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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1890
Page
4
Second class matter notice stating mailing risks and payment payable to the Post Publishing Company. Office listed at Corcoran Building, Fifteenth Street.
Listings of evening shows across Boston venues. The Bostonians perform Robin Hood at Music Hall, The Soudan at Boston Theatre, DeWolf Hopper Opera Company at Goose Theatre, City Directory at Tremont Theatre, Faust Up to Date at Park, The English Rose at GrkanpD Opera House, The Two Orphans at Howanp, Shamus O'Brien at Athenium, and A Night Off at Hollis Street Theatre with Daly's company.
The Financial Department will appear on page six, the Commercial Department on pages six and seven, and the Ship News on page three.
The Haston Post reports confessions from men arrested over attempts to wreck trains on the New York Central railroad. It portrays a conspiracy by reckless strikers to harm the company, with calls for the harshest penalties. District Master Workman Ler denies funding and flight plans, while city governance and party loyalty debates are used to illustrate partisan folly.
The New York Governor replies to the census superintendent with a pointed rebuke, declining to answer questions on constitutional and administrative matters. He cites queries like coroner, penalty for duelling, and water rates as impertinent catechism, directing the examiner to existing documents.
The second district offers a field for tariff reformers Independents and intelligent representation in Washington. Morse's conduct during his term has left a lingering cloud on his nomination and party members fear a costly convention battle. Opposing him with Dr. William Everett would elevate the campaign, with Everett recently returning from Europe.
The passage notes a vigorous health and reliable ability to mount a strong reform campaign with Colonel CopMAN in the first district and Moses WILLIAMS, SHUERMAN HOAR, Joan C. Crespy and others backing the same principles across the state. The campaign is described as vigorous, interesting, and likely to yield notable results.
Lieutenant Crarten Ley of the Royal Naval Reserve in England proposes a signaling method using shapes a triangle and a ball to replace flags. Admiral Bowern-Smith endorses the idea, noting it avoids daytime signaling difficulties and can be operated by one person, with no change to current code letters.
The Republican organs predict an early adjournment as eight conference committee Republicans finalize a tariff substitute. The plan calls for House passage with minimal debate, then Senate approval, before a Tuesday adjournment. Critics warn the bill’s changes and constitutional questions demand full discussion and voter clarity in November.
At a New Jersey railroad workers meeting, Iowa railroad commissioner Mr. Corvin presented stark figures on yearly trainman deaths and injuries. He argued that deaths and mutilations from overhead obstructions and manual coupling could be reduced by automatic couplers, noting the cost is modest and that congressional action is needed for uniform adoption.
The text argues there is no gag law in the Senate and that it remains a deliberative body. It suggests Republicans could set a December vote on the tariff bill or stay in session until then to address the bill.
A correspondent aligned with Mr Downes Neely argues that a single historical case bears the least analogy to Shakespeare in relation to works bearing his name. The piece defends Donnelly’s stance as earnest though miscast, noting other figures like Manrowr, Dick Steep, Botrnceroke, and Dacon offer abundant parallels.
A fragment notes media interest in a highly gifted individual who resists public notices. It questions why such a person should need to advertise to reveal his merits, suggesting letters or postcards would not be noticed and implying a desire for discretion in recognition.
Two more duels erupted in Paris after Bocnan GuR disclosures. The exchange referenced a classical line about Julius Caesar and a “spirit” roaming, signaling heightened tensions and public intrigue surrounding the affair.
In Boston the Massachusetts militia naval battalion under Lieutenant Commander Soley will join five days on board the Wabash with an assault on Fort Lee. The event recalls Commodore Forbes 1861 Coast Guard expedition, the Salem Cadets reception, and debates the authorship of Agnes Surriage by Edwin Lassetter Bynner.
Miss Fanny Davenport recovers at Westminster Hotel New York. Douglas Sladen Australian poet spends month in Nenigon Ontario and plans Montreal visit. Mother Bennett of Greenville Alabama aged 115 noted by witnesses. Ella May Bennet of Honey Brook will be ordained Universalist minister this week. Bennet mother of three, husband a retired 862 Captain. Carmencita's rival Seforita Otero arrives in New York from France on the French steamer, a Spanish beauty set to appear Oct 1 at den Musce.
The Bostonians debut 1890 91 season with Robin Hood a comic opera by Harry B. Smith and Reginald DeKoven at Music Hall. A large audience cheering encores, praised orchestration and bright melodies. Cast features Hoff, Barnabee, MacDonald, Cowles, Frothingham, Stone, Bartlett Davis and others. The run continues with cast changes. critics call the piece lively and well staged.
