GenevaFile size is getting a bit unwieldy again, so we'll drop down to three years at a time. - David 1901 Jan 7 The New York Stock Exchange trades over 2,00,000 shares in a single day for the first time. Jan 9 A fire at Rochester's Hubbell Park Orphan Asylum kills 28 children and three staff members. Feb 4 Giaccomo Puccini's Tosca makes its U. S. debut at the Metropolitan Opera. April Scribner's publishes Critical Instances, Edith Wharton's second volume of stories. ** Doubleday publishes Frank Norris' The Octopus. Apr 1 The Rochester & Sodus Bay interurban railroad leases the Irodequoit Park Railroad. Apr 14 Actors in New York City's Academy of Music are arrested for wearing costumes on Sunday. Apr 25 New York State begins requiring license plates on automobiles, the first state to do so. May Alice Day (Gardner) graduates from the Law School of the University of Buffalo, the only woman in the class, with the highest marks. May 9 A Wall Street panic is caused by the battle between J. J. Hill and Edward Henry Harriman over control of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. May 18 The New York State militia forces striking Albany railroad workers back to work. May 21 Five West Point Military Academy cadets are dismissed for hazing and insubordination; six others are suspended. May 30 The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is dedicated, at New York University. Jun 2 Benjamin Adams of the Yonkers Board of Education is arrested for playing golf on Sunday. Jun 10 Broadway composer Frederick Lowe is born in Vienna. Jun 13 A Staten Island ferry collides with another ship and sinks in New York City's harbor. Jun 22 Golfer Genevieve Hecker successfully defends her Women's Metropolitan Golf Championship title, in New York City. July After quarreling with friends at their summer cabin on Dumpling Island, off Noank, Connecticut, Theodore Dreiser returns to New York City earlier than planned. Aug 7 West Point graduate Francisco Alcantara is elected president of the Venezuelan state of Aragua. Aug 15 The horse Cresceus wins the trotting championship at Brighton Beach. Aug 26 Bicyclist Robert Walthour defeats John Nelson in a fifteen-mile race in Madison Square Garden. Sep 1 Reformer Carrie Nation is arrested in New York City when her appearance attracts a crowd of unruly supporters. Sep 5 President William McKinley arrives in Buffalo to open the Pan-American Exposition. Sep 6 McKinley is shot during a reception at the Temple of Music by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. Sep 7 Czolgoz confesses. Sep 10 Activist Emma Goldman is arrested in New York City after Czolgosz mentions her name to investigators. Sep 14 William McKinley dies in Buffalo, mouthing the lyrics to Nearer My God to Thee. Roosevelt takes the oath of office forty-five minutes later. He asks McKinley's Cabinet to retain their positions. Sep 26 Czolgosz is sentenced to death. Oct 20 The New York Times celebrates its 50th anniversary. Oct 24 Michigan schoolteacher Anna Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. Oct 29 Leon Czolgosz is executed. Nov 16 Racing in New York City, French driver Henri Fournier sets an automobile speed record of one mile in 52 seconds. Nov 26 The Hope Diamond arrives in New York City. City Architect Henry Anderson designs the Semiramis apartment on Central Park North. ** The city's New Law permits enforcement of housing standards. ** William Wallace, superintendent of buildings at the Museum of Natural History, is forced to resign when he's caught misappropriating funds and accepting kickbacks. ** The Astor family builds Harlem's Graham Court apartment building, designed by Clinton & Russell. ** Educator Seth Low, running on the Fusion ticket, defeats Democrat Edward M. Shephard to become mayor, serving 1902-1903. ** Maurice Prendergast paints Central Park. ** Sculptor Gutzon Borglum moves from London to New York City. ** Writer James Branch Cabell returns from New York City and joins the staff of Virginia's Richmond News. ** William Randolph Hearst hires advice columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (Dorothy Dix), away from the New Orleans Daily Picayune, to write for his New York Journal. State Bannerman's Island Arsenal is established