Evening star., 1944-04-09
Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago the trial of Washin

Fifty years ago the trial of Washing
tons Jack the Slasher began. He was
charged with participat-
The SIosher ing in numerous burg
on TrioI laries during which he
mutilated property that
he did not carry of. Police had been
trying to catch him for months and
finally succeeded Before large audi
ence," said The Star of April 10, 1894,
Jack the Slasher, or George Taylor,
alias George Jones, was called upon to
answer one of the five indictments re-
turned against him before Judge Cole
in Criminal Court No. 2 this morning ;"
Medical evidence brought out that the
defendant was insane, having a mania
for destruction. 1t was not denied that
he had committed the burglaries.
OF interest to art lovers was a long
article in The Star of April 7, 1894: 1.-The
%. Fourth annual exhibition of
Art the Society of Washington
Exhibit Artists will open Monday
april 81 in the hall of the
Cosmos Club" Then followed volumi-
nous, descriptions of the exhibits, ac-
companied by q dozen pictures of the
most highly regarded paintings There
were IS pictures in pastel or water color
and 70 in oil.
In the spring of '94, the young mans
fancy lightly turned to thoughts of
bicycles, as was proven by
Cycle of comment in The Star of
Sprino April 7, 1894: THE weather
was threatening last Sum-
day, but among the bicycle clubs enough
members got together to make the runs
interesting, and pleasant day was
spent on the road and in the woods.
The roads were all in good condition
(not too often true in these days., there
being but little mud or dust to mar the
pleasantness of the journeys" Perhaps
the reporter, too, was affected by spring.
To him, no ordinary bicycle riders were
these club members He referred to
them as romantic riders of the silent
Steed."
The first hint of an income tax
brought down the wrath of Senator Hill
of New York. His language,
Income as quoted in The Star, of
Tox Hit April 8, 1894, was almost
violent enough to suit the
modern income taxpayer: Against such
a scheme, unnecessary, ill-timed and
mischievous, suddenly sprung upon the
country in the hour of its distress, un-
democratic in it's nature and socialistic
in its tendencies, enter the protest of
the people of the State Of New York
They utterly dissent from any proposal
to get revenue for the general Govern
ment by taxing incomes. Their dissent is
practically unanimous and altogether
implacable."
The advance guard of Coxeys army
OF unemployed began to filter through
the outer detenses
Coxey's Army Neors of Washington, not
the District we'll guarded be-
cause no one knew
what were the best steps to take to deal
with the invasion. AS reported in The
Star of April T. 1894: "E. E. Grannon,
chief of the Baltimore & Ohio detective
corps, says that a crowd of 60 men, who
claim to be a part of the CoXey army,
are now in the yard at Brunswick sta
ton, point so miles west of WASH
ln2ton." District police chiefs in ses-
sion mapped plans TO receive the mob,
mysterious plans not disclosed to the
public. Mounted patrolmen were as
signed to extended beats with instruc-
tlons to observe and report the presence
of vanguards but not to arrest any one.
The Star of April 7, 1894, printed as a
filler joke at least twice as humorous
today as it was then. A ped
One for dler, speaking to a woman in
A Smile the doorway, asked If she was
the lady of the house NO"
sighed the woman the lady of the house
has just left. In these hard times we
couldn't afford to pay her outrageous
demand of three dollars a week"
for the 1910 nomination, but that was
four years ago and a lot of men have
recast their thinking in the past four
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