One item that might be of wider interest is that Albert wrote to his father Henry in Philadelphia about seeing the steel being smelted and poured for the Panama Canal's lock gates. No one mill could produce enough steel at one time, so trenches were dug in the streets of Homestead to allow steel to run from several mills to a single point. Boards were laid across the trenches at intersections to allow pedestrians to cross the streets in safety. My grandfather recalled the letter vividly when I recorded him for family history in 1978. I later looked the story up and found that it did happen pretty much as Albert described.
Of lesser interest for the general public, Albert remained behind in The Pale while most of the rest of his family emigrated by 1893. His father Henry came 1888 (most likely) and his mother Bessie and two of his brothers, Samuel and Charles, came in 1893 (I've found the ship's manifest. The name of their town is Suchowola.) Henry was naturalized in 1895 in Memphis TN (I have the original court document). I've never found anything concrete that establishes when Albert arrived. Albert appears to be very unreliable about dates. His naturalization filing says 1905 on the Kroonland but I can't find him on any manifests for that period.
According to my grandfather, Albert remained to finish rabbinic training. On completion and immigrating, he took a job at a Jewish school in Philadelphia, but didn't like the work and quit. He then took a job with a manager in one the Pittsburgh-area mills. He married, had children and died there. His two daughters married and left the area.
When I interviewed for the Univ. of Pittsburgh in 1970, my family said, "We have family in Pittsburgh." But I never made contact. And no one from our family remains there.