Evening star., 1946-04-21

the establishment OF
PUBLIC lIbrory an adequate public L.
Movement brary system in Wash
ington. The Star re-
produced on its editorial page for April
II, 1896, an article from the Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph, reading in part:
The growth of town libraries. an en-
tirely modern institution and best de-
veloped in Massachusetts,, is very re-
markable. The State named now has
no less than 329 libraries, of which 256
are owned and managed out and out by
the respective municipalities; in 36 they
are represented in the management and
there are 20 others to which town money
Is appropriated. These repositories of
knowledge contain now an aggregate of
5000 900 volumes and their annual cir
culation shows the surprising figure Of
over 6,250000 or about three volumes
per head per year. This is great show
ing and is one of the most ENCOURAGING
signs of times"
The Wearers of the white ribbon"
reported The Star on April 13. 1895,
gathered in large
Soyine Good-by numbers at the
10 MISS willard First Congrega-
tional Church yes
terday afternoon to bid farewell to Miss
Frances E. Willard, president of the
Worlds WCTU, who will leave for Eng
land next week to visit the Lady Henry
Somerset. Mrs Margaret E. Platt,
president of the District WCTU. pre-
sided. On the platform were Miss Will
lard, Miss Frances Burns, Mrs Mary E.
Cohen and the Rev. Dr.. Hartsock.
Mrs. Albert Houghton sang a solo. Miss
Willard then addressed the audience
upon the protection of the home. and
spoke for some time in an interesting
way upon this theme. = = After serv-
Ices had concluded with brief religious
exercises. the majority of those present
came forward to say good-by to Miss
Willard"
Washington halt century ago offered
great variety of entertainment oppor-
tunltles to public
'Amusements' which certainly
Advertisements must have been
responsive to such
attractions. Among the notices" pub
lished in The Star for April IA, 1896.
were those of: William H. Crane and
his company in The Governor of Ken
tucky'; Camille D'Arville, "the ac-
knowledged queen of comic opera" in
Madeleine or the Magic Kiss; Gustav
Hinrichs' French and Italian Grand
Opera Company in "Rigoletto'';; the
Dramatic Club of Philadelphia in pet
ticoat Perhdy" and Second Thoughts:
Moody Choir concert: Choral Society
production Of Mendelssohn's elijah;
farewell appearance of the great Polish
pianist Paderewski. and w. Hudson
Shaw's lecture on Florence From Dante
to Michael Angelo"
A brief personal mention" at the
bottom of the first page of The Star for
April Is. 1896, told
M. Doniels Again his friends and
In Woshinoton the public at large
large that Jose
phus Daniels and family were visiting at
Capt. j. S. Tomlinson's, 1888 Eleventh
street NV Formerly chief clerk to
the Department of the Interior, the
future Secretary of the Navy and Am
bassador to Mexico then was devoting
his talents exclusively to journalism as
editor OF the News and Observer at
Raleigh, N. c. But he frequently had
business in the Nations Capital and
almost invariably brought Mrs. Daniels
and the boys with him when returning
to its familiar scenes.
The Hyattsville correspondent of The
Star reported on April l5 1896: The
handsome barn of
Village in Peril F. H. Smith at Bonnie
OF Disoster Brae in the upper
part of the town,
came near catching fire about 1890
o'clock yesterday. and the homes of DR..
Owens and John Baker were also in
danger of being destroyed. Early in the
morning the dry grass and rubbish at
Evansville were being burned for the
purpose of clearing the field In few
hours the flames swept across the hills