Geneva1913 GenevaJanuary Willa Cather returns to New York City from Pittsburgh, moves into an apartment at 5 Bank Street with Edith Lewis. February George W. Ely and W. W. Batty open Ely's European Restaurant in Batavia. Feb 17 New York City's Armory Show introduces the modern art movement to the U. S. Mar 10 Abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman dies in Auburn at the approximate age of 93. May 14 John D. Rockefeller donates $100,000,000 to begin the Rockefeller Foundation, in New York City. ** Dance critic Walter Terry is born in Brooklyn. Jun 11 Operatic mezzo-soprano Rise Steenberg (Stevens) is born in New York City. Jun 16 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 opens at New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre. Jul 22 Metropolitan Opera star Licia Albanese is born in Italy. August Two Rochester all-Italian bands, one lead by Biagio Antinarelli (the Little Creatore) compete in Exposition Park. Aug 28 New York City Ballet conductor and music director Robert Irving is born in Winchester, England. Sep 8 Victor Herbert's Sweethearts opens at New York's New Amsterdam Theatre. Sep 10 The New York-to-San Francisco Lincoln Highway opens. A Lincoln Highway Association is founded. Sep 12 New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor dies at the age of 65. Ardolph L. Kline becomes Acting Mayor, serves the rest of the year. Oct 26 Bandleader, vocalist and saxophone player Charles Daly "Charlie" Barnet is born in New York City. Oct 30 Jerome Kern's Oh, I Say! opens at New York's Casino Theatre. Oct 31 Historians Will and Ariel Durant are married in New York City. November Willa Cather returns to New York from a trip to Pittsburgh. ** Storms lash Lake Erie. Lightship 82 is sunk. Nov 11 Justin Huntly McCarthy and Victor Herbert's The Madcap Duchess opens at New York's Globe Theatre. Nov 23 Novelist-biographer Maurice Zolotow is born in New York City. Nov 25 Physician-author Lewis Thomas is born in Flushing. Dec 10 Composer Morton Gould is born in Richmond Hill. City Warren and Wetmore's Seaman's Church Institute (now demolished) is completed, on Church Street. ** Trowbridge & Livingston's Wall Street offices of J. P. Morgan and Company are completed. ** The Chambers Street subway station is completed. ** Harlem's Apollo Theatre is built. ** The women's Zionist organization Hadassah sends two nurses to Plaestine to start a matrnity center in Jerusalem. ** The College of St. Francis Xavier transfers its charter to Brooklyn College, leaving Xavier High School as a separate entity. ** George Abbott begins his theatrical career, as an actor. ** Recently appointed Collector of the Port of New York John Purroy Mitchel, running on the Fusion Party ticket, defeats Democrat Edward E. Call to become mayor, serving 1914-1917. ** Thomas Nash's Chapel of All Saints is added to Trinity Church. ** Willa Cather interviews Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad for McClure's. They become friends. ** The American Society for the Control of Cancer is founded, to educate people about the need for early detection. ** Baseball's Ebbetts Field is completed, in Brooklyn. ** The Museum of Natural History sends the Crocker Land Expedition in a vain attempt to explore lands described by Robert Peary. One of the native guides is Minik, once a ward of the museum's in New York. State The first Caledonia County Fair is held. ** Furniture designer Gustav Stickley moves his offices from Binghamton to New York City. ** Syracuse architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee dies. Batavia Influenced by a vocal minority, governor William Sulzer vetoes a measure to revise the Batavia village charter. ** Pianist Monica Dailey quits the concert stage at the age of 32, returns home to retire. Rochester Floods inundate Front Street. ** Main Street West is extended to Chili Street and today's West Avenue. ** The city's first Protestant Italian church opens on North Street. ** The Ridge Road Transit Company bus line goes out of business. ** The Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway interurban installs automatic block signals manufactured by General Railway Signal, resulting in speedier service. 