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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1890
Page
4
The Washxday Office at Corcoran Building issues rules for manuscript submissions. All money sent at sender's risk and checks payable to the Post Publishing Company. Include full name and address with communications for good faith.
Music Hat on Winter street with Hamilton place. The Bostonians perform Robin Mood at Boston Theatre on Washington street. The Soudan at Goose Theatre on Washington street. DeWolf Hopper Opera in Castles in the Air at Tremont Theatre on Tremont street. Park Tukatee on Washington street showing The City Directory. Panst Up to Date at Boston Museum on Tremont near Scollay square. The English Nose at Grand Opera House on Washington and Dover streets. The Two Orphans at Howago ArukyaM on Howard street. Shamus O Brien at Hollis Street Theatre on Hollis street. Alcus tin Daly's company in A Night Off. Financial Department on Sixth page Commercial on Sixth and Seventh and Sip News on Third page.
Boston dispatch notes French enthusiasm for Russia amid Triple Alliance fears. The piece dismisses talk of detachments by German and Austrian rulers and summarizes tariff conference influence by Mr Clarkson and Mr Dupney. It mentions Dunley, Clarkson, and Plymouth Massachusetts’ possible relief from binding twine shortages.
The year 1890 proves memorable for railway disasters with many fatal wrecks and numerous minor catastrophes. A recent Nead ing road crash illustrates how multiple failures complicate blame, as a freight train failed to signal a coal train ahead, blocking tracks for an express. Even with block signaling and safety devices, serious collisions occur on populated routes.
Across Oregon to New York complaints about census errors gain weight and spark fears of partisan manipulation. The editorial notes surrender to spoilsmen and acknowledges suspicion of deliberate miscount, while deeming such intent unlikely. The New York Tribune weighs in on the dispute.
The Boston Post cites The Tribune blaming the census failure on the superintendent Porter and his methods. It argues Porter lacked experience for selecting enumerators in a large city and shows little evidence of personal supervision, accusing party reward appointments and boss influence in New York as well.
A dense column surveys Boston architecture hints from Venice, Paris and local trustees readying a grand library plan. It covers Avavsky Dary's London return, the Chicago Bureau of Justice, and reviews Invina’s Ravenswood, Miss Agnus Huntington’s London success, mind reader plots, the harvest moon timing, and vegetarian novelist Groner Mercurien.
A Boston letter recalls the late Joseph Warren Goddard with praise for his enterprise and charity, noting his New York business and Boston ties. The writer discusses the Corinthian Yacht Club cup Minerva and its modest design, then muses on roof gardens for Boston buildings, praising Athenaeum librarians and plans for a future work on gentility with playful reference to Hustler Grabb.
A bronze statue of Horace Greeley was unveiled in front of the New York Tribune Building on Nassau Street to mark the 49th anniversary of the Tribune weekly. Speakers including Chauncey Depew praised Greeley’s leadership during the Civil War era, with Miss Gabrielle Greeley present. The seven foot three inch statue by J Q A Ward sits on a nine foot pedestal, cast by Henry Bonnard Bronze Company, and is not the Tribune’s funded project.
The House will receive a report by Hon. Joan F. Andrew from the committee on foreign affairs on a Brussels treaty plan for policing slave routes, stations of refuge, and the suppression of African slave trade. The note praises international cooperation and U.S. support to end slavery, with emphasis on maritime powers and internal reforms in Africa.
The arrests of Irish MPs on criminal conspiracy charges divide opinion along political lines. Home Rulers claim a tactical error by Balfour while Conservatives defend his move, yet question remains about its rationale and potential consequences. Dinton and O'Brien have been cautious in their no rent campaign remarks.
Comment on the Copley square library project notes ongoing friction between librarians and architects. Critiques of design choices, lottery failures, and the role of McKim and Woonw are discussed, with emphasis on book storage methods and future delivery improvements to readers.
The Census Bureau released city and town populations with increases shown for Alpena Bay City Cheboygan Ludington Manistee West Bay City Kenosha Milwaukee Racine and Waukesha. Figures include total population and percent changes, noting Milwaukee at 204150 with a substantial rise and Racine at 21022 up over 4 991.
The Rhode Island championship tennis semi finals were played today in Providence. Malcolm to Chace defeated F L Hopp who was fatigued after a tough match with J Aimes. Chace won the first two sets 6 6 and 6 3 and awaits B B Manchester in the final.
The Rev James F E Bagley formerly of Sioux Falls D completed acceptance of a pastorate at the First Unitarian Society in this city. He will begin duties on the first Sunday in October with a salary of 1500 dollars per year. A public installation is planned but date pending.
Macmillan and Co announce early next month publication of The Bucaneers and Marooners of America an adventure account edited and illustrated by Howard Pyle Also Gladstone's Landmarks of the Economic Study issued by Macmillan Colleague Andrews Bryn Mawr College contributes an October article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the beginnings of the Connecticut towns and their constitutional origins The Makers of Modern English a handbook by William J Dawson will be published today by Thomas Whittaker near simultaneous Loudon edition
A fragmentary roundup notes the Comte de Paris and the Duc d Orléans sailing on the Germanic Wednesday. The Crown Prince of Roumania engaged to Marie Louise, daughter of the Duke of Parma. Andrew Carnegie and wife plus 200 British Iron and Steel Institute members sailed from Liverpool aboard the Servia. Caroline Wilkinson, long fiancé of Alexander H Stephens, died in Atlanta after forty years. they never wed due to his ill health. von Caprivi and Count Kalnoky to visit Lord Salisbury at Hatfield end of September. John Whistler, wealthy Pottawottamie and Indian Territory’s richest man, died, leaving a vast estate. wife is a Sac and Fox. Prince Bismarck comments on Nice and state service. Rev. St George K Cheever, aged 83, ill in New York. Bowdoin classmate of Hawthorne and Longfellow. The Czar’s guard of fifteen Corsicans to monitor private areas. plan to expand the corps gradually.
A brisk collection of short items and quotes from multiple papers includes sharp political jabs by Representative Walker, sly remarks on census and anatomy, a Brooklyn divorce note, railroad strike humor, Punch style quips, a New York cat protection club, a tale of a Minneapolis census enumerator, English peers’ lack of charm, a Bristol church lunch scene, and a bizarre Komburg mud bath anecdote. Also featured are Governor Gordon and Williams College Prohibition politics, a Savannah pardon anecdote, and notes on million plus checks among London banks with a historic Manchester Ship Canal Company example.
A Washington Star dispatch notes Mr Delamater representing Mr Quay on the Republican gubernatorial ticket in Pennsylvania says he will discuss any question. The Providence Journal remarks on Representative Walker proposing a 400 dollar fine for nonvoting members of Congress, calling it a new title of distinction for a statesman. The Springfield Republican comments that Western papers praise Senators who voted to bind twine on the free list, urging support for the Mills bill as a wiser protection measure for over protected industries.
An Erie district Republican rep and congressional campaign chair faces a rebound as fire spreads from Senate pressure to him. Report notes Belden’s absence in Washington and rising tensions fostered by supporters of Senator Hicock, amid blunt Washington political games.
John Fay a brakeman on the Fitchbure railroad was run over and killed while coupling cars about 6 o'clock yesterday morning in Somerville. He was married and lived in Waltham.
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