GenevaI received several requests to leave
the birth dates in, and will do so, to accommodate those who made the
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doing one-year posts, more than once a week. We'll see how it goes. Let
me know if you have problems.
David Minor
1910
January
Batavia's George D. Williamson, head of the Permanent Revision
Commission, dies and is replaced by Edward Russell.
Jan 1
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso sings in the first live radio broadcast
from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
Feb 15
30,000 members of New York City's International Ladies' Garment Workers
(ILGWU) return to work, having won a wage increase, improved conditions
and a 52-hour week.
Feb 27
Surgeons at New York City's Beth Israel Hospital use X-rays to locate
and guide the removal of a swallowed nail from a young boy's lung.
Feb 28
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova makes her U. S. debut at the
Metropolitan Opera House.
Mar 17
Foreign correspondent Ernest R. Pope is born in New York City.
Apr 1
The Rochester street railway systems places 25 new cars, designed for
collecting fares upon passenger entry, in service.
Apr 6
An anonymous bidder in New York City acquires J. M. W. Turner's
Rockets and Blue Lights and Jean-Baptiste Corot's
The Fisherman .
Apr 13
The Pennsylvania Railroad begins regular service through tunnels into
Manhattan.
Apr 25
New York State governor Charles Evans Hughes is appointed an Associate
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Apr 26
Opera impresario Oscar Hammerstein signs an agreement to not produce
opera in Boston, Chicago, New York or Philadelphia for ten years.
May
Glenn H. Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City in 2 1/2 hours,
setting the long-distance speed record. ** Frank Kirby 's
passenger steamboat
S. S. Canadiana is launched at the Buffalo Dry-Dock,
the last passenger vessel to be built there.
May 23
Bandleader-composer, clarinet and saxophone player Arthur Jacob
Arshawsky (Artie Shaw) is born in New York City.
June
Glenn Curtiss makes a successful water landing at Hammondsport. **
Historian-folklorist Carl Carmer graduates from Albion High School.
Jun 5
U. S. writer William Sidney Porter (O. Henry), 48, dies in New York
City.
Jun 10
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910 opens at New York's
Jardin de Paris theater, introduces Fanny Brice and Bert Williams.
Jun 19
Teddy Roosevelt returns to the U. S. from an African safari. He's given
a ticker tape parade down New York City's Broadway.
Jun 24
Federal judge Irving Robert Kaufman is born in New York City.
Jul 4
The Rochester City Club sponsors a new citizen's banquet at the Powers
Hotel.
Jul 7
New York City cloak-makers walk off the job, stay out nine weeks, until
their demands are met. ** 60,000 members of New York City's
International Ladies' Garment Workers walk off the job.
Aug 1
New York City's Pennsylvania Station is dedicated.
Aug 2
Novelist Louis Zara is born in New York City.
Aug 4
Composer William Howard Schuman is born in New York City.
Aug 7
William Le Baron and Deems Taylor's The Echo opens at
New York's Globe Theatre.
Aug 19
In a New York City speech Colonel Theodore Roosevelt urges blacks to
find work and stop seeking government privileges.
Sep 2
The International Ladies' Garment Workers return to work after a
"Protocol of Peace" is signed. Working hours are moved up to 54 hours a
week but other concessions are won, strengthening the labor movement.
Sep 8
Pennsylvania Station opens to Long Island Railroad trains.
Sep 9
Oscar Hammerstein announces he will build an opera house in London.
Sep 25
West Point Military Academy cadets are placed under arrest for giving
the silent treatment to a captain.
November
3,000 boot and shoe workers in Brooklyn go on strike. The action
fails abnd they go back to work.
Nov 7
Rida Johnson Young and Victor Herbert's operetta Naughty
Marietta opens at the New York Theatre.
Nov 8
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to the New York State Senate.
Nov 27
Full service begins out of Pennsylvania Station.
Dec 10
Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the
Golden West) premieres in New York City, with Caruso singing the lead.
Arturo Toscanini conducts.
Dec 15
Jazz producer John Hammond is born in New York City.
Dec 18
Playwright-director-lyricist Abram Solman Borowitz (Abe Burrows) is
born in New York City.
Dec 31
New York's uncompleted Manhattan Bridge opens for traffic.
City
St. Patrick's Cathedral is dedicated. ** Clinton & Russell's
additions to the Whitehall Building are completed. ** U. S. poet
Ezra Pound visits the city on a return trip from England. ** The
Queensboro Realty Company syndicate now owns a total of 350 acres.
