New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-18

IN an. ~ the craft was provided with no protec-
ton against the elements except such as ne might
bring aboard with him. and yet there were pas
seneers on nearly all the soops. But the steam
boats with their covered decks. cabins ana state
rooms attracted the better class OF travellers ana
every Improvement was watched then as CLOSELY DIS
to-day
Captain harrington named the Armenia "heh
che uas launched in ls47. She was remarkable Tor
her improved machinery, and was one Oh ''e III 81
boats with which opposition was made 10 the Iesu-
lar line For thirty days she ran between Albany
and New-York taking passengers al any price, ,'ie
object being to keep them Off the feopie Line
boats Hundreds were carried for % CENTS pu' Oh
ceveral occasions when the other line onered extra
inducements two and three passengers were taken
for two shillings." or 2s cents ..,u ou,, -,
Among the veterans who began their WORK on
The river in the sloop business and We're sradn-
ated TO the steamboat branch are captain ooh CD,
Briggs of the New-York, who ran sloop III loa,
and went in the steamboat business IN ls's ana q
Jacob b. odell Of the oamy fast and in every
rileI va nntodate steamboats,. and knowing that
they were in the business wne nst ' modern boat
aAoat one realizes the rapid development OF the
river steamboat
A SHORT TRIP NOW.
"ya mako the run to Albany now" said Cap
tain Briggs 'in nine hours. but 1t took us niteeh
and twenty hours in 1852, when began steamboat
ing The fare was 50 and a to Albany ana IL one
cama early he could get a berth. but those VINO
came after the few hunks were taken mao door
2%ith the swallow came staterooms and more com,
lori She was wrecked near Athens In 1913 ana
exceptionally fine boat For twenty years alleI
she was lost when people In the river towns
wanted to say that matter had Deen Snn th
ostpOned they sdlu IL "oui" ""PFN" ~'' ~
'Cantain Odell who began in the sloop business In
1st7 and ran a steamboat Ave years later ana ever
since said that many people believed When tne
rod hat ia
would be killed but ne had seen re saGS Win
nleasure the days when he ran a sloop and said
that there more real fun In II than IN steam,
boatin0 He was fifty years younger ihen ana
,ossihfv tlst had something to do with the state
ment. but he and his companion. captain bris6s,
related with hearty eh,oyen' s, tme on The onar
terdeck working to make time, knowing that the
onnostIon boat would cut them OUT u they came IN
iafe The told OF the remarkable time mace by
nr. ~ he sloops In favorable weather. and one
~ them said he had come from Albany once "A
NV left the basin In Albany" he said. lat
o,cock in the morning, and at 10 that night we
we're tied up IN Tarrytown we los. a MD. os t.
board that trip, and we're put oA'" "''"& " ''~
MN If Nyack at $50 o'clock one morning." said
the other, in true sailor ranins was In
the Goose Pasture of Albany that night at
O'Clock ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.
xu,u. listening to the stories OF the od-time
Hudson River sailor men one might fancy ones sell
hacr in the days OF the Commerce or the De Witt
clinton. The burning Of the Henry Clay In 1852
.nd The Isaac Newton in 1863 were witnessed by
the old captains
"Rut there was another accident on the river"
sa,d Captain Briggs. which shall never forget.
That was the burning OF the Berkshire OH Soap
ers Island near Poughkeepsie In 1854 IL H. only
natural that should remember Il because va