Evening star., 1944-11-05
Fifty Years Ago


New Army regulations were being
drafted, 1t was announced in The Star
of October 26
Military Regulations 1894. The result,
Revised allie 9 edly, will
embody the ex-
perience of about 100 years of Army life,
Baron Steuben, German nobleman,
who was the drillmaster of our Revolu-
tionary troops, made the first regula-
tions, but they were very crude and q
part Of the tactics. In 1921, Gen. Win
field Scott prepared the first systematic
set of regulations, and they have since
served as basis to be built upon, modi-
fed and enlarged. Successive Presidents
have made changes as necessity arose.
The War Department issues general
orders every day, applying mainly to
specific cases, but often establishing
precedents for the entire Army. All
this material was digested in 1881 and
again in 1889. but the daily orders of
the last five years have required this
new volume"
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The Star for October %, 1894, reported
the organization meeting of the Capital
City Club of Amateur
Amoteu5 Journalists at Willard's
Newsho~k. Hotel the previous eve
ming Charles r. Bur-
ger, president of the National Amateur
Press Association, WAS a guest and fea-
tured speaker. The chosen leader Of
the local group was E. H. Sunderland.
Plans for general convention OF non
professional news writer's in 1896 were
thoroughly discussed All the addresses,
1t was specified, were received with
loud applause"
James P. Willett was "one Of the most
popular men in Washington where every
one knows and esteems
Nex him." and The Star OF
Postmaster October 30, 1894, there
fore expressed the be-
lief that there was great satisfaction
throughout the city" among both DEM
ocrats and Republicans when President
Cleveland decided to appoint him post
master of the Nations Capital. THE
Post Office" proclaimed the successful
candidate for the job. Is business
office and should be conducted on busi-
ness principles"
Fifty years ago considerable excite
ment" was aroused among the people
Of Chattanooga over
Shooes OF the arrest Of Manager
Flo Ze;ofeId Albert of the local
Opera House "for
displaying pictures on the billboards of
pretty women in silk tights" But The
Star for October 81, 1894. let 1t be under
stood that the recorder, after hearing
"a large number of prominent people"
had dismissed the case, perhaps in con-
sideration of the fact that 1t was not
charged that the pretty ladies had been
represented without tights in manner
which later, in the Follies and else
where, would be an accepted theatrical
fashion.
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At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Of No
vember l, 1894, Alexander III, Gar of
Russia, died at his palace
Humane" at Livadia after a long
Autocrot and very painful illness.
His demise had been ex-
pected with satisfaction by certain
anarchists who had regarded him as a
monster" and a "scoundrel," but q
contrary view was expressed by The
Star for November 2 In the editorial
opinion that "he was not only the most
humane Of the many autocrats who
have ruled the great European-Asiatic
empire but rendered to mankind
invaluable services by his preservation
of the peace when all other influences
appeared to be bent upon war" The
heir to the throne was the unhappy
"czarowitch" known to history as
Nicholas Ia pathetic victim of cir
cumstances, who. with all the members
of his immediate family, was destined
to be murdered by the Bolsheviks at
Ekaterinburg July 1e. 1918.
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Gen." william Booth, commander
In chief Of the Salvation Army
Of the world, came to Washing
ton on November 8,
Solvotionist 1894, and was welcomed
Arrives by q crowd Of lighters
against the devil" at the
Sixth Street Station. The occasion OF
his visit was q lecture In Convention
Hall on the eve of an election day
which resulted In what The Star con-
sidered "a great Republican cyclone"
It was the famous evangelist's opinion
that: you can't save these people from
a distance. If you discover q wrecked
ship on your seacoast with the crew in
the rigging crying for help. do you take
an organ and q well-dressed choir to
the waters edge and sing Rescue the
Perishing'7 No, you get out your life
boats" The account OF the generals"
address was printed side by side with
the political news.
cerity and misrepresentation" Of 1915