Geneva1925 GenevaJan 1 Metropolitan Opera stars Lucrezia Bori and John McCormack make their radio singing radio debuts. Feb 21 The New Yorker magazine begins publication. Apr 14 Actor Rod Steiger is born in Westhampton. May The scheduled seasonal startup of Manitou Beach trolley service along Lake Ontario north of Rochester does not take place. May 31 Living Theatre founder-producer Julian Beck is born in New York City Jun 3 Actor Bernard Schwartz (Tony Curtis) is born in New York City. Aug 1 Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer buy the Modern Library from Boni and Liveright. Aug 25 The Manitou Beach trolley line is put on the market. Service is never resumed. Oct 3 Novelist-essayist Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr. (Gore Vidal) is born in West Point. Oct 10 Author Janet Flanner (Genet) begins writing the Letter from Paris for the New Yorker. Oct 13 Playwright Frank Gilroy is born in New York City. ** Comedian Leonard Alfred Schneider (Lenny Bruce) is born in Mineola. Nov 22 Composer-conductor-French-horn player Gunther Schuller is born in New York City. Nov 24 Columnist-author-talk show host William F. Buckley is born in New York City. Nov 26 Pianist Eugene Istomin is born in New York City. Dec 3 George Gershwin's Concerto in F has its premiere in New York City. Dec 8 The Marx Brothers open at New York's Lyric Theatre in The Coconuts. ** Actor-singer dancer Sammy Davis Jr. is born in New York City. Dec 9 Actress and Post Cereal fortune heir Nedenia Hutton (Dina Merrill) is born in New York City. Dec 18 A fire destroys Batavia's Pioneer Sheds and 85 automobiles. City The Subtreasury Building on Wall Street becomes Federal Hall National Monument, to commemorate the spot where Washington took his oath of office as president. ** The old Madison Square Garden is torn down. ** The Ritz apartment building is completed. ** Construction begins on the Tudor City apartment complex. ** State senator James John Walker defeats incumbent mayor John F. Hylan in a Democratic primary and goes on to defeat Republican Frank D. Waterman and Socialist Norman Thomas. He will serve 1926-1932, winning re-election once. ** Ernest Jarvis, future contractor of Loews movie palaces, and a cousin of Senator Jacob Javits, camps out in front of the dean's office at Columbia University until he is accepted into its engineering school. ** The New York stock market sets record high closings 59 times this year, a record not to be equaled until 1964. ** Future chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Henry Miller Watts Jr. graduates from Harvard University. ** Richard F. Walsh is elected president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 4, in Brooklyn. ** High-profile lawyer Simon H. Rifkind receives his LL. B. degree from Columbia. ** The New York World journalist Alexander Cameron Sedgwick joins The New York Times to cover local news. ** Future New York Times Book Review editor Francis Brown earns a bachelor's degree in science from Dartmouth College. ** Mount Sinai Hospital publishes the first American textbook on thoracic surgery. ** WEAF premieres the Victor Hour a program of classical music. ** The Americans team enters the National Hockey League. State Fillmore Glen, near Moravia, becomes a state park. ** The village of Warsaw purchases the Wyoming County Agricultural Society fairgrounds. During the Depression it will be turned into a village park as a work project. ** Perry's Commodore Hotel is built by popular subscription after local interests raise $100,000.** Geneva's electric trolley service is shut down. ** The Appalachian Trail Conference is formed, to coordinate the building of the trail. ** The Great Lakes steamer T. P. Phelan, berthed in Toronto, is sold to the Buffalo Sand & Gravel Corporation. She's converted to a sandsucker over the winter and renamed for one of the owners, Howard S. Gerken. Batavia Clubwoman Kate Fisher McCool has the monument "Herald of the Dawn" erected in Grandview Cemetery, in honor of her mother Alice Fisher and husband Daniel McCool. ** Alice Monteith Gould sells her Main Street restaurant to Mary Sweetland. It will later be named the Berry Patch. Rochester Il Popolo Republican is formed in the city to draw local Italians to the Republican Party. PaulNapodana leads the organization for many years. ** The city adopts the city-manager plan of government. ** An Italian Business Men's Association is formed. ** A deluxe Browncroft bus line is established. 1926 Jan 31 U. S. Army photographers, with the cooperation of Eastman Kodak, drop flash powder bombs over Rochester, enabling them to take the first night aerial photographs. Feb 22 Broadway showman Earl Carroll throws a party at his Seventh Avenue theater. Feb 23 A young lady bathes nude in a tub of champagne at Carroll's party. Mar 3 Poet James Ingram Merrill is born in New York City to Charles Merrill (co-founder of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith) and Mrs. Merrill. May 13 Actress Bea Arthur is born in New York City. May 30 Sex change pioneer Christine Jorgensen is born in New York City. June The artists' colony of Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, begins receiving its first guests. Jun 28 Film director and actor Melvin Kaminsky (Mel Brooks) is born in Brooklyn. July A monument is erected at Caledonia to the Scots pioneers of the area. ** Trolley service in Hornell is discontinued. Jul 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne's daughter Rose dies, in Hawthorne, New York. Aug 13 Singer Anthony Benedetto (Tony Bennett) is born in New York City. Sep 26 Producer Jed Harris opens his first