| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION barroom brawl The evidently quite resilient victim survived however despite the necessity forgood many stitches to close his wounds In an Illinois barn Charles Duryea built and on September 21 1893 unveiled what would becontroversial new invention Americafirst successful gas-powered vehicle It would come to be known as the automobile The contraption was less thanyear old and yet unseen in Utah Territory when the Salt Lake City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting fast driving Councilmen referred however not to automobiles but to horses on the city streets Insingle day five riders were fined each in Police Court andsixth paid on the added charge of using abusive language to the arresting officer For many years to come motorists whose engines had stalled would be taunted by carriage drivers shouting as they passed by Gethorse St MarkHospital which had long operated in compara tively makeshift quarters moved in 1893 into its new building at 800 North 500 West on the outskirts of Salt Lake City It wasyear to the day after the cornerstone ceremony had taken place In the sporting world the Stanley Cup was presented for the first time in 1893 Today itthe oldest trophy awarded professional athletes in North America The first winner was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association which actually captured it by default because ofdispute about who should compete for it year later Montreal defeated Ottawa 3-1 to cement its claim to ice hockey supremacy The cup cost only 48 67 and was given by Frederick Arthur Baron Stanley of Preston England who served as Governor General of Canada from 1888 through 1893 Lizzie Borden gained dubious fame in 1893 too -she was charged with the murder of her parents in Fall River Massachusetts The crime inspired the poetic epitaph Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks and when she saw what she had done she gave her father 411 Lizzie by the way was acquitted when tried and the crime was never solved Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
