Evening star., 1944-07-23
Fifty Years Ago
Did the Vikings really settle in N

Did the Vikings really settle in New
England more than 900 years ago? The
Star on July IA, 1894, pub
Viking lished q lengthy article sug-
CITY? gesting that they did. It's
authority was Prof w. J.
MCGEE Of the Bureau of American Eth
nology who. after exploring extensive
ruins on the Charles River, near Water
town, Mass. first discovered by Prof.
Eben N. Horsford Of baking powder
fame, declared that he was confident
that none of the aborigines of Ameri-
ca were ever known to build their
houses after the modes Of architecture
there found and that the resemblance
which these structures bear to the de-
scriptions in the Scandinavian sagas Is
by no means imaginative"
Faithful to the founding fathers
concept of the Capital of the United
States as cultural
loooI University center, The Star
Advontooes for July Is, 1894,
argued editorially:
sity have access to the best libra
lies in the country. Here are the
laboratories Of the scientists who are
engaged in active investigation under
Government direction in every field of
research; here the processes of Gov
eminent can be studied not from books
alone. but from actual observation: and
here sits the highest court in the land"
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A dispatch from Panama to The
Star for July H. 1894, said: The salts
faction is very general
DE lesseps' here at the sues' Canal
g., Troubles Co. according poor M.
tFerdinand de Lesseps
an annuity as well as a pension for life
for his wife and IS children. Though
previously denied in Paris. it is no secret
upon the Isthmus here that he mort
gagged all his Suez scrip to prop up his
shares in the Panama scheme before
the crash came and he lost both. The
world that admires the man will rejoice
that happy distinction has been made
between the man Of Suez and the man
OF Panama. In the one case, he was
himself; in the other, only plaything
in the hands of spectators"
The old problem of the geographical
distribution OF Government employees
was revived In The
Too Many Star for July IT,
From District 1894, when Josephus
Daniels, then chief
clerk of the Department of the Interior,
now former Secretary of the Navy and
former Ambassador to Mexico and only
last week given an ovation as a party
elder statesman at the Chicago conven-
tion, innocently released for publication
a report on Interior personnel showing
that the District of Columbia, theo-
retically entitled to only 20 positions in
the department under existing civil
service regulations, actually had 500. An
obvious explanation was that only a
relatively small number of the total 500
had been born in Washington. The
majority came to the Capital from other
places to work for the Government.
Some remained only short while;
others stayed for the rest of their lives.
but all were bracketed in the single
classification of residents"
The Nips in -grandfather's day
we're just as tough and mean as they
are now. According to The
Bod Even Star for July 18, 1894, Lon
Then don was incensed by news
that Japanese soldiers had
assaulted and brutally beaten the Brit
ish Consul at Seoul in Corea and mis-
treated his wife. Blue jackets, it was
disclosed, had been sent to protect the
consulate and it's inhabitants. What
additional procedure, if any, was con-
templated, was not publicized.
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