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Title: Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Buckman, David Lear
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Publisher: New York : The Grafton press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on of passengers—she is licensed to carry two thousand one hundred andfifty-nine—are of the most complete character. Hergrand saloon, one hundred and ninety-five feet long,is finished in quartered oak, and large plate plass win-dows afford the traveler most dehghtful views of theshipping in river and bay. There are nineteen state-rooms and four drawing rooms are also provided.She has two engines of the four cylinder, triple type,of six thousand horse power and the boat has developeda speed of twenty and five one-hundredths knots. Thismeans she can make the run to the Atlantic Higlilandsat Sandy Hook, a distance of eighteen miles, in onehour and five minutes with the regularity of a railroadtime-table. Indeed she runs in close connection withrailroad trains that carry the passengers from the land-ing point to Sea Girt, Long Branch, Ocean Grove andother popular resorts. Two new boats, one for the Peoples Line andthe other for the Citizens Line to be built on the ,f t-y ^^i^i -trf^^l
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The Steamboats of To-day 107 general lines of the Morse, have been contracted for,both of which will be ready for the summer seasonof 1908. They will have steel hulls, and the largerone of the two, will be four hundred and forty feet longhaAang over five hundred staterooms and accommoda-tions for two thousand passengers. Every conveniencewill be provided and they are expected to be the mostluxurious river craft afloat. The name of the new Peoples Line boat will be thePrinceton and the Citizens Line new boat will benamed the Knickerbocker repeating the name of a pop-ular steamer in the passenger service on the river in1844-5. CHAPTER XIII HUDSON-FULTON MEMORIALS THE names of Henry Hudson and Robert Fultonwill be borne in large letters on the pages of his-tory, so long as the river that was the scene of theirgreat achievements finds its way to the sea. The Ter-centennial of Hudsons discovery and the Centennialof Fultons successful application of steam to naviga-tion will furnish opportu

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