Evening star., 1947-11-09
Fifty Years Ago

November 3, 1897, disclosed that George M
Pullman, millionaire head of
Mr.. PuIlmon's the Pullman Co., had left
Brother q legacy. of $4,000 to his
brother, the Rev. Royal H.
Pullman pastor emeritus of the Second Uni
versaist Church Of Baltimore. Part of the
money, the clergyman let 1t be known, would
be used for the benefit of his charge In this
connection, he discussed Georges attitude dur
ing the great railway strike of a few years
earlier, saying that "the refusal to arbitrate
was the result of conscientious belief that
consent would be conceding to outside parties
the right to dictate to an employer on matters
purely for himself to decide" The minister
further declared: "On one occasion '.' when
railroad man ordered 300 cars from him, my
brother said: Make it a thousand. I will build
them for you so cheap that 1t will pay you to get
them now. want to keep my men employed
The railroad man agreed. and I know that all
my brothers company made on the whole
order was SIS"
The popularity Of steel engraved pictures
among art lovers was commented upon In The
Star Of November 8, 1897,
The Art OF In part as follows: "An
Steel Engraving exhibition of considerable
interest has been arranged
and is now in progress at Wunderlich & Co.'S
Of more than 100 engraved portraits by dis
tinguished artists and nearly all Of distin-
guished men, Here is the painter-like and
suave mezzotint Of Pope Plus VI by Samuel
Cousins after Sir Thomas Lawrence; a di-
rectors' proof of the same engraver's William
Shakespeare, Sir Joshua Reynolds Burke,
Samuel johnson, Sheridan, Sterne and Wal
pole; Gainsborough's Lord Give, Rigauds
Bossuet, Van Dyck's familiar Charles l.. Wash
ington Allston's Coleridge, Raeburn's Lord JET
frey, Napoleon at Fontainebleau by Paul
Delaroche, his Peter the Great; Sir Walter
Scott by Raeburn, and many other equally
well or better-known portraits. Special in
terest attaches to uniform group OF four heads
Of Pietro Aretino, Boccaccio, Giorgione and
Sebastian del Piombo, respectively, the three
first being by Titan and the fourth by Tinto
retto." Wunderlich's was in New York, but
many pictures from the firms catalogue found
their way to Washington and some Of them
still are here, preserved in old mansions which
were new in grandfather's youth.
An advertisement for McClures magazine,
printed in The Star for November 4, 1897, pub
hcized "the latest achievement"
ME Edison's Of Thomas A. Edison, setting
Latest forth that he had designed and
constructed q system OF huge
crushing machinery by which he takes hereto
fore useless iron ore from the mountains of
New Jersey, crushes 1t to powder at the rate
of 400 tons an hour, and, by an ingenious use
of magnetism, separates the pure iron dust"
This triumphant development, the magazine
emphasized, was the result Of EIGHT years OF
work and the investment of millions" draw
ing of Mr.. Edison, looking very stern, indeed,
was employed to illustrate the copy"
Space in the center Of the upper half Of the
first page Of The Star on November 8, 1897
was devoted to report from
Hollond Howoii st. Paul, MINI. concerning
p the wedding Of Joseph Hubert
vos, crown painter" to the
royal family Of the Netherlands, and Mrs.
Eleanor Kaikilani Graham, a member Of the
regal dynasty Of the Hawaiian Islands The
former husband Of the bride was understood
to have been planter Of vast wealth. Rev.
Dr. John Paul Egbert performed the marriage
ceremony The witnesses included Samuel r.
Thayer, former American Minister at The
Hague Mr.. vos had been living at Fort Totten,
8. OAK, supposedly to study Indian types" He
had been born in 1855 and had won recognition
at Brussels, Paris and other European art GEN.
tiers before coming to America. In later life
| he added to his laurels with portraits Of the
dowager Empress Of China and other Oriental
peTsonAges.