Brooklyn Standard Union Anniversary Edition 1863 ­ 1928 [Highlights]






<PRE>
Through Brooklyn¹s history runs the thread of constant and consistent
prediction.  In the Brooklyn of sixty-five years ago were the signs of its
substantial present, exactly as today the portents of greater things to come
are recognizable and even unmistakable.

Brooklyn Events, 1863- 1928
Headline Points Culled From the Files of the Union, the Standard and the
Standard Union.

1863
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September 
- Brooklyn Common Council authorized  $500,000 to buy substitutes for
drafted men with needy dependents.

October
- Two districts in Brooklyn asked to furnish 5,000 men to award the 300,000
asked by President Lincoln.

November 
2 ­ Alfred M. WOOD elected Mayor of Brooklyn with 13,000 plurality

1864
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January
6 ­ The First Long Island Regiment, known as the Brooklyn Phalanx, came home
from the front for a short furlough.  Of the 1,000 men who went to the war
234 returned.

July
14 ­ Cornerstone of the Forty-seventh Regiment Armory laid in the Eastern
District.
31 ­ Impressive welcome reception given to returning 151st New York
Volunteers, which included a company of Brooklyn policemen.

1865
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March
24 ­ The Brooklyn Club organized.

1866
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October
25 ­ Medals presented to Brooklyn soldiers and sailors with public
ceremonial at Fort Greene.

1867
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January
23 ­ Thousands of persons cross bridge of ice over East River.

August
- Seven cases of yellow fever in Brooklyn

1868
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June
21 ­ Cornerstone of Roman Catholic Cathedral at Lafayette and Clermont
avenues laid with ceremonies.  The edifice was never finished.

1869
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July
22 ­ John A. ROEBLING designer of Brooklyn Bridge, dies at 63 of lockjaw,
superinduced by injury to foot crushed at ferry landing on June 28 while
inspecting proposed site of bridge anchorages.

1870
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Jan
1 ­ Mayor¹s message reveals 2,749 new buildings accommodating 20,000
persons, thirty churches, twenty-five schoolhouses, more than 100
storehouses and factories built, during 1869.  Also eleven miles of new
streets added, twenty-two miles of additional sewers, twenty-two miles of
water main laid, Wallabout and Gowanus canals improved and Kent avenue added
to water frontage.  City debt over $23,000,000 of which $8,000,000 was for
Prospect Park and $8,000,000 for waterworks.
The Board of Health reported 8,759 deaths in 1869 as against 8,750 in 1868.
The number of patrolmen in the city was 466 who made 18, 730 arrests.
The Union Ferry Company in 1869 carried 42,720,000 passengers, the
Roosevelt, Grand and James Slips 7,028,000, the Greenpoint 1,622,250 and the
Thirty-fourth street ferry 2,250,550.
3 ­ Work begun on Brooklyn Bridge by clearing ground for caisson being built
in Williamsburg.
11 ­ Brooklyn Dental Infirmary opened at 290 Washington street.

June
26 ­ Hamilton Market collapse.  Two children crushed.

November
1 ­ Stoves introduced in street cars.

1871
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February
13 ­ Ice bridge across East River over which thousands pass.  Intense frost
lasts several days.  Many cross river on February 14.

July
12 ­ Several Brooklynites killed in Orangemen¹s Day riots in New York.
30 ­ Staten Island ferryboat Westfield, explodes killing and injuring many
Brooklynites.

December
15 ­ Smallpox epidemic.

1872
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August
12 ­ Police Commissioner authorized to add fifty policemen to force.

1873
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January
23 ­ Work begun on Brooklyn anchorage of Brooklyn Bridge.

April
18 ­ Mass meeting in favor of establishing high schools.  New State line of
steamers started between Brooklyn, Belfast and Glasgow.

May
12 ­ Postal cards introduced.

August
9 ­ Police Department reorganized.

