Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . the General Sedgwick, butthe steam organs soon ceased to be a novelty andin time came to be considered an expensive nuisance. Of the many old-timers on the Hudson, the ancientand odd-looking steam ferryboat Air Line, that hasbeen plying between Saugerties and Tivoli since 1857,is entitled to the palm. For a half century this old boathas been doing duty and her crew have been so longwith her they may be regarded as eligible to the ancientmariner class. Capt.
Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation . the General Sedgwick, butthe steam organs soon ceased to be a novelty andin time came to be considered an expensive nuisance. Of the many old-timers on the Hudson, the ancientand odd-looking steam ferryboat Air Line, that hasbeen plying between Saugerties and Tivoli since 1857,is entitled to the palm. For a half century this old boathas been doing duty and her crew have been so longwith her they may be regarded as eligible to the ancientmariner class. Capt. John M. Burnett has run theboat for twenty-seven years, and Charles Taylor whobegan with him as engineer kept his post for twenty-two years before he died and was succeeded by GeorgeMower who is still on duty. The deckhand, JamesDickson, began to work on the boat as a boy and isnow, after ten years of service, a grown man. In the genus steamboat, species ferry, one of the mostinteresting specimens extant is the old chain craft stilldoing duty on the creek at Rondout. The chainferries, so numerous in the years gone by, in some sec-. X 2 Some of the Old-timers. 29 tions of the country, have nearly all disappeared andcertainly the one at Rondout is an antique. The boatis named the Riverside, but is more affectionately al-luded to by the natives as the Skilly Pot. Three other points of interest should be noted in con-nection with early steamboat navigation. The first:Nicholas J. Roosevelt built at Pittsburg, Pa., the steam-boat New Orleans in 1811 and sailed her down theOhio and Mississippi Rivers to the city, in whosehonor she was named. It was the beginning of thewonderful steamboat activity on the western second; a boat bearing the unique name of Walk-in-the-Water, began running on Lake Erie in third; a sailing vessel, the Savannah, which hadbeen altered and provided with a steam engine, sailedfrom Savannah in 1819 for Liverpool and made thetrip across the A
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