Evening star., 1918-07-07
FIFTY YEARS AGO In THE STAR

convention did not begin balloting
until the 7th, and 1t was not until
the 9th that ticket was named.
4
In The Star of July 3, 1868 is 4
news item regarding the annual re-
port of the WASH
Street Railway ington ami George
town railroad for
Oenctt. the year ending
January !, 1868, which had Just been
laid before the House oy the Speaker.
The item states:
The report was prepared by w.
Dunning. president, in compliance
with section No. 16 of the charter Of
the road. The receipts from passen-
gers were s320.076.6s. and from other
sources S4.231.6s. making total OF
S324.371.37. The expenditures are
given as follows: Transportation ac-
count and expenses incident thereto.
$2S6,03 rent, S1.200.67: ticket ac-
count. S934.90: interest account. $20.-
087.39; government tax, S10,927. oil,
local tax. s2,s6s.ss: insurance account.
S2,s07.25: dividends. $4,000; sinking
fund. $4.051.25; real estate account.
$912.22. making a total of s349.016.0s
for expenditures and leaving deficit
of $24.644.53 for the year.
The number of passengers carried
during the year was 6,672,393: num-
ber of transfers, being passengers
carried twice for one fare. 1.269,1S0:
number of passengers from whom
fares at 6 cents were collected. A.
991. sos; number of passengers from
whom fares of s cents (patd BY
tickets) were collected, 411.60s: cost
of carrying each passenger paying a
1.cS nnp1hAr af round
trips. 1890; average number Of trips
per day made by each car. 16; average
number Of cars run each day. As;
average number of miles run each
day by each car, 49,"
On the Fourth Of July. 1883, Presi-
dent johnson issued a proclamation
Of general smnesty for
Amnesty all offenses arising from
the war between the
GRANTED. states. supplementary to
| earlier amnesties proclaimed by him.
| The Star of that date thus explains
the proclamation:
Elsewhere will be found tho proc
lamation by the President OF general
amnesty to the participants in the
resistance, WHICH oNSa
three years ago, to the federal gov
ernment in the south. He includes
in this proclamation all the classes
who were excluded in previous proc
lamations, except those under pre-
sentiment or Indictment ir the courts
| The last amnesty proclamation was
| September Z, 1857. and It excludes
| from its benefits and fri n the bene-
| fits of the proclamation of May 20.
| 1865, the president. vice president
and all heads Of departments of the
| Confederate government. its agents
| in foreign states and countries: Of
| ficers in the army above the grade
/, of brigadier general or in the navy
| above the grade of captain; all who
| were governors of states in the Con-
| federacy during the war; all persons
| treating otherwise than as lawful
| prisoners of war persons in the serv-
| ice of the United States; persons in
civil or military custody at the time
| they may seek to obtain the benefits
| of the proclamation and all persons
| engaged directly or indirectly in the
| assassination of the President or in
| any plot or conspiracy connected
| Herewith. All these. which EN- mbrace
many officers of high rank. both in
| the civil and military services of the
| late Confede-acy. are pardoned by
! the Presidents proclamation, with
| the exception of Jefferson Davis and
| other persons against whom indict-
ments have been found. and with tn
| exception of those who have violated
| the laws of war in the treatment o.
! prisoners"