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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 04, 1884

Page

3

New England Railroads Face Trunk Line War and Investment Push

The Boston market eyes east west rail links as New England investors push to gain control of lines like West Shore and Buffalo to connect Boston with Chicago. Stocks show mixed activity with Atchison Topeka Santa Fe slipping and Mexican Central rising. The Traveller doubts circulating bond stories while predicting August earnings near 240k to 259k and a firmer Union Pacific outlook.

New England Boston Kansas Nebraska Colorado Mexico Hudson River Housatonic Chicago Trunk Line Pool Association Hudson West Shore Buffalo Finks Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Union Pacific Adams New York Atlantic and Pacific San Francisco Chronicle Atchinson Atlantic Pacific Bays California San Diego Central Pacific Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Eastern Boston and Maine Fitchburg Rutland Northern New Hampshire New Eng

Dividends Declared by Local Firms and Bank Receiver

The Border City corporation of Fall River declares a 3 percent dividend. West Jersey railroad also announces a 3 percent cash dividend. The Wall Street bank receiver plans to begin paying depositors a 60 percent dividend tomorrow. Richardson Hill & Co. execute stock orders promptly at the Boston and New York stock boards. Private wire to New York Philadelphia and Baltimore. Daily stock quotations available at No. 40 Water Street office.

Fall River West Jersey Railroad Wall Street Bank Boston New York Richardson, Hill & Co Philadelphia Baltimore No. 40 Water Street Reade Street Bedford Street A. P. Taber Shoe and Leather Exchange Fall River Line National Exchange Hank Peabody Mills Ofewburyport Washington Fire and Marine Insurance Co Holyoke Water Power Co Housatonic RK Aighland Street Railway Co Boylston St Land Co Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation Iowa Falls Sioux City Burlington Missouri River Nebraska Atlantic and Pacific Sidney J. Caners Matilda Varney Parker Holmes & CO Lynn Federal Street Cit Square

New York Financial Markets Show Activity and Pooling Talks

New York financial news reports mixed market action with steady money on call and firm government bonds. It notes gains and interday fluctuations in names like Lackawanna and St Paul, details a Western Union earnings update, and describes a pooling agreement among Postal, Baltimore and Ohio, and Bankers' and Merchants telegraph companies aiming to shore up a weak link in the arrangement.

New York Prime Mercantile Lackawanna Western Union St. Paul Granger Northwestern New Jersey Louisville Nashville Lake Shore New York Central Union Pacific Western Union Telegraph Company Baltimore and Ohio Postal Bankers Postal Telegraph Company Cummins Postal Company Bankers’ and Merchants’ Company Riva

Wool and textile market update with mixed regional prices

The report notes steady wine prices and strong demand for tassel and seedleaf products, with China war impacts minimal. It details crop quality classes and regional price ranges for fillers and wrappers in Connecticut New York Ohio and Wisconsin. prices for wines port sherry Burgundy claret and champagne are listed, while wool markets show good demand for fine fleeces delaine and combing wools with large week sales and regional variations across Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan California and the West.

New York and Vermont Franklin County Western New York Canadian Nova Scotia New Brunswick Canada Carolina Rangoon Java Patna Turks Island Trapani Cadiz Liverpool Chicago Calcutta New England Trinidad P. 5 Lloilo Porto Rico Lucia Muscovado Barbadoes Sicily Formosas New York State Pennsylvania Ohio Wisconsin Havana Madeira Ivison Malaga Graham Michigan Texas California Australia New Zealand

Industrial Trade Outlook In Rubber Goods Market

The article notes modest life in trade this week with small duplicate orders and cautious western buyers while southern retailers buy freely. Early season orders were tied to expected price rises, leaving inventories high and prompting a conservative turnover. Rubber goods trade remains solid though prices were very low, with weekly shipments to non-New England regions totaling 83 556 cases and year to date shipments at 1 859 218 cases.

New England

Foreign Markets Update From London And Liverpool

Financial markets abroad report Consols at 100 11 16 UK bonds and various American stocks with mixed gains and losses. Liverpool commodities show winter wheat around 7s 7d, corn 5s 4d, pork 77s 6d, and cotton steady with futures quiet.

