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There is a picture of this event without the obliteration at query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9405EEDB133BEE... Better names from NYT accounts of City Hall event Oct. 16, 1917. Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, "Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (August 12, 1871, New York City, New York, United States – March 28, 1939, Vedado, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban writer, politician, diplomat, and President of Cuba." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Manuel_de_C%C3%A9spedes_y_Qu... Phya Prabha Karavongse of Siam, Don Belisario Poras of Panama, "Belisario Porras Barahona (28 November 1856, Las Tablas – 28 August 1942, Panama City). Panamanian journalist and politician. He served three terms as President of Panama soon after its independence from Colombia." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisario_Porras_Barahona Sen. Fletcher is Duncan U. Fletcher. "Duncan Upshaw Fletcher (January 6, 1859 – June 17, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest serving U.S. Senator in Florida's history." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_U._Fletcher "Richard Irvine Manning III (August 15, 1859 – September 11, 1931) was a politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina. He served as a state legislator and as the 92nd Governor of South Carolina." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Irvine_Manning_III query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E6D7113BE0... query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F07EED7113BE0...

Thanks for spelling out the fuller names and for the link to a better version of the picture. We'll add information to the description.

Ceremony on May 30, 1917 to officially launch the U.S.S. Recruit in Union Square. See

That is Mrs. Mitchel with the flowers.

Also on the photo: Borough President Marcus M. Marks, see www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3820618400/

Thanks Art Siegel, for connecting the related photos we'll fill in the caption the next time we update.

That is Vice Admiral Usher to her right and Mayor Mitchel on her left.
Ceremony on May 30, 1917 to officially launch the U.S.S. Recruit in Union Square. See

LOC note, "Hugh" should be "Hugo" in caption. Olive Child Mitchel, the mayor's widow, married Hugo R. Johnstone in January, 1931, accounting for the changed name and the the new date. fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20P...

Olive Child Mitchel Johnstone (1887 or 1888 - 1942) viaf.org/processed/LC|no2009177025 S. also the NYT, October 04, 1942 'MRS. HUGO R. JOHNSTONE; Widow of Mayor Mitchel Dies in Hospital in Coronado, Calif.' query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE7D81F3CE33BB...

Another photo of Olive Mitchel who christened the U.S.S. Recruit with a bottle of champagne is in The sun., May 31, 1917, Page 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-05-31/ed-...

"Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, of the navy yard, and a party of officers and officer's wives came alongside presently in the same sort of launches which had conveyed the Mayor. They gathered in the "eyes" of the dry land dreadnought and Mrs. Mitchel broke a bottle of champagne - real champagne, Mr. Daniels - over the bow and cried: "I christen thee Recruit" " New-York tribune., May 31, 1917, Page 3, col. 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-05-31/ed-...