One Hundred Years Ago

[ShayP]

In 1916, the US National Team was reconstituted for the first time since the establishment of the USSF, marking the birth of the modern era for the squad. The team embarked on a successful tour of Sweden and Norway, winning its first international game over Sweden 3-2. Plans for Olympic competition fell through however, due to the cancellation of the games because of World War I. On the domestic front, amateur circuits continued to show growing attendance and improved quality of play, although league schedules were often hampered by inclement weather. Bigger challenges would arrive in coming seasons as rosters were depleted by the call-up for the U.S. entry into the War.

[albrecht]

Items from the 2-16-1916 Chicago Day Book.

Ah, again the "butter vs Oleo" wars continue. Such an odd thing but was a major issue in several countries even.

[K_Dubb]

A program from Seattle's Metropolitan Theatre for today (complete with a glaring typo) reflects support for what would become the other side in the war from the city's (now nearly invisible) German and Austro-Hungarian communities.



The Metropolitan was built in 1911.  In the '20s, Seattle's best hotel, the Olympic (where my great-grandma worked for 30 years in the laundry), would be built around the three empty sides of it.






http://www.seattletheatrehistory.org/multi-page-program-record/metropolitan-theatre-program-february-17-1916

After the theater was torn down in the '50s, the Olympic moved its main entrance to the north side, making an elegant sort of driveway.



A nice pre-Olympic view.  Is that a gas station smack in the middle of University St.?



Looking at the little one-story shops flanking it, I am reminded that the Olympic's oyster bar on its southwest corner claims to retain the interior furnishings of a haberdashery consumed by the construction.

[Rix Gins]

Wow, Shay and K__Dubb...  Cool pics & info.  Thanks.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, February 17, 1916.  Amazing how some things don't change, even in a hundred years.

[Walks_At_Night]

Everett True, February 17, 1916.  Amazing how some things don't change, even in a hundred years.

Get 'em Everett

[Rix Gins]

Chicago news from the Feb. 17, 1916 Day Book.  Last item on the right is a sad one.

[Rix Gins]

More items from The Day Book.

[K_Dubb]

More items from The Day Book.

Wow, so much good stuff!  I am struck by the judge finding jobs for the girls, and also by the Seattle beauty in the soda fountain, who, I blush to admit, the clear eye of sobriety does not favor.

Also, Sherlock Holmes comes to mind in the Norwood case.

[Rix Gins]

Wow, so much good stuff!  I am struck by the judge finding jobs for the girls, and also by the Seattle beauty in the soda fountain, who, I blush to admit, the clear eye of sobriety does not favor.

Well put, K__Dubb.  lol

[Rix Gins]

From the February 17, 1916 Tonopah Daily Bonanza.  The results of last night's game.  (In seven parts.)

[K_Dubb]

From the February 17, 1916 Tonopah Daily Bonanza.  The results of last night's game.  (In seven parts.)

Now that's some colorful sports reporting!  Harsh judgment on the poor Elks, to be sure, but I detect beneath it all a good-natured bonhomie seldom seen nowadays.

[Rix Gins]

Now that's some colorful sports reporting!  Harsh judgment on the poor Elks, to be sure, but I detect beneath it all a good-natured bonhomie seldom seen nowadays.

I had hoped that there would have been news regarding the after game dance but no luck.  The Bonanza reporter probably had to hightail it back to the paper's building to get his report in before the early morning press run.. 

[albrecht]

Chicago news from the Feb. 17, 1916 Day Book.  Last item on the right is a sad one.

And the first one is pretty awful.
ps: William Lorimer, known as the "blond boss," was acquitted in the La Salle Street Bank issue.
http://downfalldictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/william-lorimer-fall-of-blond-boss.html

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Now that's some colorful sports reporting!  Harsh judgment on the poor Elks, to be sure, but I detect beneath it all a good-natured bonhomie seldom seen nowadays.

Agreed, although it's funny that for all the bombast in the writing, the details of the game are hardly mentioned!  It's interesting to see from the lineups that each team apparently had only one outfielder.  Those guys must really have had their work cut out for them!  It also sounds like the ball that lodged in the rafters must have been considered to be in play.  And was Captain Conover of the Elks implying that only Ty Cobb was his equal as a ballplayer?  That had to be tongue in cheek!  Great stuff!

[K_Dubb]

I had hoped that there would have been news regarding the after game dance but no luck.  The Bonanza reporter probably had to hightail it back to the paper's building to get his report in before the early morning press run..

Too bad; I am imagining something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTYwWvirZr4&list=PL2whXp5iIcWlhQLWtgaSH0OYhkfaB8eOk&index=1

The music (which may not go with the pictures at all) is Ancliffe's waltz "Nights of Gladness" from 1912, something of a hit.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Too bad; I am imagining something like this:

  The people at the Tonopah dance probably weren't quite as restrained, though!

