Evening star., 1948-01-18
Fifty Years Ago

In The Star of January 8, 1898, the annual
meeting Of the Washington Chapter of the
- rs American Institute Of Archi-
Architects in -, tects was chronicled. A. fea-
Woshinoton ture of the program arranged
''' for the gathering was paper
on the history Of the local organization read
by Glenn Brown. He explained that the first
meeting had been held in 1887 at TOO Thirteenth
street NV, with these charter members pres
!, ent:,. John Moser, William Poindsxter, C. A.
Didden. S. M, Howard, o, Won Nerta and him.
self. Mr. Poindexter was temporary chairman,
Mr.. Brown temporary secretary. Subsequently,
j. L. Smithmyer, Adolph Cluss, Mr.. Poindexter,
J. Rush Marshall, Mr.. Brown, Robert Stead
and J. G. Hornblower served as president in
the order named. 1t is permissible to wonder
what these bygone masters of design would
think Of Mr.. Trumans balcony.
cable from Paris to The Star for January
10, 1898, announced the opening of the trial Of
Maj. Count Ferdinand
Another walsin Esterhazy "The
Celebrated Cose clerk of the court said
the court-martial was
held in order to end the contradictory rumors
which had been spread by the excited public"
following the trial. condemnation and disgrace
OF Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, now undergoing i'm
prisonment for life" for selling French military
plans to an agent Of foreign power. Nine
Dreyfus was in attendance at the proceedings
Counsel for the government said that public
trial might be inimical to the interests Of the
national defense and demanded secret hear
ing" but the court by a vote of five to two
decided that until the moment when publicity
might appear to prejudice the national defense"
the governments request would not be granted
The annual business meeting of the Shake
speare Club, reported The Star on January II,
1898, was held at the resi-
Shokespeoreons dence of Mrs. Gay Robert
Elect son, 1887 Sixteenth street
NV. January g. Job Bar
nard unanimously was elected president, Mrs.
George A. Myers vice president, Anna Hert-
ford secretary, w. Spencer Armstrong treasurer.
With these officers it was understood that Jesse
H. Whitaker, Milo C. Summers Mrs. A. G.
Adams, Mrs. Thornton Carusi and Miss Miles
would serve as an Executive Committee. Much
pleasure and profit are promised for the new
year."
Something in the line OF modern flying
saucers" was referred to in a dispatch from
Stockholm printed by The Star on
Andree January 13, 1898. Prof Norden-
p..,.r skiold, the Arctic explorer, 1t was
alleged has informed the Swedish
Academy Of Science that the Foreign Once
has received intelligence that several persons
worthy Of credence saw Prof. Andree's balloon
early in August in British Columbia, 7 miles
north of Quesnelle Lake in the district of
Carfboo The professor regards the news as
being of sufficient importance TO call for closer
examination"
The Star for January Is, 1885, commented
on the death of the Rev. C. L. Dodgson, known
wherever the English Ian
Lewis Corrolfs guage is spoken and read as
Deoth ne"N SalIn -. ~
become nursery classics and are read with
delight even by adults. i. It Is somewhat
strange that with all this literary popularity
the authors personality has never become
widely known" The mystery thus suggested
still remains unsolved after half century.
stuart Dodsson Collingwood, his earliest and
best biographer, declared: "The shadow OF
some disappointment lay over Lewis CAROLS
life. 1t was this athat gave him his
wonderful sympathy With au who suffered"