Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed He covered national political conventions

He covered national political conventions and championship boxing matches

A century later

eight players from the White Sox would be accused of colluding with gamblers to throw the Series

the first to own a car and the first to fly in an airplane

have landed on the strategic little Iwo Island

Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed He covered national political conventionsIn the days before the last of New York's horse drawn trolleys disappeared from the streets, a photographer snapped one on Broadway, near 17th Street, alongside the newfangled thing that had made it obsolete, a "modern electric car." Horse cars like this one, considered an "antiquated vehicle" in 1917, traveled on the Bleecker St. & Fulton Ferry Line for quite a while before the operators chose to abandon the franchise. Several notables rode it one