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Probably this: “PUMPING CASCADES FOR THE FIRE CHIEFS Motor Apparatuses Draw 6,000,000 gallons form the Hudson Demonstrating Efficiency” WOMEN MOVED TO TEARS The world’s Fire Chiefs who are here attending the forty-first annual convention and fire exposition of the International Association of Fire Engineers, spent the whole of yesterday making observations at a capacity test of motor fire pumps on the pier at Fifty-fourth Street and the North River. To the thousands of residents who went to De Witt Clinton Park, overlooking the pier, the test must have appeared like an attempt to pump the Hudson River dry.” NEW YORK TIMES September 4, 1913

Nice detective work, puzzlemaster! This must be the event. I've found licence plates on the engines in other photos for Miss. and Minn., suggesting that it was a nationwide exposition.

What an amazing picture with the tall ship in the background. I love it.

The schedule for the event is described in NYT of August 3, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04EFDD113BE633A... (Don't be confused by headline and first paragraph. The fire chiefs come later in the same column. and another report on the convention is in NYT of September 3, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE3DB123FE633A...

Like Cassies grandma, I was intrigued by the "tall ship." I think it might be a coal schooner or similar east coast freighter. See pressherald.mainetoday.com/specialrpts/shipbuilding/story... for a picture of a very similar vessel, the Paul Palmer. It can't be the Paul Palmer, because she caught fire and sank off Cape Cod earlier in 1913. But apparently there was a fleet of such vessels. www.fishermensvoice.com/archives/mar01.html#bigger has a 2001 article about building such schooners in Maine. www.ahrtp.com/TallshipsOnLine/pages/PALMER1.htm is another picture of the Paul Palmer (being launched in Waldoboro, Maine in 1902)

This is most likely the Indra, a German cargo ship, which arrived seeking shelter in the neutral port New York on November 8, 1914, after a stranger-than-fiction voyage of 13,000 miles in 160 days. She left Taltal, Chile with a cargo of nitrate of soda bound for Dunkirk. En route, her captain discovered war had broken out and escaped some trickery off the coast of Ireland intended to coerce her to proceed toward Dunkirk and be seized by the British. Instead, she raced to New York, where she tied up at Stapleton, Staten Island. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40713FC3C5C13... Indra remained at Stapleton until July 6, 1916 when she was towed to Erie Basin, at the foot of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, and her cargo, which had multiplied in value due to the war, was unloaded and sold. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40710FA3C5F1373... The placement of this photo near several others of interned German ships is one clue. If it is the Indra, the photo's date indicates that it would be at the Stapleton docks, though the sign for J&F Kelly is for a dock construction contractor near the Gowanus Canal. Photos of the Indra at other times in her career (she was seized in 1917 and renamed by the First Lady as the Tonawonda, one of many Indian names she gave to seized ships) also suggest this is the same ship. repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/handle/2346/47406 repositories.tdl.org/ttu-ir/bitstream/handle/2346/47406/t... www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=19888#v www.clydeships.co.uk/files/201308230919430.Indria%20ex%20... www.clydeships.co.uk/files/201303191927110.Tonawanda%20ex... The bark Matador was the only other interned German sailing ship in New York (docked at Hoboken, N.J), according to this April, 1916 account. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0B17FA3D5F1373... There is illegible writing on the side of the ship in this photo, but it doesn't seem to say Indra. Tonawonda ended her days after a voyage from Seattle to Australia in 1927, another colorful trip: www.angelfire.com/or/petermarsh/Tonawanda.htm

The sun., February 02, 1917, Page 3, upper left chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-02-02/ed-... has a list which describes Indra as a "steel ship" and Matador as an "oak bark." The largest sail on the aft mast should be square for a ship and fore-and-aft for a bark. I think I see a boom on the aft mast, which might argue that this is the Matador, if the choice is between the two.

Art Siegel Artolog, Thanks for flagging this image as one of your top favorites in the LOC photostream. You wrote, "This one has the enigmatic caption "Sailing Ship, New York." It hasn't been positively identified as the Indra, which sailed from South American to the coast of Ireland to New York, caught in the winds of war and intrigue with its valuable cargo. [But] trying to track down the identification brought to light Indra's exciting story, worthy of a Patrick O'Brian novel, as well as the story of the many German ships and their crews who were interned for years in New York area harbors for years before America entered the war and seized them." We appreciate your many, many regular contributions to identifying the photographs in the Bain News Service collection and enriching their stories. Your selection now appears in the new set, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157640980107725/] Happy Valentine's Day! -- Helena, on behalf of LOC

nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6247915 ; nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6247910 I'll park these links here for possible future reference... nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6247918 another one! nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6247912 ; nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6247916 and a few more...

From wikimedia - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Winterhude_(ship,_1898) "Winterhude was an Steel three-masted ship built in 1898 by Rickmers Reismühlen, Rhederei und Schiffbau AG, Bremen for their own account as fullrigged ship Mabel Rickmers. Dimensions: 81,44×12,20×7,54 meters and tonnage: 2065 GRT, 1985 NRT, and 3060 DWT. 1912 sold to Schlüter & Maack, Hamburg and renamed Winterhude. At the same time re-rigged as a barque. Then followed a checkered history of owners. Broken up 1949" More details at sailing-ships.oktett.net/86.html including "1932 - She lost her main royal mast, and thus became `bald-headed' having lost both her royals." [no idea what that means!]

Aha! This photo must be LEAVING after the October 1931 visit to Sydney - spot the differences with - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16825605 (SMH 27/10/1931 p.12, the next day)

Details of the arrival, Capt. Karlsson etc - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16802497 Sorenson, the Stowaway Steward - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16802233 PIGS! - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/16802275

beachcomber australia The royalmasts are the fourth sections of mast up from the bottom and the sails on these are the royals. I'm surprised they didn't replace them again though, since its not terribly difficult to do so.