Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

entire country, was thinking of little
else but the national
Election election week dis
e.,,l..;... tant. Would Presi-
dent Harrison be re-
elected or would Grover Cleveland win?
A popularity of this election was that
no matter what the result the next
Chief Executive would know his way
around the White House by virtue Of
having lived there for four years. The
columns of The Star were damned with
quotes" from politicians all over the
country, many confidently predicting the
victory of one party or the other. but
obviously whistling in the dark. Others,
more frank. said the result was doubt
full. The Star of November l. 1892, in
dispatch from New York. reported Mr..
Croker of Tammany Hall says
the vote in New York may fall of as
much as per cent below registration
(Which would give the Republicans an
edge. Congressman O'Neill of
Pennsylvania expresses confidence
N Harrison's election but says he is
puzzled about New York Frank
Richardson Of the Baltimore Sun is
here and he says frankly he is
unable to make up his mind what is
going to be the result" And 50 on.
yet the Democrats won easily enough
at the showdown a week later.
New York was in fog not only
politically but physically, as is evidenced
from an account in The
New York Star of November 3, 1892:
|, En- when the fog which set
tied down in heavy banks
over the city and vicinity last night
lifts it is feared that it will unfold
story of disaster and possibly loss of life
on the rivers and bays, for reports of
in, and the ferries are out patrolling the
waters of both the North and the East
Rivers. Already the news of one COL
hsion in which a tugboat and scow
were both sunk and several boatmen
narrowly escaped with their lives has
been reported"
Quaint reading today is paragraph
published in The Star of November 2,
1892, in a report from Albu-
Navajo querque: "A very serious out
p...I. break is threatened among
the Navajos. Black Horse, a
well-known chief who controls num-
Der of young bucks in the tribe and has
always sought opportunity to create,
disturbance, is said to have put himself
at the head of his faction occupying the
Carrezon mountains, and they have
sworn war and determination upon any
people that attempt to enter these
mountains - All the cavalry stationed
at Fort Wingate left at an early hour
this morning on forced march for
Camp Defiance. Trouble of serious
nature is manifestly anticipated"
The disaster of the week was huge
fire in Milwaukee. Said The Star of
October 20, 1892, in wire
Milwaukee from that city: Morning
e.. broke on a scene of Desc
lation such as the Cream
City has never before witnessed during
its corporate existence. Twenty blocks
yesterday covered with magnificent
buildings devoted to manufacture, trade
and commerce were mass of smolder-
ing ruins, and where 500 residences, the
homes Of 5000 people, stood, there was
nothing save piles of blackened bricks
and smoking rafters. : . = Hundreds of
families are left shelterless and with
nothing but the clothing worn when they
fed from the swift pursuit of the devas-
tating flames" Fire engines from as
far away as Chicago aided in fighting
the fire.
Another item, In The Star of October
81, 1892. seems odd today: Emperor
william, the En-
Church and Stote press and three Of
I. c their sons started
from Potsdam 80
for Wittemberg, where they will take
part in the rededication Of the restored
church (the one made famous by Martin
Luther)." The emperor. upon receiving
the key to the church from the burgo-
master Of the town. handed It to the
pastor. to symbolise that the church was
uaishtaer than the state.