Evening star., 1943-05-30
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
Fifty years ago Decoration Day was
regarded as memorial of the Civil War.

regarded as a memorial of the Civil War.
According to The Star of
Memorial Tuesday, May 30, 1898: "A
Doy bright sun greeted the day.
Clear skies smiled down on
the ceremonies. Fquttering flags and
lovely flowers decked the graves of de-
parted heroes. Comrades donned once
more the old Army blue and marched
shoulder to shoulder, not this time
of soldiers who would march no more.
- With all ii owes to the war and the
thousands of its heroes who rest in its
neighborhood, it is no wonder that Dec
Grafton Day is almost universally OBJ
served in Washington, and that thou
sands, too Young to have seen the war,
join the veterans in decorating the graves
and doing honor to the memory of the
fallen"
Those who fell on the other side were
also remembered. Decoration Day was
made the occasion for
Jefferson Davis the re-entombment Of
Re-inteyred Jefferson Davis, Presi-
dent of the Confed-
eracy. IN Richmond. A special train was
run from New Orleans. The Star of
May 20, 1893 reported: LAS the Jefferson
Davis funeral train pulled out of New
Orleans crowds appeared at every street
corner on both sides of the track until
the corporate limits were passed. AS
soon as the cortege reached the open
country and got under speed the military
part OF the escort laid aside arms and
uniforms, except that the veterans kept
on their gray coats, ready to take turns
IN standing guard over the casket. At
every station crowds were assembled
gray-headed old soldiers and ladies and
children with flowers being prominent
features" All the way to Richmond
these demonstra tions were repeated At
the same time. Mrs Davis was en- route
from New York to be present at the
former Confederate capital when the
hnal ceremonies took place.
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Inc famous Briggs heresy trial con-
tlnued throughout the week. This was
the second day devoted
Briggs Cose to the actual trial" ex-
Continues planned The Star of May
80, 1893. 80 far from
diminishing. the interest in the case
seems to be on the increase. . = . The
morning was devoted to the defense of
Prof. Briggs" He accused his accusers
OF heresy.
Uneasy rumbhngs OF the impending
panic of '93 were noted. Controller of
Currency Eckels announced
bonk policy of toughness. To
Failures E. A. Mears, president of two
North Dakota banks which
had failed from mismanagement, he said,
according to The Star of May 81, 1898:
mo banks doing business under such
methods will be permitted to continue.
The department does not intend to sane
ton such methods. Such concerns must
be routed out of the national banking
system" The controllers vigorous Ian
guage was needed; there had been, and
we're to come, numerous bank failures
based on the too-liberal extension of
credit on the theory that those were
boom times and no one could lose.
ITO Astonish Foreign Firemen," read a
headline in The Star of May 29 1898,
leading an article describ-
VISITING ing the sailing of nine fire.
Firemen men from Kansas City,
with some of their equip
ment, as American delegates to an in
ternational fire brigades congress to be
held in London. Other fire companies in
America received invitations, but refused.
Uncle Sam is sure to be creditably rep
resented" continued the article. "The
United States is far ahead Of all other
countries in fighting fire. 4" =. Chief Hall
has taken with him one Of the latest
types Of water towers and the Kansas
City Fire Department crack team of
horses, Joe and Dan, which have a bona
hde record Of one and two-fifths seconds
hitch" The motor of modern fire
engine can hardly be started in much
less time than that.
Cholera. rampant in Hamburg the wear
before, broke out again Previous pre-
ventive measures, how
Cholera in ever, were not in vain,
hombura This time the plague was
kept under control, and
no extensixe quarantine was put on In
New York against vessels from Europe,
though some precautions wsrs taken,