Evening star., 1944-07-09
Fifty Years AGO

1oooi Iiouplc WAS tIle dominant theme
OF The Star for July 3, 1894. On the
front page a dispatch from
RoiIrood Chicago was headed: "A
Strike. Crisis Is Near" The story
beneath began: With this
mornings dawn opened what is ex-
pected to be day fraught with excit-
ing events and possibly the climax of
the contest between combatants in the
great Pullman American Railway Union
strike" In Washington, meanwhile.
President Cleveland was conferring with
members Of his cabinet on measures to
be taken In the developing emergency.
Regular Army units already were en-
route to the principal center Of disorder.
The Stars editorial comment included
the animation of the belief that: The
general public is not half as much in
terested in either the railroad COM
panies or their striking employees as it
is in itself" and its own legitimate
business.
The annual Independence Day meet
ing OF the Association Of Oldest In
habitants was reported
Inhobitonts" in The Star for July 4,
Fourth. 1894. Rev. Father D. j.
Stafford, assistant pas
tor Of St. Patrick's Church and professor
OF oratory at the Catholic University.
was the featured speaker-"as learned
as he was eloquent" The audience
"cheered and stamped and applauded
frequently and kept it up for minutes
at time" Robert Ball sang The Old
Pump On the Green" accompanied by
his daughter Florence.
A toy trunk, made of hewn wood and
covered with calfskin with strips of red
leather studded with brass
A Little nails, was mentioned in The
Trunk. Star for July 5, 1894, as be-
ing the property of Miss
Anne Ellis Piper and intended by her
as gift to the National Museum. The
little chest, it was explained. had been
presented to Mrs. Euphemia Wall Dawes
by George Washington What became
OF 1t since that moment of its passing
fame so years ago? The records of the
Smithsonian Institution, checked yester-
day by John E. Graf, associate director,
show that the trunk was received July
IA, 1894, and still is in approximately
the condition in which it arrived, It
measures inches by inches by 5 inches
and the name "E. Wall is engraved on
the lock. The lining of the chest con-
sists of pieces of newspapers of 1852 with
advertisements for musical instruments,
paid notice for the Albany Female
Academy, an account of a Grand Tenn
perance Banquet and an editorial:
What Will the New Administration
Do?"
In The Star for July 5, 1894, there
was reproduced an article from the
Philadelphia Times on a
Advice to subject which even now
Wives. after half century has
certain attractipn-namely
How to Keep Husband The author
set forth among other ideas the af1lrma-
tion: "A man comes home tired and
hungry and then demanded: IF he
finds no meal ready, the children fret
ful. the wife cross :. is 1t any wonder
that he seeks more congenial places?"
Six buildings OF the Colombian Expo-
sition in Chicago "perished by incen-
diarism" on July 5, 1894,
Exposition according to a circumstan-
Fire. tial story in The Star for
the following day. Fire
started almost simultaneously at three
points" 1t was reported. TN each Of
these places a man was seen run
ming away" The structure DESTROYED
had been in process of demolition by a
salvage contractor. No exhibits were
lost.
Gov. John P. Altgeld requested Presi-
dent Cleveland to remove Federal troops
from Illinois. alleging, The
Troops to Star for July 8, 1894, said,
Stoy. that: 'The State -. Is not
only able to take care Of
itself, but 1t stands ready today to fur
nish the Federal Government any as
sistance it may need anywhere" Reply
Ing, Mr.. Cleveland declared that the
soldiers had been sent to Chicago upon
the demand Of the Post Once Depart