“That miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river. He thinks there is something objectionable in their stripping off their clothes and jumping into the water.”

-Walt Whitman

 

          John Johnston (and J. W. Wallace), Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-91 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1917; rpt. 1918) 43, quoting Whitman on the subject of Camden Wharf.