Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

at Temperance Hail. MI bouNet was
called to the chair. and Mr.. Harvey Ben
ner appointed secretary pro tenn. The OBJ
ject Of the meeting was stated to De the
formation of an organization and raising
funds to be applied to the relief OF faml-
lies Of the employees of the road when
such employees shall become sick or dis
abled. A constitution was adopted and
was signed by all the members present,
and the following permanent officers were
elected: President. 4. A. Shiesier; vice
president. William Terny: secretary. Har-
vey Benner: treasurer. Robert GrlHn: re-
lief agent. John Mcdowell. and chaplain.
Mr.. Bradley.
Just at this time half a century ago
Washington was keenly interested in the
naval operations at
Reconnaissance Charleston, S. C..
where the federal
at Charleston. Acct was operating
against the Confederate defenses. In
The Star of April If. 1863. is the 1oi-
lowing editorial summary of the results
OF this reconnaissance apropos of gloomy
comments that had appeared in the north
ern press:
I'VE are very certain that the govern
ment are by no means Gisheartened at
the result Of the late reconnaissance IN
force at Charleston, as the gold bear Ing
bulls of Wall street assume. Why they
do not see it in the light of a disaster is
very plain Thus. it was demonstrated
first. that the Ericsson monitors can STAND
for three hours the concentrated fire OF
500 pieces of artillery, unsurpassed In eX-
cellence and in the manner in which they
are handled. without the loss OF man on
board either of them. or damage to more
than one of them which was not so re-
paired as to render them again INT for
action within twenty-fOur hours. the
single one placed hors de combat for
more than that time. the Nahant Will De
ready to resume her position in the Meet
in week at farthest. Second. Ii mas
developed the nature and position OF the
distractions placed in the channels by
the rebels. important facts before un-
known to us. 1t turns out that they are
such as our engineers believe they can III
due time overcome Machinery and other
preparations to that end are already in
process of construction. and Will be
pushed to completion with great enerSy.
When completed. they should enable our
monitors to steam past sumter TO the
reduction of Charleston with far less
damage TO them than they sustained in
the recent engagement Third. 1t has Sc
cured for our blockading squadron an
anchorage ground previously unknown.
which contracts TIE lSHslIl VI tAiC iAiS ~
be blockaded quite two-thirds and thus
greatly increases it's impenetrability. All
these results having been achieved with
the loss of but a single ship OF the SQUAD
ron engaged-the smallest and most IN
efIicient-and with but one man killed and
half a dozen wounded. The reader will
conceive that the authorities mere are
probably justified in taking a very differ
ent view of the affair from that insisted
on by those in Wall street who still seek
y
In the absence Of the Atlantic cables
foreign news reached this country by
way of the steamers
Election of of the transatlantic
service In The Star
King George. Of April "A, 1858. is a
closely condensed budget Of items
brought by the steamer city or Ne"
York. sailing from London on the lst.
One of these items, particularly in
teresting in view of the recent tragedy
at Salonihi. Is as follows:
1.-The newly elected King OF Greece is
Prince William George. a brother to
the Princess Alexandra and second son
to Prince Christian. His title will be
George /, King Of the Greeks.
In The Star OF April 16, 1863, is
printed an abstract of a statement by
an eyew tness of
Rread Riots bread riots that had
in Richmond. lately 0e &C pan IN ,ne
which MANY believed fore-shadowed the
early collapse OF the Confederacy, as
follows:
The riot continued for two days
Those engaged in it We're chiefly wom-
en-, the wives of soldiers. who were In
a starving condition. They numbered
n thousand or more and broke into the
stores the keepers Of which endeav-
ored to prevent their ingress by stand-
ing at the doors with weapons in their
hands At this point the soldiers as
sumed their quarrel and rendered as
sistance Finally cavalry company
from Williamsburg and the city pat
TALON We're sent for to queu the riot
Bread riots similar to those in Rich
mond had occurred in North Carolina
and Petersburg. The middle class of
the people in Richmond think the
rebels will be starved out.
Swindlers piled their games during
war times, taking advantage of the
destruction or the puDllc
SWindler mind and particularly
working upon the relatives
OauSA'' Of soldiers. In The Star of
April 16. 1868, is the following news
story of one Of these games, a particu-
larly mean device to get money from
sOrrowing people:
civilian H. Joliffe. who is said to be
a young lawyer hailing from New Jer-
sew, was arrested day or two ago by
Col Bakers detectives, charged with
swindling the families of deceased sol
diers in this wise: He had lot of
blanks printed similar to those used
by the surgeons of hospitals in which
to record the names and addresses or
such soldiers as might die or be dis
charged and by feeling certain of the
hospital clerks he obtained early infor-
nation of the deaths Of soldiers. AS
soon as soldier was reported as dead
on these blank records, Joliffe would
sit down and write to his father,
mother, brother, sister or wife, an
nouncing in sympathetic terms the sad
fact and proposing for consideration
to forward the remains to his family
for intermeht. These letters nearly al
ways brought sums of money in
answer but Joliffe very often forgot
to forward the body and sometimes