Liverpool California London Uplands Orleans

Cattle Market Report From Boston Yard Trade

The Boston Post reports this week’s cattle market with totals for cattle sheep and swine at 2396 12041 13426 respectively and arrivals across Watertown Brighton and various yards. Prices for beef store cattle hogs and veal calves are listed alongside droves of live stock from Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Canada with remarks noting steady and firm prices amid ample supply and robust sales at Union stockyards and Boston yards.

Maine Cess Vane Eas Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island Owea Sane New York Canada Watertown Brighton Vcsecovecé Boston Lowell Albany Fitchburg Eastern New England Glines & Weston Libby & Son Libby & Brown J H Fogg Harriman & Tuck GW Reynolds Webster & Co W W Hall Coolidge & Son J B Gordon R Barrett J V Keazer I B Sargent I T J Courier O F Bothell J O Sanborn Dow & Moulton E F Adden D C Blanchard M G Flanders Combs & Farrar H Eldred W D Fraser F Fairbanks H Ingerson FS Kimball I Bb Remick O Bixby Campbell & Ricker Sticker Luce & Colton C W Bragg Sargent & Turner J Carroll Massachusetts Geo Rodgers Henry J Shirley D McCarthy H G Baker H G Clements W Fisher G Berry G W Wears O C Robinson E Smith P Flack & Son D Fisher L Morse B Hurlbert Hathaway & Jackson A N Monroe Hollis & Co J F Stetson Farrell & McFlynn E Farrell J B Thomas J J Donnelly S Howes G Mooney J N Morse BS Hastings A N Monroe Liverpool Glasgow Hammond & Co Scythia Clower HG Clements H A Wilcox Tbs E F Auden G W Reynolds Webster & Vinton J Y Keazer Sargent Union Stockards P W Thompson New Hampshire Breck & Ward Aldrich & Johnson R Barret J B Sargent & Co E F Adden G Niles Bros D W C Blanchard G& H Sprigg W Ricker J Counter Britton & Savage Taylor & A KG Kimball Wolfboro Whitten Bro C & Ib Glee Bond Forest JS Henry Breck & Wood

Cotton and commodity markets across ports and cities

The report covers domestic cotton and commodity prices across New York Charleston and other ports with details on flour wheat corn oats rye and sugar markets. It lists port receipts exports and price movements, noting firm tones in Charleston Louisville and New Orleans with varied activity in others.

Imports at Boston and coastwise cargoes listed

Boston and distant ports show schooners and steamers bringing diverse cargoes. Tarquin from ARICHAT carries mackerel and codfish. Cetewayo from BARBADOES brings sugar. Florence Christine at BEAR RIVER delivers eggs. Jefferson at BRASHEAR ships cypress lumber. City of Alexandria via HAVANA carries cigars. Don Jacinto at ILOILO ships mats and sugar. Thomas W Hyde at MOBILE hauls yellow pine lumber cypress and shingles.

Arichat, CO Delong & Seaman Barbadoes Cetewayo Nash, Spaulding & Co Bear River Florence Christine Brashear Jefferson Cypress Lumber T Stearns Havana City of Alexandria New York S Pierce & Co Ton Iloilo Mobile Thomas W Hyde James & Abbot

Foreign Exports Across Multiple Ports and Vessels

Movements show ships Independence Scythia Sorrento Waldensian Emma C Levose Lamoine and Herman and Clara loading and clearing at ports Valparaiso Liverpool Hull Glasgow Parsboro Digby Gaadaloupe Weymouth. Cargo includes cotton goods sugar lumber canned goods leather flour beef butter bacon oil tobacco and various hardware and farm tools.

Valparaiso Chili Liverpool Eng Scythia Hull New York Sorrento Glasgow Parsboro N S Emma C Digby Gaadaloupe F WI Bangor Herman and Clara Weymouth Addie John

Receipts of Staple Products Across Railroads

A historical listing of varied goods received by multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Providence and Fitchburg with quantities of cotton wool flour oats corn millfeed bacon cheese eggs butter and leather, noting totals of bales, bbls, cases and bags across Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and others. The fragmentary OCR preserves numerous itemized entries by railroad line.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York Egeet Kaurosd Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Maine Railroad Lowell Peabody Salem Sea

Boston and Lowell railroad stockholders vote on branches

A morning stockholders meeting in Boston chaired by President Abbott approved locating branches to North Billerica and Bedford via the Middlesex Central line and from the Woburn branch terminus toward Wilmington. Directors may raise capital by roughly 140000 to 150000 dollars. Work begins on a new West Medford stone passenger station.

