Evening star., 1946-04-14
Fifty Years Ago

troubled the minds of his seniors when
Grandpa was
Serious Questions young? The answer
Discussed as provided by The
Star on April l,
1895, was the table of contents of the
latest issue of the Forum Magazine. It
included: Deficiency of Revenue the
Cause of Our Financial Ills,' by Senator
John Sherman: Two South African
Constitutions" Right Hon. James Bryce.
M. P: The Cathode Ray-Its Charac-
ter and Effects" Prof. A. w. Wright of
Yale; Teaching: A Trade or a Profess
sion?" President j. G. Schurman of Cor
nell: "Foibles of the New Woman" Ella
w. winston; The Present Outlook of
Socialism in England" William Morris;
Francis Joseph and His Realm" Dr.
August Fournier; "On Pleasing the Taste
of the Public" Brander Matthews; "Hol-
lands Care of Its Poor" Prof. j. H. Gore
of Columbian; "Rumors of War and
Resultant Duties" Comdr. j. w. Miller,
and "Glimmerings of Future Life"
Richard Hodgson of the Society OF
Psychical Research. All of which seems
familiar, doesn't it?
The Star of April 3, 1896, chronicled
the death of the Rev. DR.. Thomas G.
Addison, rector of
Veteron Clereymon Trinity Church for
Deoorts nearly 80 years.
He had been a suf-
ferer from intercostal neuralgia and
from "a form of heart trouble" but re-
Gently had declared that he had never
felt stonger or better In his life" His
son, a physician, called in the night to
attend him, saw at once 80 that moth
ing could be done" A scholar who con-
tinued his studies in Hebrew, Greek and
Latin despite the duties and cares of a
busy parish, DR.. Addison, it was ex-
planned, was greatly endeared for his
manly character and the many noble
qualities of his mind and heart"
An Associated Press dispatch from
London printed in The Star for April
4, 1896, forecast the
RoyoI Morrioqe marriage of Princess
Plonned Maud, daughter Of
the Prince of Wales,
to Prince Charles, second son of the
Crown Prince of Denmark, arranged to
take place at the Chapel Royal St.
James Palace, July 7. The prospective
bride was known to her intimate friends
as Harry" Her mother was the beau
tiful and highly esteemed Princess Alex
andra, daughter of the Danish King,
Christian I. The man she was to marry
became King Haakon of Norway in 1905
and still is sovereign of that country.
Queen Maud, dearly beloved wherever
she lived or travelled in Europe, died No
vember 10, 1898. Her grandchildren
found refuge during World War II in a
suburb of Washington.
A lengthy account of the revival of the
Olympic games of antiquity at Athens
appeared in The Star
Olympic Gomes of April 6, 1896. The
Beoinnino beautiful capital of
modern Greece, it was
understood, was brilliantly decorated
in honor of the festival A te deum
service at the cathedral opened the pro-
gram, the royal family attending
Americans entered in the competition
were "in excellent condition and full of
confidence" They included: Arthur
Blake, Ellery H. Clark, T. P. Curtis, A.
c. Curtis A. G. Tyler, F. A. Lane, H. B.
Jamison, Thomas E. Burke and Robert
Garrett.
zone of the most brutal murders in
the history of the District" was dis
cussed in The Star for
A Horrible April 7, 1896. The victim
Murder was Wesley Hall, "a mid
dle-aged colored shoe
maker" who was "a hunchback and
crippled and unable to move about with
out the aid of crutches" His asasilant
had crushed his skull, cut his throat,
smashed his nose to jelly, slashed his
shoulders and otherwise cruelty mutilated
him. The. deputy coroner said that "in
all his experience he had never seen a
worse used body" A clue to the identity
Of the murderer was the suggestion that
he was left-handed. Meanwhile, Hall,