Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

In this year 1880, with several women
sitting as members Of the House of
Woman Named for and running for
Kansas Office. r ct6aes n w ~.
field as additional woman candidates,
and with q woman running for the
Senate of the United States in Illinois,
the following in The Star OF August
81, 1880, has an oddly prophetic tone:
''The Democrats of Kansas have
nominated Miss Sarah A. Brown for
State superintendent of public construc-
ton. This Is q new departure In poll
tics, especially for the Democrats, who
have not heretofore favored 'women's
rights Miss Brown is at present
superintendent of schools for Douglass
County and Is credited with having
accomplished great deal more in that
sors. The Democratic leaders in KAN
sas express the opinion that Miss
Browns nomination will strengthen
their State ticket by drawing votes from
the opposition. If this prediction should
prove correct, it will have the effect Of
populari2ing the nomination Of women
for ONCE by parties seeking to overcome
an opposition majority. It would APP
pear that the Democrats propose to en-
list the fair sex In their cause as much
as possible in this campaign. In q
recent interview with q delegation of
woman suffragists, Gen. Hancock as
sured them that If elected President he
would not veto any bills of Congress
looking to Acknowledgement of women.
Miss Brown, the Kansas nominee, Is
described by a prominent Democrat as
mighty brainy.' and 1t Is fact that
none will dispute that there is plenty of
room in political parties for additional
brains"
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The work of replacing the founda.
ton of the washington Monument hav-
Work Progressing p ,Rs dss s. years years
on the Monument. s sgo; sne conf a.
the shaft itself was resumed. The Star
Of September /, 1880, says:
"The second course Of stone has been
laid on the Washington Monument and
the work Is progressing favorably. The
railroad from the foot Of Fourteenth
street nowruns direct to the structure and
already IL carloads have been received
over 1t, having been loaded on the cars
at the quarries in Baltimore County by
Baltimore. The two new stone sheds
are completed and the rails for the
track have been laid to suit the work,
while the patent travelling crane has
been introduced. BY means of this
crane one man is enabled to handle
a stone of six tons, and with the tracks
the dressed stones are run to the foun-
dalton, raised to the height of the en-
trance, run in the elevator and
thence to the top, where they are
run off to the proper place. There
are now about 80 stone masons at
work, the entire force being about
$50, and it Is expected that in short
time each man will be so acquainted
with his work that it will move forward
with the regularity of machinery. No
visitors are now allowed to enter the
building, as they will interfere with the
workmen.
1.-THE United States consul at Zurich,
Switzerland, has informed the State
Department that the government of
Switzerland has offered him memer1to
Of William Tell consisting of O stone
from the chapel erected on the spot
from which Tell made his escape from
the tyrant Gessler, and he has written
to know II such q stone would be ae-
cepted, to be placed In the Washington
Monument. Gen. Casey, in charge OF the
Monument, has written to the Secre-
tary OF State accepting the offer and
the stone will have O suitable 1nscrip-
ton cut thereon and be sent here"