Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . theChancellor Livingston, T. Wiswall of the James Kent,S. Wiswall of the Richmond and Benton of the Saratoga,on the North River Line; Captain Bartholomew of theHudson, on the Connecticut Line; R. G. Cruttendenof the Constellation and Wiswall of the Constitution,on the North River Association Line. Capt. D. Pecksailed the Swift Sure and Captain Seymour the Com-merce, of the Steam Navigation Company; Captain Peckthe Henry Eckford and Captain Drake the Srm, of
Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . theChancellor Livingston, T. Wiswall of the James Kent,S. Wiswall of the Richmond and Benton of the Saratoga,on the North River Line; Captain Bartholomew of theHudson, on the Connecticut Line; R. G. Cruttendenof the Constellation and Wiswall of the Constitution,on the North River Association Line. Capt. D. Pecksailed the Swift Sure and Captain Seymour the Com-merce, of the Steam Navigation Company; Captain Peckthe Henry Eckford and Captain Drake the Srm, of theO. & D. Line; while Captain Sherman had the ChiefJustice Marshall and Captain Fitch the New London,of the Troy Line. Captain Cruttenden was one of the last survivors ofthis class and when in command of the old Constella-tion he used to boast he never lost a trip or a life, hadmade one thousand one hundred and sixty-two tripswith the old boat and carried over 172,000 passengers. Most of the early river captains reached a heartyold age. Captain Bunker, who ran the Fulton up theHudson during the war of 1812, lived until he was. PS rt Old River Captains 61 seventy-five years of age, dying in 1847, and must haverejoiced to note the great development in an industryin which he was a pioneer. Another veteran of theriver, Capt. Samuel Wiswall, lived to be sixty-threeyears old and died in New York in 1836. He is buriedin Hudson. Among the river captains of 1847 were Capt. , commanding the Troy; Capt. H. J. Kellogg,the Niagara; Capt. W. W. Tupper, the Columbia;Capt. R. B. Macy, the Empire; Capt. W. H. Peck, theIsaac Newton ; Capt. R. G. Cruttenden, the HendrikHudson; Capt. R. H. Furey, the North America;Capt. Thomas N. Hulse, the South America; O. Tupper, the Alida; Capt. A. DeGroot, the RogerWilliams; Capt. J. S. Odell, the Columbus; Johnson, the Thomas Powell; Capt. CharlesHalstead, the Superior and Capt. John Samuels, theEmerald. Many odd characters were
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