production, Broadway, on Broadway. Nov 25 Playwright Murray Schisgal is born in New York City. City Starrett & Van Vleck's Downtown Athletic Club on West Street is built. ** Three tabloids - the Daily News, the Daily Mirror, and the Evening Gazette - capture a combined readership of 1,500,000. ** Two members of the Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York purchase land (later Gaelic Park) at Broadway and 240th Street in the Bronx. ** Mark Koenig becomes starting shortstop for the New York Yankees. ** The New York Rangers hockey team is founded. State The state creates a Board of Water Supply to supervise the replacement of the Hudson River as a source for Albany's water. ** Dunkirk's American Locomotive Company halts production. ** A program of erecting historic markers along highways is established by law to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Revolution. ** B. F. Skinner graduates from Hamilton College. ** Pulmonary disease expert Dr. Norman Plummer gets his degree from Cornell University Medical School. Batavia William Rippey opens a luncheonette on Jackson Street. ** Trolley service is discontinued. ** Burt Welch's Bur-wel Garage is built on Russell Place, in the area destroyed by last year's fire. Rochester's Werner and Spitz are the contractors. Rochester The Chamber of Commerce expands its building on St. Paul and Mortimer. ** Democratic politician and newspaper editor Clement G. Lanni switches affiliation to the Republicans, because of President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the Immigration Bill. ** The city annexes the Andrews Farm, Genesee Valley Park and abandoned lands of the Erie Canal, increasing its own size to 34.76 square miles. ** An Irodequoit bus line is begun run from St. Paul and Ridge to Clifford and Culver, to link Rochester with two Irondeqiout trolley lines. ** A bus feeder line is established on Glide Street for the benefit of the Emerson streetcar line. 1927 Jan 7 Commercial telephone service between New York and London begins. Mar 1 Singer-actor Harry Belafonte is born in New York City. Mar 11 U. S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher is born in Mt. Vernon. Mar 16 New York State Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is born. Apr 6 Jazz saxophone player Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan is born in New York City. Apr 19 Actress Mae West is sentenced to ten days on New York City's Welfare Island jail for performing in her own play Sex, deemed obscene. May 13 Folksinger Fred Hellerman of The Weavers is born in New York City. May 17 Oswego trolley service is discontinued. May 20 Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh takes off on his solo flight to Europe in the Spirit of St Louis. May 21 Lindbergh reaches Paris. May 25 Author Robert Ludlum is born in New York City. Jun 4 Aviator Clarence D. Chamberlain, his trans-Atlantic flight delayed by the lawsuit of would-be co-pilot Lloyd Bertraud, takes off from Long Island's Roosevelt Field in the Columbia, a plane designed by Giuseppe Ballanca. He carries rthe plane's owner, businessman Charles A. Levine, as a passenger, the first to cross the Atlantic. Jun 6 The Columbia lands in a field near Eisleban, Germany, 100 miles short of Berlin, its goal. Chamberlain sets a record of 3,911 miles in 43 hours, 300 miles more than Lindbergh. Jun 13 Lindbergh is given New York City's first ticker tape parade. Jul 4 Playwright Neil Simon is born in New York City. Aug 22 15,000 people gather in New York City's Union Square in a death vigil for Sacco and Vanzetti. The two are executed, in Charlestown, Massachusetts. September An inspection run is made on Rochester's new subway system. Nov 13 New York City's Holland Tunnel opens. Dec 1 Rochester's subway system begins partial service, between the Winton Road loop and City Hall Station. Cars from the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway interurban are used. Dec 27 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's musical, Show Boat opens at Broadway's Ziegfeld's Theater. City Fraunces Tavern is refurbished in the style of the late 1700s. ** Jazz musician Duke Ellington begins playing at Harlem's Cotton Club. ** The Russian Tea Room opens. ** Pace accounting schools moves their headquarters from the Hudson Terminal Building on Church Street to the new Transportation Building at 225 Broadway. ** The stone arches of High Bridge are replaced with a steel arch. ** 71 theaters present a record 257 productions this year. ** Terre Haute, Indiana, journalism student Will Weng moves to New York City to pursue his master's degree at the Columbia University School of Journalism. ** Wyoming cowboy James King Merritt participates in the Tex Austin rodeo at Madison Square Garden. ** Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi earns his PhD at Columbia. State The post of Commissioner of Mental Health is created. ** A mastodon skull is found at Pike. ** Edward Corsi and other state Republican leaders organize the Columbian Republican League to attract Italians to the Party. ** Niagara Falls annexes La Salle. ** The Rensselaer County Historical Society is founded, in Troy. ** Walter L. Greene's painting Thoroughbreds. Rochester The city retires its fire horses. ** Ridership on the city's Lake Ontario ferries reaches a peak of 88,831. ** Caledonia Street becomes part of Clarissa Street. ** The Rochester, Syracuse, and Eastern Railway trolley converts seven of its cars to lush chair cars, each named for a community along the route. NOTE: Files through 1674 are now available on my home poage: David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor