Evening star., 1948-09-19
Fifty Years Ago

The purchase by the Protestant Episcopal
Cathedral Foundation of tract Of land at the
southeast corner of the Tenley-
Cathedral town and Woodley Lane roads"
Site said The Star under date of Sep
tember IL. 1898, has aroused q
good deal of interest among those who are
identified with that enterprise, as well as
among those who are concerned in that locality
and among citizens generally. {. :. A. L. Barber
decided to the Cathedral Foundation 3Oa acres
Of land, the consideration named being s245.-
900. The sale was made by COL Robert l..
Fleming as the representative of Mr.. Barber
to Bishop satterlee who acted for the Board
of Trustees of the foundation" An earlier
location had been given by F. G. Newlands and
Mf. Waggaman, but 1t was abandoned in pref
erence to the larger and higher site-the Mount
st. Albans which now is crowned by the rising
walls OF Washington Cathedral, approximately
one third completed.
On the eve of his departure for Spain, Ad-
miral Pascual Cervera, commander OF the
Spanish Fleet at Santiago and
Ceryero's a prisoner of war after its de-
Gratitude struction, sent to the president
of the Associated Press letter
printed by The Star on September Is, 1898,
reading in part: II wish to say to you, as rep
resentative of the greatest news association in
the United States, that sail with my heart
full OF gratitude for the sympathy that has
been shown me by the people of this country.
NV farewell, then, takes with 1t every assur-
ance that the memory of this sympathy snail
warmly and actively conserve during the rest
Of my life"
The Star for September 16, 1893, reported:
"A photographer advised a young man sitting
for his picture not to
Photooropher- wear striped or spotted tie,
comnselor one of plain dark color being
preferable. A decided pat
tern becomes very monotonous In picture "A
collar that was of q becoming style was also
recommended and q coat that fitted well with
out so much regard to its newness furtner
caution was to 60 to the studio at moment
of the day when one felt the best physically
"A young man came In here the other DAY,
said the same photographer and sat for nus
picture Three or four proofs afterwaro SUD-
mitted to him he rejected, because, as ne ex-
planned, they looked to him just as he felt at
the time of sitting-awfully hungry. II seems
he had come to the studio about in the after
noon. without having eaten anything since q
light and early breakfast, and his conoitlon
betrayed itself in his expression"
AH
The Star for September 81, 1898, contained
a dispatch from Philadelphia explaining that
Hudson Maxim Of New York
Terrible had read paper before tne
W..,ons Franklin Institute contending
that: "1t Is crime for nation
not to seek the most destructive weapons that
could be secured and not to be always pre-
pared for war The more terrible were the
weapons, the less would be the loss Of life, be-
cause war would not be so quickly precipitated.
Should the aerial gun be eventually
adopted as an implement OF warfare, navies
would have to fight in skirmishing order,
AZ armies now have to do. The combined
nayies of the world could not stand be-
fore such a deadly projectile. 1t would
cost $500 900 to demonstrate its power
and II it should succeed 1t would save
$500, 900 900, because 1t would do away with the
construction Of fighting machines. Naval and
military authorities must soon give considers.
lion 20 the serial torpedo