1905: August 10th onboard the Helen C. Juilliard. President Theodore Roosevelt and his party were traveling by special train from Oyster Bay, Long Island to Jersey City for an event in Wilkes-Barre, PA. It was not reported which vessel he used for the Hudson crossing (no bridges or tunnels back then), but as they passed The Battery they saw the Floating Hospital ship of St. John’s Guild and it was reported that “those on board cheered the President, who waved his hat in return.”
The President’s official yacht, the USS Mayflower was being used at this time to bring Russian and Japanese peace envoys to Kittery, Maine, for negotiations which ran from August 6 to the 30th that formally ended the Russo-Japanese War, earning the President the Nobel Peace Prize. | 
