Evening star., 1940-04-14
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

All Improvement IN public tranSpOr-
tation facilities-the successful operation
Of cable street railway
CobIe Cors was noted in Washington
Proised 50 years ago. The Star OF
April IA, 1890. commented
editorially on this development as fol-
lows:
The cable road is a working success
Trains Of cars have glided over it loaded
with passengers. This is a notable event
IN our local history. It marks q step in
the development in the conditions of the
local railways which is finally to abolish
the car-horse and substitute in his place
mechanical motive power. The ideal
motor is the electric storage battery,
since by its use each car is independent
OF all others. and an accident to the
motive power does not stop the whole
system. But this form of motor is for
the present expensive, and is yet viewed
as IN the experimental stage; and for
the Improvement which the cable and
underground electric systems offer in
comparison with horse service the public
will be profoundly grateful, and will in
dicate its appreciation by increased pa
tronage, as the successive substitutions
are made"
Although there was nothing of out
standing importance in the daily news
OF so years ago, the citi-
"Extro Poper zens of the Capital we're
Evils annoyed by enterprising
youngsters who were
hawking unautnentic extra" Star pa
pers. Reporting the trial of one culprit,
The Star Of April IA said:
Extra Star is the cry of many
newsboys who sell New York evening
newspapers that arrive here late at night.
The misleading cry is made to attract
attention and many persons purchase
papers under the impression that they
are getting copy Of The Star contain
ing some extra news of interest to the
people Of this city. The boys making
such cries have appeared at all hours of
the night lately and several complaints
Of their conduct have been made to the
police
Saturday night after 8 o'clock a bow
named Charles Hams was calling extra
papers and Policeman Bassford arrested
him for crying aloud his papers after
hours.
Judge Miller in court this morning
accused Hams of having called Extra
Star but the boy denied the accusation,
What is there In these New York papers
Of interest to the citizens of Washing
ton?' the Judge asked the boy. I don't
know the boy responded, because I
don't read them The court imposed a
fine of S."
Some present-day Washingtonians in
cluding q District Commissioner, NAV
recall another item In
Young Man the same issue Of The
Makes Good Star Of half q CEN
tury ago. Under the
heading, "A Promotion" the following
report appeared:
m. G. Hazen, an axman in the Enri-
neer Department. has been promoted to
the position Of rodman, at $50 MONTH"
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>~AS w 'ooAAAAAevOA OoSSOdA CchIU ROt OH
to flying start in the 1890 season, ac-
cording to an enthusi-
A Winning astic report in The Star
Ball Teom Of April Is. Describing
how the Senators de
nolished" the ball team from Rich
mond,' Va, The Stars correspondent
wrote:
at was . Waterloo remarked an
enthusiast, who is generally regard
ed as an authority on baseball mat
ters. as he talked with q Star re-
porter about the game with the Rich
mond team yesterday. The score. he
said. was 20 to in favor Of Washing
ten, and (the game) was never In doubt
from the first moment. There is one
thing that you can tell the baseball
readers Of The Star with perfect truth.
and that Is that this team is better than
any we have ever had in this city"