GenevaIt has been suggested that, in order
to cut down on the length of the posts, I skip the announcements of
births, as they weren't historically important at the time they
occured. I don't think such items add THAT much to the overall length
of the posts, but it might be worth considering.
However, I am aware that the more modern posts are longer, and I'd like
to ask all of you if that is beginning to present problems, other than
the occassional cut-off message. Perhaps it's already time to cut down
to two years at a time, or even one. If you have any thoughts on the
matter, let me know.
David
1907
Jan 11
Builder William Jaird Levitt is born in Brooklyn.
Jan 22
Richard Strauss and Oscar Wilde's opera Salome is
performed at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House, shocking the
public.
Jan 23
Socialite Harry K. Thaw goes on trial for the murder of architect
Stanford White.
Jan 26
Further performances of Salome are canceled.
Jan 29
William James begins repeating his lectures on Pragmatism at Columbia
University. ** The Batavia Businessmen's Association passes a
resolution to revive the village's 1904-05 charter revision committee.
A few days later the committee is formed, headed by George D.
Williamson.
February
Scribner's publishes Edith Wharton's novella Madame de
Treymes.
Feb 3
Author James Michener is born in New York City, parents unknown.
Feb 8
William James gives his final Pragmatism lecture at Columbia.
Feb 16
Western painter Charles M. Russell has his first major East Coast show
at the Reverend Newell Dwight Hillis' Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn.
Feb 17
W. E. B. DuBois, speaking in New York City, claims that mixed blood has
benefitted white geniuses.
Feb 18
600,000 tons of grain are shipped through New York City to help relieve
the famine raging in Russia.
March
The New York Stock Exchange plunges rapidly. The average American, not
heavily into stocks, pays little attention.
Mar 1
The Salvation Army opens a suicide prevention center in New York City.
Mar 13
The New York stock market crashes when prices drop sharply.
Mar 14
The U. S. announces plans to help shore up the stock market.
Mar 18
A permanent fish market building is opened at New York's Fulton and
South Streets.
Apr 14
The National Arbitration and Peace Congress, presided over by Andrew
Carnegie, meets in New York to promote support for the upcoming Hague
Conference. Roosevelt urges arbitration for the settling of
international disputes.
May
New York City gets the first taxicabs in the U. S., from France.
May 3
5,335 immigrants pass through Ellis Island today.
May 4
Dance critic Lincoln Kirsten is born in Rochester. ** 20,000
socialists parade in New York City in support of International Workers
of the World (IWW) leader William Haywood, soon to be tried in Idaho.
May 15
The Japanese fleet visits New York City.
May 20
The National Association of Manufacturers meet in New York City, ask
members to raise $500,000 to fight organized labor.
May 21
A train collides with a trolley near Brooklyn's Coney Island. Forty
people are injured.
May 22
The New York State legislature creates the Public Utilities Commission.
June
Glenn Curtiss makes his first dirigible flight near New York's Keuka
Lake. ** Theodore Dreiser becomes editor of the Butterick
Company's women's magazines. He has his appendix removed.
Jun 28
Thirteen Washington Senators base runners steal bases on New York
Yankees catcher Branch Rickey.
July
Glenn Curtiss travels to Nova Scotia to aid Alexander Graham Bell in
aviation experiments. ** Charles and Carmela Mancuso and their
six children arrive in Batavia by train from New Orleans.
Jul 1
Cars of the Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railway interurban reach
downtown Rochester.
Jul 2
A falling boulder kills two workmen on the Pennsylvania Railroad's
Hudson River tunnel.
Jul 8
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1907, his first, opens
at the New York Theater Roof Garden.
Jul 12
U. S. comic Milton Berlinger (Milton Berle) is born in New York City.
Jul 16
U. S. actress Ruby Stevens (Barbara Stanwyck) is born in Brooklyn.
August
Demolition for New York City's Pennsylvania Station is completed.
Aug 4
A race riot breaks out in Harlem.
Aug 7
Stock prices drop back to the level of March.
Aug 8
Bandleader-composer-trumpeter and alto saxophonist Bennett Lester
(Benny Carter) is born in New York City.
Aug 24
New York City's Singer Building, still under construction, becomes the
tallest man-made structure in the world.
Aug 31
Jazz composer-arranger, saxophone and violin player Edgar Melvin "The
Lamb" Sampson is born in New York City.
