Evening star., 1941-06-29
Fifty Years Ago
In The Stur

Fifty years ago there was labor trouble
at the Bureau of Printing and Engrav-
ing. in connection with a dispute over
the discharge of one Jordan, on the
grounds that he
Strike Aooinst kept saloon, con-
The Government trary to the re-
'"e oo'e' ouirementS of the
Treasury Department which barred
from its employ saloonkeepers and
curiously. bankers as well. Other en-
ployeS left in sympathy. and their cause
was taken up by the knights OF Labor.
Under the heading Secretary Foster
Firm The Star Of June 80, 1891, says
in part: The Secretary received
a call from an individual named Cava-
naugh of Cincinnati, a member OF the
knights of Labor and prominent IN
Ohio politics. The Secretary was
very frank with him. He told him that
he had not found that Chief Meredith
had been guilty of any wrong. and that
he did not propose to dismiss him to
please any discharged employees. He
WAS WILLIE W give N44C iiiIAA WIN GO
soon as the increased force goes on,
when the new building is completed,
but that there should be no reinstate-
ment or vindication or anything Of that
sort. nor should anybody be dismissed
to make room for these men. He
pointed out to Mr. Cavanaugh, as he did
later TO a Star reporter, the folly of
The claims of the Knights of Labor in
view of the fact that the executive board
is making a fight for a man who has
no right to be member of that body"
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Another item of local interest con-
Germs bicycle clubs, so popular in the
9Os. On June 26 1891, The Star re-
cords: Next week promises to be an
eventful one among the sew
BicycIe eral thousand bicyclists in
cL,bs this city as well as among the
wheelmen all over the coun-
try. The principal event of the week
will be the bicycle meet at Hagerstown
and Washington wheelmen are
looking forward to that event with much
interest. Much enthusiasm is being
manifested among the clubs and every
effort is being made to get out large
representation"
Impending Federal prose secution
against those responsible for the disaS-
trouS Keystone Bank failure in Phila-
delphia was announced by The Star on
June 30 1891, in these
Bonkinq Probe words: "A communi-
AI cation has been re-
0 ceived from Control
ler Lacey by Receiver Yardley of the
keystone National Bank, which is the
first notification that the Government
is going to take action in the affairs of
the Keystone and Spring Garden Ma
tional Banks. This encloSes letter to
Maj. Stewart saying 1T is the purpose
of this department to aid in every prac-
ticable way the investigation of the af-
fairs of the Keystone National Bank
and the Spring Garden National Bank,
especially with view to ascertaining
who have been guilty of criminal viola
tions of the law, or who have aided or
abetted in the commission of such acts"
Perhaps the most interesting item, in
view of present events, is the account of
a bronze monument made in Berlin for
Philadelphia. The Star of June 20,
1891, quoting a cable
A Monument dispatch, says: Among
rx. Rail, the sculptures which
attract particular at
tention at the Berlin international art
exhibition = is a colossal bronze
group America Awakening Her Sons to
Fight for Liberty Columbia, seated in
the center, places her hands upon the
heads of a farmer and hunter. The
latter, already alert, graSps his rifle and
seems TO scan the horizon for the ap-
preaching foe; the husbandman is slowly
awakening. The group is full of life
and action"
Americas awakening was, literally
and truly. made In Germany.