Evening star., 1946-10-27
Fifty Years Ago

"A writer IN HarperS' is clted IN Inc
Star for october II, 1896, as authority
tor the statement
'GoIIopino worries that 1.-The game Of
History craps is OF Ne~
Orleans origin and
over hundred years Old Bernard de
MarigM, who entertained Louis
Philippe when he came to Louisiana,
and who stood, 10 years ago, at
the head of the creole colony OF the
State. as its wealthiest and most promi
nent citizen-he was entitled to call
himself marquis in French-was the in
ventor or father of craps and brought
it in high favor as the fashionable
gambling OF the day. When he laid OF
his plantati ton. just below the then city
of New Orleans and divided it up
into lots. he named one of the principal
streets Craps, and explained that he
did so because he had lost the money
received for the lots on that street IN
this fayorite game OF hts. It remained
Craps street until few years ago, when
a protest was raised against such a dis
reputable name for very quiet and
respectable street, especially given to
churches" Visitors from Chicago alleg-
edly learned how to play the game in
the city in which it was started and took
it home with them. Gradually it spread
over the entire country. But by action
of the New Orleans City Council it was
condemned as illegal in the place OF its
origin.
A reference to the days when Korea
was really an Independent nation ap-
peared in The Star of
New Envoys october IA, 1896, where
Infrodured it was related that Chin
Pom Ye had been for
mally presented TO- the President" as
"the newly accredited Minister" of the
Hermit Kingdom. Gen. j. N. Leger,
representing Haiti, was received at the
same time. The reception took place in
the blue parlor and was marked by the
exchange of the usual felicitous ad-
dresses"
Under the heading here reproduced,
The Star for October 16, 1896, editorial
lied as follows: 1T
Not Enemies seems to be one Of
Rut Er;ends' the essential fea-
lures of Organism
that wage-earners generally shall be
regarded as the deadly enemies of their
employers. Upon this assumption some
of those who are engaged in supporting
the Chicago nominee and the Chicago
ticket are claiming many electoral votes
which would otherwise, they admit be
the unquestionable possessions of Will
liam Mckinley. Those who firmly be-
lieve that employers and employees are
working at cross purposes in this CAM
paign will surely be much surprised
when the election returns come in some
three weeks hence. In few instances
and in a few places capital and labor
are by no means as friendly as they
should be, but in the vast majority OF
cases there is much more of close re-
lationship between the two than is
QTeducu VI ny tIlc uCuldsOSuCS WiiooC
business it is to misrepresent and mis-
lead"
The Star for October 10, 1896, reported
"an incident marking the close Of a
great historic ep-
Echo Of Imperiol isode" in Mexican
Trosedy history. Leopold H.
gians, bestowed on President Diaz a mil
tary decoration "as mark OF the hon
orable regard in which the President OF
Mexico is held in Belgium" The actual
presentation was made by the Belgian
Minister in Mexico City. Since Leopold
was a brother of the former Empress
Carlotta, widow OF the Emperor Maxi
milan, executed by the Mexican Repub-
ncans on June 10, 1867, the gift seemed
to signify termination of the ill-feel-
ing which had existed between Mexico
and Belgium. Carlotta lived on until
1927, her mind as broken as her heart
by the disaster In which she shared.