Evening star., 1945-03-11
Fifty Years Ago

worthy OF their hire FIVE decades ago.
The sta for March /,
Storvofion 1895, corltained a letter
Wages from Plain Justice"
alleging that the drivers
and conductors of the lexington and
Soldiers Home Railroad Co. worked
13 hours day for s17O. And
The Star for the next day included a
notice that: The Civil Service Com
mission will hold an examination for
the position of library clerk and for
the position of library cataloguer, De-
partment of Agriculture. The salary of
the library cataloguer, it was set forth,
would be $1,000 per annum and that of
library clerk S840 per annum. OF course,
in those times a woolen suit for a boy
"size Is" cost only $500 The difficulty
dared be seen in public in that kind
of a suit.
Announcement of the engagement of
Miss Mary Victoria Letter, eldest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Curzon-leiter L. z. Letter, to
Romonr. George N. Curzon,
member of Parlia-
ment for Southport, Lancashire, and
eldest son of Lord Scarsdale of Eng
land. was authorized by the family of
the bride-elect for publication in The
Star for March 4, 1895. 1T created
great surprise . Miss Letter is
receiving today congratulations on every
side but at the same time will hear
many regrets that the man favored
with her hand is not an American. Mr.
Curzon has been a favorite of fortune
all his life. . He met Miss Letter
abroad last summer" Miss Anna Gould
married Count Paul Ernest Boniface
De Castellane the same day that the
Curzon-Leiter troth was publicized Mr..
guess Curzon of Kedleston in 1911, was
governor general of India, secretary for
foreign affairs and leader of the House
of Lords and held other positions of
distinction. His wife died in 1906 Curva-
ture of the spine, it was disclosed after
encased in heavy iron framework most
of his busy and successful life-yes, "a
favorite of fortune" despite his suffering
His name has come back into the news
recently in relation to certain boundary
line in Eastern Europe.
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There once was time-in the dread
full horse-and-buggy age-when the Ma
tions Chief Executive actually could
drop everything of business nature and
get out of town
The President and for a vacation
The Violet really deserving of
the name. On the
front page of The Star of March 5, 1895,
it was disclosed that President Cleveland
had sailed in the buoy tender Violet, ito
which he has formed quite an attach
ment" despite the fact that she was
dence of luxury His objective was sew
eral weeks of fishing and shooting in the
inland waters of North Carolina. Three
friends went with him. perhaps lured
by the prospect of plenty of sweet potato
pie for dessert. Mr.. Cleveland, The Star
explained. had been considerably run
down in health and spirits" and would
be obliged to "live on the scale of an
ordinary mortal during the outing" But
at least he would be away from WASH
ington for a while, and that was what
he wanted.
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Regular residents and transients who
visit the Corcoran Gallery Of Art to view
the Biennial Exhibition Of Oil Paintings
on display there will not be likely to
pause as they enter
Marble for the lobby to think
The Corcoron about how the build
ing was put together.
But an article printed in The Star for
March 8, 1895, told the public of that
date certain interesting circumstances
about the construction enterprise then
in progress. No less than 10000 cubic
feet of marble, it said, would be needed
to complete the job, land the stuff is
brought by rail in huge blocks from
Georgia. Some of the chunks weigh as
much as Is TONS" One of the machines
employed in separating one piece from
another looked almost exactly like the
contrivance that is used at the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing for perforat.