View of a lake in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. In the background, the high rise buildings, including skyscrapers, hotels and office buildings of the Manhattan skyline are visible.
Point of view (POV) street scenes from a moving automobile along 125th Street in crowded area of Harlem, New York City, between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue, and between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue. Pedestrians along a crowded street. Store signs include "Windsor Drugs" (276 West 125th Street), "Record Shack" (272 West 125th Street), "Dilrich Provisions" (5 West 125th Street) and "Liggett-Rexall" (86 West 125th Street, on corner of 125th Street and Lenox Ave). Cars and trucks double-parked. Outdoor sidewalk fruit and vegetable stand, with signs above reading:" Checks cashed."
Officer and sailors on board Navy torpedo boat, "Morris", in waters of Newport, Rhode Island. Sailors on the Navy torpedo boat "Morris"place large Whitehead torpedo into launching tube on deck. They fire the torpedo and it launches into the water in a cloud of smoke and speeds away leaving a foamy wake. Sailors then rotate the torpedo tube back along the gunwale.
View of black smoke emitted from smokestack of Torpedo Boat 'Morris' running in water in Newport . Sailors with hats aboard. Torpedo boat discharges a white head torpedo.
View of railroad workmen working on track for the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The new Black Diamond Express railroad train from New York City, through Pennsylvanis, to Buffalo, New York. Locomotive seen emitting smoke and rounding a curve at a distance. Workers move off the track as train comes. Work crew supervisor waves two large white kerchiefs as the train approaches and passes. Trainman on board waves back with a kerchief.
Burning of Standard Oil Company tanks at Bayonne in New Jersey. Fire triggered by a lightning strike during a thunder storm, which caused Naphtha tank No. 7 of Standard Oil Company's plant to explode. People on street in Bayonne, with sky darkened by the heavy smoke rising high above the town. People evacuate area threatened by the fire. Horse-drawn wagons carrying goods, follow wheel tracks in the street. Several men with bicycles. Two men pull a wagon loaded with bedding and furniture.
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