Evening star., 1919-02-23
FIFTY YEARS AGO In THE STAR

gress. while rejecting that plan, has
failed to designate aty other. Win
not that body contrive some way to
! take US out of limbo"
Permits wore granted fifty years
ago to relatives of those involved in
the Lincoln assassina-
Booths Body tion conspiracy who
rIe were buried at the
Aaehtlneo.. arsenal to remove
the bodies to other interments. The
bodies of Heroid Atzerodt and
Booth were thus taken away, that OF
Booth being removed TO Baltimore
February 16, 1869. The following
paragraph in The Star of February
IS indicates that there was no doubt
whatever at that time of the identity,
, concerning which there has in recent
years been some discussion, coupled
with the suggestion that Booth was
not slain in 1865, but escaped and
flfea Tor a considerable period in
| foreign lands:
The remains were not removed
yesterday to the vault in Greenmount
cemetery, as II was expected they
would be. but still remain at the es-
tahiIshment of Mr. Weaver. the un-
dertaker, in Baltimore. Yesterday
Mrs. Booth. the mother. and her
Youngest son, Joseph Booth, arrived
IN that city from New York and the
remains will be deposited today IN
the private vault of Mr.. Weaver at
Greenmount without any cerentsSy
whatever. religious or otherw3se.
They VIII there rest until such ttp,a
as II may please the family to order
the hnal entombment. along with the
remains of relatives of the deceased,
near the grave of their father, Junius
Brutus Booth, the elder. in the Balti-
more cemetery. Mrs. Booth has not
seen the remains, though they have
been viewed by the son accompanying
her and by a few others for purposes
OF satisfactory identification, which
was complete. His brother identified
the remains beyond doubt by means
OF peculiarly plugged tooth"
Although denied part in the national
elections, the people of the District
fifty years ago still hoped
Office for some part. of the po-
1itical rewards when a
SeonciS. new President took offce-
In The Star of February 10, Is6e,- is
long summary of the Offices to
which Washingtonians might have
reason TO aspire. prefaced as follows:
"If anybody supposes that because
the people of the District of Colum-
bia are denied the. sweet privilege of
| voting on national questions they are
insensible to the charms of federal
offices, that person ought to make
t1A ...,.k a. - e.
days. In a very short time he would
find how mistaken he was-that is to
say, if he had facilities for circu-
lating around among the various
| rings and taking note of the hopes
and fears of those who want to get
somebody out in order that they may
get themselves In, and with those
who are not so anxious about keeping
anybody out as they are about keep
ing themselves in. In short, he would
/ find that there is good deal OF human
nature. native and imported, in our
little bit of anomalous territory. and
/ that in the matter of Office hunting
and office holding the, District is a
sort of imperium in imperio-' Within
| the big. round-bellied national pap
kettle, from which the hungry ,ex-
pectants of the country at large hope
| to draw sustenance for the next four
years, there is a smaller pottaeer,
containing some rather palatable
prog in the way, of local Offices, on
the scent of which our home patriots
are as keen as are their brethren
, from the states on that of the gen.
eral mess; and as the 18th of March
draws nigh they are getting their
ladies and spoons ready for q dip.
And not only our home patriots.
tVying in vigor and enrontery with
that noble army may be seen an i'm
posing array of political soldiers of
fortune who come hither from other
localities. fondly hoping to find that
which has been denied, them at home.
and who, if they fail in their efforts.
can console themselves with the
thought that it wasn't for the want
of trying"