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In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.
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File: Claude Monet-Rock Arch. jpg | Rock Arch West of Étretat ( The Manneport ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: The letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro 1883 – 1903, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York & Oakleigh, 1993 ISBN 0-521-39034-6
* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.
* 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mer et bateaux ( Sea and ships ), 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
* 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
In 1883, the Colony of Queensland purported to annex the southern half of eastern New Guinea.
More recent usage was Peter Read's 1981 publication of The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969.
On January 19, 1883, the first standardized incandescent electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, New Jersey.
Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city.
* May 19 – Tony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player ( b. 1883 )
Seth Wheeler of Albany, New York, obtained the earliest United States patents for toilet paper and dispensers, the types of which eventually were in common usage in that country, in 1883.
It was reported that as of 1883, cigars were being manufactured in 127 apartment houses in New York, employing 1, 962 families and 7, 924 individuals.
* The Southern Pacific Railroad linked New Orleans with Los Angeles in 1883, linking the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean.
* The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction was built by Steinway's factory in New York City in 1883 – 87 ; it sold for $ 1. 2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London.
There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet " The New Colossus " by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty:
From 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Columbia University, from 1888 to 1906 director of the New York State Library, and from 1888 to 1900 secretary and executive officer of the University of the State of New York.
* Peter B. Olney ( 1843 – 1922 ), New York County District Attorney 1883 – 1884
* 1883 – Isle of Man, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa ( see Die Heilsleër ), United Kingdom
* 1883 New York Methodist minister Horatio Graves becomes the first white permanent settler in the county.
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* Rollie Zeider ( 1883 – 1967 ), major league baseball player, 1910 – 1918, played for Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Chicago Chi-Feds, Chicago Whales and Chicago Cubs.
* Rollie Zeider ( 1883 – 1967 ), major league baseball player, 1910 – 1918, played for Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Chicago Chi-Feds, Chicago Whales and Chicago Cubs.
In 1883, through his mentor Daniel Manning, Lamont was assigned to then-New York Governor Grover Cleveland's staff as a political prompter.
Salt was discovered in 1883 near modern Retsof, leading to the formation of the New York Rock Salt Company.
Due to the presence of an earlier Ashford Post Office in New York state, the town took the name " Ardsley " after the name of a local baron's estate, and the first village postmaster was appointed in 1883.
In the Town of York John Kintzele did much more detailed ( sections and forty lines ) surveying after his arrival in 1883.
The trophy is named after Lester Patrick ( 1883 – 1960 ), player and longtime coach of the New York Rangers, who was a developer of ice hockey.
* 1883 Brooklyn Bridge – spanning the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn in New York City ; 1595 feet ( 486m ) span
1883 and Brooklyn
These technological advances led to the building of later structures like the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ) and the Eiffel Tower ( 1889 ).
The new Brooklyn Bridge of 1883 had seventy arc lamps installed in it.
In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was completed, easing the trip to Manhattan.
Many early suspension bridges were cable-stayed construction, including the 1817 footbridge Dryburgh Bridge, James Dredge's patented Victoria Bridge, Bath ( 1836 ), and the later Albert Bridge ( 1872 ) and Brooklyn Bridge ( 1883 ).
Barnum that crossed the Brooklyn Bridge in order to prove that the bridge was safe after 12 people died on the bridge a year earlier on Memorial Day May 31, 1883 during a stampede.
On September 17, 1883 she became an actress on the Brooklyn Grand Opera House stage.
The other two were Jacobus in 1883 and Margrave in 1896 ( when the Preakness was run at Gravesend Race Track in Coney Island ( Brooklyn ), New York.
He was present at the opening of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge on May 24, 1883.
The " air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame " refers to New York City and Brooklyn, not yet consolidated into one unit in 1883.
* May 30, 1883 – A rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that kills 12.
After losing its connection with the Long Island Rail Road in 1883, the railroad fell on hard times, reorganizing as the Brooklyn and Brighton Beach Railroad.
On July 4, 1883, twenty-eight word puzzlers, mostly young men, met at Pythagoras Hall in New York City and founded the Eastern Puzzlers ' League ; they then celebrated the event by paying a penny each to walk across the newly dedicated Brooklyn Bridge.
File: Brooklyn Bridge Postdlf. jpg | Brooklyn Bridge, 1883, New York City
File: Brooklyn Museum-The Northeaster-Winslow Homer-overall. jpg | Winslow Homer, The Northeaster, c. 1883
The Actives went 33 – 35 in 1883 against teams from Brooklyn, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trenton, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey ( which disbanded that July ), finishing in third place before the league folded after the season.
1883 ), baseball player, see 1883 Brooklyn Grays season
At the end of the reign of Napoleon III, Partridge travelled to America to attend Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn and Columbia University ( graduated 1883 ) in New York.
Working in compressed air in these caissons under the river caused him to get decompression sickness (" the bends ") shattering his health and rendering him unable to visit the site, yet he continued to oversee the Brooklyn project to successful completion in 1883.
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