In August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded and never returned home. She was about 20 years old, Black and illiterate. Her great sin, in ...

The Delaware is an 8,000-ton boat, which cost $500,000, and the Colonial a craft of 560 tons, and cost $50,000. During the fire Joseph Scott of Engine 5 of Hoboken fell overboard and had a narrow ...