1874
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July
23 ­ Cornerstone of old Thirteenth Regiment Armory laid at Hanson place and
Flatbush avenue

August
25 ­ Grand street ferry closed

September
9 ­ New ferry house at Catherine place opened

December
29 ­ Ferryboat collision results in loss of several lives.

1875
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January 
23 ­ Ice jams in East River tie up ferry service

February
13 ­ East and North rivers blocked.  Travel suspended by ice jams.

March
11 ­ Total deaths in 1874 in Brooklyn were 11,011.

June
22 ­ Dedication of Baptist Home.

1876
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March
7 ­ Brooklyn Home for the Aged burns, eighteen dead.

April
19 ­ Formal turning over of Thirteenth Regiment Armory by board of
supervisors to regiment.

1877
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February
13 ­ Cyrus P. SMITH, fourth mayor of Brooklyn dies at 77.
17 ­ Brooklyn Union and Argus consolidated

April
25 ­ COWENHOVEN heirs awarded $60,000 for strip of land in middle of
Atlantic avenue.

July
23 ­ Twenty-third Regiment ordered to Hornellsville to quell railroad riots.

July
30 ­ Mozart Garden opens at Smith and Fulton streets.

November
6 ­ James HOWELL, Jr. elected Mayor over John F. HENRY by 36,343 to 33,538.

December
14 ­ Col. James MC LEER made postmaster of Brooklyn

1878
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April
9 ­ First train of Manhattan Beach Railroad Company runs.

June
14 ­ Strand of Brooklyn Bridge cable breaks at New York anchorage killing
several workmen.

July
1 ­ Brooklyn Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad runs from Prospect Park to
Coney Island.  Brighton Beach Hotel completed.
17 ­ Yellow fever in Navy Yard.

December
14 ­ The electric light introduced into Brooklyn by Frederick LOESER at his
store in Fulton street.

1879
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August
15 ­ Board of Health reports 11, 075 deaths in Brooklyn in 1878.  Death rate
is 2.04 persons per hundred.

October
12 ­ Laying of cornerstone St. Mary¹s Hospital.

1880
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April
15 ­Farewell services in St. Ann¹s Church previous to demolition to make way
for bridge approach, at Washington and Prospect streets.
29 ­ Society of Old Brooklynites organized.

June
11 ­ Cornerstone of new E.I. Hospital and Dispensary laid.

1881 ­ 1897 [missing]
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1897
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November
9 ­ Begin trial of Augusta NACK and Martin THORN for murder of GULDENSUPPE.
December
13 ­ Removal of contents of 25,000 graves from Union Cemetery to Cedar Grove
begun
31 ­ First trolley car crosses bridge.

1898
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January ?
1 ­ The first day of Brooklyn as a borough.  Consolidation in effect, with
Robert A. VAN WYCK as mayor of the City of New York.
10 ­ Mrs. Augusta NACK, confessed accomplice in murder of William
GULDENSUPPE, gets fifteen years in Auburn prison.

February
7 ­ Mrs. Martha PLACE murders step-daughter, Ida M. PLACE, and attempts
murder of husband at 598 Hancock street.

Month ?
30 ­ John Y. MC KANE discharged from Sing Sing after four years and two
months.  Frederick D. GRANT receives colonelcy of Fourteenth Regiment

July ?
16 ­ Thirteenth Regiment mustered out of the Spanish War service.  Reception
to Rev. Dr. and Mrs. LYMAN at Plymouth Church.

August
11 ­ Troop C and Troop B, Rough Riders, land at Bay Ridge.

1899
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month ?
4 ­ Third attempt to steal 100 pound bronze urn from police plot in Cypress
Hills Cemetery.

March
20 ­ Martha PLACE, first woman to be electrocuted at Sing Sing for murder of
step daughter, Ida, at 598 Hancock street.

May 
7 ­ Iron Pier collapses at Coney Island with many persons on it
10 ­ Distribution of 1,000 bottles of sterilized milk daily to Brooklyn
children, free of charge is begun; gift of Nathan STRAUSS.

