Evening star., 1944-08-20
Fifty Years Ago

formal business. For example, The Star
for August 7, 1894, re-
Secretary in ported: "A small iron
puhl;r V;.v gate, bronzed to a gol-
den hue, now blocks the
entrance to the office of Secretary John
G. Carlisle in the Treasury Depart
ment. 1t permits a full view of the
interior, with the Secretary at work at
his desk, but prevents intrusion by those
he has no leisure to see" Can any,
body imagine Henry Morgenthau-or
any other high ofhcial Of the prevailing
age-sitting down to his daily duties in
the unimpeded sight OF the passing
throng? 1t Just cannot be done that
way any more.
In The Star for August 8, 1894, there
appeared an accounting of the shade
trees Of Washington. indi-
City eating that at that time
FOLIAGE there were 74,062 of them.
Varieties mentioned in
cluded: Elms, Oriental planes lindens.
Norway, sugar and silver NAPLES, ginckos
and oaks. The annual appropriation for
trees in the District of Columbia was
given as $4,000.
The President has recognized the
Republic Of Hawaii, and in so doing has
performed an act
Howoiion Republic of tardy justice"
Reeoon;,ed Thus The Star for
August 8, 1894, an
nounced oficial action concerning the
new government at Honolulu headed
by Sanford B. Dole. Minister Albert S.
Willis, alegedly, had done as much as
he could to express American approval
OF the replacement of the traditional
monarchy, but former Queen Liliuokalani
still had her partisans in Washington,
and they were active in her behalf The
situation in the islands was not serene,
nor would 1t be until annexation. despite
the protests of Japan July 7, 1885,
"A fearful wreck. involving the loss of
IL or more lives" said The Star for
August TO- 1894 "oc-
Troin Destroyed CURED on the Chicago,
Bv Wrarkers Rock Island g. Paci-
fic Railroad where it
crosses on a high trestle the tracks of
the Union Pacific and Burlington 6
Missouri River Railroads at 10 o'clock
last night" Marks subsequently found
on the ties proved that the disaster was
the work of train wreckers." The rails
spread under the weight of the engine,
with the result that the whole train
dropped to the bed of creek 40 feet
below, caught fire and was consumed
by the flames. Other incidents of a
like kind were common half a century
ago. The word sabotage" was not used
in relation to them but it might have
been.
Members of a so-called industrial
army" camping at Rosslyn, were kicked
-. OUT of Virginia by militia
Army acting under the orders of
Exn.lIsd the Governor of that State,
August IL, 1894. The Star,
reporting the incident, discussed the
arrival of Adjt. Gen. Charles j. Ander-
son early in the morning. He gave the
"intruders" an hour to pack and git"
and 200 soldiers stood guard over the
scene until his command was obeyed.
Many of the objectionable, half starved
men" took temporary refuge on the
Aqueduct Bridge and in the Old Naval
Observatory grounds. They bore con-
siderable resemblance, it seems, to the
bonus marchers" who long afterward
congregated in Washington during Pres.
ident Hoover's administration and were
expelled by troops from Fort Myer led
by Gen. Douglas Macarthur, July 70,
1882. In both cases, the huts which had
sheltered the Invaders" were burned In
the course of the custer proceedings.
The Star on August Is. 1894, told of
state visit Of the Emperor william Of
~ Germany to his British
No'seF N cousins. Received at Ports
E,.I,,d mouth Naval Yard by
Admiral Sir Novel; Salmon
and at Aldershot by the Duke OF Con-
naught, the Kaiser appeared at a cere-
monial review of selected troops in the
uniform of the 1st RoyaD Dragons.
He was attended by the Duke of Teck,
representing Queen Victoria. The head
line Of the story referred to the fact
that he was cheered by the soldiers he
watched march past. just 20 years
later, the First World War would be
getting truly started, and the Emperor