Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philadelphia. Show all posts

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Monday, June 11, 1923. Fires In Philadelphia! Near Disaster at Washington D.C. Pier! Turks pay in Paper! Casper's water dangerous! Foreign crews booze it up! Supreme Court opts for beauty!


Wow, what a set of headlines.

The station disaster was indeed bad:


The link to that photo, which is directly linked in, notes in the caption that:

More on that event; here.

The United States Supreme Court, which traditionally issues a set of opinions in June, issued one in Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles, holding that a local government could use its power of eminent domain to take land from a private landowner for the specific purpose of building a scenic highway.

Good for them.

This established a precedent still in effect today. 

In his opinion, Justice Edward T. Sanford, writing for the whole court (8, one abstaining), stated:
Public uses are not limited, in the modern view, to matters of mere business necessity and ordinary convenience, but may extend to matters of public health, recreation and enjoyment. Thus, the condemnation of lands for public parks is now universally recognized as a taking for public use. A road need not be for a purpose of business to create a public exigency; air, exercise and recreation are important to the general health and welfare; pleasure travel may be accommodated as well as business travel; and highways may be condemned to places of pleasing natural scenery.
I'm sure that in today's Wyoming, this would be regarded in some quarters as an outrage.

Lou Gehrig was introduced as a player for the Yankees.



Thursday, May 11, 2023

Friday, May 11, 1923. Speed, home runs and volleys

USS Richmond, May 11, 1923.  This was during a pre commissioning speed trial.  The ship would be commissioned in July.  Ordered during World War One, the Richmond would serve through World War Two and be stricken in 1946.

A Major League baseball record that would stand until 1966 was set when the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillis hit a combined ten home runs.  The Phillies won 20 to 14.

The Hardings took in a tennis match.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Airmail! Lt. Torrey Webb gets a watch and New York and Philadelphia get air mail service (and meanwhile on the Western Front). May 15, 1918.

Lt. Torrey Webb on the day of the inauguration of air mail between New York City and Philadelphia.  They gave him a Hamilton watch.  Dignitaries showed up. . . including ones from France.
The plane was a Curtis JN-4, a "Jenny".  The Jenny had, fwiw, just been commemorated by way of a postage stamp a few days prior.
Torrey Webb was was in the Army 's air service during the war, but he was studying engineering prior to it and would return to it.  He ended up the vice president of Texas Oil Company (Texaco).






Meanwhile, on the Western Front, these two RAF crewmen were were taking off in their RE8.

All of these air missions, we would note, were incredibly dangerous.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Weighing Gold


Weighing gold at the Philadelphia Mint, which had just received an additional $600,000,000 in gold from Europe.  February 21, 1917.