Titanic

100 years ago this month Mr. Fred T. Vance, a visitor at the October 6, 1911 city council meeting, made a request on behalf of Hose Company #1 of the need for a new fire horse to replace the 19-year old horse then in service.  No action was taken but the matter was referred to the Committee on Fire and Lights for investigation. 

At that same meeting, an inquiry was made regarding the lack of police enforcement of folks spitting on the sidewalks and a lack of enforcement of the "move-on" ordinance.

Times were simpler 100 years ago - or were they?

1911 - 100 years ago:

• the federal government sends 20,000 troops to the Mexican border
• the Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames
• the first Indianapolis 500 is run
• the Lost City of the Incas was discovered by Hiram Bingham
• the first woman to complete a solo transcontinental trip by horse was made
• the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre
• the first transcontinental airplane flight taking 82 hours was recorded
• the South Pole is reached
• the ground breaking for Boston's Fenway Park began
• the Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil on antitrust act violations
• the R.M.S. Titanic was launched
• Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire

Time were simpler - perhaps in Bristol.