December
11 ­ Brooklyn faces water famine
15 ­ Three die in burning of old "Farm House" at 300 South First Street.
16 ­ Brooklynites have fine view of lunar eclipse.

1900
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January
2 ­ Funeral services for the Rev. Sylvester MALONE in Church SS. Peter and
Paul.

1901
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June
25 ­ Coney Island Hospital opens

July
21 ­ Two crowded trolleys crash on bridge over Gravesend meadows; many hurt.

August
13 ­ Three platoon system begins in Police Department.

1902
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January
20 ­ Heaviest snowfall begins.

February
5 ­ Gravesend Bay frozen over from Fort Hamilton to Sea Gate.

May
15 ­ Whole block on Coney Island avenue, between Vanderbilt and Seeley
streets, Windsor Terrace, wiped out by fire.
24 ­ Kosher meat riots in Brownsville; 1,500 men, women and children battle
police.
26 ­ 800 thrown into water as Rockaway iron pier collapses.  None seriously
hurt.

June
1 ­ Fire in Kosten¹s Rockaway Hotel destroys twenty other buildings.  Four
die; damage $200,000.
21 ­ Ground broken by Dr. MUIR for Brooklyn College of Pharmacy at Nostrand
Avenue.

July
23 ­ Famous sack murder, body of Giuseppe CATANIA found in Bay Ridge in bag.

August
9 ­ Lay cornerstone of new E.D. Turn Verein building
24 ­ Talmud Torah school dedicated in Brownsville

October
12 ­ Prison ship Jersey, in which hundreds of American patriots perished
during Revolution, discovered under 12 feet of rubbish and mud at Brooklyn
Navy Yard.

1903
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January
27 ­ Celebration of the raising of $20,000 for the erection of a tomb for
the Prison Ship martyrs, Ft. Green Park.

May 
4 ­ Three thousand armed Italians in riots at Clifton place and Franklin
avenue.

December 
19 ­ Opening ceremonies of Williamsburg Bridge; civic parade in afternoon;
fireworks at night.

1904
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June
15 ­ Excursion steamer General Slocum burns to water¹s edge in East River
with frightful loss of life among 2,000 passengers.

October
11 ­ First trolley car goes over Williamsburg Bridge.

November
20 ­ 12 die and many hurt in Troutman street tenement fire.

1905
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January
17 ­ Fire at Rockaway Beach destroys three hotels and several cottages;
$150,000 damage.  Cornerstone of new Erasmus Hall H.S. laid at Flatbush
avenue.
25 ­ Blizzard and fifty-mile gale tie up entire borough.

May
20 ­ Silver anniversary of Society of Old Brooklynites.
28 ­ Sunday baseball suppressed in Brooklyn.

July
18 ­ First electric train runs on Long Island Railroad from Flatbush to
Rockaway Beach
30 ­ Five killed by lightening at Parkway Baths and one at Ulmer Park; many
injured.

1906
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January
15 ­ Borough President COLER orders telegraph poles removed in Bensonhurst
and Bath Beach.  Willie HOPPE, Brooklyn boy, wins world¹s billiard
championship in Paris.
19- Fulton street "L" train falls to street at Crescent street killing one
and injuring fifteen.

September
6 ­ First baby show at Coney Island.

1907
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January
8 ­ Ten cent fare to Coney Island upheld by Court of Appeals.

March
6 ­ Six ­ inch snowfall climaxes heavy storms during winter which are
ascribed to sun spot.

October
26 ­ Cornerstone of Martyr¹s Monument laid in Fort Greene Park.

1908
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July 
8 ­ First "L" train over Williamsburg Bridge
9 ­ Pabst Loop and Vanderveer Hotel destroyed by fire at Coney Island.

August
4 ­ FARMAN makes first flight in airplane in Brighton Beach.

