Evening star., 1945-03-25
Fifty Years Ago
Advertising copy writers half a GEN.
tury ago must have found their tasks


tury ago must have found their tasks
relatively easy to
Direct Appeal perform. The public
Exemplied seemingly was not too
difficult to satisfy. For
example, Parker. Bridget & Co., 315
Seventh street, made use of 51a inches of
space in The Star for March Is, 1895, to
proclaim: "You mothers ought to be
happy this spring. for your boy will
That is, II he is allowed to select his
spring suit here. Never were they so
sweet, so Fauntleroyistic,' and never
were prices SO low. Bring the boy in
tomorrow"
When readers of The Star for March
Is, 1895, encountered a reference to
William Shakespeare
Nomesoke of with the abbrevia-
Fomous Bord tion Gen." preced-
ing the poets name,
they reasonably might have been puz-
zled by the circumstance. But the mill
tary title thus indicated was not an
error, 1t properly was applied to
gallant soldier who served in the I'd
Michigan Infantry from 1861 to 1864,
was painfully wounded in action at
Jackson, Miss, and. being discharged
because of his injuries, became, when
only 81, editor and publisher of the
Kalamazoo Gazette. Later, he was
merchant, a lawyer, banker, brigadier
general and quartermaster of the Michi-
gan State troops and department COM
mander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. His death occurred on January
81, 1907, and he left library of 1000
volumes which testified to a love for
literature which certainly was natural
for man who had borne with distinc-
tion the greatest name in letters. But
his fame was fleeting. None of the
standard biographical dictionaries and
encyclopedias available to the public
today mentions him. The data here
reproduced were discovered by the staff
of the Veterans Administration ar
chives. A clue was provided by Sem
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg's Office,
where it was recalled that constituent
with the surname of the author of
Hamlet" and Macbeth" was engaged
in the manufacture of fine fishing tackle
at Kalamazoo not longer ago than last
week.
A front-page story in The Star of
March 10, 1895, told how: During the
coming summer work
Pointers Who will be commenced
Were Artists upon the interior dec
grafton of the new
Congressional Library Building. Those
In charge have commissioned a
number of artists to submit designs for
mural paintings. . The artists will be
left to their own devices in the prepara-
ton of the general designs but will be
expected, of course, to prepare work of
character suitable for the building.
It is expected that allegorical and his
torical groupings will furnish the sub
jects Of the paintings" A stroll through
the Library after so years sufices to
convince any rational stroller that the
men chosen to embellish the walls were
equal to their task. The list Of artists
worthy Of the name included Edwin n.
Blashfield, John w. Alexander, Elihu
vedder, Edwin Simmons. George w.
Maynard, Kenyon Cox, Walter McEwen.
Carl Melchers, Elmer E. Garnsey, w. B.
Van Ingen, r. L. and w. L. Dodge, r. w.
Benson, Robert Reid, Walter Shirlaw, H.
Q. Walker, Edward J. Holslag. George r.
Barse, jr. and Charles Sprague Pearce.
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S. Al. Andree. explained The Star
J for March 81, 1895, will start early
next year on q balloon
'ChimericoH voyage to the North Pole,
II Wos under the auspices Of the
Royal Swedish Academy
OF Science and with the financial sup
port Of q number Of wealthy Swedes