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Apr 4
Film composer Elmer Bernstein is born in New York City.
May 2
Rochester's Mayor Van Zandt breaks ground for the city's subway.
Jun 7
Rochester's East Avenue Bus Company begins service, going out East
Avenue from downtown to Pittsford. Its 29 vehicles ar e manufactured by
the city's Selden Motor Company.
Jun 11
Robert Flaherty's documentary, Nanook of the North,
premieres in New York City.
Jul 11
Rochester's second radio station, WHAM, begins broadcasting, from the
Eastman School of mucic.
Aug 28
New York City radio station WEAF is the first to broadcast commercials,
with a real estate ad.
October
Schenectady station WGY broadcasts the first radio drama, Eugene
Walter's The Wolf. ** 72-year-old Frances
Kimball is battered to death in her Linden home. The crime, as well as
a triple murder in the village in 1924, is never solved.
December
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans New York Giants
baseball player Phil Douglas from the sport for life, for offering to
fix a game.
Dec 29
Author William Gaddis born in New York City.
City
Carrere and Hastings' new headquarters for the Standard Oil Company, on
lower Broadway, is completed. ** Giovanni Martini, George
Armstrong Custer's orderly at the Little Bighorn, dies in Brooklyn.
** Circulation of the Daily News reaches 400,000.
** Double-decker buses go into service linking Jackson Heights to
Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. ** Frank Sullivan leaves the New York
Evening Post, begins a column for the New York
Tribune. ** Briton Hadden and Henry Luce write
a prospectus for a magazine to be called Time . **
Samuel I. Newhouse buys the Staten Island Advance,
halts its decline. ** W. Somerset Maugham's Rain
opens on Broadway.
State
The Rochester & Syracuse Railroad interurban constructs a cutoff in the
bed of the abandoned Erie Canal at Lyons, to salleviate congestion.
** Broadway comedian Ed Wynn presents his play The Perfect
Fool over WEAF.
Batavia
The Mayer's Hotel restaurant is sold to Buffalonian Mario Young. He
will later change the name to Young's Restaurant. ** Buffalo
architect Frank A. Spangenberg remodels the Bank of the Genesee to
provide more work space, expanding into another part of the building
leased by Marshall' News Store. ** Veterinarian Walter E. Frink
sells his State Street practice to Dr. George Chase and travels to
Europe to study.
Rochester
Claude Bragdon designs his final Rochester structure. He writes the
introduction to Louis Sullivan's The Autobiography of an Idea
1923
Jan 4
A New York City concert is broadcast simultaneously on the city's WEAF
radio station and Boston's WNAC - the first "network" broadcast.
Jan 5
Rochester's radio station WHAM goes on the air officially.
Jan 29
Playwright Paddy Chayevsky is born in New York City.
Mar 5
Developer Laurence Tisch is born in Brooklyn.
Mar 14
Photographer Diane Arbus is born in New York City.
Apr 18
Yankee Stadium opens. Babe Ruth hits a third-inning three-run home run.
The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 4-1, in the first game
played there, as more than 74,000 fans look on.
May 17
U. S. composer and Juilliard president Peter Mennin dies at the age of
60.
May 23
Novelist Joseph Heller born in New York City.
June
Batavia's Bank of the Genesee's newly-refurbished banking area opens
for business.
July
Buffalo clock maker Myles Hughes presents the city with his Apostolic
Clock, with its figures of the apostles emerging to tell the hours.
September
Clock maker Myles Hughes dies, in his mid-seventies.
Sep 2
Film and Broadway dancer Marjorie Celeste Belcher (Champion) is born in
Los Angeles.
Oct 17
Film actress-dancer June Allyson is born in New York City.
November
Voters in Batavia approve a "Home Rule Law", to be effective next
January 1, allowing the passage of all laws not conflicting with state
laws.
Nov 1
The Rochester Railways Co-ordinated Bus Lines begins trackless trolley
service from Clifford and Hollander, across Driving Park Bridge, to
Dewey and Pierpont.
Nov 30
Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is born to violinist Efrem Zimbalist and
singer Anna Gluck in New York City.
December
WEAF premieres the first variety show, The Eveready
Hour.
Dec 3
Soprano Cecillia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos (Callas) is born in
New York City.
City
Trowbridge and Livingston's addition to the New York Stock Exchange is
completed. ** Yankee Stadium holds its only rodeo. **
Broadway now has 22 brightly lit signs, burning a candlepower of
25,000,000 candles. ** Jazz musician Duke Ellington moves to
Harlem from Washington, D. C., gets his start playing at Barron's
Cabaret. ** The Whitby apartment house on West 45th Street is
completed. ** The Queensborough Realty Company begins offering
garden apartments in Jackson Heights. ** Washington, D. C.,
newspaperman Harvey Fergusson moves here to become a freelance writer.
** Author Marya Mannes graduates from Miss Veltin's School for
Girls, in Manhattan. ** WEAF and WGY broadcast the World Series
to audiences in New York City and Schenectady. **
Variety publisher Sime Silverman buys The
Clipper newspaper from song publisher Leo Feist.
State
Alberty's Drug Store opens in Batavia, on the former site of The
Metropolitan Restaurant. ** Cora Woodward, former president of
the Genesee Pure Food Company founded by her husband Orator F.
Woodward, dies.
Rochester
The Port of Rochester's imports reach $1,171,319. ** Architect
Claude Bragdon leaves Rochester, moving to New York City to become a
stage designer. ** The city elects three Italian ward
supervisors. ** The city annexes parts of the towns of Brighton
and Irondequoit, increasing its own area to 34.46 square miles. **
The New York State Railways company creates the Rochester Railways
Co-ordinated Bus Lines and the Rochester Interurban Bus Comapny.
