Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
ways found On the side of the right. with
ali my heart l wish ii continued and unlim-
tied prosperity.
MYRON NJ PARKER

Ever since came to this city have read
The Star constantly. l have admired It's en-
terpIlse IN presenting the news OF the world
in an attractive way. and from what have
assures that its success is well deserved.
ANSELM j. McIAURIN,
Senator from Mississippi.
The Evening Star has become a great
paper. thoroughly progressive and reliable.
The long period during which The Star has
been establishing Itself by strict comph-
ance with sound principles has in every
stage been marked with the stamp of sue
cess. SHELBY NJ. CULLoM.
U. S. Senator from Illinois.
I was first elected to the lower house OF
Congress in 1858, and when L came here. In
the Forty-first Congress, / began 10 read
The Star and / have done so with great
pleasure ever since. The growth of the city
since that time has been marvellous. and
The Star has kept fully apace with this adj
at the end of each day IL we did not have
The Star TO look to for the news.
ENGINE HALE.
y. s. Senator from Maine.
For thirty years The Evening Star has
been almost an essential feature of my life,
having acquired to me clements of per-
sonality akin to those OF old and tried
friend. 1t will be hard to find in all news
publishing history a paper which for fifty
years has kept course so fully in har-
munity it represents. Its progress is only
the natural evolution OF institution full
filling the conditions requisite to perpetual
ton. l recall as a striking illustration OF
the progress of the city and of The Star as
well. that only few years ago the geo.
logical survey of the territories occupied
the building now replaced by The Stars
superb home, and that the young men OK
the survey, including myself. occupied as
bed rooms the space now resounding with
the roar of your marvellous presses;
w. II. HOLMES,
Chief of the Bureau OF Ethnology.
have heard with great interest that The
Star is to reach it's fiftieth anniversary as
a newspaper this month. / think am
titled to count myself among the Oldest
of the readers and friends of The Star. I
will not say how soon after 1t began It's
publication became one Of it's readers, but
l have great pleasure as one OF Its oldest
patrons in extending my congrat ulationS
and best wishes. The Star has been In
every sense of the term a newspaper and
family paper, one that could be taken and
read with pleasure and comfort in every
family Its success has been great, but not
greater than 1t has deserved, and to all
who are connected with it 1 give my hear
test congratulations and best wishes for
the future.
E NJ GALLAUDET.
President Gallaudet College.
The Star. on its semi-centennial ami
versary, has my heariest congratulations.
During the twelve years OF my residence in
Washington 1 have been constant reader
of The Star. and have always found 1t a
bright. clean, newsy. progressive sheet.
With the present policy In force am sure
The Washington Evening Star will con-
tinue to hold the honorable position which
WARNER STUTLER.
I wish to congratulate The Evening Star
on It's great success and the high position
world
tiftieth anniversary.
When L came to Washington in 1854 Tho
Evening Star was In it's infancy; but even
then l well remember that IL ranked as one
of the best newspapers in the country, and
was welcome visitor to every household.
With characteristic enterprise 1t has adj
vanced along the lines of honest business
methods and fair dealing to eminent sue
cess. and now occupies an advanced position
with the great dailies OF the world. May
the next fifty years OF its existence find it
still adhering to the same principles and
growing in strength and Importance.
e. G. DAVIS. Collector OF Taxes.
Since have been old enough to observe
and compare in my humble way the relative
merits of newspapers the truth has grown
steadily in my mind that no journal has
better deserved the splendid patronageit has
won than The Evening Star. In proportion
u the size of the community wherein 1t Is
published 1 believe The Evening Star is
now the most thoroughly circulated news
paper in the world. yet | believe that the
future has in store for 1t even brighter
prospects. | congratulate The Star on its
fftieth anniversary; but | congratulate the
people of the District of Columbia moro
that we have so brilliant a star to light our
pathway to knowledge and truth;
FRANCIS NYE,
Member Personal Tax Board.
have been a subscriber to The Star for
more than thirty years, and it appears to
NE that it becomes handsomer and better
and more enterta ming as it grows older. I
most heartily congratulate its management
on its fiftieth anniversary and trust II may
live long and prosper.
MATTHEW TRIMBLE,
Member Board of Assistant AssessorA
VIII The Star please accept my most sin
cere congratulations on its grand success
in the past fifty years, and permit me to
wish for it even greater achievements. II
possible. in the future. Cieanness, fairness
and good judgment have marked its past
course. and cannot but be successful in the
future. H. II. DARNEILLE,
Assessor Of the District.
AS one who sold it on the streets In
boyhood, as one who for several years had
the honor of being a member of its repor-
torial staff and a native of the District
who has read 1t since childhood, L offer my
congratulations to The Star and wish 10
still greater success in the future.
ROBERT w BUTTON,
Chief Engineer of the District Fire De-
partment.
My first remembrance of The Star was
when 1 was a child, when its office was
where No. / chemical engine company In
now-D street near 18th. In those days
The Star very small sheet, but sold
many a copy of it when l was boy during
the early part of the war, and got big
prices for II when IL came out with good
war news. 1 and a boy named Clements
were the first boys to be given passes to
sell it to the soldiers. l have read it ever
since I was big enough to read, and hope
it will always be successful 1t Is to-
day. WIN. It. BELT,
Assistant Chief Of the Fire Department.
1 congratulate The Star on the completion
OF fifty years of steadily increasing pros
perity and influence. In the stormy days OF
81, when The Star nine years OF age
and / a boy of thirteen. entered its service
as a carrier. The modest four-page sheet,
which 1t was then my daily duty to leave
at the doors of its patrons, belated often
times many hours by tardy dispatches from
the battlefieds, hardly suggested the great
metropolitan paper which comes to our
homes today on it's errand of enlightenment
and peace. a powerful agent in helping to
achieve the best things that have come to
Iass in the last half century of the history