The World in 1907 the year the banks nearly stopped

About 1.29 million people moved to the United States in 1907, more than in any year before or since. Spread across the calendar that is roughly 3,500 arrivals a day, most of them walking off a ship.

Life back then

The working week ran six days, ten hours or more at a stretch, and Sunday was the only day off. Families lived close to the job, because getting there meant walking or handing a nickel to a streetcar conductor. Those same electric lines ran out to a trolley park at the end of the route, with a bandstand, a lake and a carousel, and that trip was the outing of the week. Savings sat in a bank you could walk to, which is why the queues outside them in October frightened everyone.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Jan 14 An earthquake and the fires after it wreck Kingston in Jamaica. About a thousand people die.
• 🚕Mar 22 The first taxicabs fitted with meters start work on London streets, so the fare is no longer an argument.
• 🏁Jun 10 Five cars set off from Peking bound for Paris. The winner rolls in two months later.
• 📜Jul 24 A new treaty hands Japan control of Korea's government. The Korean emperor has already been pushed off his throne.
• ⛺Aug 1 Robert Baden-Powell takes twenty boys camping on Brownsea Island, off the south coast of England. Scouting begins here.
• 🗺️Sep 26 New Zealand becomes a dominion. It runs its own affairs but keeps the British king as head of state.
• 💸Oct 22 Depositors rush the Knickerbocker Trust in New York. The panic spreads until J.P. Morgan and other bankers put up cash to halt it.
• 🕯️Dec 6 An explosion in a coal mine at Monongah, West Virginia, kills hundreds of miners, the worst such disaster in US history.

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