November
20 ­ Sixteen killed in Front street cave in and explosion

December
14 ­ Riots over shutdown of five ferry lines to Manhattan

1909
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March 
3 ­ Ten killed in fire at 347 Seventh avenue
16 ­ Brooklyn police make wholesale arrests here, following Detective Lieut.
PETROSINO¹s murder in Palermo, Sicily.

November
8 ­ Nine burn to death in celluloid factor fire at 152 Columbia street.

December
26 ­ Worst snowstorm in years; ten inch fall
31 ­ Manhattan Bridge opens.

1910
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January
2 ­ 5 killed by gas, 6 others save; unlighted jets left open.

March
12 ­ Louis PAULHAN made two spectacular flights in Farman biplane at
Jamaica.

May
5 ­ Union Bank, with seven branches, closes doors; Borough Bank of Brooklyn,
with one branch, follows two days later.
13 ­ Twenty-four hour race at Brighton Beach auto track; one killed, three
hurt.
20 ­ Kenneth F. SUTHERLAND, Coney Island Democratic leader, killed by West
End train.

1911
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February
18 ­ First Brooklyn automobile show, at Twenty-third Regiment armory.

March
25 ­ Many Brooklyn girls among 145 killed in Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in
Asch Building, 23 Washington place, Manhattan.

May
27 ­ Dreamland Park wiped out by big fire at 1:44 a.m.

August
18 ­ Giant coaster at Brighton Beach destroyed by lightning.

November
14 ­ Matteo DELLOMO confesses to the murder of his mother, sister and niece
at 739 Park avenue.

1912
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January
19 ­ More than 8,000 attend the semi-centennial celebration Twenty-third
Regiment armory.

September
15 ­ Harry HOROWITZ (Gyp the Blood) and Louis ROSENBERG (Lefty Louis)
arrested in Ridgewood for part in murder of Herman ROSENTHAL in Manhattan.

October
30 ­ Battleship New York, largest in world, launched at Navy Yard.

November
25 ­ Thirty-four hurt in Union Sulphur Works fire at North Tenth street and
Kent avenue.

1913
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April
5 ­ Ebbets Field, new $1,000,000 baseball park, formally opened with game
between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees.

August
18 ­ Wife and four children found dead at 26 Wycoff street.  Harry LAKE, the
husband who shot all five, shoots self and dies shortly after discovery of
the victims.

1914
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March
9 ­ St. Luke¹s P.E. Church, in Clinton avenue, destroyed by fire.

August
4 ­ Many Brooklynites stranded in Europe at outbreak of World War.
14 ­ Brooklyn morgue moved to Kings County Hospital.

1915
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April
23 ­ Mrs. Julia HEILNER found murdered in her home at 217 Albemarle road.
August
19 ­ Body of Leo FRANK  Georgia lynch victim, arrives at his home in
Brooklyn.

December
5 ­ All Souls Universalist Church celebrates seventieth anniversary.

1916
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January
15 ­ Four killed and twelve injured in submarine boat explosion at Navy
Yard.

February
3 ­ Mollie FANCHER, bedridden, holds reception in home, at Gates avenue and
Downing street, on fiftieth anniversary.
4 ­ Six die in fire in home of Mrs. Hannah TAG, 243 Hancock street.

May 
13 ­ LIMBERG and PALOTTI killed in auto race at Sheepshead Bay motordome.

June
28 ­ Brooklyn in grip of infantile paralysis epidemic.

September
20 ­ Fourteenth Regiment returns from Mexican border duty.

December
31 ­ 1,156 deaths from infantile paralysis in 1916.

1917
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February
12 ­ Brooklyn in grip of zero weather.  Thirty-five fires start in borough,
due to cold.
22 ­ High prices of food precipitate many riots.

March 
7 ­ Baptist Temple destroyed by fire.

