Evening star., 1943-09-12
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

pushed for the centennial celebration of
the laying Of the
CopitoI cornerstone of the
Centennial PIons Capitol, to be held
on September Is,
1893, on a Monday, which day had been
officially declared by Congress to be a
legal holiday in the District. News in
The Star of September II, 1893, con-
cerned joint conference: "The Joint
Committee Of the House and Senate and
the Citizens Committee on the Corner
stone Centennial held conference this
morning in the room Of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, Senator Voorhees,
presiding" Various projects and sched-
ules were outlined, including those OF a
large parade, reviewing stands, political
speeches and other ceremonies, weather
permitting. Weather did permit, and
week later all went of according to
prediction - so- s
Though the panic of '93 had by then
been fairly well dissipated, agitation for
.s.t .e. sound money was
fNUNOAOtSS SoAAA otAOA1S AIOI NOllAy
Sound Money in Congress but sig
~. nificantly, in groups
of businessmen, particularly fnanciers,
who met here in convention to express
their views. The Star of September IL,
1898, related: Although the sound
money convention, composed of delegates
from about every important commercial
and financial association in the country,
which met at noon today in Willard
Hall, this city, was not as largely at
tended as at first believed 1t would be,
nevertheless, between 100 and 200 dele
gates were present when the convention
was called to order, and as may be seen
from the delegates registered, they rep
resented almost every branch of business
and came from every section of the
land" The group was welcomed in an
opening speech by B. H. Warner, presi-
dent of the Washington Board of Trade
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Then, as now, children were flocking
back to school. The Star of September
II, 1893 remarked editori-
School ally: Washington has been
Aooin proud of its public schools
for many years, for they
have always, since the time when the
system could be considered as firmly
established, stood well in comparison
with schools of other cities, many of
which had much greater advantages at
the start. When the new school year
begins next Tuesday, with $4,000 pupils,
thousand teachers and hundred mod
ern school buildings Washington will
have good reason to be gratified by the
growth of its schools Other, lighter
bits culled from The Star of that date
and others nearby showed that the chill
dren did not share these sentiments
they were just as reluctant as those of
today to return to school.
Today, with radio here and Coast Guard
service at such high efficiency, it would
be virtually incredible that
Schooner large schooner could appar-
Lost emily sink with all hands
right in the Chesapeake Bay
and no word be received of it's fate, but
half century ago it could, and did,
happen as reported in The Star of Sep
tember IL, 1893, in dispatch from Bal
timore: The schooner Oliver H. Booth
Of this city has finally been given
up by the owners as lost, with all on
board. The Booth sailed from Bruns-
wick, Ga, for Washington, D. c.. Au-
gust Is and should have been at her
port OF destination long ago. The fact
that Wreckage bearing the vessels name
has been picked up in Chesapeake Bay,
near the mouth of the Potomac River,
and that although directly in the course
OF coasting vessels, nothing has been
seen or heard of her, seals her fate in
the minds Of seafaring men,"
Half century ago, as now, the Czechs
were liberty loving and troublesome to
their oppressors, at
Czechs' that time the imperial
Suppressed government OF Austria
They agitated so vio-
lently that many of their civil privileges
arbitrarily were taken away, as described
in The Star of September 13, 1892, in
cable from Vienna too long for repro
duction here.
What Might Have Been