Sep 7
Impresario Oscar Hammerstein announces he will build five opera house
in New York City.
Sep 11
The Lusitania docks in New York harbor, having made
the voyage from Queenstown, Ireland, in five days and fifty-four
minutes.
Sep 30
New York City's Plaza Hotel opens.
October
Scribner's publishes Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the
Tree.
Oct 1
Racketeer Albert J. Adams commits suicide in his apartment in New York
City's Ansonia Hotel.
Oct 11
The Lusitania arrives back in Europe, having made the
crossing in a record 4 days.
Oct 16
Copper magnates Augustus Heringe and Charles Moore fail to corner the
market. Wall Street panics.
Oct 21
A panic begins with a run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company in New
York. The bank goes under.
November
The Lusitania sets an Ireland-to-New York record of 4
days, 18 hours and 40 minutes.
Nov 4
Financier J. P. Morgan calls New York City bankers to his mansion
there, then locks them in until they arrive at a plan to shore up the
failing stock market.
Nov 18
Augustus Thomas' play The Witching Hour opens at New
York's Hackett Theatre. ** Italian tenor Enrico Caruso opens the
season of the Metropolitan Opera, starring in Adriana
Lecouvreur.
December
William James works on the Oxford lectures and addresses the American
Philosophical Association meeting at Cornell on The Meaning of
the Word Truth.
Dec 25
Bandleader-vocalist Cab(ell) Calloway is born in Rochester.
Dec 31
U. S. suffragists hold a rally in New York City, to open their campaign
for votes for women.
City
Cass Gilbert's Customs House is completed, in lower Manhattan, with
sculptures by Daniel Chester French and Adolph Weinman and murals by
Reginald Marsh. ** Fraunces Tavern is built on the lower Manhattan
site of the original by William Mersereau, even though the plans are
mostly guesswork. ** The Merchants' Exchange building is
enlarged and remodeled by McKim, Mead & White as the head office of
First National City Bank. ** The Ambrose Lightship is put into
service 25 miles off the mouth of the Hudson River, to act as a beacon.
** The current Fulton Street Fish Market building is completed.
** Cunard piers 53 and 54 are constructed on the North River.
** The city buys land on both sides of the Bronx River, to prevent
pollution of its water. A roadway is built along the river, the first
of the area's system of parkways. ** The Esperanto apartment
house at 229 West 107th Street is completed. ** Plans are drawn
for a Chambers Street subway station. ** 125,126 babies are born
here this year. ** Syrian-born New York City doctor-essayist-poet
Rizq George Haddad moves to 56 Garden Place, Brooklyn. ** Mayor
George B. McClellan begins strict enforcement of blue laws, crippling
entertainment in the city. Vaudeville producer Percy Williams sues the
city and the State Supreme Court reverses the ban. ** Toyohiko
Takami founds the Japanese Mutual Aid Society. ** Financier
J. P. Morgan convinces former American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
president Theodore N. Vail to return to the post, healing a twenty-year
rift. ** 1,285,349 arrive in the U. S. through Ellis Island,
setting a record.
State
The Brooklyn Hotel in Center Moriches, Long Island, burns down. The
hotel laundry site is bought by Frank F. Penny for use as a boatshop.
** Ellenville's Sun-Ray spring water company begins construction of
a large bottling facility. ** Brockport novelist Mary Jane Holmes
dies. ** Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building is erected in
Buffalo. ** Novelist/memoirist/correspondent Helen Brown
(Lawrenson) is born in LaFareville
Batavia
Local pianist Monica Dailey gives aconcert in London. ** Lawyer
Alice Day marries farmer lawyer Fred D. Gardner. They settle on a farm
outside of Alexander, name it Locust Level Farm.
Rochester
The city police hire Italian interpreter Alexander Elliott. **
George Eastman and John Ewing Durand donate land on Lake Ontario to the
city for a park. ** The New York Central Railroad is rumored to be
considering replacing its St. Paul Street station. The city brings
consulting engineer William J. Wilgus to Rochester to plan for a new
station, over the Genesee River. The railroad releases new plans,
ignoring the Wilgus Plan. ** Construction begins on architect
Claude Bragdon's Universalist Church. His wife Charlotte (Wilkinson)
dies during childbirth. ** The city annexes Culver Road and
Durand Eastman Park, inxcreasing it's own total size to 21.38 square
miles.
