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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1901
Page
4
The Boston Post presents a regional Democratic-leaning perspective on current politics and local affairs in New England. It emphasizes party viewpoints, editorials, and coverage aimed at engaged readers seeking partisan insight.
The Democratic party opens a Boston campaign with five rallies in as many wards tonight and more events Friday Saturday and Monday. Speakers include Quincy Coughlin Putnate Collins Gargan Hamlin Fitzgerald and other state ticket candidates. The party cites intense energy and aims to mobilize the vote.
Judge Loring denies the injunction against spending 140000 to relocate the New England Sanitary Product Co garbage plant from Cow Pasture to Spectacle Island. The editorial urges an appeal to determine city powers and questions the public cost and nuisance impact. Change of location is to be examined by a higher tribunal.
The first frosts reveal unsafe street surfaces as the Tremont Street dip near Park Street becomes nearly impassable for horses and vehicles. Workers later spread sand to improve traction, while the superintendent notes the pavement is “preferable” except for slipperiness, urging focus on this main defect.
Professor Nathaniel S. Shaler urges restraint on the yearly body Monday events as Harvard shifts from hundreds to thousands of students. He warns that long standing college rituals, once harmless, invite abuses now and should be modified or dropped to fit modern conditions.
Professor Shaler criticizes the modern method of testing class strength as disorganized and dangerous. He notes larger, older student bodies make the surging masses more risky and damaging to valuable students, arguing that the “bloody Monday” football or tug of war concept is an outgrown Harvard tradition.
A workingman stepping from a car on Washington Street is fatally struck when the fender fails to fend. The motorman did all possible, but the overhead train and defective fender seals the fate as the victim is mangled under the wheels. The piece questions why fenders should not fend.
The piece highlights a unique Massachusetts campaign with silent governing party indorsement and a Democratic candidate Josiah Quincy delivering distinct nightly speeches. Quincy avoids inflammatory appeal, sticks to the platform, and builds a foundation for Democratic principles though election victory is not anticipated this year.
The Observant Citizen reports Charles C. Payson visiting Weymouth from Dawson with Evans L. Gatchell and Fred Fitzpatrick, after eight months’ work there, now able to exit in eight days. Other items mention a Squantum duck shoot with Dr. Dan White and party, a sandhill crane, comments on Niagara Falls, Boston horticulturist John H. Cox visiting for personal matters, and portrait pricing involving John Sargent. Minor remarks include Major Higginson gifts, Harvard Union funding, and Rev. Dr. John Galbraith defending fair treatment in interviews.
A reader notes two BH. KE. Rice Company ladies in separate carriages while driving through fens and parks last Sunday. The item invites naming the ladies, but focuses on the sighting and the carriage arrangements.
A humorous mix of Halloween verse and satirical excerpts on lawyers. The verse mocks witches and fear while a prose piece lampoons lawyers with quips on divorces fees and jury tricks, followed by brief vignettes and a comic exchange about politics and ice cream trusts.
Canada’s Newfoundland leader Sir Robert Bond, newly raised by the Duke of Cornwall and York, is praised as a popular and capable public figure. Born into a Devonshire family, he rose from speaker of the assembly in 1884 to colonial secretary in 1889 and now leads a broadly supported administration.
The Museum of Fine Arts unveils two new portraits. A Sibyl attributed to Bonifazio Veronese dates to the early 16th century and a Hals portrait of a woman, about 60, holding a psalm book, painted in 1648. Henry L. Higginson acquired A Sibyl during his European trip and hopes the gift honors Edward W. Hooper.
The 224th annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Association met at Park Street Church. Morning devotion led by Mrs. C. L. Goodell with Mrs. William H. Blodgett presiding. Anna P. Moore and Rev J D Kingsbury spoke. Afternoon addresses by President Ward, Rev Wawi t H Bying tea, Mrs. Frank J. Goodwin, Mrs. M. D. ed, and Miss Anna P. Moore. Officers elected include President Mrs. William H. Blodgett and vice presidents from Newton Danvers Worcester, and Brookline among others.
Esther Browning and John Harcourt, once torn by jealousy over a success story, reunite after he reads her tale The Tyranny of Fate and accepts it as a confession. He urges her to return to Frog Hollow to renew their long-ago love.
The Jefferson Club of East Boston will meet tonight to appoint the rallies committee and discuss other important business related to the municipal campaign.
Auctioneers disposed of a large quantity of postage stamps from the Haigh collection at Libbie's yesterday. Local dealers and collectors purchased many items in the sale.
Cambridge Manual Training School alumni dined at the Quincy House last night and enjoyed volunteer talent as entertainment after the banquet.
A fragment asks why Miss seeks comfort and prevention and cure others find in OR ANGEINE, suggesting a titled product or remedy discussed in the period text. The line hints at differing experiences with remedy and care in a historical context.
Boston Harbor and the Mystic River stand to gain from $165,000 and $150,000 in appropriations per Colonel Gillespie chief of engineers. Funds target repairs to sea walls and dredging in the Mystic River to create a 20 foot deep, 300 foot wide channel from the river mouth to Chelsea bridge area, with work extending north of Island End River.
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