Evening star., 1945-05-20
Fifty Years Ago

On Friday last the press of the Ma
ton reported the death OF a woman
allegedly torn to
Another Murder pieces by nine pit
By Dogs? bull terriers near
Miami, Fla, and 1t
was remarked that the tragedy was
"one of the few recorded cases of dogs
fatally attacking an adult human"
But The Star of May 10, 1895. con-
tanned the following dispatch from
Elizabethtown, N. Y: The Rev. w. r.
Woodbridge of Port Henry, a promi-
nent man in the church, Free Masonry
and politics, was attacked last evening
at Westport by several dogs and
probably fatally injured. His skull was
fractured. left arm broken and limbs
terribly lacerated"
Air conditioning is supposed to be
new, yet The Star for May IA, 1895,
discussed in detail "a
Ordering the most peculiar house"
Atmosphere at hamounix in
France whose builder
claimed for it "a constant temperature
and, incidentally, strength, durability
comfort and beauty" The style of the
structure was Italian renaissance. "All
floors and ceilings" it was explained,
"are crossed and recrossed by
water pipes" In summer cold water
was passed through the pipes; in winter
uyo f@oe
ment Is first heated to nearly 100
degrees and then forced through the
tubing" in the walls and other surfacing.
Parenthetically, the article affirmed:
''The house is fireproof, having run
ming water in every room. and fire
can be drowned out quickly"
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Friends Of the valiant Korean people
have been disturbed since the time of
the Yalta Conference
Czor Reochine by rumors to the ef-
For koreo3 feet that representa-
tives of the Soviet
Union during the discussion there ex-
pressed an anxiety to control the erst-
while hermit kingdom" known to the
Japanese as Chosen. Similar ideas for
fencing in" Korea were set forth half
a century back. The Star Of May
16, 1895, included despatch from St.
Petersburg to the effect that Czar
Nicholas II "has come to no decision re-
garding the occupation" of the Korean
Peninsula. But it was added: "The
Russian press has for some time been
advocating protectorate by Russia over
that country"-so long as Japan should
continue to be interested in Manchuria
A letter in The Star for May II, 1895,
declared: Somewhere in the District of
Columbia there is an
Gov. Shepherd obscure alley named
EuIoaized after Alexander r.
Shepherd. to whom is
due a large share of the credit that
Washington is a city and not still q
village. Gov. Shepherd made the streets
and avenues of what is now Washington
City proper" The author of the COM
munication, signing himself CT" then
alleged: "The present Commissioners
are engaged in the work of extending,
on paper, these streets and avenues
cording to report, they are meeting with
some difficulty in naming the paper
thoroughfares," but there should be
no question and no trouble about the
name of one of the finest of the new
avenues. It should be called after the
man who made Washington" The
plea thus phrased appears to have met
with success. There are in and near
the Nations Capital today: Shepherd
court NV; Shepherd street NE; Shep-
herd road and Shepherd street NV:
Shepherd street, Brentwood; Shepherd
street, Chevy Chase; Shepherd street,
Cottage City; Shepherd street, Landover
Hills, and Shepherd street, Mount
Rainier.
One feature of the daily issue of The
Star half century ago which almost
surely attracted con-
Attractive siderable attention
Opportunities was q series of clas-
sified advertisements
under the heading Business Chances. !"
On May l8, 1895, the first ''copy" read:
For sale Grocery. meat and provision
store; good opportunity; win sell at sac
rifice." Other offerings were: A coal
yard, with horse, cart, scales, ETC., for
$S75; a barroom, stock and fixtures.
doing good business" definitely
cheap for CASH: "well-stocked" cigar
store, available because "owner has
other business; . drugstore, 'best loca-
ton In the city, soda fountain pays
Ill expenses" $3.50; ''one q the best