The city's first major industry was born in 1899 when Henry W. Hibbs, 1862 – 1942, a native of Newport, North Carolina, established his wholesale fish business at the end of the railroad pier, which extended out to the shipping channel.

He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece The Theory of the Leisure Class ( 1899 ) where he argued that there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of " industry ", run by engineers manufacturing goods, vis-a-vis the parasitism of " business " that exists only to make profits for a leisure class.

* Seito Saibara ( 1899 – 1902 ) Establishment of the U. S. Gulf Coast rice industry in Texas., Japanese politician.

Anders Larsen Bakke ( 1815 – 1899 ) was a farmer and entrepreneur and a pioneer in Norway's dairy industry.

In 1899 and 1900, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Maunsel White, working with a team of assistants at the Bethlehem Steel Company at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, performed a series of experiments with the heat treating of existing high-quality tool steels, such as Mushet steel ; heating them to much higher temperatures than were typically considered desirable in the industry.

In 1899 he had taken his knowledge of pressed steel to the railroad industry.

* 1899: The timber industry peaks.

He studied engineering in Philadelphia in 1888, and in 1899 he took his knowledge of pressed steel to the railroad industry.

John Ross Bradfield, ( 1899 – October 29, 1983 ) was a Canadian businessman who was involved in the development of the Canadian mining industry as President and CEO of Noranda.

Early ' horseless carriages ' such as the 1899 Lanchester Pheaton ( pictured ), were made possible in the region thanks to an existent array of metalwork and engineering skills which were mainly evolving out of the bicycle industry.

The local industry was further expanded and the life of the town was strongly influenced by strong army garrison ( located in two barracks built in 1899 and 1933 respectively ).

He joined the Léon Bourgeois ministry of 1895-1896 as minister of commerce, industry, post and telegraphs, was vice-president of the Chamber from 1898 to 1902, and presided over the Budget Commission of 1899, 1901 and 1902.

In 1899, Vaccaro Brothers and Company ( later known as Standard Fruit, a New Orleans-based fruit corporation, which came to Honduras in 1899 to purchase coconuts, oranges and bananas on Roatan Island.

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had been exporting bananas for several years and that over 1, 000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba ( and inland as far as San Pedro Sula ) were tending bananas, most of them small holders.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway built a station at this site in 1899, which it named Copan, after the city of Copán, Honduras.

This code was integrally adopted by Ecuador in 1858 ; El Salvador in 1859 ; Venezuela in 1862 ( only during that year ); Nicaragua in 1867 ; Honduras in 1880 ( until 1899, and again since 1906 ); Colombia in 1887 ; and Panama ( after its separation from Colombia in 1903 ).

Its forerunner was started in 1899, when Sicilian immigrants Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D ' Antoni, began importing bananas to New Orleans from La Ceiba, Honduras.

He previously served as Vice President of Honduras from 1895 to 1899.

Terencio Sierra Romero ( 16 November 1839 – 1907 ) was President of Honduras between 1 February 1899 and 1 February 1903.

José Policarpo Bonilla Vasquez ( 1858 – 1926 ) was President of Honduras between 22 February 1894 and 1 February 1899.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

In Bulgaria, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union ( BZNS ) was organized in 1899 to resist taxes and build cooperatives.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

Towards the end of 1899, the Adepts of the Isis-Urania and Amen-Ra temples had become dissatisfied with Mathers ' leadership as well as his growing friendship with Crowley.

With its victory in the Spanish-American War in 1899 and its growing stature in the world, the United States supported annexation of the former Spanish colonies of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, without the consent of their peoples, and it retained " quasi-suzerainty " over Cuba, as well.

By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of " conscious " workers.

By 1899 the panic was starting to wear off and the local wheat crop, of high quality, was growing in demand.

In order to accommodate the growing demand, another three of the SS Auguste Victoria ’ s sister ships operated as cruise liners, and in 1899 the Hamburg-America Line commissioned Blohm & Voss to construct the first purpose-built cruise ship, the Prinzessin Victoria Luise.

He left the monastery in 1899 ; although Lanz claimed that this was due to " growing nervousness ", the official documents recorded " carnal love " as the reason.

Amidst growing tension between Boers and the British in the Transvaal, the 1st Manchester shipped to South Africa in September 1899.

On December 31, 1899, growing tension between Doubleday and McClure led the two men to dissolve their partnership.

They went on to win the Home international championship twice more before the old century was out ( 1896 and 1899 ), so that by 1900 all four of the Home Unions had tasted success at a game that was growing in popularity with players and spectators.

Periods of local prosperity or misery occurred in the following years ; there were several bad growing seasons and natural catastrophes ( such as the earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tornados in 1580, 1757, 1808 and 1899 ) that created famines and hardships.

After receiving the Victoria Cross, Findlater supplemented his Army pension by performing at music halls, much to the outrage of the military establishment, but after growing scandal he retired to take up farming in Banffshire in 1899.

The paper ’ s views under these two editors could be described on the whole as being those held by the bulk of colonial society, particularly when it came to the growing crisis with the Boer Republics, which resulted in the South African War ( 1899 – 1902 ).

It started growing after the founding of a broadcloth factory by Lake Littoinen in 1739, and the railway connection built in 1899 increased its growth.

David's reputation was growing in Europe, and in 1899 he was awarded the Bigsby medal of the Geological Society of London, and in 1900 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

This report, and the growing influence of Plunkett, who became a member of the Irish Privy Council in 1897, led to the passing of an Act in 1899 which established a Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( DATI ) for Ireland, of which the Chief Secretary for Ireland was to be president ex officio.