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In winter 1891 –' 92, railroad financier Henry Villard led a strong effort to repeal the act, which failed, according to his memoirs, by a few votes.
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winter and 1891
Despite his injury problems in 1891, few doubted that Grace should captain England in Australia the following winter when he led Lord Sheffield's team to Australia in 1891 – 92.
However, Albert Victor died six weeks later, in the worldwide influenza pandemic that swept through Britain in the winter of 1891 – 2.
The Victorian Exhibition held at the New Gallery in the winter of 1891 – 2 contained eight of his portraits in oil, forty in crayon, and two ( Mrs. Fry and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, both dated 1845 ) in watercolour.
Despite missing out on Test selection in 1890, Abel returned to his best form in 1891 and played well in Australia the following winter.
He interrupted work there to undertake a world tour during the winter of 1891 – 92.
Alumni Hall was constructed by the Benedictine monks and local contractors from 1891 through the winter of 1892 ; the building was designed by Patrick W. Ford, an Irish-American architect from Boston.
Given the small size of these dwellings ( one room upstairs, two on the middle floor and one that would have flooded each winter in the basement ) it seems extraordinary that the 1891 UK census clearly records a family of three people and two lodgers living in one of the lodges.
winter and 92
The Wetherells spent that first fall and winter at Daytona Beach in the woods in an old house at what then was the northeast comer of Ridgewood and Volusia Avenue but is now known as International Speedway Boulevard ( U. S. Routes l and 92 ).
Over the winter of 1691 – 92 the French devised a grand plan to gain the ascendancy over their enemies – a design for the invasion of England in one more effort to support James II in his attempts to regain his kingdoms ; and a simultaneous assault on Namur in the Spanish Netherlands.
Maximum temperatures at low elevations are high, rainging from 33 ° C ( 92 ° F ) in summer to 16 ° C ( 60 ° F ) in winter, but at an altitude of 2000 metres, temperatures are about 14 ° C ( 25 ° F ) cooler and exposure is very high.
1 ( winter 1981 ), pp. 187 – 92 ; and vol.
In the winter of 1791 / 92, in the opening phases of the French Revolution, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, noted the lack of ostentation in the streets of Paris, where a few drove themselves about in " little open chaises like the cabriolet but with one horse.
winter and railroad
Georgian Court University in Lakewood is a private Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy college, which opened in 1908 on the former winter estate of millionaire George Jay Gould I, son of railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
It was laid out in the winter of 1869 on lands belonging to the railroad.
Heavy rains in the winter of 1884 left as much as washing out the railroad tracks below Temecula as well as along the San Jacinto River and Railroad Canyon near the shore of Lake Elsinore.
For the winter sports enthusiasts, a major snowmobile trail ( Trail 8 ) goes through just north of the village along the old Soo Line railroad grade.
Before the railroad was completed, winter set in and the last few miles, were laid upon the ice and snow as it was impossible to find the ground due to the snow drifts.
Unfortunately, a freshet wiped out the railroad tracks that winter, marking the beginning of the end of Glastenbury as a functioning town.
During the winter of 1861 and early 1862 the town was significantly fortified by the Confederacy and served as a supply depot for both sides at various points in the war, and is famous for being the site of the construction of the first railroad ever built exclusively for military use, the Centreville Military Railroad.
The two railroad trestles that brought trains to the Island are still intact and serve as the trailhead for the Bearskin State Trail that provides hiking and biking in summer, and snowmobiling in winter.
They represent the main transportation lines that run through the municipality from Oslo to other parts of the country: the main highway and the railroad, they also can represent skiing tracks, an old winter transportation method.
As winter approaches, and the railroad workers take down the cabins and head back East, the family wonders where they might stay for the winter.
Transportation routes, including entire railroad lines, had been redirected in winter to traverse rock-solid waterways and lakes.
The town, in addition to railroad and road connections, is served by a Finnair-operated air connection to Helsinki, during the summer twice daily and three times a day during the winter schedule period.
The first Cascade Tunnel was a 2. 63-mile ( 4. 2 km ) long single track railroad, built by the Great Northern Railway in 1900 to avoid problems caused by heavy winter snowfalls on the original line that had eight Zig Zags ( switchbacks ).
Decommissioned locomotives are sometimes used to heat passenger cars and defrost railroad switches in winter.
A remnant of the old railroad station platforms is visible to the north of the freeway, with cement statues of people waiting for trains, who are occasionally dressed up for winter by area residents with scarves and other winter apparel.
The railroad company built several cottages downtown and a few wealthy families from " up north " purchased land and built winter residences.
The railroad continued to bring winter visitors from all along the eastern seaboard and upper midwest until the Boca Grande Causeway opened in 1958.
