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In a previous blog post, we told you about the history of the District s original streetcar system, which dated back to the 1860s when the coaches were pulled by horses. After going electric in the last decade of the 19th century, the streetcars quickly became a crucial part of transportation in the nation s capital, just as they were in other cities across the country.
But Washington s system which gradually coalesced from a hodgepodge of small companies into a single entity, the sprawling Capital Transit Co. in 1933 faced special problems. One dilemma was Congress insistence that the power source be buried underground between the tracks. That made the system especially vulnerable to snow, ice, and summertime heat expansion of the metal slots into which the cars plows were plugged in, which sometimes prevented them from drawing power and led to congestion-causing breakdowns. The Demands of routine maintenance were relentless, transportation historian Robert C. Post writes.
Young James began his working life as a puddler in the local ironworks - an arduous job at the basic level turning pig iron into wrought iron. A mis-spelling of his name by an immigration official had recorded the name as Davis and this was to be the family name thereafter. While James and his mother with brothers and sisters waited on the quayside before catching a train to his father, an incident gave a definitive form to the way his life would develop. Recording this in the
Monmouthshire Local History Journal, Miss S Twiston-Davies, a freelance journalist and former BBC scriptwriter says: “Their arrival was marred by a thief who stole their mother’s possessions on the quayside.
King of Sluggers: Josh Gibson’s Legacy
A century has passed since the founding of the Negro Leagues, and the great-grandson of the game’s most feared yet forgotten hitter is fighting for the recognition of Pittsburgh’s Black baseball history.
November 11, 2020
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHUCK BEARD
He has a set of hands that could wrap around the trunk of a Southern Live Oak the state tree of his native Georgia and a pair of forearms that could snap one in half.
It’s sometime in the 1930s in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh when he steps up to the plate and bashes a baseball that clears the ivy-veiled outfield walls of Forbes Field and soars into oblivion. The following day his Pittsburgh Crawfords are playing in Philadelphia, and from out of nowhere, a baseball falls from the heavens and lands into the glove of a surprised center fielder. The umpire points to the twenty-something kid named Josh Gibson and shouts, Yer out yesterday in Pittsburgh.
A successful man sees great equality in America.
The equality of the American citizen is decreed by the fundamental law. All acts, all institutions, are based upon this idea. There is not one shred of privilege, hence no classes. The American people are a unit.
Difference of position in the state, resulting from birth, would be held to insult the citizen. The vote of an Emerson or a Lincoln weighs no more than that of the poorest Negro. The president has not a privilege which is not the birthright of every other citizen. The first voice of the people may not be always the voice of God. Indeed, sometimes it does seem to be very far from it; but the second voice of the people their sober second thought comes nearest to it of any tribunal, much nearer than the voice of any class, even that of the most highly educated, has ever come in any government under the sun. Hence there is no voice in all America which has the faintest authority when the ballot speaks.