Evening star., 1940-03-03
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Times have not changed so very much.
front-page story in The Star for
n-, March 3, 1890, tells of the 10
'oIee cal halls of municipal justice
Sou't as they were on that date.
Scene Judge Miller" it is reported,
"had heavy days work in the Police
Court today, there being IS prisoners in
the dock and many persons out on COL
lateral. The cold weather had good
effect on the poorly ventilated and
meanly constructed Police Court Build
ing, as it modified the stencil that makes
the building worse than many pig pens
On farms.
There was not enough room in the
cells for the prisoners and many of
them had to be seated in the courtroom
There was large crowd about the
building this morning to see their friends
and relatives in trouble, but the court
room would not accommodate them.
"An old man under the influence of
liquor attempted to amuse the crowd.
He was prisoner in a patrol wagon.
Arising from his seat he addressed the
crowd as follows: Fellow citizens, this is
a great country George Washington was
born for his country; he lived for his
country and he fought for his country
He also
"'Hold on, old man. interrupted an
officer, and then he disappeared in the
cell room below.
r "The cold weather drove away many
who had no business about the court and
left an audience much above the aver
age crowd that occupies the settees"
X
A telegram from Minneapolis, printed
on the same page, conveys information
bearing upon the current
Woter vs.. phases of the struggle be-
Steam tween coal and water power.
THE latest rumor," the mes
sage says, "is that CHenry) Willard is at
the head of company just being formed
in New York, the purpose of which is to
erect mammoth electrical mandatory
at Meeker Island. 1t is to be a huge
industrial undertaking for the manufac-
ture of electrical street car motors, elec-
trical motors for running printing
presses, sewing machines, elevators and
the supply of every known electrical ap-
pliance and equipment. The operation
of such works is only the outcome of the
Villard-Meeker dam scheme. Three sets
OF dams are to be erected in the two
miles below Meeker Island. Electricians
say that if the Villard-Meeker dam
scheme is carried out-as it will undoubt-
edly be-local manufacturers can then
be supplied with power at price equiva-
lent to the 50 per ton now paid by the
Eastern manufacturers for COAL"
X X X
The Star, also on March 3, 1890, COM
mented upon great realway project as
follows Attention is
Pon-Americon called to the fact that
RoiIrood the projected railroad
down the backbone of
the hemisphere is the only proposition
adopted by the Parliamentary confer
ence without amendment. The pron1i-
nence given to the scheme by the special
friends of the Secretary of State indi-
Gates that Mr.. (James c. Blaine is
warmly enlisted in behalf of the great
project and the probabilities are that,
whether the idea Of subsidies for steam
ship lines can be carried into operation
or not, the railroad will solve to large
extent the problem Of intercommunica-
ton. OF course, this railroad along the
Cordilleras and Andes would develop the
Latin Americas more than anything that
has been devised But it would extend
our trade relations, increasing the mar
kets of our goods and bringing to us the
products of far-away democracies-the
guano of Peru, the gutta percha of the
Amazon, the coffee of Maracaibo and in
Vulnerable articles from every country
south Of the Gulf"
Among Foreign Notes of Interest" it
was chronicled that: "A dispatch from
st. Petersburg to the Lon
News From don Telegraph reports the
Abroad discovery Of fresh nihilist
conspiracy to commit out
RACES. The Pope has given Buffalo
Bills Indians . lot Of medals, chaplets
and crosses. and viii receive the whole