Evening star., 1945-06-24
Fifty Years AGO
The Stars veteran political commen.
tator never has been a seeker TO,


tator never has been a seeker for
personal p u icity,
Friends Academy but the paper for
Honor. which he so long
and with such dis
tinction has written anticipated his
later achievements when on June 10,
1895, it announced that George Gould
Lincoln was the recipient of a certificate
from Sidwell's Friends Select School for
high standing in scholarship and de-
portment." Fifteen other scholars were
recognized; 158 more did not rate"
any special laurels.
1t has been known for centuries that
domestic creatures on occasion destroy
themselves-for reasons
log OFowns never clearly compre-
H;mself hended by their human
contemporaries. A ease
in point was that referred to in a
dispatch to The Star from West Point
by way of New York City, published
June IS, 1895, to the effect that: "Pier-
pont Morgan's prize collie. Roslyn
Wilkes, deliberately committed suicide
today. The animal was bought in Eng
land and is reported to have cost $4,000
= When Bob Armstrong, the kennel
keeper, took the dogs out for exercise,
Roslyn Wilkes went to the pond for a
bath as playfully as the rest, but when
the others came out the prize winner
refused to do so. Then Armstrong
walked into the water. When the collie
saw him coming, the would-be-suicide
dived and stayed down until dead"
How the Columbian University OBJ
tanned new executive and admins
trative head from
New University Colby University at
p,e.;dent Waterville. Me. was
related in The Star of
June II, 1895, The newcomer was the
Rev. Benaiah Longley Whitman. a
native of Nova Scotia, who had been
pastor of the Free Street Baptist Church
In Portland from 1890 to 1892. Later
in relatively brief career he was min
lister of the Fifth Church in Philadelphia
and the First in Seattle, where he died
in 1911. His tenure of the presidency
of what now is George Washington Uni
versity continued only five years, but he
is remembered as one of the several
successors of James Clarke yelling as
we'll as the author of still-readable
series Of books on "the elements" of
ethics, sociology and political science.
X X II X
The Star for June 18, 1895, reporting
the annual graduation exercises OF the
Normal School of
Normal School the District of
Commencement Columbia at the
Franklin School
Building, mentioned that "a daintier
collection Of young womanhood it would
be hard to find anywhere" but also ex-
planned that the class included three
young men. One of the trio, it seems,
was John H. D. Heady, but it does not
appear that he ever actually taught in
any local educational institution. Con-
tory is eloquent. They were Robert L.
Haycock, now superintendent of schools,
and Henry w. Draper, now supervising
principal of the first division OF the
Washington school system. Both are
supposed to be retiring shortly, but
neither ever will lose touch with the
work in which, to the whole public's
advantage. they generously have spent
the best portions of their lives As re-
CARDS the feminine contingent OF the
Normal class of half a century ago, Mrs.
Emily Givens Dickinson says that quite
few are teaching again "for the dura-
ton"
The Star of June 20, 1895, chronicled
in detail the passage of the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern
kiel Conol through "the western wa
Opened ter gate OF the Baltic and
North Sea canal" at "a
quarter to this morning." 1t was
specified that the weather at Kiel was
magnificent and that greatest anima-
ton prevails" Emperor William II
and four Of his sons were on board their
own craft as it broke thread stretched
across the entrance for that purpose.
Ships of Great Britain, Italy, France,
Russia. Spain, Portugal, Norway, Swe-
den, Denmark, Rumania, Turkey and
the United States followed In process
sion. Because the day was the fifty
eighth anniversary Of Queen Victoria's
accession to the throne Of the United
Kingdom, the Kaiser, her grandson,
ordered Q royal salute to be fred 1t