Vaudeville
Producer Martin Beck is arrested for driving 18 miles an hour in New
York City limits. ** Performer Gertrude Hoffman is arrested for
indecent dancing. The incident was rigged by producer William
Hammerstein to get publicity. Hoffman is ordered to wear ankle-length
tights. ** Producers Hurtig and Seamon add a lunch counter to
their theater's Metropolis Roof, where patrons are entertained by Joe
Ali's band and provided with a twenty-minute lunch break. Producers
Mark Klaw and A. L. Erlanger borrow sculptures and paintings from
impresario John Augustin Daly to decorate the lobbies of their Radio
City Music Hall and Roxy theaters.
1908
January
Florence L. Cross publishes a letter in the Rochester Post
Express, to gather support for the Housekeeping Center opened
on Frank Street for the Italian community.
Jan 1
Gustav Mahler makes his U. S. debut, conducting Trtistan und
Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera.
Jan 3
Manhattan and Long Island City are joined by railroad tunnels.
Jan 8
A subway linking Manhattan and Brooklyn goes into service.
Jan 17
Wireless operators in New York City's Times Tower pick up transmissions
from Puerto Rico.
Jan 21
New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, prohibiting smoking by
women in public places.
Jan 22
Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette on New York City's
Bowery.
Jan 23
U. S. composer Edward MacDowell dies in New York City at the age of
46.
Jan 27
New York City police begin using dogs.
Feb 11
Screenwriter Philp Dunne is born in New York City to political humorist
Finley Peter Dunne and Olympic golfer Margaret Abbott.
Feb 12
A New York-to-Paris automobile race gets under way. Six cars depart
from Times Square - an Italian, a German, an American and three French
vehicles.
Feb 18
The U. S. entry in the New York-to-Paris race, a Thomas Flyer,
manudactured by the Thomas Motor Company of Buffalo and driven by
George Schuster, reaches Toledo, Ohio, 29 miles ahead of the number two
contestant.
Feb 24
Henry Ludlowe opens in New York City in Richard III.
Feb 25
A tunnel under trhe East River, from New York to Hoboken, New Jersey,
begins operations. 100,000people use it on the first day.
Feb 28
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova makes her U. S. debut at the
Metropolitan Opera House. ** Professor Meyulan of Columbia
University insists that reports of the danger of tobacco smoking are
exaggerated.
Mar 1
Participants in the New York-to-Paris race become mired in the mud in
Iowa.
Mar 2
The Committee of the Russian Republican Administration is founded in
New York City.
Mar 4
Whipping is banned in New York City schools.
Mar 9
Governor Charles Evans Hughes insists crime and violence in New York
City is due to overcrowding.
Mar 12
Canadian flier Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin, flying the Red
Wing at Keuka Lake, makes the longest heavier-than-air flight
in the U. S. staying aloft for 318 feet and 11 inches. He is the first
British subject to fly an airplane.
Mar 20
Ludwig Van Beethoven's Fidelio has its U. S. premiere
at the Metropolitan Opera.
Mar 26
George Schuster and his Thomas Flyer embark aboard a ship for Alaska,
at Seattle, still in the lead.
Apr 13
Italy's Zust automobile and France's Di Dion take the lead, sail for
Japan, as Schuster and his Flyer make their way toward Alaska.
May
Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph Martin Anderson leave New York City
on a four-year scientific mission to study the Inuit Indians near
Canada's Mackenzie River, as well as to make zoological surveys. **
A fire in Batavia destroys a horse shed belonging to Milo. B.
Langworthy and E. E. Kellogg's Pan American Farmers' Sheds, on State
Street. Both men rebuild, Kellogg utilizing the services of Rochester
builder Charles Alexander.
May 7
The second tunnel linking New York City and New Jersey is completed.
May 8
The Ellis Island Immigration Center lays off 100 employees because of
falling immigration rates
May 12
The Child Labor Association of Club Women is founded in New York City.
May 15
The French and Italian entries drop out of the New York-to-Paris race.
May 20
French entry automobile driver St. Chaffray, stranded in Vladivostok,
Russia, buys up all the gasoline in the area and demands a spot in
another car in return for gas.