** United Press, International News Service and
Time correspondent Jack Belden is born in Brooklyn.
** Mount Sinai Hospital performs the first successful removal of
bladder tumors using electric current under direct vision. **
College teacher and baseball authority Harold Seymour is born. **
Impressario Tony Pastor dies.
State
The Woodbury family begins cultivating wine grapes in Dunkirk.
Batavia
The village limits the sale of liquor. John Mayer converts his Main
Street saloon to a restaurant (later Young's). ** Dyer's Hotel
opens on Main Street. ** William G. Pollard buys controlling
interest in the Bank of the Genesee from the Cary family. **
James M. Williams sells his State Street livery stables to H. J.
Kellogg.
Rochester
Henry Clune becomes a subreporter on the Democrat and
Chronicle. ** The U. S. Engineer's office surveys the
needs of the port of Charlotte. ** The city has an Italian
population of over 10,000, including over a hundred Italian tradesmen.
** Davis Street's Housekeeping Center and the Bureau for
Information and Protection of Foreigners, on Frank Street, are combined
and moved to Lewis Street, where they soon become a settlement house.
** Claude Bragdon's Bevier Building at the Rochester Institute of
Technology (RIT) is completed.
1911
March
Alfred Stieglitz shows twenty Cezanne watercolors at his 291
Gallery in New York City.
Mar 18
International Workers of the World (Wobblies) of Local 168 in New York
City go on strike.
Mar 20
The Shuberts new Winter Garden Theatre opens with Frank Tour and Jerome
Kern's revue La Belle Paree, with newcomer Al Jolson.
Mar 25
New York City's Triangle Shirt Waist Company fire kills 146 female
employees. The company's owners are tried for negligent homicide and
are acquitted.
April
Cesare Sconfietti opens the Rochester's first foreign consul office.
He's feted by local officials.
Apr 21
Operatic baritone Leonard Vaarenov Warren is born in New York City.
Apr 29
New York City's new Follies Bergere Theatre opens with a triple-bill
musical revue.
May 8
The first direct telephone conversation between New York City and
Denver, Colorado, is held.
Jun 26
Ziegfeld's Follies of 1911opens at the Jardin de Paris
Theatre, introduces comedian-dancer Leon Errol.
Jul 8
Mystery writer John Dudley Ball is born in Schenectady.
Jul 27
Former bellboy Paul Geidel kills stockbroker William Henry Jackson, in
New York City's Hotel Iroquois. Convicted, he spends a record 69 years
in jail.
Aug 6
Comedienne and musical comedy star Lucille Ball is born in Jamestown.
Aug 25
The Lehigh Valley Railroad's eastbound Train No. 4 derails near
Manchester. Several train cars fall off a bridge and plunge 45 feet to
a creek bed below. 27 people, including two Civil War veterans
returning from a GAR convention in Rochester, are killed.
Sep 17
Calbraith P. Rodgers takes off from New York to make the first
transcontinental flight. It will take him 49 days.
Sep 19
George Arliss makes his New York debut, as Disraeli.
Sep 23
Earle Ovington begins a week of flying mail from New York City to
Mineola, Long Island, making the first airmail deliveries in the U. S.
Sep 25
George M. Cohan's The Little Millionaire opens at New
York's Cohan Theatre.
Nov 1
The U. S. stages a naval pageant, with the Pacific fleet assembling at
San Diego, and the Atlantic Fleet at New York City.
City
Alfred Dickens, son of the novelist, dies of a cerebral embolism during
a lecture tour of the U. S., at the Astor House. ** Queens'
Oakland Golf Club buys its land from president and owner John H.
Taylor. He sells the remainder of his property to the Draper Realty
Company, for building lots. ** Jackson Heights' first apartment
building, at Northern Boulevard and 82nd Street, is completed. **
Producer Marcus Loew opens the American Roof Theatre, featuring a roof
garden and vaudeville stage.