on Pollopel Island in the Hudson River. ** Ellsworth Milton Statler operates a hotel at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition. Albany The John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn branch library on North Pearl Street is dedicated. Batavia E. E. Kellogg builds the Pan American Farmer's Sheds, for parking shoppers' horses, on State Street. ** Additions are begun to the Johnston Harvester Company building. Rochester The congregation of Temple B'rith Kodesh opens the Baden Street settlement house, the city's first, to aid poor Germans and Poles. ** The Italian Democratic Club is formed in the city's 5th Ward. ** The port of Charlotte's export revenue reaches $1,279,000. ** The city annexes additional lands of the State Hospital, increasing its own size to 18.86 square miles. 1902 Jan 8 A train collision beneath New York City's Grand Central Station, caused by poor visibility due to steam in the tunnels, results in a ban on steam engines on Manhattan commuter trains. Jan 9 Metropolitan Opera director Rudolf Bing is born in Vienna. Jan 13 Columnist Roscoe Drummond is born in Theresa. Jan 25 The Broadway musical Floradora plays its 505th performance, setting a record for length of run. Jan 28 Museum of Modern Art founder-director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., is born in Detroit. Jan 30 Transatlantic shippers in New York City double their rates. February Edith Wharton's historical novel The Valley of Decision is published by Scribner's. Feb 9 Daughter Jeanette Norris, Jr., is born to novelist Frank Norris and his wife, in New York City. Feb 10 Acting teacher Stella Adler is born in New York City to Yiddish actor Jacob Adler. Feb 27 Golfer Eugene Saraceni (Gene Sarazen) is born in Harrison. Mar 21 A subway tunnel under New York City's Park Avenue near 38th Street collapses, destroying three mansions. Mar 24 Politician Thomas Edmund Dewey is born in Owosso, Michigan. Apr 2 The fishing boat Alice M. Jacobs brings her first catch to New York City's Fulton Fish Market. May 5 Author Bret Harte dies, in Albany. Jun 9 West Point Military Academy celebrates its first 100 years. Jun 16 Two super trains begin New York-to-Chicago service - the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pennsylvania Special and the New York Central's Broadway Limited. Jun 28 Composer Richard Rodgers is born in Hammels Station, New York. July Frank Norris moves from New York City to San Francisco. Jul 12 The Twentieth Century Limited sets the train speed record on a run between New York City and Chicago. Jul 24 The Irondequoit Park Railroad interurban merges with the Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway company, permitting through transit from Sodus Bay to downtown Rochester. Jul 25 Longshoreman-social philosopher Eric Hoffer is born in New York City. Jul 31 The Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway interurban company is leased to the Rochester Railway Company. Aug 6 Gangster Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schulz) is born in the Bronx. Aug 19 Poet-humorist Frederic Ogden Nash is born in Rye. Aug 25 Harry de Windt arrives in New York City, having traversed the Arctic across the Bering Strait, from Paris. Sep 11 Philanthropist Alice Tully is born in Corning. ** Joseph M. Weber and Lew M. Fields' Twirly Whirly opens at their New York music hall. Sep 28 Journalist-television host Ed Sullivan is born in New York City. Oct 17 New York's Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway interurban goes into service, providing occasional passenger service between Canandaigua and Victor. Oct 26 Suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies in New York City. Nov 3 Clyde Fitch's The Stubbornness of Geraldine opens at Broadway's Garrick Theatre. Nov 4 An explosion at Madison Square Garden kills fifteen people and injures seventy others. Nov 11 Roland B. Molineux is acquitted in New York City after a second trial, for the 1889 murder of elderly widow Margaret Adams. Nov 17 A U. S. production of The Eternal City opens at New York's Victoria Theatre. Nov 22 A fire destroys the span of New York City's uncompleted Williamsburg Bridge. Nov 29 Jazz drummer Danny Viniello (Alvin) is born in New York