Evening star., 1943-06-06
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

Fifty years ago Government author
tiles were becoming worried over the
impending financial panic
FinoncioI President Cleveland was
Crisis. thinking of calling Congress
into an emergency session.
The Star of June 6. 1893, said: president
Cleveland's statement as to the time
when he proposes to call Congress to-
gether and the reason which will lead
him to do so is clearly interpretable as
indicating a determination on his part
to continue using the gold reserve
editorial note: it was then considered
dangerously low to the extent necessary
and not to issue bonds - He de-
sires that the full gravity of the situation
should be apparent at the time of the
meeting of Congress, so that the legisla-
tive branch of the Government shall
have the duty of pressing upon them to
correct the laws protecting the finance.
The President desires Congress
to be confronted when it meets with
the practical demonstration of the de-
pletlng effect of the silver purchases
upon the gold in the Treasury Unless
the situation should grow very much
worse, resulting in a general panic. the
President does not desire any radical
steps to be taken until Congress meets in
september The situation. however. did
grow much worse, and Mr. Cleveland
later was forced to call the extra session,
setting August as the date.
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distinguished man chose to make
the Nations Capital his own permanent
residence. r asons S
lhomos were given in an edi-
Nelson Poqe. torial in The Star of
June 8, 1898: That
Thomas Nelson Page, dean of the South
ern literary corps should have decided to
make his home in this city need not sur
prise any one, and probably will not,
for washington is fast eclipsing all COM
petitors as the literary, scientific and
educational center of the country. For
many years Boston was supreme and
held undisputed sway as the New Worlds
Athens, but salons once famous
are now deserted save when few WASH
ingtonians visit the time hub of
the universe and by their wit and wisdom
revive memories of the older days when
mental activity and philosophical pro-
fundity were rarely known and never
acknowledged beyond the Bostonian' cir
Gle. Only IN the art of superior beam
cooking does Boston retain its old time
unquestioned supremacy"
The death of one of the worlds great
est actors was announced in The Star of
June 7, 1898: Edwin
A Great Booth died at lit
Actor Passes. o'clock this morning in
New York at the
Players Club. He passed away un-
conscious, in which condition he had
remained since Sunday last three days..
When the end came Mrs. Edwina Gross
man. the tragedian's daughter, had her
hand clasped in that of her father" The
Star printed a resume of the actors
career.
One of the most famous criminal trials
In American jurisprudence got under
way in New Bedford, Mass
Borden the Lizzie Borden case The
TrioI Star of June 6, 1893, reported:
This morning at o'clock the
trial of Lizzie Borden began in real earn
est. (Here followed description of the
jury) The prosecutor then
stepped to the railing and opened the
Governments case" The defendant, it
will be remembered was charged with
the murder of her aged father and
mother and eventually was acquitted.
The biggest disaster of the week was a
tremendous fire at Fargo. N Oak. In
dispatch from Minneapolis,
Forqo The Star of June 8, 1898, re-
Fire. lated: "One half of Fargo,
N. Dak., Is wiped out, only one
half OF the business houses being left. At
10 O'Clock last night the fire was still
burning fercely In a dozen places. The
wind had changed to north and was
driving the flames back ON the burned
district. ." The fierce south wind
drove the thmes Ike 4 prairie fire. Briek