhibit several works this winter including The Boxer statue Sullivan, Young Sophocles shown at the New York Academy last winter, and a latest piece from this year’s Paris Salon. L. D. Eldred, after painting outdoors near New Bedford, is now working on Algerian scene pictures.
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