. The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters. f the Hudson it is only within the past twenty years thatshe has passed away. The sloop died notdirectly because of the Clermont and hersuccessors,—those giant steam passengerboats that now ply between New York andAlbany,—but she succumbed, with theschooner, rather to the great steam drawnTows that now pass slowly and silentlyup and down the river bearing on theirbarges, sc
. The sloops of the Hudson; an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters. f the Hudson it is only within the past twenty years thatshe has passed away. The sloop died notdirectly because of the Clermont and hersuccessors,—those giant steam passengerboats that now ply between New York andAlbany,—but she succumbed, with theschooner, rather to the great steam drawnTows that now pass slowly and silentlyup and down the river bearing on theirbarges, scows and canal boats the vast ton-nage that makes up the commerce of theriver. The sloops did not feel the competitionof the early steamboats, and in fact oftenmade better time between Albany and NewYork, when the wind was fair; nor at firstdid the sloops appear to have difficulty inwithstanding the competition of the tow-boat companies, but when they were com-bined to meet the great increase in the sizeand number of cargoes, necessitating vesselsof larger tonnage to transport the commo-dities to the New York markets with reason-able despatch and regularity, then the sailingvessels of the Hudson were doomed. They. A TYPICAL HUDSON RIVER SLOOP From a painting by W. Sheppard and reproduced from The Ruiitier by permission ofThe Rudder Publishing Co., New York The Packets 3 made a good fight, however, and with theirdefeat has disappeared one of the most pic-turesque features of the Hudson River. The sail is rarely seen on the river to-day,except here and there a small schooner, cat-boat, or other yacht, and the larger sailingyachts that twenty years ago passed up anddown have been superseded by the steamyacht or motor boat. Even the occasionalyacht will use her auxiliary instead ofspreading her sails. The Hudson is fast be-coming a canal, as the Rhine has alreadybecome, with double-track railways on bothbanks and twenty factory chimneys to onecastle. The width of the Hudson is h
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