State
Utica's Hinkleyville Revervoir is completed. ** Following the
Triangle Shirtwaist tragedy the New York State Factory Investigating
Commission is formed, chaired by state Senator Robert F. Wagner, and
consisting of assemblyman Alfred E. Smith, union leaders Mary E, Dreier
and Samuel Gompers, and two business representatives. ** The Le
Roy House becomes the official residence of the Le Roy high school
principal. ** A private residence is built in Warsaw. It will one
day become the community hospital. ** The Buffalo, Lockport and
Rochester Railway interurban is acquired by the Beebe Syndicate, owner
of the Rochester, Syracyse and Eastern trolley line. ** Inventor
George B. Selden successful 1909 lawsuit against Henry Ford for patent
infringement is reversed. The court rules that the two men had used
different engines. ** James A. Van Fleet is appointed to the U.
S. Military Academy.
Rochester
Only two out of 33 factories pass hazardous working conditions
inspections made by a state factory inspector. ** North American
Civic League official H. H. Wheaton investigates 53 complaints by
immigrants. ** A Methodist Church group lead by Reverend Joseph
Vitale acquires property on North Street for the city's first
Protestant Italian church.
1912
Feb 3
Owney "The Killer" Madden starts his life of crime by gunning down
William Henshaw, in New York City. He is never prosecuted for the
shooting.
Apr 7
The Socialist Party meets in New York City.
May 7
18,000 members of New York City's Hotel Workers Industrial Union walk
off the job. They sign a few contracts.
May 16
Author-interviewer Studs (Louis) Terkel is born in New York City.
May 18
Eugene V. Debs and Emil Seidel become the Socialist candidates for the
U. S. presidency.
May 28
Jazz guitarist David Michael "Dave" Barbour is born on Long Island.
Jun 21
9,000 members of New York City's United Hebrew Trades union walk off
the job. They will gain union recognition, a forty-nine hour work week
and nearly full unionization of the fur trade.
Jun 28
Wobblies in New York City walk off the job.
July
Batavia's Bank of the Genesee moves across Main Street into a building
recently purchased by bank head William G. Pollard, on the southeast
corner of Main and Jackson Streets. Henry W. Hornelius is hired to
redesign the interior and facade and Edward J. Dillinger is awarded the
construction contract.
Jul 16
New York City gambler Herman Rosenthal is gunned down outside the Hotel
Metropole. Police lieutenant Charles Becker is fingered by mobsters as
the man behind the killing and is convicted of the murder.
Aug 19
New York State's Bronx County is incorporated.
Oct 21
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 opens at New York City's
Moulin Rouge Theatre.
Oct 28
Victor Herbert's The Lady of the Slipper opens at New
York's Globe Theatre.
Oct 30
Vice-President James S. Sherman dies, in Utica. His place on the
reelection ticket is assumed by Columbia University president Nicholas
Murray Butler.
Dec 2
Rudolf Friml's The Firefly opens at New York's Lyric
Theatre.
City
The Salvation Army opens a lodging for the destitute. ** The 960
Park Avenue apartment building is completed. ** The Allendale,
Evanston and Glen Cairn apartment buildings are completed, as are those
at 530 and 600 West End Avenue. ** The bank forecloses on Charles
F. Rogers' 777 Madison Avenue apartment building. ** The women's
Zionist organization Hadassah is organized, at Temple Emanu-el. **
Jackson Heights now has eight miles of paved streets and five miles of
sewers. ** Burlesque producer Al Reeves buys an expensive car,
parks it in front of the Columbia Theatre, impressing the locals. **
Cass Gilbert's Woolworth Building is completed. ** The Museum
of Natural History purchases George Catlin's series of paintings of La
Salle's expeditions to the mouth of the Mississippi River. **
Construction begins in Brooklyn on baseball's Ebbetts Field.
State
Wagon maker Francis C. Pollay, builder of the first jinricksha, dies in
Pulteney. ** Buffalo's Concrete-Central grain elevator is built.
** The Pittsburgh Building at Troy's Rensselaer Polutechnic
Institute is completed. ** Lock 12 is built for the Champlain
Canal at Whitehall, replacing the 1823 triple lock. ** Victor
resident Sarah Hall Bonesteele begins creating miniature rugs,
continues to do so up until 1922.
Batavia
H. J. Kellogg sells his State Street livery stables to Solomon Lyman.
Rochester
Business interests begins agitating to have the Erie Canal's bed moved
out of the city. ** Architect Claude Bragdon remarries. **
St. Lucy's Church is built on Troup Street for the Italian community.
** The Common Council approves a funding ordinance to construct a
subway system in the soon-to-be abandoned (1919) Erie Canal bed. **
The city's first bus service is begun, between the city and the
village of Pittsford. It competes with the Park Avenue streetcars and
the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway interurban line.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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