The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24
Cream of the News
From New England
PUTTING ON the Lid in Boson-Art Museum the Scene Of
Petty Jealousy-A Case of December and May and
Easy Dvorce-Growth of Dartmouth College.

Correspondence Of Tho journal.
Boston, Mass, Dec. 28.-The reform
movement in Boston is becoming more
sensational every day. District Attor-
ney Moran has
Putting the Lid stopped the sale of
liquor at the Tour
on aine, the leading
hotel, and has told
In Boston the police board
that the licenses
held by three other leading hotels,
Young's, Parker and the Essex are not
valid because each of these places has
5 been conducted in direct violation of
the screen law. This is law peculiar
to Massachusetts,. It provides that all
places where liquor is sold must be ex-
posed to public view, that there shall be
nothing in the windows to obstruct the
view After Moran was elected, stained
glass windows and other distractions
were taken from the windows of lead
ing hotels, and now some of the most
fashionable dining-rooms are in PLAIN
view of the street, without curtains or
anything else on the windows. The
police commissioners, taking their cue
from the district attorney, have begun
to enforce the same law in its applica-
tion to druggist licenses, and number
of large concerns have given up their
licenses rather than clear their win
dows of the colored bottles, signs and
goods displayed in them. The enforce
ment of the law is being carried to such
extremes that more determined effort
will be made to have it changed at the
next session of the legislature. The
Touraine complains Of heavy loses and
there has been talk of closing it. Wis
itors to Boston who want their liquor on
Sunday are put to all sorts of incon-
venience. On the other hand the tenn
perance people are greatly pleased with
the stand taken by the new district at
torney, and he is receiving a great many
letters of commentator. The temper
ance people in the past have been very
strong when matters which interested
them came before the legislature. They
have resisted successfully year after
year all attempts to have the liquor
laws changed, and will probably renew
the fight with great vigor. Their
strength comes prime pally from the
country districts of the state, for Bos-
ton does not pretend to have anything
that might be even mistaken for self
government.
LII. JUuu IL. HduDOIu, one OI LIE IlOSG
widely known physicians in New Hamp-
Falls from paralysis. He was rs years
of age.
Fashionable and artistic Boston is en-
gagged in fierce sort of civil war over
the Museum of Fine Arts. It has Just
transpired t h
Politics the resignation of
Edward Robinson
in the director, who
has now been Of
Art fered the position
H. Of assistant dfrec-
tor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York, has been due to differ
ences which have rent the board of
trustees, and resulted in codicils being
made to the wills of many wealthy and
prominent Bostonians. The whole
trouble arose out of differences between
Mr.. Robinson and President Samuel D.
Warren, who is sponsor for a young
Englishman, Matthew S. Prichard, who
was brought over here to become as
sistant director, and with Mr.. Warren
became member of a social clique in
which Mrs. John L. Gardner is prom
inent figure. These started in to revo
lutionize things in the museum, an6
many of the changes were made while
Mr.. Robinson was in Europe. The
breach between the two factions became
wider and wider, until Mr.. Robinson
unable longer to submit to all that wa
being done, decided to resign. This wa
several months ago, but the resignation
was not accepted until this week whel
the cat was let out of the bag, and thu
committee Of five appointed to investi
gate and if possible adjust the differ
ences, decided to make it's report.
George H. Conley, superintendent O.
schools in Boston, died suddenly thi
week of heart disease. Mr.. Conley wa
native of Lowell, where he early be
came identified with school work, afte
time coming to Boston where he wa
made a member of the board Of super
visors, then succeeding Edwin P. Sea
yer as superintendent. /.
The social sensation of the white
came this week in the announcement
that Captain Nathan Appleton was su
ing for divorce i
social Sensation order to MARI
Miss Edith Rus
In the sell-Wills of New
buryport. Capital
Appleton Divorce Appleton is 6
years of age an
Miss Wills 80. The former has bee
separated from his wife almost sine
their marriage, and the friendship O
Mrs. Appleton for, Miss Parsons
from whom she, has been inseparabl
since their first meeting, has been on
of the mysteries of the affair. Mis-
Wills has frankly stated that she wi
marry Captain Appleton because Of he
high regard for him, and in order tha
she may further her own social amb
tions. She has about $4,000 in he
own right, which in Newburypo1
amounts to something, and by MARI,
sasce .4Si>> L..