When I was stationed in Alaska, I was driving a pickup truck down the Richardson Highway and I met a moose on the road where the Alaska pipeline went under the road. I couldn’t get around him so I honked the horn to try to scare him off. He got mad and started charging my truck. So I had to floor it in reverse to avoid getting rutted. After about a quarter of a mile, he got tired so he ambled off the road, letting me by.
The last day of the 19th century was Dec 31, 1900, not 1899.