Evening star., 1945-11-18

OUT OF WHICH DOtn the American FeQeI-
alton of Labor and
Kniohts Of the Congress of In
nhor Orio;n dustrial Orga niza-
tions have grown, was
q secret society. The Star OF November
g. 1895, gave an extensive account OF
how it WAS organized by Urial s. Ste
vens, a leader of whom present genera
ton members of the AFL and the CIO
probably never have heard. 1t was stip-
ulated by the founder and his associates
that: THE name was never to be ut
tered outside Of the assemblies and was
never to be set on paper" That was in
1869. BY 1881 secrecy was repudiated.
Mr.. Stevens-listed in the Dictionary of
American Biography as "Uriah Smith
Stephens died on February 13, 1882.
Four years later the Knights granted MS
family $4,000 in recognition of his
services
Under the heading Personal Men
ton The Star for November 9, 1895, an
nounced that Con-
Mr.. Curtis and gresham Charles Cur
His Sister tis of Topeka, Kans.,
and his sister were
stopping at the Oxford. This, perhaps,
was the first public reference to life
long companionship which finally be-
came part of the history of the Ma
ton. Mr.. Curtis was in the House of
Representatives from 1893 to 1907, a
member of the Senate from 1907 to 1929
and Vice President of the United States
from 1929 to 1888. The sister to whom
he was devoted was Dolly Curtis, who in
1915 married Edward Everett Gam. spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney General.
She was her brothers oficial hostess
from 1924 onward until his death on
February 8, 1886. Her husband died
on October 2 of the same year. Mrs.
Gam wrote her own account of the
she herself was and still is featured
sharer. Her memoirs appeared in The
Star in 1888. Undoubtedly, she recalls
her early days in Washington as clearly
as though they were only last week.
The Star of November 8, 1895, con-
tanned lengthy list of residents of the
Capital who had
Woshinetonions won success on
Who Mode Good the stage or as
concert musi-
clans. Among the actors and actresses
mentioned were: Stuart Robson, Rob-
ert Downing, Charles B. Hanford Will
ton Lackaye. Minnie Maddern Fiske,
Lavinia Shannon, Marguerite Saxton
and Nellie Rosebud. "One Washingto-
nian who acquired reputation, both in
this country and in Europe, but who is
hardly known to the present genera
tion." it was explained. was Heller the
magician. His real name was (William
Henry Palmer, and he was for many
! years organist at the Church Of the
Epiphany" Likewise famous on both
sides of the Atlantic was John Philip
Sousa, the March King, who as q child
began his professional career practicing
the violin by the light Of single tall
low candle" Other washington nd
dlers" who achieved celebrity were the
celebrated Maud Powell and Leonora
Won Stosch. The latter now is Mrs
Edgar Speyer. Pulitzer poetry prize win
ner., former president fand currently
honorary vice president) Of the Poetry
Society Of America, honorary membe,
Of Phi Beta Kappa, teacher at Columbia
University, indubitably the First Lady oi
contemporary American verse.
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News comes from st. Petersburf
that the life Of the Czarina has beer
| despaired Of" declared
Cxorino in The Star for November II
Dcncer 1895 THE Caesarian op.
erationA has been per.
formed and the physicians are no long.
| or able to conceal from the husband tai
danger Of the Czarina. Princess AK
renamed Alexandra Feodoroyna in &C.
cordance with the Russian law. va,
married to the CEar Nicholas II, Novem
Ser rs, 1904" But the Czarina did no
die 50 years ago. She lived to bear he
/ imperial husband four daughters and ,
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