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

He covered national political conventions and championship boxing matches

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

have landed on the strategic little Iwo Island

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

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