Evening star., 1944-06-18
Fifty Years Ago
Libroy ,
Hearing
The Star for June 6. 1894, carried a

LibroN for the House Committee
Heorino on the District of Colum-
bia. favoring a public
library for Washington. A. r. Spofford,
librarian of Congress, also supported
the Unanimous request" of the citizens
of the Capital for photographic es-
tablishment essentially their own with
out regard to 50 existing semipublic
libraries in the city. It was argued that
the Federal Government properly should
contribute to the proposed nbrary,s es-
Establishments. and maintenance as IAN
equal sharer" in all municipal expense.
A graduating class OF only one student
was reported in The Star for June s,
1894. The school was Mrs.
Lone Sarah Irwin Mattingly's
Graduate Washington College, the
e. aiv,,t1e -. place was the Church of
Our Father and the candidate for all
the usual honors of commencement
was MISC Edith Maud Foster, who de-
liveredo I'd finished valedictory." While
the entire student body stood at atten-
tion, a wreath of laurel was placed upon
the alumna's brow. Prof John Porter
Lawrence played LISTS "Rhapsodie
Hongrois," and Mary Smith, 6-year -old
daughter of Secretary of the Interior
Hoke Smith, received a medal for read
ing.
Strikes from Maryland to Colorado
occupied front-page space in The Star
for June 7, 1894. Forty
lobor or fifty shots were fired
Troubles in quick succession" at
indianapolis when "sev-
eral drunken men" were halted by a
picket line and somebody hurled q
brick" at a detail of State militia as
signed to the scene to prevent disorder.
Meanwhile, at McKeesport, Pa, great
excitement was caused 80" by the BOOM
ing of a cannon on the opposite side Of
the river from the tube factories. THE
people rushed out OF their houses, be-
lieving that the deputies or new work.
men had arrived
An exhibition. OF photographs by
amateur camera enthusiasts at the Co.'S
mos Club was discussed
Photographic in The Star for June 8,
Art" 1894. One of the artists"
1t was explained, con-
contributed composition showing a
"veiled marble figure of the goddess
of flowers on the pedestal in the
foreground and, few steps away,
young girl whose attitude brings into
prominence all the exquisite lines of
lissome and graceful figure = = play
ing an accompaniment upon banjo"
A despatch from Victoria, British Co.
lumbia, to The Star for June II, 1894, told
in detail the provisions of
Only One the constitution prepared
Term for the new Republic of
Hawaii. Liberty of the
press was included among it's provisions,
but any newspaper which advocates
restoration of the monarchical govern
ment shall be considered traitor
and treated accordingly" The Presi-
dent was to serve a six-year term, and
it was stipulated that he cannot sue
ceed himself in Office" In the field of
morals, all gambling was forbidden.
The graduation exercises of the pre-
paratory school of Columbian College
were reported in The
Minister Star for June IL, 1894, and
In Making among the names of the
scholars mentioned was
that of H. H D. Sterrett, first of the
contestants for the elocution prize"
whose subject was Damon and
Pythias," Subsequently, the youthful
orator-then Unattended Harvard,
went to France with the Goth Engineers,
became rector of All Souls Memorial
Church, Connecticut and Cathedral ave-
nues NV, and Is preaching there this
morning