Evening star., 1917-11-04
FIFTY YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR

In ThE STAk
When the penitentiary at the arsenal.
at the foot Of AZ street. WAS removed
in the course Of i'm
identified provements ffty years
c. ago the bodies OF tho
0Aoses' Lincoln conspirators
were exhumed and reburied. Accord
ing to The Star Of October 2S. 1857.
care was taken. however. to identity
the burial places by means Of head
boards over the trench in which the
collins had been placed. With the
bodies of Booth. Mrs. Surratt. Payne,
Herold and Atzerodt was buried that
of Wirz. the Andersonville jailer. thus
making six headboards. Ultimately
these bodies were removed from this
place and given interment elsewhere.
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After the civil war a housing prob
lem Of exceptional difficulty was pre-
sented here ewing to tho
Model necessity of providing ac-
r commodations for the
Aouses' refugees and the freed
men who f1ocked to Washington during
and after the conflict. In The Star OF
October 20. 1867. is an article dealing
with the subject Of model dwellings
for the people, which had been devel-
oped in notable exhibit at the Paris
exposition. Great Britain was under
taking housing reforms. applying some
of the principles set forth at the expo
sition. An experiment was also be-
ing tried in France. at Mulhouse, where
a society had been formed for the erec-
ton of model dwellings to be sold vir-
tually at cost to workmen. Practically
the same plan had been put into ef-
feet by the government at Arlington.
Va, to house the freedmen who had
gathered in the most insanitary cir
cumstances in the outskirts OF Wash
ington. The Star says:
without knowing anything Of these
European experiments. IL they had COM
menced at that time-1S63-the plan
Of square cottages. two stories high.
divided by cross walls into four dwell
fngs of two apartments each. a lower
and upper room. the former for living.
the latter for bedchamber, was decided
upon as the most economical method Of
construction as well as the most desir-
able for other reasons. Each of these
cottages has chimney in the center
with stovepipe holes both in the upper
and lower rooms. and to each dwelling
as those Of Mulhouse (144 square
yards). The cottages are also about
the same size. but at Freedman's VII
lage the houses are frame, while at
bic walls Where ground is not too
valuable no better plan than this for
detached dwellings for small families
has yet been devised, and we are sur
prised that it has not been more gen.
orally adopted"
The issue Of The Star of October 81.
1867, announced to the Washington pub
lie change OF ownership
New Star w. D. Wallach. who had
owned and edited The Star
o"Aeis' for twenty-eight years.
made known the fact that he had sold
the paper to a new company compris-
ing Crosby S. Noyes and c. D. Baker.
both of whom had been connected with
The Star. respectively. in the editorial
and business departments for a long
period, and who had associated with
them in their new enterprise Samuel
H. Kaufman. George w. Adams and
Alexander r. Shepherd. The names Of
Messrs. Kaufman. Adams and Shep-
herd. however. were not mentioned in
the first announcements. the new COM
pany being known as Noyes, Baker &
Co. Accompanying Mr.. Wallach's vale
dictory, in which he bespoke for his
successors the confidence and good will
of all his friends and the patrons of
The Star during his long career as its
owner. was a salutatory from the new
owners. in the course Of which. after
1t~y4 h
they said:
Heretofore it has been deemed i'm
possible to sustain journal here di-
vorced from politics and relying for Its
of Washington; but the Washington of
today is something more than a mere
political center, with all its interests
merged in national politics. Our popu-
lation is increasing upon ratio equal
ing that of the most prosperous cities
OF the country. We count the number
of new buildings now erected annually
here by thousands. Our mammoth
skeleton of a city, so long. the subject
with flesh and blood The unsightly
gaps between the aggregated villages
composing the city five or ten years
ago are being filled up with marvellous
rapidity New business enterprises are
springing up in every direction in our
midst; and the magnificent resources
Of the District borders are at length
about to be developed on scale that
promises to add Immensely and perma
nently to the growth and prosperity of
the city. There is a mission here for
paper devoted largely to the encour-
agement of the hopeful new business
career entered upon by the District
cities The Star. by its resources. its
commanding circulation, and the lib
eral advertising support 1t receives. is
favorably situated to undertake that
mission, and we shall enter upon the
experiment without shadow of mis-
giving"
Half a century ago the school teach
ers of the city were paid by the mu-'
nicipality through
Teachers Pay appropriations by the
city councils. In
III Arrears. 1867 a squabble arose
between the two boards of the coun-
ellis over certain terms in the school
bill. and in consequence, according to
The Star OF November /. 1867. the
teachers went for months without pay.
They had at that time received no sal
aries whatsoever since June. The Star
said
I'VE learn from members of the board
of trustees that it Is painful to listen
to the appeals of the teachers for re-
lief. So dubious is the prospect of the
III fk,f I