The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13
BOSTON BREEZES.
THE SERIOUS SICKNESS OF GOV.
ERNOR OLIVER AMES.

Burgess Remarkable Success With
Cutter Model-Odd Novelties In Ma
riage Observation-Disclosures Promise
BosToN, July II.
Governor Ames, it appears, is sufferin
from the results of doing too much bushes
in too few hours and not giving his stomac
the regular hours of labor
which it was entitled. That his col
dition io serious is shown by the fact tina
his physicians forbid his removal to his coun
try house. II is even said that he cannot liv
more than week or two. The sympath..
and good wishes of all people are with hin
now that he is helpless, and one hears goo'
deal about his plain virtues.
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The decay of yachting interest is shown by
the fact that little notice has been taken by
the press generally of one Of the most signifi
cant developments Of the season-the PROOF
Burgess has given that he can design cutter
that will outsail the sloops Of his rivals Here
tofore Jealous persons have asserted that the
success Of the Burgess boats in the cur
races was due to their being sloops
while the British boats we're cutters.
The remarkable ease with which
his cutter, the Papoose, outsailed A. G.
Smiths sloop Banshee over the Larchmont
course was great surprise to yachtsmen,
not only in this country but in England and
the Provinces, as the betting showed Promi-
nent yachtsmen desire to have Mr.. Burgess
design cutter to race against Britain's best
and, if possible, thus gain the glory of beating
the Englishmen with their own type of boat.
A challenge race on that basis may take
place this fall.
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Modjeska had pretty honor prettily be-
slowed upon her in Boston recently. The
sweet and brilliant lady, whom many
adore and all admire, was shop
ping one day when she was approached
by an unknown lady of elegant
bearing, who placed in her hands bunch of
exquisite roses with the request: "Allow me
the pleasure of presenting these, in apprecia-
ton of the great pleasure you have many
times afforded me-" The actress received the
favor gracefully, and on a subsequent oc-
casion let the story out by making inquiries
about the donor, who proved to be one who is
perhaps the most prominent leader of Boston
society.
Bandmann, the actor, seems to play best
the part of Nemesis Not content with over
shadowing Mansfield's "Jekyll and HYDE in
this country, he has followed the young ven
turer to London to take the wind out of his
sails there.
Some people call it mean for the veteran to
SO poster the YOUTH but perhaps he is inspired
by benevolent desire to teach him lesson
in morals, and SO enrich the younger mans
talents with an admixture of character.
Mansfield snubbed Bandmann once when the
latter asked him the favor of a pass to his
performance. Bandmann was of too little
importance for the young actor to waste
courtesy upon, but one moment of good
nature would have saved him his present
annoyance for Bandmann, irritated
by the snub, went at once to his
hotel to read Stevenson's novel, and
sat down and turned it into
a play much superior to Mansfeld's version.
Within few weeks he had company on the
road in the same route as Mansfield, and is
still profting by Mansfelds advertisements.
What snub didn't pay.
Bandmann is aided by Manager Palmer of
the Madison Square theater, whom Mansfield
needlessly angered by refusing him leave to
use his own theater daytimes for rehearsals
while Mansfield was leasing it for night per-
formances.
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The success of Superintendent Of Police
Small in getting Chief Inspector Hanscom re-
moved is a dearly-won victory, for it has
called public attention to Smal's narrow
mindedness and his apparent inconpetency.
One mischievous effect OF the contro-
versy has been the encouragement of
the small-beer politicians who want
to take the force out of the control of the
state and again turn it over to the machine
for use in city politics. It will be bad day
for Boston when that is accomplished, but
there is little prospect of it. The saloon
keepers may bride the police but there is little
likelihood that they will again be put in open
command of the force. Our citizents have not
yet forgotten the South Boston Street rail-
way strike, which was only prevented from
becoming disastrous by the circumstance that
South Boston politicians of influence at the
city hall found themselves powerless to hold
back the police from depressing the riotous
manifestations of that section.
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Two Boston wedding ushers have been
guilty of the worst case on record of hazing
a newly married couple. They found out the
train on which the pair were to leave town
and made plot with wicked baggage mas
ter When the man and wife reached their
destination they entered their hotel with an
air of frigid indifference toward each other,
which was designed to prevent general knowl-
edge of the fact that this was their bridal
tour But the ice on their cheeks turned to
hot bushes when they saw that guests, clerks
and porters were grinning at their trunks
for these were decorated profusely with
bows of white satin ribbon
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A man who dives into history occasionally
has brought up the interesting fact that the
word "obey" was left out of the marriage
service of the historic Kings Chapel in Bos-
ton in 1885, by Rev. James Freeman, grand
father of the late DIR. James Freeman Clarke.
He remodeled the liturgy in that year, and
Cancelled the obedience clause. His grandson
was no less gallant, and never used the word
in his marriage services.
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A bride at church wedding the other day
introduced a variation into the ceremony by
blowing her pretty little nose with a pretty
little lace handkerchief with a regular resolu-
report. Her friends say she
did it to show she was self possessed!