City. December Edgar Smith's The Stickiness of Gelatine, a musical comedy spoof of The Stubbornness of Geraldine, opens on the second half of the bill at New York City's Weber and Fields Music Hall, with the comedy team in the cast. Dec 3 David Belasco and John Luther Long's The Darling of the Gods opens at New York's Belasco Theatre, with English actor George Arliss in the cast. Dec 10 Politician Vito Anthony Marcantonio is born in New York City. Dec 16 Stanislaus Stange and Julian Edwards' When Johnny Comes Marching Home opens at New York's New York Theatre. Dec 17 Gus Hinckley captains his Great Lakes ship the Hinckley from Cape Vincent, in the St. Lawrence River, to Oswego, sailing blind during a snowstorm. Dec 20 Philosopher Sidney Hook is born in New York City. Dec 28 Professor Mortimer Jerome Adler is born in New York City. City Daniel Burnham's Flatiron Building is completed. ** BuilderJoseph Oussani moves into his newly completed Semiramis apartment house. ** Gustav Lindenthal becomes Commissioner of Bridges. ** Cass Gilbert's U. S. Customs House opens. ** Janes & Leo's Dorilton apartment house at Broadway and 71st Street, built for Hamilton M. Weed, is completed at a cost of $750,000. Critic Montgomery Schuyler disparages the building in the Architectural Record. The building is fully rented. ** An explosion on a subway construction job at Park Avenue and Forty-first Street kills six people, injures over a hundred. ** Andrew Carnegie's East 91st Street neo-Georgian mansion is completed. ** Lawman Bat Masterson arrives to become a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph. State McKim, Mead and White's house for Clarence H. Mackay of Roslyn, Long Island - Harbor Hill - is built. ** The 17th-century Mead Farm House in Rye is refurbished. ** Ralph Whitehead founds the Byrdcliff art colony in Woodstock. ** The Wyoming Village Hall, donated by Lydia Avery Cooley Ward, is dedicated. Among the speakers are the Reverend Anna Shaw and the Reverend William C. Gannett. ** Newspaper publisher Levi A. Cass arrives in Warsaw. ** The Watervliet Arsenal begins producing 16-inch guns. Batavia Doctor Annie Cheyney marries Doctor Henry M. Spofford and they go into a joint-practice. ** Novelties manufacturer K. B. Mathes builds a factory. Rochester The city is struck by a smallpox epidemic lasting through the following year. ** Floods threaten the downtown area. ** Architect Claude Bragdon marries Charlotte Coffyn Wilkinson of Syracuse. ** Salvatore M. Vella becomes the first Italian to graduate from a city high school. ** The Italian Mission moves to the First Methodist Episcopal Church. An Italian Sunday school is established. 1903 Jan 18 New York City politician-businessman Abram Stevens Hewitt, 80, dies. Jan 20 Frank L. Baum, Paul Tietjens and A. Baldwin Sloane's The Wizard of Oz opens at New York's Majestic Theater, with a spectacular opening cyclone on stage. February Having sent his wife Sara to her parents' home, Theodore Dreiser moves to cheaper lodgings in Brooklyn. Feb 18 The first all-black major Broadway musical, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook's In Dahomey opens at the New York Theater. Feb 22 The Cunard liner Etruria lands in New York City, carrying the first newspaper printed in mid ocean, using wireless. The system's inventor Guglielmo Marconi is aboard. Feb 25 A New York City tenement at 32nd Street and Eleventh Avenue is torn down - the beginning of demolition for the new Pennsylvania Station. ** Rapid-fire weapon inventor Richard J. Gatling, 84, dies in New York City. Mar 4 Painter Adolph Gottlieb is born in New York City. Mar 10 The ship Karmania is quarantined in New York City, with six aboard dead from cholera. Mar 16 Montana senator Mike Mansfield is born in New York City. Mar 17 Gustave Luder's The Prince of Pilsen opens at New York's Broadway Theatre. Mar 22 Niagara Falls run dry due to freezing in the Great Lakes. Mar 29 Regular wireless news service begins between New York City and London. Apr 10 Journalist-playwright Clare Booth Luce is born in New York City. Apr 24 George B. Post's building for the New York Stock Exchange opens. Apr 27 The Jamaica Race Track opens, on Long Island, attended by Lillian Russell, 'Diamond Jim' Brady and