Evening star., 1944-02-13
Fifty Years Ago


evangelical team of Moody and Sankey
was in Washington
Moody and for an extended ses-
Sonkey Here sion. The Star Of Sat-
urday, February 10,
1894, related: The usual tremendous
throng besiesed Convention Hall last
night There were enough folks gathered
at the portals at $50 to flll the seats
on the main floor, and when the doors
were opened there was surging rush.
BY the time the confusion of the first
rush had subsided there had been
enough arrivals to fill the gallery seats
as we'll. So, by o'clock every seat in
the hall had been taken and the doors
were closed promptly as soon as this
fact was ascertained" AS a result, Mr..
Moody, being good psychologist and
not wanting to keep his audience wait
ing, opened the meeting well ahead Of
the scheduled hour.
The gold certificate, today a vanished
memory, was under discussion so years
ago and also under
Sold Certificates attack by Treasury
Under Attock Secretary Carlisle
An account was
given in The Star Of February 13, 1894:
The suspension of further issues OF
gold certificates on private deposits Of
gold is likely to be recommended to
Congress by Secretary Carlisle before
the close OF the present session. No gold
certificates have been issued since the
middle Of last April under the provision
OF the act Of July II. 1882, which directs
that the Secretary of the Treasury shall
suspend the issue of such gold certifi-
Gates whenever the amount OF gold coin
and gold bullion in the Treasury re-
served for the redemption OF United
States notes falls below 500 1000, ,0O0."
1t was argued that right then was a
good time to take the step, Just after
the Nation had recovered from the panic
of '93 and before further trouble de-
veloped.
Woman suffragists descended upon
the Capital to discuss ways and
means of accom-
Womon Suffrage plishins their object.
Convention AS described in The
Star Of February 13,
1894: "The 26th annual convention of
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association, which is to commence at
Metzerott Hall next Thursday morning
February Is. 189D to last for q week,
promises to be the most successful and
interesting ever held by the association
in this city. Every indication points to
large attendance Of delegates and
others interested in the work from all
parts OF the country. Miss Susan B.
Anthony is already here, but goes over
to Baltimore this afternoon to be present
at the State convention there Others
of the advance guard began to arrive
today"
Word was received of the wreck of
the famous warship Kearsarge on
Roncador Reef in
Historic Worship the Caribbean. The
Wrecked wreck occurred Feb
ruary 2, 1894, but as
there was no radio in those days and
even wire connections through Central
America were not too good, real details
did not begin to appear until 10 days
later. In a dispatch from Colon,
Panama, The Star of February IL, 1894.
reported: The crew of the United
States cruiser Kearsarge was rescued
at noon Saturday February 10, 18s4.
Only one man was drowned, a second
class fireman. The good old warship
was abandoned on Roncador Reef with
the Stars and Stripes still flying at her
peak" This vessel wooden corvette
launched at Portsmouth, N. H., in Sep
tember Of 1861, was the one that sank
the Confederate raider Alabama of
Cherbourg, France, on June 10, 1854.
Congress voted that an attempt be made
to raise the historic ship from Roncador
Reef, but engineers declared that the
task was not feasible. She rests there
now, in Davy Jones locker, although her
name was carried on by the construc-
ton, In the following year, Of q new
Kea rec roe