Thursday, October 10, 1901. O'Canada and Henry Ford.

O Canada was sung publically for the first time in Toronto by the band of The Royal Canadian Regiment while troops marched past the visiting Duke of York. The song, which was not yet the CAnadian national anthem, only had French lyrics at the time.

Alexander Winton of Cleveland and Henry Ford of Detroit competed against each other in a car race at a horse racing track in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.  The respective automobiles were a Winton Motor Carriage Company with a 40-horsepower Bullet engine and 26-horsepower Detroit Automobile Company vehicle driven by Ford.  The Ford vehicle was somewhat more technically advanced and he  passed Winton on the eighth lap winning the race with an average speed of 43.5 miles per hour.

It was the only time that Henry Ford himself drove in an automobile race.

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Wednesday, October 9, 1901. Martial Law in South Africa.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Boer War, South Africa

Wednesday, October 9, 1901. Martial Law in South Africa.

The British High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, declared martial law in South Africa.

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Saturday, October 5, 1901. Concern for Presidential Safety.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Connecticut (Hartford), Electrical Power, Grover Cleveland, Immigration, New Years, technology, William McKinley

Saturday, October 5, 1901. Concern for Presidential Safety.

It was a Saturday, and the recent assassination of President McKinley was much in mind.

President Cleveland gave his views on the safety of the President.  Given the recent murder of McKinley, it probably truly was inadequate, as opposed to today, when it's absurdly overdone.

At the time, there was an implicit concern that the President should not be separated from the people, and indeed, the people should have access to the President.  Nothing reflected that more than the New Year's Day custom of the President greeting the public at the steps of the White House to shake people's hands.  It's a far distance from today's imperial Presidency, and not in a good way.

Harpers picked up on the them of it being a radical immigrant. 

Radicalism was strongly present in some immigrant communities in the US at the time, particularly those that hailed from Eastern Europe where people strained to be freed of imperial dominance.  The same populations, however, also featured people of very deep conservative views.  Immigrant populations tend to be grossly stereotyped.

Hartford Connecticut became the first city in the United States to have a steam powered electrical supply.

Steam turbines generate a large volume of electricity today, whether by coal, natural gas, or nuclear powered power plants.

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Thursday, October 3, 1901. Victorolas and the Episcopal Church.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Blog Mirror, Christianity, Music, Oxford Movement, Protestant, religion, technology

Thursday, October 3, 1901. Victorolas and the Episcopal Church.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 3: 1901  The Victor Talking Machine Company incorporated.

 A Victrola.

Delegates from the Diocese of Milwaukee and the Diocese of Colorado at the annual meeting of the clergy of the Episcopal Church of the United States, held in San Francisco, urged the church to change its name to "The American Catholic Church".

That's an interesting item in that it indicates that certain sections of the Episcopal Church were quite Anglo Catholic at the time.

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Tuesday, October 1, 1901. My paternal grandfather born.

Labels: 1840s, 1900s, 1901, 1910s, 1912, 1940s, 1949, California (San Francisco), Colorado (Denver), Iowa, Iowa (Dyersville), Paderborn Westphalia, Rudyard Kipling, The family, The written word, Westphalia

Tuesday, October 1, 1901. My paternal grandfather born.

My paternal grandfather was born in Iowa, part of a large Westphalian American family that had immigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s.  He was one of 8 children and was their fourth child.

He went to work in 1912 in San Francisco, returning home to Iowa sometime after that, and then moving to Denver where he entered the meatpacking industry, his occupation for the rest of his life.  He died in 1949.

Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim was published in book form.

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Saturday, September 28, 1901. Battle of Balangiga.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 1901. Battle of Balangiga, Army, F. E. Warren AFB, Ft. D.A. Russell, Philippine Insurrection, Saturday, September 28, Wyoming