John Warne 'Bet-a-million' Gates. May Hammondsport machine shop owner Glenn Curtiss sets a motorcycle speed record of a mile in 56 2/5 second. May 1 Invited to New York by S. S. McClure, Willa Cather meets with him and is promised publication of her stories in McClure's Magazine., as well as in book form. May 16 George A. Wyman sets out from San Francisco in asuccessful attempt to become the first man to cross the U. S. by motorcycle. May 22 U. S. diplomat Philip Wilson Bonsal is born in New York City to journalist Stephen Bonsal and Henrietta Bonsal. He will serve as ambassador to Cuba. June Theodore Dreiser gets a job on the railroad at Spuyten Duyvil soon moves to Kingsbridge. Jun 19 New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrigis born. Jul 6 Motorcyclist George Wyman achieves his goal, arriving in New York City. August Sara Dreiser joins her husband at Kingsbridge. Aug 15 Publisher Joseph Pulitzer donates $2,000,000 to establish a school of journalism at Columbia University. Aug 19 Trotter Dan Patch sets the one-mile record in Brighton Beach - one minute and 59 seconds. Aug 31 Entertainer Arthur Gidfrey is born in New York City. Sep 23 Prince Alert beats the record of Dan Patch at Yonkers, doing the mile in one minute and 57 seconds. ** Columbia University celebrates its 150th anniversary. October Scribner's publishes Edith Wharton's novella Sanctuary. Oct 4 Computer pioneer John Vincent Atanasoff (the Atanasoff-Berry Computer) is born in Hamilton, New York. Oct 13 Victor Herbert's operetta Babes in Toyland opens at New York's Majestic Theater. Oct 17 Novelist Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein (Nathanael West) is born in New York City. Nov 15 Interurban service between Rochester and Canandaigua, on the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway is inaugurated. Nov 30 The Brooklyn Academy of Music is destroyed by a fire. Dec 16 New York City's Majestic Theater uses the first female ushers. Dec 24 Theodore Dreiser resigns from his job on the railroad. City Coney Island's Luna Park opens. ** The Williamsburg Bridge, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, is opened. ** Henry J. Hardenbergh's Whitehall Building, housing governmentoffices and corporations, is completed. ** Hill and Turner's Euclid Hall apartment building, at the planned 86th Street exit of the Broadway subway currently under construction, is completed. ** Russian immigrant Jacob Starr becomes an engineer with Ben Strauss's New York sign company. ** Democrat George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general, defeats incunbent Fusion Party mayor Seth Low. He serves 1904-1909. ** Race track tipster George Graham Rice founds the New York Daily America. It will not survive for long. ** Western painter Charles M. Russell and his wife Nancy make their first trip to the city. ** Eugene O'Neill's mother attempts suicide and he learns she is a morphine addict. He begins chasing around the city with his older brother Jamie. ** Public relations pioneer Lee Ivy leaves the New York World to begin representing political interests. ** William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) moves to New York. State Lake Placid's Adirondack Lodge burns in a forest fire. Fires destroy close to 25% of the timber in the Adirondacks. ** Paleontologist Clifton James Sarle names a shale-dolomite mixture Pittsford Shale, for the town where the formation was uncovered as the Erie Canal was deepended, in 1897-8. ** The toll booth on Dutchess County's Salt Point Turnpike is demolished. ** Warsaw celebrates its centennial, formally dedicates its 1876 Soldiers' Monument. ** The State legislature passes a bond issue to construct a Barge Canal to replace the old Erie Canal. ** Charles Davenport becomes director of the Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institute, at Cold Harbor, for the next 32 years. Batavia Watts L. Richmond becomes assistant superintendent of the Johnston Harvester Works. ** Trolley service begins. Buffalo Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building is built. Rochester The Bond Clothing Company is founded. ** Floods threaten downtown for the second year in a row. 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