. The routes pursued by the excursion steamers upon the St. Lawrence River from Clayton and Gananoque to Westminster park and Alexandria Bay. f Alexandria Bay rememberwell the high old jinks held by the gang on their visits to theriver. Who was the gang ? Just glance at the list: The three first,WiUiam M. Tweed, Hank Smith and William R. Stewart, were thebosses. They concocted the schemes, and the others carried theminto effect. Here was Foster Dewey, Tweeds private secretary;Andrew J. Garvey, Cornelius Carson, Boss Tweeds confidential clerk;Peter B. Sweeney and Dick Cornell, and then there wa
. The routes pursued by the excursion steamers upon the St. Lawrence River from Clayton and Gananoque to Westminster park and Alexandria Bay. f Alexandria Bay rememberwell the high old jinks held by the gang on their visits to theriver. Who was the gang ? Just glance at the list: The three first,WiUiam M. Tweed, Hank Smith and William R. Stewart, were thebosses. They concocted the schemes, and the others carried theminto effect. Here was Foster Dewey, Tweeds private secretary;Andrew J. Garvey, Cornelius Carson, Boss Tweeds confidential clerk;Peter B. Sweeney and Dick Cornell, and then there was a lot of sub-lieutenants besides. Up here, they styled themselves the MedicusClub, and bad medicine they were too, though judging from thefact that they doctored New York city to the amount of $27,000,000^the name was very appropriate. We now bear away to the right, leaving Pine Island, Old Pic-nic and Lotus Land on our right, and enter the Friendly or Boundary Group. This is one of the loveliest scenes on the wholeriver, and we sail through its very midst. Here are Little Lehigh,Sport, Idlewild, Summerland and Arcadia islands, on ^5. The Rambler. 39 which are the heautiful cottages of Messrs. W. A., R. H. and E. P. Wil-bur, all of Bethlehem, Pa.; Mrs. R. H. Eggleston, New York; S. , of New York, and a group of Rochester families. You wUlacknowledge that this view alone is worth taking the afternoonramble to see, and it is only one of the Thousand Island SteamboatCompanys boats, either the Islander or America, that can pass through this group. ,. , , . ^ On leaving it, we head away toward Rockport, a little hamleton the Canadian mainland, passing on our starboard, or right-handside the head of Geenadier Island, with its red-capped CanadianLight-house, Little Grenadier, Doctor and Star latter was formerly called Tar Island, but the addition of asingle letter has done wonders for it. Gen. Bradley Winslow, ofWatertown, N. Y., has a fine farm on Star Island. H
Size: 1255px × 1990px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidroutespursue, bookyear1895
