Evening star., 1948-05-30
Fifty Years Ago

The first gambol Of the Lambs Club was
reported in The Star for May a. 1885, 1t was
staged at the Metropolitan Opera
First House in New York, and Kirke
GomboI La Shelle telegraphed that re-
ceipts totaled $15,1 so. Among
the celebrities of the theatrical world par
ticipating in the production were Nat Good
win Stuart Robson JEFF De Angels, Willie
Collier, DE Wolf Hopper, Eugene Cowles,
Chauncey Olcott, Digby Bell, William H.
Crane John Kellard. Joseph Holland, Fritz
williams, Wilton Lackaye, H. c. Barnabee,
Burr Mcintosh, Charles Klein and T. Daniel
Frawley-all great names of the palmy days
of show business" Victor Herbert and his
22d Regiment Band of so players furnished
the music. Members of the organization who
came from nearby theaters in makeup after
their own professional appearances, were
Henry E. Dixey Robert Hilliard, Charles
Bowser Robert Edison, Wilt Thompson, r.
Peyton Carter and George Fawcett. The leg
end of that premier presentation OF the Lambs
still prevails wherever and whenever surviving
"old timers" foregather.
A reception held at the new Georgetown
University Hospital building, Thirty-fi and
d streets, Monday after
New ceoroetown noon May 23 1898, was
Ho.n;,nI publicized in The Star Of
May Is at length Rev
j. F. Dougherty, S. j.. gave an address OF
thanks to the donors who had contributed to
the costs Of construction and equipment. Ap-
proximately SO 900 additional was needed, and
a number of pledges were announced. DR..
Joseph Taber johnson sent word that he would
furnish one room Sisters of the Order of st.
Francis, Father Dougherty told the guests,
would be in charge of nursing. Patients were
to be admitted without regard to color, class
or creed.
The society department of The Star on May
26, 1898, contained several paragraphs relating
to "a unique experience" en-
A Trim Un joyed by friends of Mr.. and
tn. Canal Mrs B. E. Fernow the previ
GUS day. As farewell party
before their departure for Ithica, N. Y, where
Mr. Fernow was to be member of the faculty
Of Cornell University, trip up the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal on mule yacht" was
arranged. The beauties Of the valley were
appreciated by the guests, and "a delightful
luncheon" was served. "A brief stay was made
at Cabin John Bridge, and then the mules
were induced to turn their faces homeward'
Mr.. Fernow had been chief of the Forestry
He became dean Of forestry at the University
of Toronto in 1907 and died in 1928. His whole
career was devoted to the conservation OF trees
from boylood onward, but he also was inter-
ested in metallurgy
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If anybody last Thursday had asked brls'
Gen. Gordon Young, Engineer commissioner
where he was exactly half
peohodv Mann century earlier, he might
SrhonI have remembered and been
able to tell. In any case the
files of The Star might be cited to prove that
IN Nav %. 1893. he was mentioned as having
been present on the morning of May 27 that
wear at the closing exercises of the Peabody
Mann kindergarten, 1918 Sunderland place, IN
company with Arthur HELEN, Lansing Beach,
Helen and Mallory Church, Eudora Clover
Margaret and Ruth Larner, Carroll and Harriet
Lothrop, Herbert Micou, Merriam Moore, Edna
and Faith Snyder, all Of whom rendered
large number Of songs which were much ap-
preciated by an audience Of parents who
crowded the pa1loes.