The Portland daily press., 1896-09-30
CAN'T PLAY BALL.
Portland City Fathers Outclassed
By Boston Paters.
BUT THEY ARE HAVING A GOOD
TIME JUST THE SAME.

BUT THEY ARE HAVING A GOOD
TIME JUST THE SAME.
Full Account of Doings of Our City Gov
ernment at the Hub Yesterday-The
inspection of the subway-The Ball
Game and the Banquet.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1
| Boston, September a9.-The city faith
ers of Portland are the guests OF the
Boston city government here today. The
Portland men came up here Dragging
Of their ball team and Its prowess. They
brag no more and even George Staples,
who tried to, give the Portland men a
chance by running things for one in
| ming, as he would Ward caucus, ao-
knowledges sadly tonight that the Port
land men can play at politics and
monkey appropriation bills as we'll as
any city government in the country, shut
they cannot play ball. And George
Staples is no longer safe in Boston. He
| called three strikes on Alderman Ma
honey when the crowd on the bleacl ers
clearly recognized the fact that Absar-
| man Kehoe could not throw a ball 4 or
| the plate and the superintendent Of 1 q
Portland streets is accordingly dislikes.
1t was q great game, though, and this
Portland men, like the colored troops In
| the war, "done nobly."
| A finer day for visit to the Hub
could not have been taken in months
and the Portland men, under the Kind
attention of the Boston men are enjoy
ing every moment of this trip.
The following are the Portland party
Aldermen John B. Kehoe, John r. FaRan
Zenas Thompson, Winslow e. Howell,
Councilman Sprague Johnston. Bryson,
Henley, Pine, Stone, Brown, Flaherty,
Mcdonald, Corey, Theodore johnson,
Lamson, Mayberry, ]. =. A. Morrill,
City Marshal Henry 8. Triokey, City
Messenger George e. Macgowan, City
Auditor Leroy L. Sanborn. City Asses-
sors VIM. O. Fox, Walter L. Lefavor,
Horace A. Hallett. Ohief En- gineer Fire
AcpuA AAoAvAA1O W. AkuISsit<o, Ou-
perintendent of Streets George Staples,
Building Inspector Josiah @. Ward, Park
Commissioner A. W. Smith, Charles e.
| Covell, ex-Alderman Randall, Edgar E.
Rounds, ex-Alderman Little, Superin-
tendent Harry Mcleod OF the Portland
80 Cape Elizabeth railroad. Charles E..
Douglass, Henry II. Hunt, William
H. Phillips, Michael G. McCann, Martin
Sullivan, John q. Callan, Il. NJ. Bige-
low, Portland PRESS, Frank BlaisdsIl,
Portland Railroad Company. D. B.
Smith, manager of the Riverton Casino,
H. B. Ward.
| On the trip to Boston, which was made
in special car provided through the
courtesy of President Luoius Tuttle of
the Boston & Maine, the party passed
the time pleasantly in playing bwhist
and in conversation. Some of the crowd
had turned up at the Union station in
the morning looking little sleepy still,
and as very few of them ara aceustome ed
to turning out of a comfortable bed at
s o'clock in the morning the early start
proved the most formidable obstacle to
the trip. Arriving in Boston at 10. Is
o'clock the Portland solons were met by
| the reception committee of the Boston
| city government, composed of Aldermen
William f. Donovan, John J. Mahoney
and Charles Il. Bryant, and Council
men G. Waldron Smith, Timothy K. Nc
| Carthy and Alfred Newmarch, and taken
in special car to the American house,
where they were assigned to rooms. The
Portland delegation had been provided
with badges on the train and were furth-
or decorated at the hotel by the Boston
reception committee with blue button
with the word Portland inscrib bed
thereon.
After brief stay at the American
house the visitors were taken in another
special car to the Providence depot where
| they entered what Is to be the greatest
tunnel in the world and spent over two
hours in making an examination of it
| to the portion now under constr uction
In making this tour the party had the
advantage of the guida nee of Rapid
Transit Commissioner Gargan and the
engineer in charge, Professor Swain of
the Institute of Technology. These
gentlemen thoroughly explained the de-
tails of the immense work and found in
the Portland contingent thoroughly
appreoiative audience.
At 1a O'Clock the party went to the City
hall, and after building under the pilot
age of the attentive reception committee.
were received by Mayor Josiah Quincy.
the third Of the family to occupy the ex-
ecutive chair of the Boston city govern
ment. Alderman Kehoe of Portland,
the chairman of the committee OF ar
rangements of the Portland city govern
ment, introduced each member of the
party to Mayor Quincy, who shoe k
hands with each one and had pleasant
word for all. Boston's mayor fs slight
built man with kindly AMI rather youth
full face. He comes from stock which
has often figured in the history of Mas
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