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...Derrickson '35, Joseph K. Gilligan '36, William H. M. Glazier '36, Nathaniel M. Goodhue '36, Henry O. Marcy '37, Roger B. Martin '37, William C. McCarthy '35, Samuel L. Miller '37, John Ney '35, John R. O'Neill '36, Louis H. Orr '36, Thomas L. Perry '37, Arthur S. Pier '37, Arthur H. Rice '34, Ed S. Roys '36, David W. Schoonmaker '36, William S. Shrader '37, Arthur C. Sullivan '36, Arthur W. Todd '35, and Aronsen A. Vitagliano...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
...into Manhattan and Chinatown went wild. Rich merchants had hired a suite for their hero at the tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria. They sent three planes with Chinese pilots roaring down the bay to dip and zoom in welcome. As the Olympic drew in, 4,000 jubilant celestials jammed the pier and Chinese drivers of a motorcade of 200 cars pushed down the buttons of their horns, kept them down...
Housing also became Mr. Moffett's immediate personal problem. He brought his 124-ft. yacht Bidou to Washington to live in. The District of Columbia has piers, at which yachts may be tied up, but the channels need dredging. The only pier with enough water to float Bidou was already rented for $30 per month to John Hays Hammond Jr. for his Ripple. Hence Mr. Moffett had to anchor Bidou out in the Potomac where he could not even have the convenience of a telephone...
McCormick Steamship Co. has been located at Piers 38 and 40 for years and such credit or blame as may be attached to steamship participation in the opening of Pier 38 therefore should rest on our shoulders...