Thanks to the generosity of Bayard and Hugh Sharp ( members of the Du Pont family who had been winter residents for many years ), the community purchased the old railroad bed from CSX Corp. ( the successor corporation to the old Chessie System ) and transformed it into a new use — Boca Grande's popular Bike Path.
Boca Grande has always been a unique community, with a large number of wealthy winter residents rubbing elbows with the fishermen and railroad and port workers who formed the permanent, year-round working population.
The development of these three structures, coupled with railroad access to them, established Palm Beach as a winter resort for the wealthy members of America's Gilded Age.
In the past, flophouses were sometimes called " workingmen's hotels " and catered to hobos and transient workers such as seasonal railroad and agriculture workers, or migrant lumberjacks who would travel west during the summer to work and then return to an eastern or midwestern city such as Chicago to stay in a flophouse during the winter.
After a series of winter storms threatened to swamp the hotel, an audacious plan was developed to move it in one piece 520 feet further inland by placing railroad track and 112 railroad flat cars under the raised 460 ft. by 130 ft. building and using six steam locomotives to pull it away from the sea.
winter and Henry
Henry crossed the Alps that winter, appearing early in 1077 as a barefoot penitent in the snow before the gates of Matilda's ancestral castle of Canossa, where the pope was staying.
Henry Ford, the automobile magnate, later lived a few hundred feet away from Edison at his winter retreat in Fort Myers, Florida.
Anne and Henry attended a meeting with the French king at Calais in winter 1532, in which Henry hoped to enlist the support of Francis I of France for his intended marriage.
* The use of street lighting is first recorded in London, when Sir Henry Barton, the mayor, orders lanterns with lights to be hung out on the winter evenings between Hallowtide and Candlemas.
With the capture of the fort, the Patriot forces obtained a large supply of cannons and other armaments, much of which Henry Knox transported to Boston during the winter of 1775 – 1776.
Over the winter she stayed with the French court at Blois, then spent the summer with Henry II visiting Tours, Angers and Nantes.
Fort Myers was the frequent winter home of Thomas Edison, as well as Henry Ford.
Relations between Charles and John II deteriorated afresh and John invaded Charles's territories in Normandy in late 1354 while Charles intrigued with Edward III's emissary, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster at the fruitless peace negotiations between England and France held at Avignon in the winter of 1354 – 55.
Neville despatched a small force to Navarre under the knight Sir Thomas Trivet, but the English achieved little over the winter and in February Henry of Trastámara announced his son would re-invade Navarre in the spring.
During the winter of 1776, General Henry Knox passed through the town with cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to end the Siege of Boston.
Twin boys were born in their dwelling during the first winter, originating a long life of descendants, among whom was Henry Chapman Mercer.
During the following winter ( 1204 – 1205 ) the Franks prosecuted conquests in Bithynia, in which Henry, Baldwin's brother, took part.
Part of the gatehouse was removed by the son and heir of Sir Richard ( Sir Henry Williams ( alias Cromwell )) to form the main gateway to Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, his newly built winter residence.
She married Henry Fonda on December 25, 1931 in Baltimore, while both were performing with the University Players in its 18-week winter season there.
That winter of 1761-62, a minor Ojibwa chief, Wawatam, adopted Henry as a brother.
According to Nichols the chapel was granted to Henry Cartwright in 1542, then left abandoned and neglected until 1692 when Samuel Bracebridge settled a yearly sum for the parson of Mancetter to preach there every other Sunday in the winter season
The siege was broken in March 1776 when Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox brought heavy artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston during the winter, and General Washington used them to fortify Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston and its harbour.
He was elected as member for Bramber for the opening session ( 1640 ) of the Long Parliament ; and in that winter he drew up a letter addressed to Henry Jermyn, afterwards earl of St Albans, advising the king to disconcert the opposition leaders by making more concessions than they asked for.
" Sullivan fled the London winter to convalesce in Monte Carlo as seven provincial tours ( one with a 17 year old Henry Lytton in the chorus ) and the U. S. production of Ida set out.
Lalli's wife Kerttu falsely claimed to him that upon leaving the manor, their ungrateful guest Henry, travelling around on his own in the middle of winter, had without permission or recompense, through violence, taken food for himself and hay for his horse.
In the winter of 1775 – 1776, Henry Knox directed the transportation of the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston.
In the winter of 1776 Henry Knox passed through Great Barrington while transporting the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga to the Siege of Boston which established an agricultural interest in the area of Great Barrington.
In the winter of 1331, in response to the urgings of Henry Beaumont, chief among the disinherited, Balliol left his home in France and came to England, where he settled in Standal Manor in Yorkshire.
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