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...Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point, where dimly through fog and rain could be seen the bulk of the Montauk Manor hotel above the cottages of the tiny fishing village of Montauk...
Sponsor of the fleet's visit to Montauk was Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois, the blocky, florid chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. Congressman Britten summers at Montauk. He was there to welcome the fleet. So was his good friend Carl Graham Fisher, board chairman of Montauk Beach Development Corp. Mr. Britten had outlined a gay, busy week for the Navy. The hostesses of swank East Hampton and Southampton nearby would entertain the officers at many a bright party. For the men there would be a carnival at more distant Patchogue, where they could race bicycles, pitch...
...dirty night the fleet anchored, Seaman Francis Barnes fell overboard from a ship's boat and was drowned. Next day it rained hard. Grumblings began to be heard. The grumblings became open complaints: there was nothing to do in Montauk, nothing to look at but the fishermen's cottages and the hotel, at which prices were too high even for captains; rain kept all but a few sailors from the carnival at Patchogue; it would cost $5 for a round-trip ticket to New York. The complaints grew louder, settled into an insistent charge of "logrolling...
Officers & men and the newspapers put together two-unusual visits to Montauk this year by the Los Angeles, the scouting fleet, the U. S. S. Constitution-and two- Mr. Britten's friendship for Mr. Fisher and his financial interest in Mr. Fisher's development corporation-and considered the sum self-evident. Mr. Britten denied they made four...
Retired, Capt. Ernest Granville Diggle, commodore of the Cunard fleet, commander of the Aquitania; after 43 years...