Evening star., 1944-08-06
Fifty Years Ago
The tendency of good men to beco

discouraged about participation In pub
lie affairs was illus
Did Not Choose trated by a report to
- Pu, The Star of July "a,
1894, to the effect that
the Rev. DR.. ]. w. Santee, for AZ years
pastor Of Christ's Reformed Church,
Cavetown, had declined to be candi-
date for Congress in the 9Th district
Of Maryland. He says, while he is in
strong sympathy with the cause of pro-
hibition, he is no politician" 1t was ex-
planned. Politics, as they are found
today, he wrote, are underhanded, full
of disguises. concealments. etc, with
which he did not care about forming any
alliance
Two immense storage warehouses and
large stables and ofices owned by the
George w. Knox Ex-
Troeie press Co., in the VI
CONFEDERATION cinity OF Second and
streets NV, COM
pletely were destroyed by fire early In
the morning Of July IS, 1894. The Star
for that day printed five long columns
of news concerning the disaster with
special emphasis on the heroism OF
three brave firemen who were caught
under falling walls and perished in
the blaze. Their names were: Samuel
E. Mastin, Michael Fenton and Dennis
ODonoghue. Does any reader remem-
ber them after half hundred years?
Plans for the elaborate and mag
nificent" celebration Of the centennial
Of Baltimore,
Boltimore Centenoy wash ingtons
Enterprise near neishoor'
in 1897, already
were being pushed with great industry"
The Star for July rs, 1894, announced
the names Of Washington citizens CO.
operating toward the unqualified success
Of the project. They included: COL Alex
ander D. Anderson, Scott Towers, Gar
diner G. Hubbard, Charles j. Bell,
Lawrence Gardner, John B. Wright,
James G. Berrett, Theodore w. Noyes
and others.
War between China and Japan was
reported to have been oficially declared.
=, according to The Star
nosti'it'es of July n, 1894. A
n tho 0,;.nt London dispatch
printed on the first
page declared: Fighting is said to
have taken place between the Japanese
and (the) Chinese warships and trans
ports and the Chinese are said to have
had the worst of It," Five decades later
Japan still is winning in theory, still
failing to dominate the mainland of
Asiain fact.
The Star for July 2S, 1894, reviewed
exhaustively an article on the Nations
Capital written by F.
ihe Founders Marion Crawford and
eke;,v published in the Gen.
tury Magazine WASH
ington," the celebrated novelist con-
tended, may be said to be the express
sion of George Washingtons intention
and personal taste, and, in a consequent
way, Of his character. The plan of the
city reminds one of the mans face,
with its large, quiet features, its calm
symmetry and its singularly unobtrusive
individuality"
Does history repeat7 One reply to
that familiar question may be found
in comparison be-
iheioent tween a report from
-. ~. I'm New York printed In
The Star for July II,
1914 and story which appeared in The
Star 50 years less II days earlier in
part as follows: Mrs. Annie Freas . -
is minus the greater part Of her right
arm as the result of well-meant but
mischievous caressing Of pretty black
bear at the Philadelphia) Zoo yester-
day. - (She) jumped over a guard
rail, which is situated fully three feet
from the pit . = and stuck her hand
inside the cage. = (The bear -
sunk his teeth into Mrs. Freas' arm
below the elbow and closed his JAWS on
1t with the firmness Of vice. There was
cracking sound as his teeth crushed
through the bones Of the arm. : Every
artery was severed. The doctors
found : that the only thing that
could be done was to amputate 80
short distance above the elbow"