The Worcester County Musical Association begins its 32nd annual festival with two daily performances through Friday. Organist Clarence Eddy headlines this afternoon with Carl Dufft and boy soprano Master Forbush. Carl Zerrahn conducts the major orchestral works. Victor Herbert assists with lighter duties.
Obituary notices report the death of Calvin W Bates a Boston fireman retired since April in Springfield New Hampshire. John Hubbard Woodbury Youths Companion editor died in Cambridge aged sixty four. The Hon Frank More ex Congressmans death noted in Washington. William Heilman ex Congressman dies in Evansville. Rev George F Cain pastor in Auburn New York collapses in pulpit. Professor Felix Liebrecht German scholar dies Liege. Actress Marie Hock dies in Berlin from poisoning amid official inquiry into responsibility.
A Baptist minister in Ipswich allegedly stretched a service to tire dissident parishioners, then locked the doors and left. The flock now plans a rule requiring a service to begin only with a quorum. They worry the pastor may count absentees to meet a threshold.
Washington warns that the Dead Letter Office handles over 6 million nail matter items yearly and processes 451,000 misdirected or partially addressed letters in the past fiscal year. About 24,000 had no address, 98,000 were outdated, 165,000 addressed to hotel care, 42,000 bore fictitious addresses, 28,000 contained money totaling 48 642, 27,000 had checks and notes. Public urged to ensure correct addresses to speed delivery and reduce government cost.
An advertisement in the London Atheneum states that the author of various large works and numerous magazine articles is available to write works essays or lectures on historic philosophic theosophic recondite and general subjects in a popular incisive or eloquent style or to undertake translations.
Last night around midnight Edward Macomber abused a woman at 57 Kneeland Street. William Denbo intervened and was stabbed in the shoulder by Macomber who then fought for the knife. Denbo seized the weapon and suffered a severe cut to the hand. Macomber was arrested. Denbo’s wounds are not considered dangerous.
The annual State parade and field day of the Order of United American Mechanics took place in Bridgeport Conn yesterday. The National Council begins its annual session there today.
The Augustin Daly company drew a large audience as they staged A Night Off. Mrs. Gilbert received hearty praise while Miss Rehan Mr. Drew and Mr. Lewis were highlighted for their performances. Bond stood out among the corps for progress. the play, better than Daly's later adaptations, exposes the troupe's lingering monotony and rigidity.
A Boston audience last evening saw Faust Up to Date staged by an American company that rewrote the libretto for local taste. Shaped by English hits, the production features Hilda Thomas as Faust Martha Portens as Marguerite Will Mandeville as Mephistopheles Edwin Lowe as Valentine Lottie Mortimer as Strhel and a strong chorus. The show runs two weeks with the same features including skirt dances and lively buffoonery by Messrs Mandeville and Lowe.
Miss Claxton in The Two Orphans draws a large audience with her Louise role, though critics note a balance of faults and merits. Steven son delivers a brilliant Chevalier de Vaudrey while Vida Croly shows earnest skill as Henriette alongside competent company work.
A very large audience applauded the London at the Boston Theatre as it enters its second week. Suburban and matinee crowds are urged for Wednesday. Cast of London and DeWolf Hopper shows remain popular with strong receipts and continued applause.
In New York on September 22 Mr C A Byrne introduced Goggles as tonight's new production at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Though not the first US staging, the play has been seen in America before at a Boston suburb club. Frank Mordaunt earned praise in a mixed Joshua Whitcomb and Senator Rivers role while the evening's cast performed smoothly and entertainingly.
The Bureau of Statistics reports total US merchandise exports for the twelve months ended August 31, 1890 at 856,321,550 versus 762,457,824 the previous year. Imports totaled 791,220,608 for 1890 against 764,210,184 in 1889.
A long digest of quirky quotes, obscure events, and cultural tidbits. It covers Turkish phrases, a war joke about a colonel, fashion jests, a Western outfit list, a German memoir claim about Douay, Sara Bernhardt warning, seasickness remedies, a Paris manuscript treasure, political nominees in Baltimore, opal discoveries in Moscow Idaho, and public curiosity about electric linemen. It also notes Red Jacket monument efforts led by Harriet Converse and General Parker.
A compact 16 line poem praises a brief moment of love as a cure for absence and a respite before death. The speaker asks their beloved to kiss them now, cherishing the certainty of this moment while acknowledging mortality and the fleeting nature of happiness.
The Philadelphia Record critiques Speaker Reed and Washington for party politics harming public business. It laments loss of responsibility and rising recklessness due to contempt for constitutional limits. The piece argues national legislature is disgracing the republic in the eyes of the world.
The Hon William E Russell, Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, is thirty two and has run three times for the high office. If elected this year amid landslide conditions, he would stand as a brilliant young governor and potential presidential dark horse for twenty years.
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