Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Fifty Years Ago


tanned personal tribute which perhaps
now m ay m
Who Remembers som h ing more
Him? than ever its author
expected since in a
sense 1t serves as memorial for one
who otherwise might be forgotten. Hon
oring a youth whose name was Porter
Heap, it says of him: We'll born. well
bred, remarkably handsome, possessed
of ample means the idol Of his family,
he was utterly unspoiled. His modesty
and perfect manners charmed all with
whom he came in contact. From his
two great erandsires, Commodores
Truxtun and Porter, he inherited in a
high degree that subtle essence which
must be Unborn. for it can never be
grated, best understood by 'noblesse
oblige' - He loved the sea = = and
looked forward with delight to his
summer vacation. to be spent in the
enjoyment of his boats, provided for
his amusement by an indulgent father
He was fond of athletic sports. was a
generous victor and bore defeat with
good humor. His horse and dogs bore
witness to his humanity in evincing
their joy whenever he appeared. After
an illness of only four days, he was
suddenly, painlessly and unconsciously
removed from earth to another and
better world. After eighteen happy years,
He left the warm precincts of living
day, nor cast one longing. lingering
look behind"
X +
Half century ago. the firm of Booth
& Flynn was famous among contrac-
tors in Western Pennsyl-
Squirrel Hill vania. Literally thou
Riot sands of miles of new
streets and highways in
and near Pittsburgh were paved under
the direction of the partners. The
Star Of August IL, 1895, reported an &C.
casion when they had trouble with their
laborers. One hundred Italian workmen,
1t was explained went on strike for "an
advance of Is cents day. were dis
charged and, returning to the scene and
finding themselves replaced on the job.
next was that: Police charged the
mob and captured 81 of the rioters who
had marched into the melee under a red
flag" Work thereafter was carried on
under police guard" and the fashionable
Squirrel Hill neighborhood of the Smoky
City was normally quiet again. In other
words, the strike was broken.
A front-page article in The Star
for August 10, 1895. publicized the fact
that a portrait of
Mr.. Horrison's former President Ben
Portrait jamin Harrison was
today added to the
gallery of paintings in the White House
It is the work of Eastman johnson
specimen of whose work was
already in the White House gallery in
the portrait of President Cleveland"
Both pictures, it was indicated, would
hang in "the Red Parlor"; and one is
there today-the picture of Mr.. Cleve-
land bearing label declaring that he
was both the twenty and the
twenty-fourth President OF the United
States, a stipulation which makes
President Truman the thirty third Chief
Executive and not the thirty as
some mistaken commentators have
supposed.
Tragedies of many different kinds
were chronicled in The Star of August
IA, 1895, the number in
Lots OF GLIDING: Two firemen
Troubles killed in runaway at
Cincinnati; the entire
business section of Pikeville, Tenn, de-
stroyed by FIRE; many persons burned
or otherwise injured by explosion of
fireworks at Thornton, Ind; great DAM
age to buildings and crops caused by
hailstorm at Rush City, Mimi: former
mayor Of Denver killed in fall from
third-story window OF his hotel: woman
burned to death at WATERFOWL, N. Y,
when oil stove blew UP: four women