Evening star., 1921-09-04
FIFTY YEARS AGO
In THE STAR

When Pennsylvania avenue was
paved 1t was thought that the streets
would be thenceforward
Sweeping kept clean. but troubles
g.. arose as will be noted by
S~eos'' the following in The Star
OF August %. 1871:
"Those persons charged with that
duty do not seem to have yet COM
pretended the true theory OF sweep
ing the streets paved with wood
OF course. the attempt to sweep them
without sprinkling at all was little
letter than mischievous idiocy. But
the trouble now is that the sweeping
follows the sprinkling too closely.
The result IL that the deposit is
formed into a sticky paste. which is
street surface by the coarse brooms.
to be dried up and blown about next
day. instead of being swept in heaps
or ridges and carried on by the carts.
What should be done ts to sprinkle
the streets between S and o'clock
in the evening and commence sweep
ing at 10 or II o'clock at night"
4x
Bald heads appeared to be in style
fifty years ago. IL tho following para
graph in The Star of
Bald Heads August 20. 1871. 10 to be
c. taken as a guide:
IL 0'yAe' "A letter from . fash
ionable summer resort says: The
young man IL scarcely considered
eligible unless he has lost his hair.
this being received as an almost in
! dispensable evidence that he has a..
ways moved in the best society
Here's consistency for you. While
masculine beauty draws by . single
hair. II this writer is to be believed.
feminine attractions seem to center in
the capillary adornments. and, not
content with the natural article, the
vegetable and mineral Kingdoms have
| been ransacked for substitutes The
writer fails to explain in what man
ner society causes the badness OF
young men. This is an essential
point. Hitherto the only class in
America who have been charged with
:snatching a man baldheaded' arc tia
aborigines. but 1t fs hardly possible
| that their barbarous system has been
adopted by the best society,""
| IQe uOlelS OF washington mao
hard season fifty years ago, according
to an article in The Star
Hotels of August 80. 1871. and
| W. three Of them, willard's.
SIooe' the Kirkwood and the
Seaton, closed. and there were rumors
that others would follow suit before
the winter started. The Star said:
| I'm the very cases where the pro-
prietors of Washington hotels are
supposed to have oeen successful
pecuniarily. We doubt whether their
profits on the money invested has
close of the war to what the same
amount would have yielded IL used in
almost any ordinary business pursuit.
| The fact is not only dis
| couraging to those now in the busi-
ness, but it will also deter probably
some ambitious persons who have not
yet made the experiment in trying to
find out whether they know how to
keep a hotel The Seaton house" (the
building now occupied by the Central
Union Mission) will be used for gov
ernment offices and may therefore be
permanently counted out in an emu
lard's and the Kirkwood will be re-
opened before Congress assemblies.
and whether the others in regard to
which rumors are current will be kept
open or not remains to be seen. A
deficiency in hotel capacity thus Gre
ated will probably be partially made
up by the opening of one or two minor
establishments and the enlargement
Of one of two Others"