Sport: Launchings

Corsair IV. John Pierpont Morgan, with his two sons, Junius and Henry, their two wives and his two daughters—Mrs. George Nichols and Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer—all went to Bath, Me., in two private cars which were shunted into the yard of the Bath Iron Works. Letters from people threatening to dynamite the new yacht on the ways made the officials of the Iron Works uncomfortable; they kept the crowd outside the fence. Mrs. Nichols hit the bow of the Corsair IV with a bottle of 1915 champagne donated by the Iron Works....

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