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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1893
Page
6
C E Osgoood & Co apologizes for unable to serve patrons on opening day of regular clearance sale. They note enormous sales and promise the sale will continue until Saturday night with another call today or tomorrow to secure bargains at 744-756 Washington St. N.
After eight years of study, rapid flashlight photography produced a print in ten minutes. W M Phillips of 67 North Market street demonstrated the process by taking a portrait after a theatre performance, with the print enlarged twenty five times and tested under daily sun without fading.
A man believed to be Robert Howard of Lansdowne Penn was killed at the Centre street crossing of the Boston and Albany railroad in Newton. He reportedly stepped onto the tracks while gates were down and was struck by the Worcester express, dying instantly. A boarding-case found in his vest carried his name and address.
City board met in executive session to decide on refunding 3293.36 to Cunard Steamship and other lines for excessive Board of Health quarantine charges. Discussions covered Chelsea draw bridge funding, burial expenses for poor soldiers, court house furnishings, and street railway track expansions with completion required by November 1, 1893.
Governor Russell received Admiral Lallandrouze de Lamornaix and officers at the State House yesterday morning with French vice consul M. Eugene Thiebaut present. Colonels Carter Chase and Cunningham led Governor’s staff as ex-Collector Saltonstall observed. The admiral spoke briefly in French while the Governor, limited to English, expressed pleasure at the visit. the Governor returned the call in the afternoon.
Crowds gather in Guens Hungary as Austro Hungarian royal figures and leaders attend maneuvers. Emperor Francis Joseph hosts a banquet for Emperor William and other dignitaries while a southern army under Field Marshal von Reinlander attacks the town. William leads hussars and advocates large cavalry use amid a northern retreat. Captain Hein joins the charge with William.
On September 20, the pope will order an extraordinary collection across Italy for St. Peter's peace fund as protest against anti church policies. Vatican officials again discuss exile from Rome amid government hostility believed linked to the pope's stance toward France. Spain has been approached on the matter.
Washington marked the centennial of laying the Capitol cornerstone with a grand procession led by General Ordway and attended by President Cleveland and Cabinet officers. William Wirt Henry of Virginia delivered the oration, praising public duty and patriotism as the central lesson of the day.
In Waltham on Sept 18 special to the Post Charles H Scribner was discharged from custody after Judge Luce found evidence flimsy. Mrs. Irving W Thomas alleges Scribner had improper access to their Lowell street home and recounts night visits, a Boston excursion, and a scene of outsiders, while Mr. Thomas vows divorce and criticizes the police for the arrest.
The Chicago Parliament of Religions held two short sessions with delegates filling local church pulpits. Speakers included Rev. B. B. Nagarkar of Bombay on social reform in India and Prof. Martin J. Wide on Catholic views of marriage. Mrs. Annie Besant addressed an occultism themed meeting.
Edward Kakas & Sons unveils a five story showroom at 1623 Tremont Street featuring oak decorated first floor with a garment department above. Floors display rugs fur trims seal capes and jackets with finishing rooms on the fourth floor and raw skins received on the top floor.
Fall River authorities failed to reach a compromise with Narragansett Mill leaders this afternoon. Spinners will remain away from work while their grievance is set for discussion at tomorrow's meeting of the Spinners Union executive committee.
In the Potter case Judge Putnam excluded a bank reserve conversation as evidence. Judge ruled the discussion does not show a general directive to falsify books, and thus cannot prove the defendant guilty. The testimony by Joseph W. Work was limited and the trial expected to continue into next week.
An attachment was filed at the Registry of Deeds in Boston in a contract action for $20,000 brought by W. T. C. Macah en Company of Maine with a Boston office against General Electric Company. The writ is returnable at the Superior Court in Boston on Sept. 18, with Freeman's National Bank of Boston named as trustee.
An advertisement for the Merchants Patrol Company drew scores of applicants to 3 School St. A supposed head, James A. Peers, vanished after promising night watch jobs with deposits and badges. A detective later surfaced. Peers is missing, leaving the anxious crowd and a locked office in disarray.
The Boston store J Seligman & Co. opens at 566 and 568 Washington Street as a lavish new fashion house for ladies misses and children cloaks suits and furs. The 12000 square foot space includes a manufacturing basement, ornate sales floor, elaborate fur and cloak departments, and a quiet reading and gossip room for tired shoppers.
David Co. Crothers of 12 Oak Street Cambridge died at Cambridge Hospital shortly after a self inflicted shooting last Saturday evening on the steps of the Mason and Hamlin factory.
W H Bent of Taunton Mass and R P Snelling of Newton Upper Falls urged the Ways and Means Committee to retain the current duty on cotton machinery. Bent argued for protection due to high labor costs, while Snelling warned that a tariff cut could destroy the Newton firm and throw over half its workers out of work, allowing importers to undercut domestic prices.
Samuel R. Payson treasurer at 6 Mt Vernon street posts donations and memberships totaling 408.32 dollars with 103951.22 dollars previously acknowledged. Donors include J H Chadwick Mrs Mary J Goddard Baptist church Hopkinton NH Clement S Houghton Francis Shaw Miss M Shattuck and several others with multiple five to ten dollar gifts.
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