1924
Gloria Swanson opens in The Hummingbird in New York
City.
Feb 9
The Shandaken Aqueduct is opened, to supply water to New York City.
Feb 12
Bandleader Paul Whiteman and composer-pianist George Gershwin premiere
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in New York City's Aeolian
Hall.
Feb 19
A New York appeals court bans the scalping of sports and theater
tickets.
March
John Barrymore opens in the film Beau Brummell. in New
York City. ** 55-year-old Linden section hand Thomas Whaley, his
wife, and village stroekeeper Mrs. Mabel Morse are murdered in the
Whaley home. The crime, as well a 1922 murder in the village, is never
solved.
Mar 7
A radio speech from New York City is broadcast more than 7,000 miles,
to San Francisco and then Manchester, England.
Mar 10
The U. S. Supreme Court upholds a New York State law banning women from
working late at night.
Mar 24
Pope Pius XI makes cardinals of archbishop Joseph Hayes of New York
City and archbishop George W. Mundelein of Chicago.
Apr 2
New York City transit head Harkness announces his opposition to ads in
subways.
Apr 18
The New York State Park System is established, with Robert Moses as its
chief. ** Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle
book.
Apr 22
The play Time is a Dream opens on Broadway.
Apr 25
Tammany Hall politician Charles F. Murphy dies.
May
Buster Keaton's Sherlock Junior opens in New York
City.
May 4
Film actress Pola Negri opens in Dmitri Buchowetzki's
Men, in New York City.
May 11
The Socialist Labor Party convention meets in New York City for three
days, nominates Oregon's F. T. Johns and Maryland's Vernal L.
Reynolds.
May 12
The Brooklyn Edison Company unveils the world's largest steam
generator.
May 19
The Four Marx Brothers open I'll Say She Is at
Broadway's Casino Theater. Harpo Marx and critic Alexander Woollcott
are introduced to each other, beginning a life-long friendship.
May 26
Irish-born U. S. operetta composer Victor Herbert, 65, dies in New York
City at the age of 65.
Jun 24
The Democrats meet in New York City and the convention deadlocks.
Events are covered by WJZ (WABC) radio.
Jun 29
The new Ziegfeld Follies, with headliners Will Rogers
and Lupino Lane, opens in New York City.
Jul 1
Regular night and day air mail service is begun between New York and
San Francisco.
Jul 2
The Old Forge Inn burns down.
Jul 4
The Conference for Progressive Political Action convenes in New York
City, nominates Wisconsin senator Robert La Follette and Montana's
Burton K. Wheeler.
Jul 10
The Workers Party meets in Chicago, rejects La Follette and nominates
New York's William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow.
Jul 22
New York City taxi companies cut their rate to 10¢ per half mile.
Jul 24
Boxer Gene Tunney knocks out Georges Carpentier, in New York City.
Jul 27
The film version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the Dubervilles
opens in New York City.
Aug 2
Author-playwright James Baldwin is born in Harlem.
Aug 14
A Rochester street is created by the covering of the subway
right-of-way. It will be named Broad Street.
Aug 24
The film Lily of the Dust , with Pola Negri, opens in
New York City.
Sep 3
A U. S. Army pilot flies from Bosto to New York City in a record 58
minutes.
Sep 5
International drug dealer Albert Marino is captured by federal agents
in Brooklyn.
Sep 16
Actress Betty Joan Perske (Lauren Bacall) is born in New York City.
Sep 26
Theodore Roosevelt resigns as U. S. Secretary of the Navy, to run for
the governorship of New York.
October
An attempted assassination of gangster "Legs" Diamond, on New York
City's Fifth Avenue, fails to kill him.
Oct 10
The Washington Senators defeat the New York Giants in the twelfth
inning, to win the World Series.
Nov 19
Tammany Hall politician George Plunkitt dies.
Nov 29
Army beats Navy at New York City's Polo Grounds, 12-0.
Nov 30
Black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm is born in Brooklyn.
December
D. W. Griffiths' Isn't Life Wonderful? opens in New
York City.
Dec 1
George Gershwin's Lady Be Good opens on Broadway.
Dec 10
Financier-sportsman August Belmont dies of blood poisoning in New York
City.
Dec 12
New York City mayor Edward Koch is born. ** George Bernard Shaw's
Candida opens in New York City.
City
The American Radiator Building (later the American Standard Building)
is completed. ** Wall Street stockbroker Alfred Graham Miles'
A Fisherman's Breeze, an account of two weeks spent on
the fishing schooner Ruth M. Martin in 1904, is published. **
The Statue of Liberty becomes a National Monument. ** Seton
Porter's bankrupt distillery is bought and becomes the National
Distillers Products Corporation (later the Quantum Chemical Company.
** Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans New York Giants coach Cozy
Dolan and player Jimmy O'Connell for life for attempting to bribe an
opposing player. ** Walter Huston appears in Mr. Pitt in Eugene
O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms. ** French
milliner Lilly Dache moves to New York. ** Dr. Frank Peer Beal
invents paddle tennis. ** Gilbert W. Gabriel's Brownstone Front
is published. ** William Jennings Bryan makes his final political
speech, at the Democratic .national convention. ** RCA buys
Newark, New Jersey, radio station WJZ (later WABC), moves it to
Manhattan's Aeolian Hall. ** Actress Judith Anderson makes her
major New York debut in The Cobra.
State
The approximate year Herman J. Bates and his wife Laura open a grocery
store in Troupsburg. ** Alice Fisher, mother of Batavia clubwoman
Kate Fisher McCool, dies. ** The Rochester and Manitou Railroad
ends its fall season. Its trolleys will never run again. **
Marjorie Merriweather Post buys Camp Topridge in the Adirondacks - one
of the 'great camps'.
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Rochester, New York
716 264-0423
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor