Evening star., 1920-06-13
FIFTY YEARS AGO IN
THE STAR.,vN

Matthew G. Emery was elected
mayor OF washington Juner6., 1s7oI
| after a campaign un-
M. g. Emery's paralleled in the Dis
| r,.. trict of Columbia for
bitterness and parti-l
san intensity. The Star. which had
predicted his election by a substsn-
tial majority, carried in a specialSedi.
ton on that day an announcement
] that his margin over Mayor Bower,
would be Approximately $500. The
next day The Star said editorially:
I'VE have never seen Washington
looking 50 happy as today. There Is
a sort of heRtifc. millennial. glori-
Gus blaze of content on the face OF
everybody you meet most delightful
| to behold. We say everybody, be-
cause the Bowen crowd had retired
to such strict seclusion that not
man of them has been seen today.
The Great Bogus Is missing from the
city hall; Cook is not to be found
scented gang. ALL all are missing
| IL.
Gone. gone are they where the wood
bine twineth. But they are not miss
ed. We are happy without them.
| THE Star. as the first paper to take
ground for Mr.. Emery. naturally feels
quite sunny over yesterdays result
That result. through the reports in
| our different extras. was given at
| noon yesterday very definitely. At
| that hour we announced that Mr.. En-
cry had carried every ward in this
| city by majority that we estimated
at close upon $500 The official re-
turn shows his majority to be 3.21a.
1 In the last edition of The Star at Z
o'clock pm. we were able to give the
returns with almost official exactness.
| The sale OF the different editions
of The Star yesterday was enormous.
surprising anything since war times
and showing the intense interest felt
| by the people OF this community in
| the result OF the great battle made
| against the ring. TAe election OF Mr..
Emery has served 70 create a general
munity, and especially among our
business men, whose interests have
been so seriously crippled under the
Bowen rule. On Monday next Mr..
Emery will be inaugurated mayor of
| Washington, and then we may hope
| will be entered upon"
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News OF the death OF CharIeaDfcles
ems was printed in The Eta3 .pe
June 10. 1870 - =
Death of cablegram fron1, Lone
-, don. dated Juno .aS
Dickens. follows:
"The London Globe, IN It's Adnfoa
this evening. startled the community
with the announcement that Charles
Dickens had been seized with parals
ysis and was lying insensible az hiD
residence at Gads Hill, near Rocha
ester. In Kent. The news spread raps
| idly and created the most profound
regret; but the worst is still to come.
kilograms have since been received
which announce the death OF the great
novelist at quarter past s this even
| ing. Mr.. Dickens was at dinner on
Wednesday when he was seized with
the At. DR.. Steele OF the village OF
| Stroud, who was in former years the
| family physician of Mr.. Dickens. was
| Immediately called in and remained
until nearly midnight. The condition
| of the patient becoming worse and
worse, 1t was deemed advisable to
summon physicians from London. Tel
egrams were promptly dispatched. and
1 this morning several London physi-
clans arrived at Gads Hill. consul
| tation was held and the case was at
once pronounced hopeless. The pa
| tient sank gradually and died at IS
minutes past in the evening. Mr.
i Dickens had been i'll for several days.
| but not seriously He had even Wis.
tied Rochester and other points dur
| ing. the present week"
vSL al-a-
the following comment on the nrst
page on the death OF
American Dickens:
Charles Dickens. the
ooffo". great English novelist. is
dead. The unexpected and sorrowfui
ltidines were conveyed to us through
the Atlantic cable this morning. and
no sadder message has it ever brought
US. The announcement will be re-
| ceived with grief no less profound IN
this country than in the land or ms
birth. for we are reading people ana
1haye long since forgotten any ErieN-
ance we imagined we had against the
greatest writer of fiction of the cen
fury. in the great pleasure the I'M
mortal creations of his genius nave
afforded us. Even if he had not IN
MS OWN ITdHh anu
jrected the impression created ny ms
earlier works that he was hostile 70
our people and our institutions. ~
would not have detracted from ms
popularity here. where neariy every
man. woman and child is indebted 10
him for hours and days of unalloyed
pleasure, and where the characters
!he had depicted are as real and as
| familiar to us as II we had iived
| among them for years. The opening
I cSa W
was engaged at the time of his death.
The Mystery of Edwin brood show
that he had lost none of his peculiar
power. On the contrary. his admir-.
ers think it gave ample promise oi
being in some respects his best work
! "Mr. Dickens readings from his own
works in this country in 1sS1-6s are
Remembered with delight by the null
tituSes who crowded the halls where
he gave those unique entertainments.
THE pathos he threw into those az
| fectine passages of David Copper.
field which even on the cold printed
page moved the most unsympathetic
readers. was in striking contrast with
the rollicking style in which he re-
lated the comical incidents at Bob
Sawyer's party or the sly humor
with which he gave the trial scenes
from the Pickwick Papers showing
him to have been a thorough master
| of the dramatic art
|
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| The reference in The Star announce
ment to the last story of Dickens
long list of works of fc-
edwin tion Is supplemented m
| the same issue, June 10.
brood" ,s7o hv the following
paragraph:
| IAN incidental question OF conslo-
iar.h,e literary interest will arise in