GenevaI received several requests to leave the birth dates in, and will do so, to accommodate those who made the reque 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 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor