Old steamboat days on the Hudson River; tales and reminiscences of the stirring times that followed the introduction of steam navigation (1907)
Buckman, David Lear · New York : The Grafton press · leaf 56
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… … S o K H s- -^ O^ ft, 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…
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