Evening star., 1933-07-09
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Washington suffered severely from
uncontrolled and dangerous Independ-
Independence fnSe t3on bsIf aas celenlr1 eentusv
Day Dangers. ago. The safe and
sane Fourth" move
ment had not then been started save
for an Official order which. as the fol-
lowing from The Star of July 5, 1883,
indicates, was not effective
The police were not able to enforce
the sounding proclamation against the
gun powder explosive nuisance yester-
day. The result was that the fire de-
partment had busy time of it sup
pressing the various fires started all over
the city by the all-pervading fire-
cracker. There is one place in the
country where the law against burning
dangerous explosives is fully enforced,
the city of Portland. Me. That city was
burned up some years ago by Fourth
of July firecracker. and the people who
that occasion concluded that the fun of
that form Of celebration cost consid-
erably more than it came to-"
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A movement was started fifty years
ago for new political organization, The
A Proposed New isss. Hsss t' thus uIiy de- %.
Political Party. Sn.a serioes 1t its I,df paT-
Gates its poor prospect of establishment:
The work of getting up new polit-
ical party is easy enough in all the
early stages 1t is no trouble to get q
convention together in this country for
any political enterprise. Everything
works smoothly until it comes to getting
the voting power which is so essential
to a party The newly projected anti.
monopolist party has reached that dim
cult stage All the preliminaries are
completed, including the building OF
the platform. The projectors have but
to stand back now and give voters
chance to scramble upon the platform,
which possesses some title to originality
in that it does not touch upon the
principles of either of the old parties.
1t declares for a postal telegraph sys-
tenn and for postal savings banks, thus
committing the new party, in tendency,
to a paternal government. The plat
form also demands the abolition of ma
tional banks. favors an income tax, con-
fining taxation to the power OF Con.
gress. insists that only such taxes as are
necessary to run the Government shall
be collected, and denounces corners or
gambling in the necessaries Of life. A
for a law guaranteeing them better pro-
lection. It is a curious platform, taken
altogether. when it is considered that
anti-monopoly is the corner stone Of
the party"
The Summer of 1883 was exception
ally hot in this part of the country but
Washington in mssmnsten ns to- ebe fo1iown9 sesUin
Midsumrer. in The Star Of July
Z. 1888, was at least
at this period comparatively exempt
from the dangerous temperatures that
generslly prevailed:
THE range of the thermometer yes
terday in all portions of the country
shows that the heat was general. It
was hot day, the hottest of the season
in all sections. but washington suf.
fered less than most cities farther
North In New York, Brooklyn, Phil
adelphia and Boston numbers were
prostrated and fatal cases of sunstroke
are reported in all those cities. In New
York scores of little children succumbed
to the over-powering heat. In WASH
ington there was not q single case Of
of our numerous parks and wide streets
and avenues are being appreciated more
and more, as providing means Of
ventilation, and with each season the
blessings afforded by our forests Of shade
trees become more apparent. Those
who are able to leave WASHINGTON or
any large city during the heated term
are, of course, fortunate persons: but
those who are compelled to remain here
really suffer less and have less to COM
plain of than the people of almost any
other large city in the country"