[Rix Gins]

And the first one is pretty awful.
ps: William Lorimer, known as the "blond boss," was acquitted in the La Salle Street Bank issue.
http://downfalldictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/william-lorimer-fall-of-blond-boss.html

I would be hard pressed to come up with something more horrible than that first occurrence.  Oddly enough I had missed that item when I was formatting the clipping.  I can hazard a guess that the second most common death in Chicago was gas, either by suicide or accident.  Guns would probably come in first.  About the only bit of good news I could find was Mrs. Pauline Tepski, after she was shot by her husband.  Saved by her corset rib.

[K_Dubb]

A photo taken a hundred years ago today of a slide in Seattle's Japantown neighborhood.  The area is now (sensibly) a hillside park.  Much of Chinatown now exists on what was then tidelands, supported by decades of fill.



The "Oriental Quarter" is listed as an attraction in  the 1916 Kroll's tourist guide to Seattle, along with many other delights.

[Walks_At_Night]

February 17, 1916 was a big day for our friends in the 3rd Battalion of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

They started getting some real helmets!

Thursday, February 17, 1916
Location: TRENCHES
Entry: 50 more steel helmets issued. Minenwerfer retaliation for our trench mortar activity. No casualties. Rifle grenades slightly wounded 2 O.R. in 15, one returning to duty. 1 O.R. hit in ear while on listening post in front of 15.
Weather â€" moderate west wind. Fair

[Walks_At_Night]

Hey!   U.S. Air Mail fired up 100 years ago today

[Walks_At_Night]

That is an awesome find, WAN!  I assume the clock is calibrated to seconds to assist with Time-on-Target "readin', 'ritin', arithmetic?

Offhand, and/or personal "back of the envelope" calculations based on the observation windows above the clock-face suggest to me that the dial indicator back-face was something on the order of a 20-25 foot diameter (10-12.5 radius)>?  Within that assumed specification, I assume the electro-motor available (whether common or National Secret) of the time was well able to provide the gunnery assist for Fire-On-Target calculations...

Dialing the time-machine back to modern times, this adds to my "list" of sub-par military injection-molded model kits which I will "customize" someday when I get enough Round "Tuits."

Suh-wheat!

EditToAdd:  Revel(tm)-type model kits of the plastic type representing the dearth of available mechanical equipment during the Great War (WWI to the kidz) and leading up to The Second or World War Two...

Actually Pate they didn't have anything to do with time on target or time at all.   They were used to indicate range to the target.   Big hand was for 10,000 yards and the little hand for 1,000 yards.   So if both hands were set at the 1 O' Clock position this would indicate a range to target of 11,000 yards.   They were prominently displayed fore and aft and in this manner the BB's could communicate range to the target silently up and down the line.

This mechanism allowed the other ships in the formation, whose view of the target may be obscured by fog, gun smoke or funnel smoke, to have their guns at the proper elevation and bearing when their view becomes unobstructed.  This greatly reduced the time needed before they were ready to fire.  The introduction of radar and better ship-to-ship communication methods in the late 1930s eliminated the need for these devices and they were removed from most ships by the start of World War II or shortly thereafter.

You can see them in this BB column photo:


Their brothers were the declination marks:

Declination Marks - Scales painted on a turret mount to indicate to other ships in the formation the direction in which the turret is pointing.

BTW - moving shells for a BB's main battery out of the magazine was quite a job:

[Walks_At_Night]

Not from 100 years ago but a neat old photo from the USS Maryland [BB-46].   Inspection time for the stewards!

[Rix Gins]

Not from 100 years ago but a neat old photo from the USS Maryland [BB-46].   Inspection time for the stewards!

Neat photo indeed, Walks.  What do you think of the eighth sailor from the right?  Will the officer let him get away with his cap nearly covering his eyes?

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Hey!   U.S. Air Mail fired up 100 years ago today

How time flies!  (Sorry)

I got to cross a ride in an open cockpit plane off my bucket list a few years ago when our little municipal airport was a stop for a traveling exhibition of vintage aircraft commemorating the 75th anniversary of something to do with air mail.  I think it had to do with the start of coast to coast service, but can't recall for certain. It was an absolute blast, although the pilot refused to do a loop because of insurance restrictions even though I promised not to tattle.

[GravitySucks]

Neat photo indeed, Walks.  What do you think of the eighth sailor from the right?  Will the officer let him get away with having his cap over his forehead like that?

10th one from the far end looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

[Walks_At_Night]

Neat photo indeed, Walks.  What do you think of the eighth sailor from the right?  Will the officer let him get away with his cap nearly covering his eyes?

Well he is not quite there yet but he probably let him skate.  He wasn't styling the Dixie Cup on the back of the head like the cool sailors did [my Dad among them]

Not my Dad but I've got some pix where he is sporting it just like this:

[Walks_At_Night]

10th one from the far end looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Good eyeball - 4th from the closest end looks like too hard of an ass to be a steward.

[Rix Gins]

World War One.  Typical No Man's Land scene.

[Meister_000]

more Tramps and Beggars of 1916
Punch-Magazine (British) March 1916, cartoon:

The Marks of The Beast -- Imperial beggar

"Pity a poor war-lord who has lost half his men, and must have more money in order to lose the other half."

(Wilhelm II holds a sign "Every Mark Helps" in his latest war bond drive during WW1)

Some things never change . . .