Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-02
FIFTY YEARS AGO
In THE STAR

Most of the younger generation are ac-
customed to think of Japan as a full
fedged nation of world rank.
Japanese and it is difficult for them
Treaty: to realize that its emergence
from its ancient state Of Sc
clusion dates back comparatively few
years. The following paragraph. printed In
The Star of June 25. 1885, suggests the
rapidity with which the island empire has
developed:
Commander Henry Adams. u. s. N. who
left Washington on the 30th Of September
Inst. to bear hack for ratification the treaty
with Japan. arrived at Hongkong on the
first OF January. and In Japan on January
Is. and made the exchange OF Publications
on the 2ist Of February as United (States)
commissioner. He reached this city this
morning. bringing back the emperor's rati-
ficatioR to the treaty. this being the first
time that the emperor ever placed his sig
nature to such q document. Commander
Adams Is in capital health. and looks as
well after his long. rapid and arduous
Journey as his many friends can wish. He
represents that the jealousy with which
our officers and seamen were at first re-
ceived has vanished. and that he was per-
mitted to go wherever he went. They. the
people Of Japan. express great anxiety for
the arrival OF American merchant ships"
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Sunday evening frame building on
Pennsylvania avenue between 18th and 18th
streets was destroyed by fire.
feaceIul The Star Of Monday ex-
Firemen pressed the belief that the
limitation of the flames was
largely due to the good work of the new
hook and ladder company and to the fact
that all the firemen worked In harmony,
saying:
are deserving OF the highest praise. Their
movements were conducted in an orderly
manner. and q fraternal feeling seemed to
animate them. This feature was peculiarly
gratifying to all lovers of peace. and 1t Is
to be hoped that such becoming conduct
may never be disturbed by mischieyous and
unrehecting persons. We feel assured that
trpe firemen win ever be first and foremost
to demand harmony and good order.
The hOusehoiders OF the hfties were no
better OF than those of today In the mat
ter of getting the summer refuse removed.
A correspondent signing Sixth Street"
wrote to The Star of June q as follows:
May ask that you permit a reader and
subscriber to your valuable little daily to
call the attention of the mayor or the COM
missioners of the wards, respectively, to
the necessity of having the garbage cart
sent round more regularly, and oftener than
once week? How, may ask, are people
during the heat of summer to bear the
nausea of the kitchen offal kept up for
week.?
The boarding house joke" is perennial.
No man has the temerity to claim its in
vention. The Star of June 81
Venerable 1855. printed this variation of
Jest. H. ooao'iess with iuii men
tai reservation of respect for
its antiquity:
Mrs Partington. junior. has missed her
gutta percha chicken, piece of India rub
Der beef, Joint of leather mutton and a
piece of butter strong enough to pull down
the Washington monument. She has reason
to believe that the stolen articles may be
found at some Of the fashionable boarding
houses. Where are the pOlice?"
Here Is a bit of the manners" of the fif
ties. as shown in paragraph In the same
issue:
ION Sunday an exquisite of the first
watah stepped into one of our principal
hotels and accosted the chief clerk with:
'Waitah, give me glass of watah The
clerks anger was aroused in an instant.
and, pointing to the cooler, he replied:
Oh you. sir, there's water; go help your
selfr White kids took the blotter from the
register and tore it into two pieces; one
piece he used to wrap around the glass, the
other to save his gloves from the spigot
After he had got his fill he turned to the
clerk and remarked: 'Ah waitahi that's fine
watah, very cold! A number of gentlemen
were sitting around at the time. and the
scene caused a burst of laughter"
Baltimore experienced an earthquake dur
ing the very early morning of June 2S and
The Star of the Goth contained this COM
ment on the affair:
1T appears that our neighbors of Balti-
more were especially visited with earth
quake yesterday morning at few minutes
past midnight, and, according to some of
the accounts. the houses were violently
shaken and people. aroused from their
pleasant slumbers. ran into the streets in
related; and though doubts were at first en-
tertained by our newspaperal neighbors,
they now agree that it was veritable
earthquake A dispatch was sent by tele-
graph to this city inquiring whether the
shock was felt here. and the response was
an emphatic No. There was. however
some quaking in the public departments, it
being near the first of the month. But be-
You'd this We have NO particulars
A lightsome spirit of poetic fancy played
over the whole community those days. The
following more or less metri-
SWeet cal advertisement of Mrs
Vers. Knots Ice Cream" printed
in The Star of June 80. may
be accepted as token of the period:
Good people ALL of every sort,
Give unto my song;
And If you find II wond rous short,
1t cannot hold you long.
Good Mrs. Knott deserves a CALL
For making creams the best;