Evening star., 1945-01-14
Fifty Years Ago
Does anybody know what became of
the National Science Club for Women

oocS dIyUOOy KNOW WnaL became OF
the National Science Club for Women?
The Star for January l.
Women 1895, reported that it was
Scientists having convention at
the National Museum.
Mrs. Rosa Smith Engemann of the Uni
versity of Indiana was president. Other
officers included: Mrs. A. B. Williams,
Mrs. Laura o. Talbot, Mrs. Edward
Goodfellov, Mrs. Horatio King, Mrs.
Mark Harrington, Mrs Anna Lowell
Woodbury. and Miss Isabel Lehman, all
Of Washington. The papers read be-
fore the several sessions of the conclave
dealt with subjects truly representative
OF Huxley's definition of organized
common sense"
The Star for January 5, 1895, chron-
icled an incident which certainly was
one OF the most dramatic
Dreyfus events Of the 18th CEN
Case tury. In long dispatch from
Paris, 1t said: Capt. Alfred
Dreyfus Of the 14th Regiment Of Ar
tillery, who was tried by court-martial,
convicted Of treason in disclosing i'm
portant War Office documents to for
eigners and sentenced to department
/. and imprisonment for life in fortress,
was publicly degraded this morning In
front Of the military school of this city"
The ceremony dishonoring the accused
of{1cer was described In detail. It In
cluded a announcement by Gen.
dArras: you are adjudged unworthy
to bear arms. In the name Of the
French people I degrade you" The
captains epaulettes then were torn OF
and his sword was broken and thrown
to the ground. When he proclaimed his
innocence his words were drowned out
by the roll Of drums But the Paris
mob got In its traditional perform
ance. It whistled in shrill manner
peculiar to itself.
When admirers of Robert Louis
Stevenson assembled at Carnegie Hall
in New York to pay
Homaqe tribute to his memory
To R. |. S. one Of the speakers, ac-
cording to The Star of
January S, 1895, was Andrew Carnegie,
fellow Scot George w. Cable and DR..
Edward Eggleston also gave addresses.
There were present in the audience
William Dean Howells, Richard Watson
Glider. Edmund Clarence Stedman,
Charles A. Dana, ]. p. Morgan, Walter
Damrosch, Augustus st. Gaudens, r. H.
Stoddart,. David Christie Murray and
many lesser lights who now, perhaps
undeservedly, are forgotten
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There were several societies devoted
to Shakespeare in Washington half q
century ago, but the
Friends OF one which was known
The Bord as The Shakespeare
Club certainly was not
the least important of the number. On
January 7, 1895, The Star chronicled
the election Of E. B. Hay, president; Mrs.
A. g. Adams, vice president; Mrs. Thorn
ton Carusi, secretary; Mrs. Janet E.
Richards. treasurer; ]. H. Whitaker,
Walter Rogers. w. Spencer Armstrong,
Mrs. Gay Robertson, Miss Anna H.
White, members of the Executive Com.
mittee. The organization held its meet
ings-at least some OF them-at the
home OF Mrs. Emily Hart, 610 n street
NV.
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January Q, 1895, was the date Of q
frank and fortnight editorial discussion
Of Chief Executive.
Approisol Of reading in part as
President follows: "The Star, as
Its readers know, is
no f1atterer OF President Cleveland, and
II has had occasion to criticize his public
acts quite as often as'to praise them; but
It has no sympathy with the ribaldry
and billingsgate Of the attack upon
him In the House yesterday. such
coarse and pointless invective after the
approved fishwife models l. dsroeatory
to the ONCE Of Chief Magistrate Of the
Nation and belittling to Congress.