Evening star., 1945-09-02
Fifty Years Ago
THE employees of the Washingt,

Co." explained The Star
Appropriate for August 10, 1895,
Design sent floral trolley
car to the family of the
late Supt. Holden of that road on the
occasion of his funeral Saturday after
noon. The emblem was composed of
carnations, roses and other flowers and
was designed by Electrician Colvin of
the road and executed by GUIDE &
Brother. the florists. It was a minia-
ture facsimile of a car with trolley
pole and all"
In certain respects, times do not
change very much. For instance, The
Star of August 20, 1895, re-
Some Old ported that Fred Doty, the
Excuse l3-year-old son of N. A.
Doty. and Lenford Love.
the 10-year-old son of Orin Love, both
living near Mehoopany, Pa, secured a
pistol yesterday and went out in the
field to play Wild West. Doty bade
Love to open his mouth. and fred a
bullet down his throat, severing the
spinal chord and killing him instantly. -
The last line of the dispatch was ex-
actly what a modern reader would ex-
pect: They did not know it was
loaded
Half century before Gen. Douglas
Macarthur prepared to occupy the
home islands of the Nip
Salvation ponese Empire, The Star
Invasion for August 81, 1895, an
nounced: &c Gorge S
Montgomery, millionaire member of
the Salvation Army, is organizing an
expedition to invade Japan and Chris
tianiZe the inhabitants His plan has
received the approval of Gen. Booth,
who will send few recruits from Lon
don, and the party will be ready to sail
in about month. The party will be
under the command of a native Japa-
nese lieutenant, who became con-
verted' and Joined the Army in Oak
land, Calf.
This was the heading applied to an
article In The Star of August %, 1895,
lating that "the
Educators School Board of Toron-
Disooree" to, Canada, is in trouble
over a bloomer out
break. One of its members recently
made q motion that the school in
spectors be required to report to the
board the names of all the woman
teachers who rode bicycles in male
attire. He insisted that they
(bloomers) were immodest and un-
becoming and that they furnished a
bad example to the young girls who
were attending the public schools. He
also declared that this costume would
neverSpe worn by well-formed woman,
and that three-fourths of the women
were not well-formed and would never
care to wear dress showing that such
was the case. These remarks aroused
the indignation of a slender woman
member of the board who is a doctor.
She declared that it was for women to
decide what was modest and becom-
ing"
Collectors during half century have
wondered where the only postage labels
of Korea were printed. The
Philotelic answer TO the question may
Note be learned by consulting The
Star of August 26, 1895,
wherein 1t is chronicled: "A document
received at the State Department from
Minister Sill at Seoul, incloses four new
postage stamps, the first issued by Korea
for domestic purposes. The stamps we're
manufactured in Washington for the
Korean government. They range in
value from cent or poons to 10 cents
or so poons."
More than two columns of type were
required in The Star for August q, 1895,
to comment on the find
Judge Hollis ing Of the lost viii Of
Will Joseph Holt, ex-Postmas-
ter General. Secretary Of
War and Judge Advocate General, who
had died August /, 1894, but whose
estate still was 'all mixed up" The
deceased jurist had been a strange and
curious character. He was the prosecutor
Of the Lincoln 'conspirators. and had
secured President Johnson's signature to
the death warrant Of Mrs. Surratt. His
popularity with the radicals. therefore,
was great. But among other people he
was stunned. For rsore than 20 years
he lived q hermit's existence In the
crowded confusion Of his house at New
jersey avenue and G street Sc. There
after long delay his final testament was