Evening star., 1946-04-28
Fifty Years AGO

Eli eoiIoild ldI IdlSlIlg tfle question lnQl-
Gated by the words
Lincoln here quoted. Perhaps
Neolected?' the Emancipation Day
ceremonies" it said,
were all that their promoters expected
them to be. If that be so, then there is
room for regret. . = Beautifully located
in the eastern portion of the city is a
statue of Abraham Lincoln 1t is no
common memorial. 1t has been
one of the most appropriate commemo-
rations Of the day to have that statue
decorated and to make it the central
figure of an assemblage gathered to-
gether to hear once more the recital
OF history of which the grateful listeners
were never weary. Thursday a number
of the faithful journeyed to the old
rendezvous and awaited the opening of
the proceedings which custom had
taught them might be expected
There was not even wreath at the foot
of the pedestal"
A dispatch from San Francisco to The
Star of April 20. 1896, announced: Ed
ward Evans of
Believed in Shanghai, who was
Being Prepared among the pas
Sengers on the
steamer Gaelic, says that Ii Hung
Chang, the eminent viceroy, now on
his way to Moscow to attend the coro-
nation of the Gear. took with him on
this trip casket in which he expects
to be buried when he dies" But the
celebrated Chinese statesman, as it
happened, had no use for his coffin
until November 7, 1901. Meanwhile,
he visited Germany, Belgium, France,
England and the United States. returned
to his native country, was virtually
constituted minister for foreign affairs"
then was transferred to Canton as
agent of the two Kwangs, next was
recalled to Peking to arrange the
peace which terminated the Boxer trou-
bles. He was 78 when finally he died.
The Star for April Il, 1896, reported
the spring convention of the National
Academy of Sciences in
A FURRY the hall of the National
In Science M use u m, explaining
that there was "a good
attendance of members" and the four
days session promised ito be full of
interest" especially because a number
OF papers on the X-rays would be pre-
sented, that being the subject which
is just now engrossing the attention of
the scientific world" The discovery
made by Wilhelm Konrad Won Rontgen
few months earlier had created in
tense excitement among men of science
on both sides of the Atlantic Not many
persons stood apart from the discus
sion. Even the laity had varying opin-
ions on the subject. The debate ragged
for months Indeed, it was phenome-
non comparable with that of the current
furor over the atomic bomb.
An editorial in The Star of April %,
1896, declared: "A wonderful career was
that which came to
Tribute to close when Baron
Generous Mon Hirsch, the great
o L E pnlan-
thropist, was called to his reward Con-
fining his liberality almost exclusively
to the Jewish people, he must. neverthe-
less, be given rank as one Of the greatest,
If not the greatest, of those 10th
century characters who have done what
they could to ameliorate the sufferings
of those who through no fault of their
own were the victims of distressing con-
ditions. In the face of tremendous
opposiion-for anti-Jewish sentiment
was power in every European country,
and still is so in some nations that
deem themselves great-Baron Hirsch
planned and put into execution schemes
of benevolence so vast as to oyershadow
all similar enterprises. At this time
there does not appear to be any reliable
estimate of the immense amount of
money expended by him in his absolutely
unselfish endeavors to better the condi-
ton of thousands of his fellow beings.
He was ever ready to relieve any form
Of distress. He poured out millions in
order that the ignorant might receive
such practical education as they were
most in need Of, and his hand was never
withheld when by the purchase of land
and the mechanism by which it could
be made valuable it was possible to
establish colonies. The name of Maurice