Boston and Lowell Railroad Company Abbott Billerica Woburn North Billerica Middlesex Central Bedford Wilmingon West Medford Oregon Short Line Snake River Oregon Baker City Huntington Oregon Railway and Navigation Company

Business Troubles Swirl As Firms Face Insolvency

Boston and surrounding firms face widespread financial distress. William Dole’s assets and real estate are attached amid a 1450 owed by Cornelius P. Driscoll who has no assets for unsecured creditors. Simeon P. Taylor creditors accept 15 cents on the dollar while assignee Josephus Crafts begins disposing of personal property. Large creditors seek 50 percent, with hay and crops valued around 12000 converted to cash. William H. Dole liabilities reach 46800 with 39000 secured, while assets include Green Island land and book accounts. George Woods Organ Co of Middleboro assigns to N. D. Wilbur. stockholders lose their 20000 investment. Wages unpaid, and capital shortfalls loom. several regional firms and individuals are named in attachments including W. D. Pettlinger’s missing, with 22000 treasury short and 60000 total liabilities. Suffolk County real estate attachments list contract actions against Martha D. Spinney and Eliza Hall.

William Dole Cornelius P. Driscoll Boston Simeon P. Taylor Josephus Crafts Day Brothers Northampton William H. Dole Common Sense Fertilizer Company Melrose Green Island Boston Harbor R. O. Wood & Co Carpenters Providence R. J E. A. Pierce Josiah F. Getehell Lewiston George Woods Organ Company Middleboro N. D. Wilbur Cambridge Canital W. D. Pettinger Washington County Ore Treasury Pettinger Suffolk County Amos J. White & Co Martha D Samuel KK. Spinney Commonwealth Frank J. Snyder Samuel T. Wilkinson Eliza Hall

Court ruling on Pacific National bank directors demurrers

Justice Gray delivers opinion sustaining demurrers in a bill in equity filed by Linus M Price receiver against Lewis Coleman and others. The bill is found multifarious and uncertain for lacking dates of losses and actions by directors. Demurrers are sustained with costs and leave to amend the bill.

Linus M. Price Lewis Coleman Pacific National Bank Justice Gray I. R. Clark S. Bartlett E. R. Hoar W. G. Russell R. D. Smith R. Stone C. A. Bell J. F. Wheeler H. G. Nichols H. Baldwin G. F. Williams W. M. Stockbridge J. Cutler

Court Proceedings Show Multiple Defendants Facing Charges

In central court Judge Parmenter presided over cases including Charles Connell six months for vagrancy. Patrick Whalen assault with a club on Robert Whalen. Michael T. McNamara neglecting support to a minor. Daniel H. Harrington drunk and assault, all with various bail or sentencing set. Roxbury court held Thomas Lynch and Joseph McIiver for highway robbery, each $600 for superior court. Brighton court arraigned Faomas F. Daley on drunkenness assault arson, fined and held for superior court.

Central Court Brighton Court Faomas F. Daley

New England Historic Genealogical Society Meets After Vacation

The first post vacation meeting appointed a resolutions committee for the deaths of William A. Whitehead of Newark and Stephen Salisbury of Worcester. N. F. Safford reported on the Ipswich anniversary delegation. Donations included a Turkish diploma from George Mountfort, books and manuscripts from Rev. C. D. Bradlee and the Etheridge estate, and a manuscript dairy volume from Henry A. Howes of Albany.

