Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . orty feet wide at the top, eighteen feet at thebottom, with a depth of at least four feet of water,which was calculated to accommodate boats of onehundred tons burden. The work had progressed sofar that on October 22, 1819, the first boat was ableto make the trip from Rome to Utica with GovernorClinton, Chancellor Livingston and other distinguishedmen aboard. It was not until October 26, 1825, however, aftereight years of prodigious labor, that the Erie and
Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . orty feet wide at the top, eighteen feet at thebottom, with a depth of at least four feet of water,which was calculated to accommodate boats of onehundred tons burden. The work had progressed sofar that on October 22, 1819, the first boat was ableto make the trip from Rome to Utica with GovernorClinton, Chancellor Livingston and other distinguishedmen aboard. It was not until October 26, 1825, however, aftereight years of prodigious labor, that the Erie andChamplain Canals were opened and the Hudson wasthe scene of such a maritime pageant that the peopleof that period had never dreamed of. On the date named a flotilla of canal boats, all newand gaily decorated, started from Buffalo, on LakeErie, for New York City. The news of the departurewas communicated to the latter city by the booming ofcannon located along the hne and the signal thustraveled across the entire State and down the Hudsonin one hour and twenty minutes. When the boatsreached Albany they were received by a great throng. Floating Towns 91 of people. Governor Clinton, the Canal Commissionersand all the State officials. There never was such a ring-ing of bells and booming of cannon in the place people who had made the trip from Buffalo wereescorted to the capitol in a triumphal procession andwelcomed by Mayor Hone, of New York City, on be-half of the people of the metropolis. On November fifth, at five oclock in the morning,the canal boat packets, convoyed by the Chancellor Liv-ingston, with Governor Clinton and distinguished guestson board the Young Lion of the West and the SenecaChief, reached New York and were welcomed by theNew York Common Council, which met the fleet onboard the steamboat Washington. Every vessel in theharbor was gaily decorated with flags, the church bellsrang and cannon saluted as the naval procession roundedthe Battery and sailed u
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