Evening star., 1936-10-11
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
The following announcement appears
in The Star of October ii, 1886: "As will

The following announcement appears
in The Star Of October IL, 1886: "As will
n.,.h ~ be more fully learned
De"'n VI from the details pub
CIV. Adams lished elsewhere, Mr.
George William
Adams. president of The Evening Star
Newspaper Company, died at his resi-
dence on K street in this city at
o'clock yesterday morning.
The state of Mr.. Adams health since
his much-loved daughter Edith was
taken mortally i'll last Spring and its
more critical condition since her death
in July last have measurably prepared
his family and friends for this sad event,
but the shock caused by the result is
none the less severe, nor will the loss
sustained in consequence by his family,
his associates and friends and by the
city of his residence be any less sensibly
felt on that account. No higher praise
need be spoken Of any man than to say
that he was most liked by those who
knew him best; and this was con-
spicuously true of Mr.. Adams. Modest
in nature. to an extreme degree, quiet
and reticent in demeanor, he did not
seek wide acquaintances, but that circle
nevertheless grew large: and those who
became sufficiently intimate with him to
form just estimate knew him to be
possessed of more than average in
tellectual powers, genial in temper,
strong in friendship, wise in counsel,
steady Of purpose, charitable in judg-
ment, generous in impulse, sagacious
prompt and scrupulously honest in busi-
ness affairs and honorable and faithful
in all the relations of life
Intimately connected with him in
the management of The Star for nearly
twenty years, his surviving associates
realize that they have sustained in the
death of Mr.. Adams loss second only
to that which has befallen his doubly
bereaved family. Time may somewhat
blunt the sense of deprivation and
partially close the gap thus created, but
no lapse Of years can wholly fill his
place in the hearts of those to whom
he was attached, nor lessen the esteem
in which his memory is held"
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"1f the alumni of Cornell University"
says The Star of october 13, 1886. who
are now striving to pre-
noAoraIy vent the issue of purely
Degrees. nor. nonofa,y iSst,,,tion sreeS shai, oy
succeed in their purpose nobody will re-
gret it except those unripe scholars who
have buoyed up their hopes OF future
renown by the thought that chance
might throw a masters or doctors di-
ploma in their way. The conferring OF
degrees has become source OF manifold
abuses in all the higher seminaries OF
learning. Honors have gone so steadily
by favor instead of by merit that they
have come to be disregarded by the
persons who might be expected most to
value them. This is a field in which
reform is not only possible but prac-
ticable."
The final work on the erection of the
Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
n.sd - was being done fifty
uoouess VI years ago. The Star Of
r october IA. 1886, says:
blDerty' "The flame of the
torch and its dizzy balcony were holsted
into position yesterday and riveted. Some
trifling hammering of plates remains to
be done. but to the eye the goddess,
from her torch tip to the trail OF her
drapery. is a perfected presence. MOST
of the workmen at the Island yesterday
were building a structure for the ma
chinery that is to supply the statue with
electric light. The plant will consist OF
a machine capable of operating twenty
lamps of 5000 candle power each. Twelve
Ianps will probably be used to illuminate
the statue and, once lighted, they Will
shine. barring accidents, as long aS
the goddess stands.