Evening star., 1946-03-31
Fifty Years Ago

Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Clark and
family, declared The Star on March 10,
1896, ARE now COM
The Clerks at fortably settled in their
Sylvon bijou cottage, Sylvan
Home, on Fourteenth
street and have determined to make
Brookland their permanent home for
the future. Mr. Clark is one of the
pioneers of this locality, having moved
here in 1888, but for the past four years
he has been engaged in business in
Southern Georgia. Mr.. Clark's leisure
hours are devoted to poetry and music
and he is the composer of several pretty
songs. Mrs. Clark is a lady of charm
ing personality, whom it is a pleasure
to meet, and is entirely devoted to her
home. Miss Clark has recently re-
turned from a sojourn among rela.
tives in England"
The Star for March 20, 1896, reported
that local members of the Knights of
Pythias ARE perfect
Python Temple ing arrangements for
Proposed the erection of ma
tional memorial tenn
pie in this city in honor of the founder
OF the order, the late Justus H. Rath-
bone" A committee consisting of three
representatives of each lodge in the
District and headed by John w Thomp-
son had been organized Ito push the
matter The founder" intended to
be commemorated had been a native
OF Deerfleld, N. Y, born in 1899, who
became successively a scnoolteacher in
Michigan, citizen nurse in Pennsyl-
vania, hospital steward in Washington,
a clerk in the War Department and
later in the Treasury Department. His
Lodge No. l was established in Wash
ington on February 10, 1854. BY 1882
there we're more than half million
Pythians carrying on his ideas of fel-
loWship in three ranks-paee, esquire
and knight.
Rock bottom prices on second hand
pianos" was the heading of an adver-
tisement for Sanders g.
r'onos os Stayman. 934 F street NV.
BorgoIns in The Star on March q,
1896. The instruments
offered included j. g. c. Fischer, carved
legs, round corners, seven octaves, re-
moval price, S25: Boardman, Gray &
Co.. formerly s75; Hallett g. Davis $50;
William Gaehle & Co., formerly 500;
Chickering, splendid condition, $50;
Weber, elegant, with new strings, SITS:
Steck full concert grand, $400. Percy
s. Foster was the manager of the store.
Portraits of six leading clergymen of
the Methodist Episcopal denomination
appeared in The
Methodist Star of March
Ministers Honored 81, 1896, each
sketch b e n &
accompanied by brief but deservedly
complimentary biographical note. The
Rev. DR.. Henry R. Naylor, assigned to
McKendree Church, headed the list.
Next followed the Rev. DR.. w. Raymond
Stricken of Hamline Church Others
in the roster were: The Rev. DR.. Luther
Tracy Townsend, Metropolitan Church;
the Rev. DR.. George v. Leech, Grace
Church; the Rev. Mr.. Gustavus W.
Hobbs, Trinity Church. and the Rev
Mr.. Samuel Shannon, Gorsuch Church.
The Star for March %, 1896, reported
the death of Thomas Hughes, @. c.,
author of two of the
Tom Browns" authentic "best SELL
ChronicJeY ers' of the Victorian
age - Tom Brown s
Schooldays at Rugby" and Tom Brown
at Oxford" Born at Unington in 1922,
he had been pupil of the celebrated
Dr. Arnold, was called to the bar in
1848, became bencher in 1870 and was
appointed Judge of a county court in
the Chester district in 1882. Meanwhile,
he joined the Christian Socialist move
ment under the leadership of his friend
Frederick Denison Maurice, was prin-
cipal of the Working Mems College in
London, sat in Parliament for nine
years, helped to establish the co-opera-
tive colony of Rugby, Tenn; wrote a
biography of Alfred the Great and other
creditable books. The first of the pair
of works for which he always will be
remembered by at least a few enthusi-
asts was published in 1859. It's sequel
was released in 1861.
X
A lengthy account Of the conservation
of the Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee
first bishop of the
Bishop SotteFlee new diocese of Wash
Consec roted ington. was printed
in The Star of March
IS, 1896. The ceremony took place al
Calvary Church in New York, where he
had been rector for more than two
decades. Among those participating
were: The Right Rev. Frederic D. Hunt.