Evening star., 1944-07-02
Fifty Years Ago
The Star for June %, 1894, told at
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The Star for June %, 1894, told at
nearly two columns length that the
Bureau Of Engraving
Bureou Printing and Printing will go
Stomns into the business of
printing postage
stamps" July l. How compelling was
the ideal of perfection demanded by the
Government was illustrated in a para
graph reading: If one stamp in sheet
is marred in any one Of the processes
through which the sheet goes the half
sheet to which 1t belongs is Cancelled
and turned back into the hands OF q
Government agent TO be sent to the
Post once Department for destruction"
Dies for the new stamps, 1t was ex-
planned, were Government property, even
though previously used by private con-
tractor.
Practically all Of the front page Of
The Star for June rs, 1894, was devoted
to cable dispatches
Assassination and local reactions
of M, Carnot on the assassination
of Marie Francois
Sadi Carnot, fourth President of the
third French republic, stabbed to death
by an Italian anarchist at Lyons the
night before. Public feeling in Wash
ing was expressed by Senator John Tyler
Morgan of Alabama who, speaking at
Shn ro ni{nl lA,le rnd 8Dr~s;d>~t ~, ~,,o+
the honest friend of liberty, regulated
and supported by law, was marked as a
victim by the men who, being criminally
insane, hold society and law in contempt,
and cruise through the world in the
propagation Of political piracy and
murder"
A tragic tale of an opera that failed
was reported in The Star of June rs,
1894. The Legend Of Vuur-
Opera Bril-" was the name of the
FoiIure work, and the reviewer in
sisted that it would have
been a success had the performers
played and sung" expertly. TO the
credit Of Miss Louise Moore, who at
tempted the part of Elsa, it must be said
that she was the only one in the cast
who knew her lines and who sang every
note Of the music allotted to her" Phil
ander johnson, then and for many years
afterward a member of The Star staff,
was the author of the book; J. Emory
Shaw, also Of Washington, the composer
of the score.
The Star for June n, 1894, contained
an editorial discussing a proposal for a
new oflcial residence for
New White the Chief Executive.
House "The President Of the
United States" it was
observed, ''is the only enlightened citi-
zen in the country who is compelled to
sleep. eat and keep his family in his
workshop. What is needed Is a
dwelling for the President Of a charac-
ter consistent with the exalted position
OF those who may occupy 1t and the
grandeur of the country over which they
will preside"
Work on the new Post Once Building.
The Star Of June 30, 1894, announced "is
going on at as rapid .
Post Office rate as the circumstances
"Prooress" will allow" Delay in re-
ceiving granite from the
quarries at Fox Island, Me-, had retard-
ed progress, but there was hone that
soon the structure would reach the third
story line. The contractor was thinking
Of arranging for shipments Of stone by
rail instead of water.
Discrimination against japanese resi-
dents Of the United States was charged
In statement pub
Jops lished in The Star for
CompIoiuino June 30, 1894. The
sponsor of the senti-
ment was N. Hashiguehi, Consul General
in New York, who wished it to be known
that: I'VE are not Cinnamon by any
means nor anything like them"
The Star of June 80, 1894, chronicled
the award of Q Columbian Eposition
diploma to Rufus H.
Aword Darby, "the railroad,
To M. Darby theatrical and news
paper printer" whose
establishment, founded In 1875, then
was ''ths largest !. south oe philadel-