Jun 15
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1908 opens at New York's
Jardin de Paris Theater, with book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and
music by Maurice Levi and others. Nora Bayes introduces the song
Shine On, Harvest Moon, with lyrics by her husband
Jack. ** Karl Hoschna and Otto Abels Harbach's
The Three Twins opens at New York City's Herald Square
Theater, introduces the song Cuddle Up a Little
Closer. ** The first masonry for Pennsylvania Station
is erected.
Jun 18
The Republican National Convention nominates William H. Taft and New
York State's James S. Sherman.
Jun 29
Architectural plans for a 909 -foot Equitable Life building are
presented to the City of New York.
Jul 1
The U. S. entry in the international automobile race sinks in a
Siberian swamp, necessitating major repairs.
Jul 2
The Socialists meet in New York City.
Jul 4
Glenn Curtiss wins the Scientific American trophy at
Hammondsport, piloting his June Bug over one
kilometer.
Jul 5
Augustus Gilhays and Donald L. Munro are nominated by the Socialists.
Jul 6
Robert Edwin Peary sails from New York on the
Roosevelt, on a Polar expedition.
Jul 23
Eight cadets at the West Point Military Academy face expulsion for
hazing incidents. One cadet, accused of striking students, is
dismissed.
Jul 25
The German auto team arrives in Paris, the first of the contestants to
do so. They are penalized for breaking the rules along the way, leaving
the U. S. entry as the winner of the race.
Jul 31
Shipping rates for New York-to-Europe freight doubles.
August
The Reverend Hyacinth Ciabbatoni celebrates the first Mass in Batavia's
new St. Anthony of Padua Church parish. Several weeks later he buys a
house on the corner of Liberty Street and Central Avenue from the Sheer
family, to convert into a church.
Aug 3
The motorboat Dixie II successfully defends her title
at the British International Motorboat Cup races held at Hungtington,
Long Island.
Aug 11
Jazz alto saxophone and clarinet player Russell Procope is born in New
York City.
Aug 12
After a number of its trestles are washed out by Lake Ontario waters,
forcing a forecloasure, the Rochester, Charlotte & Manitou Beach
Railway trolley line is reorganized as the Rochester & Manitou
Railroad.
Aug 14
The Rochester & Manitou Railroad resumes service.
Aug 17
Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson's The Man From
Home opens at New York's Astor Theater.
Aug 31
Glen MacDonough and Victor Herbert's Algeria opens at
New York's Broadway Theatre.
Sep 2
The first car of the Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway Company
interurban is run over the line, between Rochester and Albion, carrying
an party of company officials.
Sep 4
The Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway interurban is opened to the
public.
Sep 7
Washington Senator pitcher Walter Johnson pitches a complete shutout
for the third time in a four-games series against the New York
Highlanders (later the Yankees).
Sep 23
New York Giants player Fred Merkle, playing in a game against the
Chicago Cubs, on first base, assumes a hit has driven a run in, and
neglects to touch second base. He's tagged out and the game is declared
a tie. New York loses the pennant.
Sep 24
Doctors in New York City receive a Russian serum reputed to cure
tuberculosis.
Sep 26
Chicago Cubs pitcher Edward "Big Ed" Reulbach, playing agasinst the
Brooklyn Superbas, becomes the first pitcher to pitch shutouts in both
games of a double-header.
Oct 5
George M. Cohan's The American Idea opens in New York
City.
Oct 24
Auto racer George Robertson becomes the first American to win Long
Island's Vanderbilt Cup race.
Oct 30
Mrs. William Waldorf Astor dies, in New York City.
November
George Westinghouse is awarded electrical contracts for Pennsylvania
Railroad tunnels under the Hudson. ** Rochester Italians revive a
Sicilian passion play.
Nov 3
Taft and Sherman are elected, with a Electoral College vote of
314-169.
Nov 4
The Brooklyn Academy of Music opens.
Nov 16
Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his U. S. debut, directing
Aida at the Metropolitan Opera.
Nov 17
The Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway interurban is formally
opened to Lockport, where connections can be made to Olcott, Buffalo
and Niagara Falls, via Buffalo's International Railway Company.
Nov 25
In a rematch, Olympic marathoner Dorando Pietri beats John Hayes by 60
yards in a marathon at Madison Square Garden.
Dec 11
Composer Elliott Carter is born in New York City.
