Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . hich was followed by the Northand South America, Isaac Newton, New World, Hend-rik Hudson, etc., whose elegant appointments for theaccommodation of passengers secured for the HudsonRiver steamboats the appellation of floating caused to be built nearly one hundred steam-boats, ocean steamers and river barges. He lived inNew York City, was one of the principal owners of thePeoples Line of steamboats and an active Baptist in theOld Oliver Street
Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . hich was followed by the Northand South America, Isaac Newton, New World, Hend-rik Hudson, etc., whose elegant appointments for theaccommodation of passengers secured for the HudsonRiver steamboats the appellation of floating caused to be built nearly one hundred steam-boats, ocean steamers and river barges. He lived inNew York City, was one of the principal owners of thePeoples Line of steamboats and an active Baptist in theOld Oliver Street Church. He was over sixty-three yearsold when he died. Daniel Drew, Chauncey Vibbard, Erastus Coming,Capt. A. P. St. John and Dean Richmond were allcaptains of industry in their day and generation, whoseinvestments in this line signalized them as properpersons for such historical fame as may be secured inthe name of a steamboat. Some of the old-timers have changed their namesas frequently as a popular divorcee. There is the oldTolchester still doing duty, but Avith a history behindher. Boats, indeed, in changing their names are not. Some of the Old-timers 25 unlike some women, - in trying to have the past for-gotten. Who remembers the Tolchester as the SamuelM. Felton, new in 1866 ? That is quite a way back,but there are gray heads whose memories go back tothe old Sleepy Hollow which became the Long Branchand ran to the resort of the same name, then in theheight of its popularity with the fashionable set as asummer place by the sea. The Hudson River Railroad was not completed allthe way through to Albany until October 8, 1851,when it was formally opened. The building had pro-gressed as far as Poughkeepsie in 1850 and from thatpoint the rest of the journey was made on the Armeniaand Joseph Belknap^ which ran in connection with thetrains to and from New York City. Reginald Fowler, an Englishman, who made a tripup the Hudson in the fifties on one of the old boats,said of them: Th
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