Gaynor, Badger, Wilson, Smith, Photo shows Mayor William Jay Gaynor, Docks Commissioner Robert Smith (1857-1933), Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, Commander of the Atlantic fleet; and General James Grant Wilson, member of the Maine Monument Committee, on the steps of New York City Hall. Badger and Wilson were in New York for the the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New Yor

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