Geneva1922Geneva 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