July
6 ­ Broadway "L" train plunges to street at Myrtle avenue; 20 hurt.  Six
Brooklynites seized as Œenemy aliens.¹
20 ­ Brooklyn draft list is published.
30 ­ Heat wave begins.  Average temperatures, 94 degrees, for four days.
Rush of war Œslackers¹ to Marriage License Bureau.

September
10 ­ 750 Brooklyn men leave for Camp Upton in first draft contingent

1918
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January
8 ­ Forty-five Brooklyn schools closed on account of coal shortage.

March
31 ­ Daylight savings law goes into effect in Brooklyn.

August
21 ­ Eighteen drown in canoe accident at Rockaway Inlet when squall upsets
boats towing Œcanoe parade.¹

September
12 ­ Brooklyn registers in the selective service draft for men from 18 to
45.

October 
26 ­ Influenza epidemic claims many victims.

November
1 ­ Ninety-four killed, 100 injured in Malbone street tunnel wreck on
Brighton line during elevated railway strike.

1919
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April
10 ­ Fulton ferry house burns.

September
13 ­ Thirty-five tanks of oil, gasoline and naptha destroyed in Greenpoint
fire, which covers Brooklyn with pall of dense smoke.

December
27 ­ F. KELLY, Negro, confessed murderer of Catherine DUNN, Mary REIDELL and
Mrs. MC DONALD, three Brooklyn women, arrested in Newark, N.J.

1920
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January
28 ­ Many deaths in Brooklyn in influenza epidemic.

February
4 ­ Coney Island and Rockaway visited by hurricane.

September
16 ­ Fifteen Brooklynites are among Wall Street bomb explosion victims.

October
12 ­ Brooklyn baseball team, National League pennant winner, loses world¹s
series to Cleveland.

1921
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February
20 ­ Thirteen inch snowfall causes ten deaths and ties up traffic.

June 
26 ­ Brooklyn honor roll of war dead unveiled in Prospect Park.

July
28 ­ Caravan of twenty-eight families leaves Borough Hall to farm lands in
Idaho.

November
9 ­ Marines ride Brooklyn mail trucks to protect them from bandits.
29 ­ Seven killed and many injured as American Theatre, under construction
at Park and Bedford avenues, collapses.

1922
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April
6 ­ Five killed as tugboat explodes at foot of Gold street.

1923
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January
3 ­ Rioting and general disorder in rush for licenses at Brooklyn Motor
Vehicle Bureau; mounted police charge crowds.
7 ­ Soldiers guard Cypress Hills Cemetery grave said to contain Russian
crown jewels.

June
25 ­ Seven killed and many hurt as "L" train plunges to street at Atlantic
and Flatbush avenues.

November
5 ­ Bill LOVETT, famous Brooklyn gangster, buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery
as war hero.

1924
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January
2 ­ Twelve dead, 200 ill from poison "hooch"
9 ­ Dr. John LINDER, at Jewish Hospital saves life of Aeta BOZINSKY, 65, of
202 South Second street, by removing four pieces of glass from brain.

November
11 ­ Brooklyn observes Armistice Day; 200 foreigners become citizens in
Federal Court.

1925
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March
1 ­ Earthquake shakes Brooklyn

May
3 ­ DIAMOND brothers buried in Mt. Judah Cemetery

May
29 ­ Mutilated body of Florence KANE, sister of Detective James KANE, found
in vacant lot, 200 feet from home at 1020 East New York Avenue; mystery
never solved.

1926
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nothing marked for copy

1927
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May
9 ­ Ruth SNYDER and GRAY convicted  of first degree murder

July
27 ­ Bomb found in Clark street tunnel

November
3 ­ Ludwig H. LEE found guilty of murder in first degree in connection with
deaths on July 10 of two women found dismembered in cellar at 28 Prospect
place; women were Sarah E. BROWNELL, 76 and Selma L. BENNETT.

1928
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July
8 ­ Assassination of Franke UALE brings Chicago bootleg war to Brooklyn.

Transcriber :Mimi Stevens
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