Evening star., 1941-06-08
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star


emergency, oficial and unoficial Wash
ington was laying
e. ex.du. plans to get away for
the summer. Falls
Church was becoming
popular at the time as summer resi-
dence for those who had to reach Wash
ington daily, but the President planned
to 20 farther afeld and set up the sum-
mer White House at Cape May, N. j.
Remarked The Star of June s, 1891:
Now the presidential family is begin
ming to talk about Cape May Point
Their departure for their summer house
is vet only Indefinitely settled, but if
the weather grows warm Mrs. Harrison
thinks that she will start sometime be-
tween the 18th and goth instant"
The Star on the same date records
new settlement Of Danish immigrants
at nearby Beltsville: THE colony OF
Danes which has been trying to locate
in different parts of the country has at
last determined to locate in the vicinity
of Beltsville. because more liberal terms
were offered there than anywhere else.
1t is believed that this colony will do
much for the community, as there are
10 families who will occupy about 5000
acres of land, upon which they will
erect suitable dwellings,
For some time interest had been keen
about the impending Peary expedition
to almost unknown
Peoy Expedition Greenland. The Star
New. Of June 8. 1891, had
this to report about
1t: The departure of the steam brig
antine Kite from New York; which
was to have sailed this afternoon with
1t. Peary for Greenland. has been d.~
layed by the non-arrival Of part of her
stores She will probably leave tomor-
row.
The steamer Kite, in which they sail,
is a staunch little craft, ll7ia feet long
over all. 264 beam and IA feet hold.
She is 100 tons net, has a 5o-horse
engine and can steam ia knots an hour.
She is sheathed with heavy timber as
a protection against ice"
Interest also was keen at the time
over the vicissitudes of the Chilean rev.
olution, particularly in connection with
the case of the S. S. Itata. caught and,
T,;t tata oylthnri.
ties while she was engaged in gun
running for the rebels. On June 8,
1891, The Star printed an editorial,
saying: The insurgent newspapers in
Chile bewail the action of the United
States In the Itata matter and are in
dignant because this country does not
sympathize openly with their cause and
assist them in their fight by returning
at once the arms and ammunition on
the Itata. If the United States sided
with all the insurgents south OF the
Rio Grande, and established their cause,
the world would be carried on to pain
full excess and there would be such a
rapidly rotary style of government in
progress as would make the whole
worlds head swim. Any government
is better than no government When the
insurgents have conquered and estab-
lished themselves an apparently stable
government, the United States will be
officially with them, and not before
The Star on June 8, 1891, recorded
the death in Ottawa of Sir John Mac
donald, Prime Minis
Dominion ter of Canada, as fol-
In Aournino lows: Sir John Mac
donald, the Premier
of the Canadian administration. died at
1O:l5 o'clock Saturday night. The be-
ginning of the end came early Friday
morning Death came peacefully
to the aged Premier. &. When the an
nouncement of Sir Johns death was
made the bells of the city were tolled
to convey the intelligence to the thou
sands who were anxiously awaiting this
signal that the beloved Premier was
no more"