1914 Jan 10 Sigmund Romberg's first Broadway musical The Whirl of the World opens at New York's Winter Garden Theatre. Feb 13 The American Society of Composers Author's and Publishers (ASCAP) is formed in New York City. Mar 12 Inventor-tycoon George Westinghouse dies in New York City. Mar 13 Blues bass player Robert Sherwood "Bob" Haggart is born in New York City. April Governor Martin H. Glynn signs legislation that allows Batavia to revise its village charter and third class cities to adopt modern forms of charters. Apr 26 Novelist Bernard Malamud is born in Brooklyn. May 20 Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the U. S. meet in Niagara Falls to seek a solution of the Mexico-U. S. crisis. Jun 1 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, features comedian Ed Wynn. Jun 9 Batavia voters approve a new charter. Jun 30 The Niagara Falls Conference breaks up, having achieved nothing. Jul 31 The New York Stock Exchange closes, to prevent panic over the Balkan situation (the Sarajevo assassination). Aug 10 A German-American weekly, The Fatherland, begins publication in New York City. Aug 28 Operatic tenor Reuben Ticker (Robert Tucker) is born in Brooklyn. Oct 20 Dave Montgomery and Fred Stone's Chin-Chin musical opens at New York's Globe Theatre. Oct 28 Dr. Jonas Edward Salk is born in New York City. Nov 14 A "Christmas ship", the Jason, sails from New York with $3,000,000 worth of gifts for European war victims. City Louis Balducci arrives from Italy, starts a grocery store in Brooklyn. ** Henry Clay Frick's mansion is completed. ** The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) of New York is founded. ** A storm batters New Jersey's Sandy Hook, leading to the building of a seawall between Sea Bright and the Hook, using materials taken from the Holland and Lincoln Tunnel excavations. ** Poet Carl Van Vechten and his wife, actress Fania Marinoff, move to Gramercy Park. State Macedon's Erie Canal Lock 60 is abandoned to make way for the Barge Canal. ** Geneva's Nester House (Geneva-on-the-Lake) is completed. ** Lydia Avery Coonley Ward opens a summer school at Hillside, her Wyoming home. It lasts three seasons. ** An patent appeals court finds against Glenn Curtiss and for the Wright Brothers. Curtiss begins building the Curtiss JN-4 (Jenny). ** The Hudson River steamer Orange is launched. Batavia A clock is installed in the 15-foot tower of the Bank of the Genesee. ** Box manufacturer E. N. Rowell builds a mansion at the top of Ellicott Avenue. Rochester The Federation of American Zionists meets here. ** Claude Bragdon's New York Central Railroad Station opens. ** Crosswalks are first painted at the city's intersections. ** The People's Rescue Mission moves to new quarters in the Richmond Hotel at Front and Market. ** The city annexes parts of the towns of Brighton, Chili, Gates and Irondequoit, increasing its own size to 24.87 square miles. ** The New York State Railways interurban's wooden car No. 157 is destroyed by fire, then replaced by a steel car purchased from the Niles Company. The car's number is retained. 1915 Jan 1 Batavia becomes a city. Dr. Harvey J. Burkhart is the first mayor. Jan 8 Musicologist John Denison Champlin dies in New York City. Jan 25 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first transcontinental telephone call, from New York City to his assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco, California. Feb 12 Rochester begins permitting privately-owned autos - jitney (coin) buses - to carry passengers for a 5-cent fare. They soon disappear. Feb 26 Tenor sax jazzman Joseph Edward Filipelli "Flip Phillips" is born in Brooklyn. Feb 28 Musical-comedy actor Zero Mostel is born in Brooklyn. Mar 3 D. W. Griffith's feature-length film The Birth of a Nation opens in New York City. Apr 16 Conservative U. S. senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, 74, dies in New York City. Apr 20 President Woodrow Wilson makes a speech at New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, urges strict U. S. neutrality. Apr 23 The annual St. George's Day picnic given by Rochester immigrant John A. Roncone draws over 2,000 people. May Rochester Italian consul Cesare Sconfietti reports that nearly 2,000 recent Italian immigrants in his 12-county area have volunteered