Evening star., 1922-05-14
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

r. t. Barnum's Great Travelling Mu.
| scum. Menagerie and Worlds Fair" N
six separate colossal tents,
Barnum's showed in Washington at
cl this time fifty years ago,
"' May and z, 1872. The
| Star Of the 7th said of this great ae-
| gregation. tnen. as for many years,
\ the leading outdoor entertainment OF
| America:
| THE novel procession which passed
! through our streets yesterday, to-
| gether with the fame of the great
! Snowman. aroused the curiosity of
young and old America to the high
est pitch to ,ec- if everything they
had read AM ard of Barnums pre-
| eminence as =. Snowman was correct
| The result was great rush to the
afternoon and evening exhibitions
under the colossal tents at the foot
| of Sixth street. The crowd was SO
great at night that many had to be
| turned away. The wonders of the
museum attracted great. attention.
but not more than the menagerie
! This superb collection is not made
up Of buffaloes. bears, monkeys and
other animals which are tolerably
familiar, but contains many anims Is
| never before seen in this country
Admiral Nutt--a 16-pound dwarf
bearded girl, the cannibais. the arm
less woman and hundreds of other
curiosities are in the museum. Dal.
Castello's circus, which forms part
of the great combination. is too wei
known to need much praise. If II
were not the best of its kind Bar-
mum would not have it,"
The housing problem was a difficult
one fifty years ago, and in various parts
of the country co-opera
Cooperative tive building was favor
ed as one of the means
BUILDING. OF solving it. In Ths
Star of May. Q, 1872. is the following
editorial item with reference to an eN
pertinent of this kind:
"A number of clerks in st. Louis
have organized a cooperative real eS'
tate association. The plan is to oh
tain 100 members, who will each pay
an initiation fee of s5 and week.!
due of 81. When $1,000 has been
raised they intend to buy piece OF
land within the city limits, suodl-
yided, sell the subdivisions to tn"
highest bidders among their num-
Der and then repeat the operation un-
til each one of them has a lot. Ther
the same scheme is to be fotlowtn
| in relation to building, until the
benefits of the association culminat'
in giving every one of its members
! a home, free from incumbrance. tn"
scheme is perfectly feasible and II
managed honestly and intelligently Il
sure to succeed. 1t is worth trying
by the government clerks in this cns
for the opportunities for good III
yestments in real estate here are ru-
merous By judicious purchase
these co-operati tive investments mig
be made profitable to ,.nt numerou ns
to operate individually"
THE great success Of the Holly Tr''
Coffee Rooms in Boston," says Tin.
Star Of May Il.
Temperance Work 1872 1872. suggests
by Coffee Rooms. ton in Other
cities for the benefit of the laoorine
| populat ton and to promote the tenn
! perance reform, In that city hah
| q dozen small stores have been
rented and converted into. restau-
rants. where pure and well cooked
food can be obtained at absolute
cost. Ten cents will buy substan-
tial lunch and IS cents a, good din-
ner. Everything is neat and clean
These coffee rooms have proved pow
erfuI against the saloon and: many
of the latter have been closed To
the larger restaurants reading rooms
have been added. They are kept open
on Sunday and are always thronged
From every point of view the Holly
Tree system is a success ana mas
sven been called. the first among
Massachusetts charities. 1t does
nothing to promote pauperlsm, put
directly encourages honest labor oE
enabling il to buy more with It's
wages. The plan is worthy the at
| tention of some of our philanthropic