April 16: ON THIS DAY in 1953, Ike challenges Soviet

April 16, 2019 Brooklyn Eagle

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ON THIS DAY IN 1861, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The state of New York is called upon for three millions of money and thirteen thousand men. Money is plenty, and surely there will be no difficulty in raising the men. We had an extraordinary amount of verbal heroism and brave talk. The legislators at Albany yesterday could not vote for the war bill until each member had discharged himself of a volley of loyal eloquence and called down the applause of the galleries. Their next duty is to shoulder their knapsacks and march. They have been bleeding the public long enough and now it is but fair that they should bleed for the country in return.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1878, the Eagle reported, “The remains of the late William M. Tweed will probably be buried on Wednesday next in Green-Wood Cemetery. Public attention has been directed to a rule of the cemetery which provides that ‘no person shall be interred therein who shall have died in any prison or shall have been executed for any crime.’ The question as to whether this rule would be enforced in the case of Tweed has occasioned considerable speculation.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1903, the Eagle reported, “’Esperanto,’ an artificial language made by Dr. L. Zamenhof for a universal language, has gained 80,000 adherents, among them members of the French Institute, professors in continental universities, Count Tolstoi and W.T. Snead. Its object, as stated by a writer in Le Monde Moderne, Paris, is: ‘To furnish people who need to communicate with foreigners – travelers, scientists and business men – the way to a mutual understanding without necessity of resorting to the study of many foreign languages.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1917, the Eagle reported, “’R-r-r-r-red hot. Buy ’em rr-r-r-r-r-red hot, ten cents.’ The raucous bark of the first kennel master on Surf Avenue broke the Sunday stillness as the early spring rush jumped off a B.R.T. trolley car and headed for something warm. ‘Ten cents!’ The last words echoed up and down the avenue, to the dismay of the hungry ones. Every ‘hot dog’ stand in the Island had a big red circular sign above it and inside the circle ’10 Cents’ in big red letters. It was unanimous. ‘We can’t sell them any more at a nickel and make a profit. So we sell them at a dime and make a bigger profit than ever,’ one vendor said.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1936, the Eagle reported, “With 865 new cases reported, measles continued to spread in Brooklyn during the week ending Saturday, according to a report issued today by Dr. John L. Rice, Commissioner of Health. As isolation prevents the spread of measles, the report urges that children exposed to the disease be put to bed and kept away from other children, and that a doctor be consulted. Diphtheria continued prevalent in the borough, 15 new cases having been reported last week. The report points out that this disease remains until about June and advocates immediate immunization of every child under the age of six years.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1953, the Eagle reported, “Washington, April 16 (UP) – President [Dwight] Eisenhower challenged Russia’s new leaders today to prove their will for peace by ending the Korean War, lifting the Iron Curtain from satellite countries and joining a world disarmament pact that would outlaw atomic weapons. He seized the diplomatic initiative from the Communists in a major foreign policy speech listing specific ‘deeds’ the Russians can perform to demonstrate the sincerity of their recent peace talk. He said the death of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin has given his Kremlin successors ‘a precious chance to turn the black tide of events’ sweeping the world toward atomic war, but warned that ‘we do not yet know’ whether they mean to do it.”