Dec 23
Maude Adams opens in J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman
Knows, in New York City.
Dec 24
Anthony Comstock's Society for the Prevention of Vice persuades the
mayor of New York to censor films, and close theaters on Sundays.
Dec 27
Followers of doomsday prophet Lee J. Spangler sit on a mountaintop in
Nyack, awaiting the destruction of the world.
City
Charles F. Rogers' 777 Madison Avenue apartment house opens, on the
former site of All Souls Church. ** The Interurban Rapid Transit
(IRT) subway system is extended to Kingsbridge, in the Bronx. **
Ernest Flagg's Singer Building, at 47 stories, the world's tallest, is
completed. ** The cable railway on the Brooklyn Bridge is
converted to an electric traction system. ** The Belnord, the
world's largest apartment building, is completed, on Upper Broadway.
** Willaim Waldorf Astor's Anthorp Apartments, designed by Clinton &
Russell, are built. ** The Queensboro Realty Company syndicate
headed by Edward A. MacDougal, with Justice P. Henry Dugro as its
agent, begins buying the land that will become Jackson Heights. **
Frederic Remington exhibits at the M. Knoedler and Company galleries
in New York City. ** George Bellows and William Glackens found
the Ashcan school of art in New York City. They are members of the
group known as the Eight, which also includes George Luks, John French
Sloan, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur B.
Davies. ** Bellows' North River. ** Jack
London's The Iron Heel is published. **
Financier Otto H. Kahn becomes chairman of the Metropolitan Opera,
serves in the post through 1931; Milan's Giulio Gatti-Casazza is hired
as manager. ** Journalist Willing English Walling reports on a
race riot for the liberal weekly New York
Independent., describing the plight of U. S. blacks.
Social worker Mary White Ovington contacts him, resulting in next
year's founding of the NAACP. ** The manager of the Dewey Theatre
advertises his theater is cooled by 25 fans during the summer. **
Isadora Duncan begins gaining success here and and in London.
State
Hobart and William Smith colleges are founded. ** John D.
Rockefeller's Kykuit mansion is completed in Pocantico Hills. **
Pittsford bean mill owner-operator Ted Zornow, Sr. is born on a farm
east of the village. ** Batavia pianist Monica Dailey begins
touring the U. S. ** A Yonkers audience boos Mlle. Froelich, a
"Salome" dancer, off the stage.
Rochester
Frank Lloyd Wright designs a house for Edward Boynton. ** The
first Lilac Sunday is held. ** A trolley line to the Seabreeze
amusement park opens. ** A fire at North Water and St. Paul
streets destroys several buildings. ** The Children's Playground
League opens a playground on Front Street. ** Claude Bragdon's
Universalist Church is completed. His Bevier Memorial Building is built
on the site of Nathaniel Rochester's Washington Street home, for the
Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Free and Applied Arts.
** An addition is made to Irondequoit High School. ** The city
annexes the Baker Farm and the Genesee Valley Park, incresing its own
size to 21.59 square miles.
1909
Feb 4
Jazz bass player Arthur "Artie" Bernstein is born in Brooklyn.
Feb 12
Booker T. Washington attends the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth, in New York City. ** Champion fox terrier Warren Remedy
wins best-in-show at New York City's Westminster dog show for the third
year in a row.
March
The New York State Railways system assumes control of Rochester's
street railways, the Rochester & Sodus Bay system, and the Rochester &
Eastern Rapid Railway. It also takes control of systems in Utica and
Oneida, and some Syracuse lines.
Mar 30
Gustav Lindentha''s Queensboro Bridge over the East River is opened to
traffic.
April
New York City Chinese comedian Ah Hoon makes fun of tong leader Mock
Duck.
May 9
Architect Gordon Bunshaft is born in Buffalo.
Jun 10
Radio commentator Larry Lesuer is born in New York City.
Jun 14
Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1909 opens at New York's
Jardin de Paris Theatre.
Jul 12
The Queensborough Bridge is dediacted.
Jul 24
Glenn Curtiss wins the Scientific American trophy for
the second year in a row.
Jul 30
The stonework on Pennsylvania Station is completed.
Aug 27
Viennese Psychologist Sigmund Freud, accomapnied by doctors Carl Gustav
Jung and Sandor Ferenczi, arrives in New York City on the
George Washington, prior to lecturing at
Massachusetts' Clark University. They visit Central Park, Chinatown,
the Jewish ghetto and Coney Island.
