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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1892
Page
2
A fragment lists 97 DeWolf Hoppers performing this afternoon and evening at the Providence Opera House. The item includes assorted society notes and local notices about performances and public concerns.
Gro. W. Van Horne reflects on Christmas as a shared festival across ages and nations. He contrasts London’s bright streets with tranquil English villages, tracing Christmas from Druids and solstices to Christian rites, noting how nature and faith unite in a tribute of peace, light, and good will.
A devotional verse attributed to Charles Eugene Banks reflects on Christ's rule over hearts as the world grows weary and the bells of gladness ring to honor him.
A boy appears with a Christmas present for Mrs Pinkerly and her companion. Conversation reveals embarrassment as the package is finally acknowledged as life itself in a coy, theatrical exchange.
A humorous exchange shows a clerk apologizing for being out of mistletoe and a Miss Kissam seeking a substitute. The clerk mentions that the substitute depends on the man, reflecting a witty twist in holiday shopping.
Auntie asks what to give Santa for Christmas. May replies with her stocking as the gift. She imagines Santa might fill it and return it to her, a humorous exchange from Harper’s Young People.
Brief note contrasts Christmas generosity with personal gifts and a humorous exchange about a dressing gown and a hundred-dollar check. It cites Life as the source of the joke and mentions Measure for Measure in context.
An eastern railroad bid for next year’s world’s fair traffic tests a new locomotive drawing two cars over a measured mile in forty-seven seconds, ahead of a similar Johnny Bull pattern at sixty-five seconds. A Georgia woman under twenty makes four hundred seventy one quilts, twenty seven in the current year.
During the week after the dedication, Novetern New York infants received names honoring Columbus. The pattern reflects local civic tribute and cultural ties to the explorer's legacy in the city.
Fragmented notes report Christmas services at State Street M E Church and public notices. Includes register reminder, local court actions, estate probates, administrative appointments, and a church music program with times. Mentions a new hotel talk, a ship arrival in Port Spain, and a finger injury at Waldron Brownell firm.
The Epworth League will hold its second lecture next Thursday evening in A R Hall. Dr K L Greene, a veteran of the late war, will speak on Fan and Fury of a Soldier Life. A veterans' squad will share the platform as piano soloist James Miller Jr. and a double quartette perform patriotic songs before the talk.
The melodrama Hands Across the Sea will run at Town Hall next Wednesday evening with new scenic effects noted as startling. Reviewers praised the absorbing story and dramatic ship scene, saying the production eclipses recent melodramas and drew applause with cries of Come again after the final act.
A new passenger steamboat under construction for the Fall River Line will be twenty feet longer than the Puritan and will carry 1,400 passengers and crew, with 800 tons cargo capacity. The dining saloon seats 280, and the aft dining room leads to a ladies’ cabin. Engine space remains below the main deck for versatile use.
Masonic Erection reports St Albans Lodge No 6 AF and AM held its annual meeting to elect officers. Elected were W M J H Young W M L Bosworth J W F B Wilson Treasurer J H Pitman Secretary C H Whedon S D Orrin Wilson J D CG W Tyrrell Steward W O Thackery J S A B R Newman Chaplain W R B Franklin Marshal T F Usher Tyler B T Munro Installing officer R W D D G M F G Styles.
Art St Marys Cauren DuHaist i Mas Day Winter's Mass will be sung at 5 30 and 10 30 p m. The choir of named singers will render Pastorals at the Offertory under Miss K OBrien Miss J Dywer Miss A Downey Miss M Hamill sopranos Miss L Ormond alto Edward Maynes baritone J Bacon J OBrien basses. The Children's Mass will be said at 9 o'clock and Vespers and Benediction at 7 30 in the evening.
The Herreshoff Manufacturing Co in this town received a New York syndicate’s order to build a steel Cup defender. John B. Herreshoff says Archibald Rogers leads the syndicate, with more partners unnamed. Construction will start soon in the same shop as the Carroll 84footer, with material arriving next week and completion within a fortnight. The project is tightly planned to keep details secret until the challenger is under way. The defender is expected to cost about $76,000, a sizable sum for a single-season yacht.
A Christmas week program at Providence Orima House opens with a new star and play starting Monday the 26th. The production previously praised in New York’s Standard, featuring Lilian Lewis as lead in Lawrence Marm ton’s Lady Lil, is set in Prague during the 1866 Austro Prussian war with a plot of Lady Colomba Lil, a premier circus rider, seeking her child abducted by a bigamist Hassan. The show boasts lavish staging, costumes, and alternately dramatic scenes. Lewis delivers a demanding performance amid costly wardrobes. The Bristol UOCGC held a Monday meeting at Eagle Hall electing officers led by Andrew Rounds and William Spooner as reps. The Roseet Exmer Association named its officers at its annual Sunday meeting. Harper’s January issue opens with Julian Ralph’s The Old Way to Dixie, a Mississippi voyage piece, the first in a South series for the magazine, illustrated by W. T. Smedly.
A fragmentary verse notes a lover gave something to nestle near her heart and declares that in all her future life she shall never bear a part again. The oblique reflection hints at lasting separation and memory.
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