to return to Italy for military service. May 1 Germany publishes a warning in a New York newspaper to travelers on British ships in war zones. Jun 17 61 Italian young men leave Rochester to fight for Italy. A total of 866 from Monroe County will go, over the next two months. Jun 21 The Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre, features comedian W. C. Fields. Jul 3 Cornell University German instructor Erich Muenter, alias Frank Holt, shoots at J. P. Morgan, misses. caught, he also admits setting off yesterday's bomb in the U. S. Senate. Jul 6 Muenter kills himself in jail. Jul 16 A New York State Justice frees Harry K. Thaw, killer of architect Stanford White, from a hospital for the insane. Jul 24 Dr. Heinrich Albert, German director of propaganda in the U. S., leaves a briefcase containing documents detailing U. S. sabotage plans on a New York City subway train, where they are recovered by a U. S. Secret Service man. Jul 30 Ex-police lieutenant Charles Becker is executed for the 1912 New York City murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. Aug 10 U. S. Army general Leonard Wood opens a camp for volunteer civilians at Plattsburgh. Aug 15 The New York World begins publishing the German documents recovered on the subway train. Sep 18 A Peugot sets a speed record of 108 mph at Sheepshead Bay Speedway. Oct 15 A New York City syndicate, lead by J. P. Morgan, agrees to loan the Allies up to $500,000,000. Oct 17 Playwright Arthur Asher Miller is born in New York City. Oct 23 25,000 people demonstrate for female suffrage in New York City. Oct 24 Several Germans in New York City are arrested and charged with plotting to blow up departing war supply ships. Nov 14 Jazz guitarist William Henry "Billy" Bauer is born in New York City. Nov 20 Joseph Greentanner's State Street livery stable in Batavia, New York, being prepared for an auction to sell off its equipment, catches fire and burns to the ground. A previous day's rain keeps the rest of the business district from desrtruction. December Father Joseph Laguzzi, pastor of Batavia's St. Anthony's Church, retires. Bishop Charles H. Colton appoints the Reverend Victor Fasella to succeed Father Laguzzi. Dec 23 Guy Bolton, Philip Bartholomae and Jerome Kern's Very Good Eddie opens at New York's Princess Theatre. City James Gamble Rogers' 44th Street building for the Yale Club is completed. ** The father of outdoorsman Lee Wulff moves his family from Alaska to Brooklyn. ** The New York Yankees begin wearing pinstripe uniforms. ** The Dow Jones averages rise by 81%. ** Mount Sinai Hospital perfects a method of storing blood, for transfusion, with citrate as a preservative. ** The Marx Brothers play New York City's Palace Theater in the vaudeville revue Home Again. ** Willie Hammerstein's Victoria theater on Times Square closes. State The Buffalo station of the Lehigh Valley Railroad is completed. ** The Cohoes Company transfers its water and property rights to the Cohoes Power and Light Corporation. ** The Corning Glass Works creates pyrex. ** B. F. Bartlett purchases the former home of the Fox Sisters and moves it from Hydevill to Lily Dale. ** Dwight David Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and James A. Van Fleet graduate from West Point. Batavia Manufacturer E. N. Rowell marries Martha May Emka, his second wife. ** The approximate year John Mayer sells his Main Street restaurant. ** Solomon Lyman sells his State Street livery stable to ** Businessman Fred B. Parker is named to the New York State Fair commission, where he serves to 1931. Rochester Spring floods nearly inundate Front Street but are halted by a cold spell which slows the snowpack melting. ** Architect Claude Bragdon and his wife Eugenie produce the first of their Festivals of Song and Light environmental performance pieces in Highland Park. ** Clement Lanni becomes the first Italian to graduate from the University of Rochester. ** Professor Vannuccini is hired by East High School. ** The city's Italians produce their first winning candidate for public office, for constable. ** Walter E. Wegman begins working in his parents' grocery store. His brother, John, peddles produce from a pushcart. David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor