Jim Kershner’s This day in history

From our archives, 100 years ago

The acclaimed New York Symphony became the house band, so to speak, at Spokane’s Natatorium Park.

The full orchestra, under the direction of its concertmaster, Alexander Saslavsky, arrived in Spokane for a three-week engagement at Natatorium’s new outdoors bandstand.

The New York Symphony was one of the leading classical music institutions in the country. It later merged with another important New York orchestra and became the New York Philharmonic, which is today among the world’s top orchestras.

Yet back in 1911, you could have heard them in Spokane for “a small admission fee.”

From the religion beat: The congregation of All Saints’ Cathedral, the Episcopal cathedral on First Avenue and Jefferson Street, planned a major revamp of the existing cathedral to get them through the next 20 years. At that point the congregation hoped to build a magnificent new structure on a new site, which would last the centuries.

They kept to that plan. In 1929, they built and moved into the new St. John’s Cathedral. The old All Saints’ was demolished shortly afterward.

Also on this date

(From the Associated Press)

1981: President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court.