Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

Evening Star and a long thin English
letter substituted for the English text. The
subheads Daily Evening Star, as set by
Tate were retained, but the ffrst-page sub
head was shifted from the second to the
fourth column. Wallach and Hope had not
been long in control of The Star when they
again changed the great-head to 1.-The
Evening Star and reverted to the English
text. The world has been made over in
fifty years but the changes that have taken
place in the makeup of The Star may be
easily counted, even though fifty zodiacs
have rolled round.
The main date line of the first Star was
.'Washington. Thursday Afternoon De-
cember 16. 1852" This form has been
changed to washington, D. c., December
16, 1902" In the first Star the number of
the volume appeared at the left of the
great-head and the number of the issue at
the right In The Star of 1902 the whole
number of the paper appears at thu left of
the great-head and the legend, Two
Cents" at the right.
The great head of the first Star covered
three of the five columns; that of the
present Star covers five of the seven. The
side columns of the Tate Star extended to
the page rule; the rules of the side columns
today extend to the page rule. but cut
by the rule under the main date line, that
all the news heads a the top of columns on
the first page may be in line.
In The Star of the periods of Tate and of
Wallach and Hope, where the words 1.-THE
Star occurred. only the noun was placed
in quotation marks and the article was not
spelled with capital. This was followed
by the style of printing The Star in quote
marks, thus: THE STAR and this by
style of setting 1.-THE Evening Star in
small capital nonpareil without quote
marks. The present style is simply The
Star, with no quotation marks.
First Page Fashions.
The Star of 1859 carried small lads" on
the first page. This was fashion then, in
herited from Great Britain, where the GUS
tom now obtains. 1t was not until a decade
ago that small ads were banished
from the first page of The Star and
forced to find shelter inside the paper.
This old custom survives in few metr2p1li-
tan daily papers, among them being the
Wilmington Every Evening, the Baltimore
Sun and Baltimore American, and even in
these papers news is slowly driving the
small lads" from their commanding posi-
ton Page one Of the New York Herald
carries small lads" but this page is viz
tually the cover of the small lad supple
ment and not of the news section.
The Star was one of the newspapers
which early in its career called attention
that it published news on the first page. In
the spring of 1868 the following announce
ment appeared at the top of the editorial
column of The Star:
'sThe Evening Star, published daily. Sun
day excepted at The Star Building. S.W
corner of Pennsylvania av. and 11th streets
by Noyes Baker and Co. Reading matter
on every page. See outside for intere sting
telegraphic and other matter
1t is curious that the management of a
that news was to be found on the first
page,
News is rarely exposed on the first page
by British newspapers, even in this age OF
publicity The front page of the London
Times, Chronicle, Standard, Mail, News and
Echo. the Manchester Guardian, Glasgow
Herald, Leeds Mercury, Cardiff Mail Dun
dee Journal. Birmingham Post and Hull
News is given over to special notices.,
"coals" 'houses and shops to be let"
births, marriages and Deaths shipping,
tours, etc." entertainments, auctions
businesses for sale and wanted publish
ers' announcements. insurance" and pa
rochial." The London Express has adopted
the American way in modified form. and
! the st. James Gazette and the Pail Mall