Evening star., 1945-02-04
Fifty Years Ago
Those persons who have crossed the
mountains Of Southern California, and


Those persons who have crossed the
mountains of Southern California. and
=, many other people
o"ow ~ tne probably, will appreci-
Moun.a;ns ate these sentences
from The Star for Jan
uary %, 1895. "The scene in the Sierras
Is one OF SURPRISING magnificence. It
seems as If the route Of the Central Pa
clfic were laid through the line Of the
greatest snowfall. With drifts 40 feet
deep - the energies OF the railroad
people are put to the test. Luckily, the
wind Is not blowing, and the situation is
not complicated by the formidable land
and snow slides that so often make rail-
reading and even existence in the high
Sierras perilous. In places hardy noun
talneers ''' communicate by means OF
tunnels through the snow. Habitations
are oblite1ated. and the reign of the
snow king, magnificent but desolate, is
supreme"
Fifty years ago some Americans al
ready had begun to realize the signifi-
canoe of what subse-
NovoI Stotien quently became the
Expense Navy's principal base In
Hawaii. The Star OF
January 23, 1895, reported that: THE
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
today authorized favorable report on
(AlabamA Senator u. IT, Morgan's
amendment to the naval appropriation
hell,5 making an appropriation Of 800 900
for dredging the Pearl Harbor bar. -.
The idea was advanced that with this
work once undertaken by the Govern
ment Of the United States, other ma
tions would understand that 1t was the
purpose Of the United States to main
tain supremacy there"
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A forerunner Of Burton Holmes and
many other traveloguers was the we'll
known writer and ex-
Travellers plorer referred to in the
Impressions following para graph
from The Star for
January "a, 1895: Frank G. Carpen-
ters illustrated talk on The Chinese
OF Today attracted. large audience
last evening to Metzerott Hall, where
they listened to q most interesting ac-
count of the character and racial per-
sonality of this unique people. It was
the second Of Mr.. Carpenters lectures
and was fully up to the one on Japan,
and that is saying good DEAL" The
Star was one Of the Is newspapers
which published the articles out of
which evolved famous series Of read
ers" familiar to thousands Of school
children in ''the horse and buggy age"
Mr.. Carpenter, q little man never
weighing over 120 pounds" went every
where, saw everything "for ordinary
people" and interpreted the universe
especially for girls and boys. Three
years before he died at SO in 1924 he
formed new syndicate and projected
20 volumes of new world Travels"
Death caught up with him in Nanking.
His daughter, Frances Carpenter Cdrs.
w. Chapin) Huntington, 1905 Twenty
third street NV, was his collaboration.
She also was his companion on some
Of his trips and is carrying on his work
even now.
The Star Of January IS, 1895, printed
an advance notice on the 10th annual
dinner Of the Gridiron Club
Gridiron as "the greatest event In
Dinner the history Of this famous
planned that the affair would be held
at the Arlington and that ''the most
elaborate arrangements are being made
by those In charge, to the end that all
the details may be unique and amazing"
Between $50 and 200 guests were ex-
very generous with Invitations this year,
and no man is so foolish as to decline
q bid" Among those who had accepted
were: Bill Nye. Thomas Nelson Page,
the Argentine. Japanese and Hawaiian
Ministers, and q flock OF Senators.
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The Rev. Father Dwite Layman Of
Baltimore diocese left his worldly goods
to purposes
kenefocfionS tor idealistic. So It
cotholic University happened that
The Star for
January 2s. 1896. was privileged to an
nounce that the Catholic University Of
America had received not only . purse Of
5000 yby reason Of his generosity but
also - very handsome OIL painting"
entitled aThe Entomhment of Christ.
and valued at tS,000." Where Il the
picture thus described9 It does not ap-
pear IN the list Of works Of art possessed
BY the university.
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In the issue Of The Star of january
=. 1875. there appeAred IN obituary
article concerning yrancois
Last Certain oanrohert who. Il
Mosshol wa4 stat6d. was ''ths last
marshal q France. H
had besn aids u camp y Napoleon III,