The New Yorker, August 4, 1945 P. 22
REPORTER AT LARGE about Hugh G. Flood, a retired house-wrecking contractor, an amateur ichtyologist, and honorary Mayor of the Fulton Fish Market. Mr. Flood was 95 years old on the 27th of July. Three evenings beforehand, on the 24th, he gave a birthday party in his room at the Hartford House, a waterfront hotel where he has lived since shortly after the death of his second wife, in 1942. Tells about the birthday party to which he had invited a "few windbags from the fishmarket," and an old friend of the family, an undertaker named Tom Bethea.
