Evening star., 1944-12-10
Fifty Years Ago
A special dispatch to The Star for D.

md Nicer old German bachelor"
who literally perished
of self-imposed starvation in sod cabin
on Painter Greek, near Oberlin, Kans..
"a few days ago" His only friend was
an orphan girl Margaret, whom, it was
explained, he had adopted while en-
gagged in the coal industry in Pennsyl-
vania some years earlier. To her in his
last hours he revealed hoard of gold,
silver and currency amounting to s51620,
which he had accumulated by gruelling
thrift and bitter sacrifice. But the
miser once, in his youth, had been an
idealist, living and striving for others.
The record reproduced in his obituary
showed that he was a veteran of the
revolution of 1848, a friend and COM
rade of the famous Carl Schurz, man
who had fought Prussianism at time
when few others were conscious of its
menace to the whole wide world. What
the reason for the strange change in his
character may have been was anybodys
guess flve decades ago-and still remains
so today.
The Star of December 2. 1894, reported
"a very satisfactory first rehearsal" of an
organization which, in a
Orehestro sense, was a forerunner
Enternr;s. of the National SYM
phony company of the
present time. 1t was known as the Wa.
ington string Orchestra, and its Induc-
tor was Ernst clint Other pc" Ions asso-
ciated with the effort to p wide classic
music to audiences in the Nations Capt.
tai were: Belle Cannon, Jeanette Baum,
Belle Gary, Augusta NJ. Swan, Florence
Morrill,, Catherine bradford, Robert
Stearns, Lee Crandsll, Daisy Hickox,
Maud Small, Louise Carson. Anna
Davidge, Minnie Sch 1T, Sara Wall. Anna
Endicott, Daisy Dyr. Mary Clements,
Phebe Holmes. May Crook, Esther
Smith, Florelle Eds N, Paul Finckel
Howard Boyle, Willie Holcomb, Walter
Blount, Julius Ulke, Will Mason Brooke
Amiss. C.. E. Alden, PAU @ishbaugh.
Clarence HELEN, j. NM Gatti, Aloe. and
Ben Isemann. The group practice
Handl's Largo" and two Norwegian
melodies by Grieg.
Those readers who imagine that the
New Deal invented" legislation TO
provide for the control
r'oneer of the railways, to pre-
R.for,,.r vent interruptions of
interstate commerce by
strikes, to secure bank depositors against
loss and to relieve persons who have
lost their homes by reason of misfortune
for which they are not responsible" are
referred to The Star of December 4,
1894, where it is recorded that Senator
William Alfred PETER, Populist, of
Kansas, to-day introduced a number of
bills" aimed at achieving those reforms.
His bills, naturally, did not pass. He
was half century, more or less, ahead
of trend" and not very many of his
colleagues on Capitol Hill agreed with
him.
In The Star for December S, 1894,
Woodward g. Lothrop notified the
public: Our book store.
Literature in the basement of the
for Sole Eleventh street building.
contains what we believe
to be the choicest collection of stand
ard books ever shown in this city
Neither pains or expense have been
spared to get everything that anybody
wants. Consequently, we are enabled
to show every kind of book suitable for
Christmas present from the least
expensive to the most elaborate edi-
tions.' Works by James Whitcomp
Riley. Eugene Field, Frank Stanton and
Ella Wheeler Wilcox were mentioned
by name. Bibles were advertised ct
from 50 cents to SIS.
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One Of the achievements for which
King Edward VII Is remembered Is
that Of his efforts to
Not establish friendly re-
Understood lations between Eng
land and Muscovy, but
those efforts were not comprehended
at the time. For instance. The Star
Of December .. 1894 carried 1 cable
from London indicating that letters
had been appearing in the newspapers
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