Evening star., 1942-09-27
Fifty Years Ago
in The Stur

Fifty years ago the famous uarship
Kearsarge was "dismantled The Star of
September 26, 1892
keorsoree Effiey said: Yesterday eve
DIsmontIed ming there was life
size model of the
kearsarge on Grand Army place; today
the site is occupied by so many feet of
lumber, so many yards of tarred paper
and bewildering assortment of ropes
and rigging, for the Kearsarge went out
OF commission last night at sundown."
This, of course, was because the GAR
encampment was over and Washington
was trying to get back to normalcy. The
reason for the building of the Kearsarge
in ef1gy was to commemorate one of the
biggest naval battles of the Civil War.
for it was the Kearsarge that sank the
Alabama, near Cherbourg, France. after
the famous Confederate raider had sunk
nearly half the Union merchant marine
OF the era. Both vessels having put
into Cherbourg at the same time. a con-
fllct was inevitable as soon as thev left
neutral territory; and it took place close
enough to shore for thousands of French
people to assemble and watch the battle
Many even came on from Paris for that
sole purpose.
The Star Of September %. 1892. ran an
article which, though not on the editorial
page, was essen
Convict Lobor TALLY an expose
System Attacked and editorial on
the notorious con-
vict labor lease system then in use in all
the Southern States except the two Vir-
ginias and Texas, and in two non-South-
ern States, Nebraska and Washington.
The article, too long for reproduction
here, told of cruelty, horrible working
conditions, deaths and numerous escapes
which filled the countryside with des-
perate characters who would commit any
crime to avoid recapture. In time this
editorial and thousands of others like it
in many hundreds Of papers brought an
end to lend-lease system which was as
intolerable to decent society as slavery.
September %, 1892 was big day in
San Diego. In dispatch from the Cali
fornia city, The Star
San Diego Boy reported: To-day is
CeIebro tion the 350th anniversary
of the discovery of San
Diego Bay. The city presents joy
Gus appearance today, nearly all the
business houses and many private resi-
dences being tastefully decorated in
honor of the Cabrillo celebration.
The United States cruisers Charleston
and Baltimore have arrived and the
former is anchored in the bay The
Governor of Lower California was on
hand with his staff and a military band
from Mexico. San Diego Bay was
discovered in 1542 by the Portuguese
navigator Cabrillo, who, however, was
acting in the service of Spain and
claimed the territory for that country.
The cholera scare in New York gradu-
ally was subsiding In The Star of Sep
tember rs. 1892
The Cholera Waves was printed: "Dr.
In New York jenkins and DR..
Sternberg have
announced that the port of
New York is free from cholera. The
health oficer says that there are no
cholera cases down the bay today all
the sick having recovered" But In
where the plague started, con-
ditions still were bad, as is shown by
The Star Of September "A, 1892, in a
dispatch from London: Affairs in Ham
burg are improving a little, but the
total number Of funerals OF cholera VIC
Tins which took place on Tuesday and
were 800 as against 200 on
Saturday. The funeral trat1ic is so great
that 1t Is proposed to build temporary
railway to the Ohlsdorf Cemetery"
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In dispatch from Mexico City, The
Star OF September "a, 1892, related: The
Chamber OF Deputies,
Diox which constitutes the
Reelected electoral college, has
again declared Diaz
President of Mexico for four years from
the first of next December" There had
been no effective opposition to the die
tator. He held power until 1911.