New England Historic Genealogical Society N. F. Safford I. N. Tarbox William A. Whitehead Newark N. J Stephen Salisbury Worcester Ipswich George Mountfort Medidich C. D. Bradlee Miss Etheridge Henry A. Howes Ll.d Albany N. Y William Howes Chilmarth Marthas

Public Meeting on Dingley Bill Sailor Shipments at Port

A well attended meeting at the board of trade discussed shipments of sailors under the Dingley bill. Read communications from Hemenway & Brown shipping firm. A committee to aid the U S Shipping commissioner in enforcing the law was formed, including T Quincy Brown E P Sargent C P Lovell R W Lord H F Humphrey and J Edwin Burt.

Board of Trade Messrs Hemenway & Brown Capt. Chadwick Babson C. P. Lowell N. F. Humphrey John Evans United States Shipping T. Quincy Brown E. P. Sargent W. D. Peabody & Co C. P. Lovell C. Lovell & Son R. W. Lord G. R. Lord & Co H. F. Humphrey Wells & Humphrey Mr. J. Edwin Burt Burt, Alexander & Co

Builder Samuel Lowden Vanishes After Debts Betwixt 80,000

New York report states Samuel Lowden, a builder, fled Aug 21 claiming a fishing trip. He is said to have drawn over 25,000 from banks before leaving, with total indebtedness near 80,000. His property has been attached. a possible romantic angle is rumored.

New York Samuel Lowden

Notable Clergy and Public Figures Die in Early September

Bishop George F. Pierce senior bishop of the Methodist Teves church south died in Sparta Georgia on September 3. Sir Robert Richard Toyens KC M G a London author on British colonies passed away. Barnet Bullock died at Royalston on September 1 aged 86, uncle of the late Governor Alexander Bullock, and former office holder.

George F. Pierce Teves Church South Sparta Robert Richard Toyens London Barnet Bullock Royalston Alexander Bullock

City health order to vacate dwelling No 73 Phillips Street

The board of health orders the dwelling house No 73 Phillips Street vacated due to a defective vault. A special committee of the board of aldermen, formed to probe city department management, met Wednesday and adjourned to Wednesday Sept 17 at 2 PM.

Board of Health Phillips Street Board of Aldermen

Suburban Short Notes and Court Action in Revere and Salem

In Chelsea court Wednesday William Ferrin Eli J Boyce and Patrick Moran were held on charges of robbing George H Maxwell of Winchester at Revence on July 25 of 350 dollars. The old forty regiment held a reunion at Salem Willows Wednesday.

Chelsea Court William Ferrin Eli J. Boyce Patrick Moran George H. Maxwell Winchester Old Foxty Agen Salem Willows

Nantasket Steamers Run on Summer Timetable

Regular summer timetables remain for Nantasket steamers with a moonlight sail at 7:30 PM from Boston and return from Nantasket later in the evening.

Nantasket Boston

Marriage Notices From Allston Plymouth Boston and Lincoln

At Allston on Sept 1 Frank H Hall of Cambridge wed Miss Ida L H ae of Allston by Rev W T Perrin. At Plymouth on Aug 28 Rev Edward Hall of Cambridge united Janes Hall Powers of Cambridge with Frederick Braford Knapp of Plymouth. In Boston Edwin W Shedd wed Elia Aee of Boston at the bride’s father’s residence with Rev Henry A Cooke officiating. At Lincoln Sept 2 Rev B M Grout joined Winslow Warren of Boston to Mrs Julian Sherman of Lincoln.

Hall—Sprague Allston W T Perrin Frank H Hall Cambridge Ida L H Ae Powers—Knapp Plymouth Edward Hall Janes Hall Powers Frederick Braford Knapp Shedd—Vialle Boston Henry A Cooke Edwin W Shedd Elia Aee Warren—Sherman Lincoln B M Grout H Winslow Warren Julian Sherman

Obituary notices from South Boston and surrounding areas

Multiple death notices from Boston area on Sept 1 to Aug 31 list names Mary N Badger Mary Ann Cumming John Crosson Rose Kennedy Frank Langworthy Mary Mahoney Edwin McNear Ann Ryan Albert Rosenstein Ida Sampson Mary Caroline Edwin Waitt and others with ages ranging from 9 to 82 years. Partial locations include Roxbury Charlestown Cambridge and Kern County Cal.

Dr M Rosenstein Sampson Boston Ida L Sampson Sales Cambridge Mary Caroline Francis Sales

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