Evening star., 1948-10-31
Fifty Years AGO

4uc Quar- OI OCUODcT IL, 1885, JOlQ an inter-
esting story Of the vagrant habits of the Right
Rev. Leighton Coleman, Bishop of
Tromp Delaware, whose genial humanity
Bshop put him on friendly footing with
all schools and classes, making for
him large place in the hearts Of the people"
Dressed in long macintosh, heavy shoes and
a slouch hat and carrying staff, the church.
man historian roamed over the mountains and
through the valleys of different States, sleep
ing in farmhouses or barns, paying his way by
repairing clocks and umbrellas. He travelled
in all sorts of weather over all kinds of roads,"
the average days journey being about 20 miles.
Few. If any, of the persons he encountered on
his tramps had any idea that he was prince
of the church. profound scholar and a de-
voted practical philanthropist.
-Four columns of closely printed type were
used in The Star for October a. 1898, to report
the unveiling of the Peace Cross
Peoce Cross in the grounds of Washington
Unveiled Cathedral the previous day. AL
the delegates, clerical and lay,
attending the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in America were
present at the ceremony Just before the start
Of the program President Mckinley arrived on
the scene. The Right Rev. Henry Yates Sat-
terlee opened the sacred proceedings by saying:
your excellency, reverend fathers and
brothers, welcome you to the first service
Of the Cathedral Of SITS. Peter and Paul"
Deputy Warden j. B. Nourse actually uncov-
cred the monument. The principal address OF
the occasion was delivered by the Right Rev.
William Croswell Doane, Bishop of Albany Ar
rangements for the dedication were in charge
e oI IN ho Tr
Satterlees successor as second bishop of the
diocese. The cross was designed by Robert
William Gibson, who also was responsible for
the design of the original building of the Ma
tional Cathedral School for Girls at Wisconsin
avenue and Woodley road.
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Gen. Lord Kitchener, announced The
Star Tor October 20, 1898, had returned to
London and was being over
Kitchener in whelmed with social invitations.
EnoIond He also had been asked by two
publishers to write book "and
an American agent has been trying to get
him to consent to q lecturing tour in the
United States" But "the commander of the
Anglo Egyptian forces had declined all these
propositions" The dispatch continued: "The
statement that Gen. Kitchener served in the
French Army during the war Of 1901 was
confirmed this week by an interview with his
stepmother at Dinan She said that he had
Just received his commission in the British
Army and went to France on holiday to visit
his father who had settled at Dinan. Young
Kitchener, in spite of the opposition of his
father, who feared he would lose his British
commission, joined the Dinan Mobiles and set
out against the Germans. At Laval he assembled
in a balloon to reconnoiter the eneny's posi-
ton and caught severe attack of pleurisy,
which compelled him to return to Dinan and
cut short his career in the French Army" Lord
Kitchener, drowned in the sinking Of the
Hampshire, June S, 1916, was one Of the cas-
ualties Of World War l.
The Star on October 81, 1885, published
statement intended to head of any lawlessness
that might develop that
Halloween night "It is the intention
Precautions of the police" it said, ito
enforce the disorderly con-
duct law tonight in cases Of boys who make
an effort to celebrate Halloween in bolster
Gus way The throwing Of flour and decayed
vegetable matter will not be tolerated, and
the police are assured that the Police Court
judges will sanction them. in their work.
It has been suggested tht storekeepers might
prevent q great amount pf mischief by de-