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 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor