september

Mr. Madsen apparently worked in coporate legal.

One possibility is a Lt. Patrick G. Fitzgibbons who led the New York Police Glee Club and Band. See NYT of July 16, 1925 timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/07/16/10167283... which says, "Governor Alfred E. Smith and many other State and municipal officlals went to the pier at the foot of West Houston Street yesterday to bid farewell to Lieutenant Patrick Fitzgibbons, head of the New York Police Glee Club and Band, who sailed for Italy on the Giuseppi Verdi on his way to Rome." NYT of Feb 4, 1954 timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/02/04/92528703... gives his middle initial as G.

An earlier Bain photo shows a Lt. Fitzgibbons


Based on research into a nearby Bain picture of Gigli (see comments on picture above), this is probably in September 1922.

He is in the uniform of the New York Police Glee Club. See another earlier photo:


I think Fitzgibbons may be third from right.
Could the man in this later Bain photo be the same person?

Another Bain photo of the New York Police Glee Club -- determined by Flickr users to be from 1918 -- is:

NY Post refers to him as Patrick J. Ellis Island shows him returning (age 43) on the Mauretania, accompanied by Margaret Fitzgibbons (age 42). The boys wearing little boy pants and grown up hats are George (age 9) and Edward (age 8). None of them have middle initials.

Seuss. -- Great. Do you have a date. I don't find anything in Chronicling America for Fitzgibbons and Mauretania in 1925.

There was a protest on October 17th 1909 which fits the bill. Fermanagh Herald - Saturday 23 October 1909:

A demonstration organised by the British Social Democratic Federation, in co-operation with the Labour Party, Fabian Society, and other organisations, was held in Trafalgar Square, London, on Sunday afternoon, to protest against the execution of Senor Ferrer, and was attended by between nine thousand and ten thousand people.

John Spooner That's some crowd. Will the newspapers be our friend in uncovering Francisco Ferrer's alleged wrongdoing?

Date fairly securely established as 17 October 1909 then, thank you, and the postcard was sent on 10 September 1910.

Methinks the protest was a bit late.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer

Francisco Ferrer was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer

The protest in Trafalgar Square was mild in comparison with what went on in Italy. It was "in the throes of a general strike" in protest against the "inquisitorial Spanish government", the Spanish consuls in Milan, Carrara and Florence resigned, and "immense bodies of soldiery" were guarding the Vatican day and night. (Daily Chronicle).,

It seems that the 'secular' aspect of Ferrer's teachings were seen as a threat to certain parts of the Spanish establishment.