Aug 28
Glenn Curtiss wins the James Gordon Bennett cup in the first
international air races, at Rheims, France, flying at an average speed
of 46 miles an hour. ** Freud and his companions visit the
Metropolitan Museum and Columbia University.
Aug 29
Freud's group dines at Hammerstein's Roof Garden and see their first
movie.
Aug 30
Freud, Jung and Ferenczi visit more museums.
Sep 9
Railroad tycoon Edward Henry Harriman dies in Tuxedo Park.
Sep 13
Oscar Straus' The Chocolate Soldier opens at New
York's Lyric Theatre.
Sep 14
Architect Charles Follen McKim dies, on Long Island.
Sep 21
Freud, Ferenczi and Jung sail from New York in the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse.
Sep 25
The Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York City marks the tercentenary
of Hudson's arrival and the centennial of Fulton's steamboat.
Oct 2
The Hudson-Fulton celebrations conclude.
Oct 9
George M. Cohan's The Man Who Owns Broadway opens at
the New York Theatre.
Oct 12
The first official Columbus Day for New York State is held.
Nov 18
The first Philadelphia-New York train crosses under the Hudson River.
Nov 22
The Ladies' Waist Makers of New York City's International Ladies'
Garment Workers (ILGWU) begin athree-month strike. 20,000 women walk
off the job. ** Lew Fields and Victor Herbert's Old
Dutch opens at New York's Herald Square Theatre.
Dec 11
Composer Elliott Carter is born in New York City.
Dec 18
The Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railway interurban begins service
between Rochester and Syracuse.
Dec 30
Ah Hoon is murdered - on the day threatened by Mock Duck - by a
henchman lowered by rope, outside the comedian's guarded room.
Dec 31
New York City's Manhattan Bridge is opened to traffic.
City
Richard and Joseph Howland Hunt's 1st Precinct Police Station is built.
** Ettore Ximenes' Verrazano Monument in southern Manhattan is
unveiled during the celebration of the Hudson Fulton Festival. **
The cornerstone is laid for the Whitehall Street ferry terminal. **
The Brooklyn Heights cable railway system is electrified. **
Enrollment in Pace accounting schools exceeds three hundred. **
Democratic judge William J. Gaynor defeats Fusion Party candidate Otto
T. Bannard, and publisher William Randolph Hearst, running as an
Independent, to become mayor, serving 1910-1913. ** Future
physician Toyohiko Takami marries Sona Oguri. **
Choreographer-dancer Agnes George de Mille is born. ** The
city-based sail fleet contains 61 vessels. ** Producer Martin Beck
installs 15-piece orchestras in all of the theaters on the Orpheum
circuit. ** The eskimo Minik returns home when explorer Robert
Peary is shamed into providing his passage from the city.
State
The State legislature votes to improve the Cayuga and Seneca Canal(s):
junction of the Seneca and Clyde rivers to Cayuga Lake (Cayuga Canal);
the Cayuga Canal to Seneca Falls (Seneca Canal). ** Construction
is begun on Geneva's Nester House (Geneva-o'-the-Lake). **
Architect Bryant Fleming remodels Dr. Philo Hayes' former sanitarium in
Wyoming, converting it to a residence, Hillside. ** Inventor
George B. Selden successfully sues Henry Ford for patent infringement.
Batavia
The Crickler Bottling Works buys out the Eager Brewery. ** Father
Hycinth Ciabbatoni, first priest of St Anthony's Church, is transferred
to Milwaukee. He is replaced by Oakfield priest Father Joseph Laguzzi.
** Fred B. Parker begins using the horse sheds off State Street to
house imported horses from the west, selling them with partner Charles
D. Harris under the name The F. B. Parker Horse Company.
Rochester
Canada's Richlieu and Ontario Navigation Company begins running the
passenger steamer Rochester between the city and the
Thousand Islands. ** The Italian community collects $8,000 for a
relief fund for victims of an earthquake in Sicily. The city ships
nearly three tons of relief supplies. ** Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Church is founded, on Ontario Avenue, for the Italian Community.
Pennsylvania
Germantown artisan Gustav A. Dentzel carves a carousel that will end up
in Charlotte's Ontario Beach Park.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
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