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a clear indication of the problems with spotting tops and funnel smoke. Always a miserable combination, sometimes completely untenable.

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad pier on the far left.

As seen from the Brooklyn Bridge, looking northwest across the East River toward the Manhattan Bridge. I think all of those piers are gone now. See also taken from the same spot.

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for info on Junius Spencer Morgan III

These are the civilians learning to be sailors who left New York harbor in August, 1916. LOC caption does not include the names written at bottom:
H.M. Noyes, M.M. Chapman, E.J. Duggan, F. B. Read, J.S. Morgan, E.S. Farr, L.J. Englis. From left to right, those are the men facing the camera who are not obscured by the guy talking to them. Their names are also stenciled on the fronts of their uniforms.
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J.S. Morgan is also pictured here:

A full account of the training cruise in the October 4, 1916 Princeton Alumni Weekly by a participant, Henry Buxton, mentions other Princeton Alumni aboard the Maine, including F.B. Read, Princeton '10. books.google.com/books?id=chJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=... This led me to a mention of Read in an account of a Princeton football game, naming his prep school, then to an obituary for Frederick Bliss Read in the journal of his prep school, St. Paul's Academy (Concord, NH): "Obituary: Frederic Bliss Read 1906-Frederic Bliss Read died in Providence, Rhode Island, September 6, 1978, in his ninetieth year. The third of five St. Paul's brothers, he was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, December 14, 1888, the son of Charles O. and Mary Bliss Read, and entered the School in the Fourth Form in 1903. He was a natural athlete. "Strenuous in games and very strong," M. K. Gordon wrote of him some years after he won the Gordon Medal in 1906, "he did not overstep the mark of sportsmanship." He excelled in hockey and football and was an exceptional oarsman. He played on the Delphian football team every one of his years at School and was a strong backfield runner on the SPS team of 1905. In 1906, he captained both Delphian and SPS hockey. Filling the position formerly called "center point" on the School team, he was considered the best player of that position the School had seen. He rowed on winning Halcyon Crews for two years, becoming Halcyon and SPS captain in 1906. At Anniversary that same spring, he won the 120-yard hurdles and placed second in both the 220-yard hurdles and the hammer throw. He was a member of the Cadmean and the Scientific Association, sang bass in the Choir, and was co-author of a short play printed in the Horae in the spring of 1906. After graduation he attended Princeton, where his remarkable athletic career continued. During his early years in business, he played amateur hockey, and he kept his hand in at tennis and golf for most of his life. His working career included thirty-five years in the Providence office of Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, as an investment broker and manager. During World War I, he was first assigned to duty as an ensign on a submarine chaser in the Atlantic, and then, for the final months of the war, as an instructor in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Few alumni have maintained closer or more loyal attachment to the School. He broke the tape in the Alumni Dash at his tenth and fifteenth reunions and was regularly on hand for Anniversary until the year before his death. He is survived by a son, Frederic B. Read, Jr., '36; six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. He was the brother of the late Albert M. Read, '00, Charles N. Read, '04, Malcolm E. Read, '09, and Robert O. Read, '19." archives.sps.edu/common/text.asp?Img=11658&Keyword=&a...

Art Siegel: Thanks for all the great details on this event. We will use this information to improve the record.