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Updated: June 29, 2025

The groups upon the pier men, youths, and boys-were whites and blacks in about equal proportion. All were well and neatly dressed; many of them nattily, a few of them very stylishly. One would have to travel far before he would find another town of twelve thousand inhabitants that could represent itself so respectably, in the matter of clothes, on a freight-pier, without premeditation or effort.

Mark Twain - Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion