Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22
Fifty Years Ago
Every young plebe at the moment Of
his appointment to ANNAPOLIS mus,

Every young plebe at the moment of
his appointment to Annapolis must
wonder what the fu-
Codet ture holds for him.
Makes Good The prospect natural
ly looks congenial. Yet
relatively few are destined to achieve
top rank. The Star for April Is, 1895.
contained long list OF cadets nomi-
mated to the Naval Academy since the
adjournment Of Congress" and promi-
nent in the roster was the name Of the
boy who now is Admiral Edward Clifford
Kalbfus, director OF the ONCE of Naval
History. Born at Mauch Chunk, Pa,
November a. 1877, he was graduated in
1899. commissioned ensign in 1901,
served in the war with SPAIN the
Philippine Instruction the pacification
OF Cuba, the occupation Of Mexico and
the First World War, commanding the
Pocahontas. the Iowa, the Trenton and
later the California. BY 1880 he was
chief of staff, battleship divisions, battle
fleet; in 1881 he was director of war
plans in the Navy Department; be-
tween 1881 and 1884 he was commander
Of destroyers in the battle force SUBJ
sequently, he twice was president of the
Naval War College, then was vice adj
miral, commanding battleships, and adj
nairal, commanding the battle force in
its fully assembled might and power.
Two days before Pearl Harbor, he was
supposed to go on the retired list. But
the leisure he had anticipated was not
feasible. Instead, he has responsibility
for the gathering of the materials from
which eventually the naval chronicles of
World War No. will be compiled. This,
in addition to- his work as member of
the General Board, keeps him as busy
as ever he was at any previous time in
half a century.
Use of electricity for the transmits
sion of photographs is so common in
l945 that the aver
First Teleqrophed age individual
Pictures probably takes it
for granted as
though there never had been a time
when such procedure was a novelty. A
front page report in The Star of April
II, 1895, however, suggests contrary
view. 1.-THE first experiments ever made
in the telegraphing of pictures for a
long distance was made by the (San
Francisco Call last night, when an
outline picture of the entry of the Queen
of Fiesta at Los Angeles was wired from
the latter place. The expert
ment was successful (and) the inventor
believes his idea to be most valuable in
newspaper work or in the police or
Secret Service. A good picture can be
sent at the cost of and in about the
space Of $50 words. 1t should take no
longer than half an hour to send and
reproduce diagram" Paper especially
ruled with interesting squares was the
secret OF the invention. It's sponsors
confidence was justified by subsequent
developments.
Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish
political leader whose work laid the
foundations for the mod
The Mother ern free state" of Fire,
and an interesting side
light on that fact was contained in The
Star for April 10, 1895, in the form of a
dispatch from Bordentown, N. j., an
nouncing that his mother, Mrs. Della T.
S. Parnell, had been found unconscious
on hillside near Ironsides, the resi-
dence built by her father, Commodore
Stewart, many years earlier. She ap-
peared to have been assaulted and
robbed, and the local police sent out
warnings to arrest man with a smooth
face and derby hat who had been OBJ
served in the neighborhood and then
had vanished. Was the mystery ever
solved? Loyal Parnellites as recently as
1916 believed that their beloved chief
still lived and toiled for Ireland's lib
erty in secret.
The congregation Of Epworth Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, Seventh
and A streets NE,
Dr.. Knott's welcomed a new pastor
Reception in the person of the Rev.
John O. Knott on Tues
day evening. April 16, 1895, and The
Star for the following day gave an
account of the ceremonies and festivities
Of his induction. Rev. I. w. Canter,
Rev. ]. w. Boteler, w. F. Hummer, F. E.
woodward, g. T. Ellsworth, George
Martin, M. E. Gilbert and Miss Emily
Dugan took part in the program All
are gone save only the man to whom
they offered their corporate greeting
He served the Epworth Church four