Evening star., 1920-01-04
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN THE STAR

are representing to citizens that they
must purchase the number plates
from them, ard that no plate can
be supplied a less than 80 cents.
The fact is, the citizens can put UP
done within sixty days. and. though
the sum of cents-the lowest price
for a numbered plate-may be equita-
bly, due to the numberers for their
trouble of measurement. we take II
they cannot enforce the payment OF
even that amount under the provisions
of the act. AS matter of con-
venience. it will probably be well for
citizens to make arrangements with
the numberers to put up the plates.
but the latter should be made to
understand that they have no pow
ers of compulsion, and that they are
obliged by their contract TO supply
numbers at as low a rate as cents
desired"
1t has been long time since a YER
liable Christmas pantomime was seen
in Washington. Ac-
Pantomime and cording to an item
in The Star OF De-
AlnslioiSy' cember 2s. 1859. the
capital Hdu tHc VI
ing such a performance that season.
and incidentally this item discloses
that a minstrel song that was popu-
lar for many years after was then
in Its early currency:
Gen. Sherman seems, like Gen.
Grant, to have a great love Tor chill
drep, and last night took his boy and
girl, home from school for the holi-
days, and Miss Nellie Grant. to the
National Theater, where the party
seemed greatly to enjoy the adVen-
lures and misadventures of Clown
| and Pantaloon in the Christmas pan
! tomime of Jack and the Bean Stalk
| The piece has been greatly improved
and our readers should remember
that this is the last week.
"A tiptop program was presented
| at Wallis Opera House last night The
performance of thee sensation song
| and dance, Shoe Fly! Don't Bodder
Me- by Leon and Purdy. brought down
the house and had to be repeated. Mr.
Edwin Kelly's ballad singing was
| good and his impersonation of Uncle
Jack in the farce of Twice Married
| was capital. The burlesque on the
| opera of Norma, which concluded the
performance, and in which Leon
was q great success. Tonight Shoe
Fly will be repeated"
| Edwin NJ. Stanton accumulated no
fortune, and his family at his death
was left with
Fund pIonned for out adequate
Stanton's Family. The Star of
December 90, 1869, is the following
item:
Measures have already been inau-
gurated to place the family of the late
! Edwin NJ. Stanton in comfortable
pecuniary position, as Mr.: stanton
| left no property but the mousse oc-
| cupied by his family, on X street.
Three of his children are under four
teen years of age and consequently
are yet to be educated. meeting OF
several of his intimate personal
friends was held ON Monday evening
at the residence of Hon. Samuel Hoop
err at which 1t was determined to
place the sum of 100000 to the credit
of Mr.. Stanton's family by New Year
day President Grant had subscribed
81, 900 for this object. So long as the
| late Secretary lived he steadily. re-
| fused to permit his friends to do any
thing of the kind, but they now feel
| themselves at liberty to care for his
4 family"
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| According to an item in The Star of
December 81, 1869, a definite move
ment for the annexa-
Movemeut for tion of British CO.
lumbia to the United
dnneAdtlon' States was undertak-
en-, though it came to naught:
Vincent Colyer of New York. on
Wednesday, had an interview with the
President and presented to him me-
mortal signed by property holders and
. business men of Victoria in favor of
a transfer of British Columbia to the
United States. This memorial will be
followed by another, signed by mer-
charts of Nanaimo and other places.
| to the same effect. The President yes
| terday informed Mr.. Colyer that he
had read the memorial with much in
| terest and transmitted it to the Secre-
tary of State. Before submitting 1t to
! the President Mr.. Colyer showed the
memorial to Senator Sumner. chair
man of the committee on foreign re-
| lations, who. after reading it, said
L. the movement was important and
should have but one termination. The
memorial sets forth the reasons why
the memorialists earnestly desire the
acquisition of this country by the
United States in preference to Its
| cor Sad 70 tiop With Canada