SEE BACK COVER 
 
HENDR1CK HUDSON, one of four fine DISCOVER Y OF THE SITE OF NEW A Alb 1 EKUAA1, Sept. 2, 1609, by 
 heroic bronze statues, by J. Massey Rhind, on the Hudson, an English navigator in the employ of Dutch merchants, sailing in the " Half 
 Broadway facade of Astor's Exchange Court Bldg. Moon." In 161 3 Adrian Block came in the"Tiger," wintering on site of Aldrich Court. 
 
Cro' Nest Storm King Hudson River, looking North Pollopel's Is. Constitution Is. Breakneck Mt. Mt. Taurus 
 HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON, showing the Northern Gateway, with its four great mountain sentinels. The picturesque Highlands 
 extend southward twenty miles. The view is from Trophy Point, the northern end of West Point. The Catskill Mountains lie to the north. AVjgyWt 
 
THE " HENDRICK HUDSON" 
 
 THE WORLD'S LARGEST, STANCHEST AND MOST MAGNIFICENT STEAMBOAT 
 
 THE HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE. . ^ . —By IVm. IVirl Mills 
 
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 IN the autumn of 1906 the new " Hendrick Hudson 
 place at the head of all kindred steamboats on the rivers of the 
 globe. It embodies all of the most modern ideas in ship building. 
 It is historically almost the lineal descendant of the original "Clermont. " 
 It is built on the river to whose service it is to be devoted. 
 
 In the application of the principle of the steel skyscraper to steam- 
 boat construction, the W. & A. Fletcher Co., of Hoboken, N. J., have 
 produced in the " Hendrick Hudson" a craft that is a radical departure 
 
 from every other sidewheeler afloat. Its rigid framework of steel has 
 been so knit together by girders and trusses that it has been possible to 
 dispense with the ungainly centre hogframe, and the paddle-wheel shart 
 has been placed below the main deck, thus removing a disfigurement 
 of the interior that has been regarded as inevitable in the construction 
 of sidewheelers. 
 
 Seven watertight bulkheads make the vessel practically unsinkable, 
 and heavy steel sheathing, inclosing the boiler and machinery, < 
 
 HENDRICK HUDSON MEMORIAL BRIDGE, to be erected over Harlem Ship Canal ( Spuyten Duyvil), by the City of New York, 
 to commemorate in 1909 the Ter-Centenary of the discovery of the Hudson. Designed by Alfred P. Boiler; length, 2,500 ft.; central 
 span 8zo ft.; clear height, 175 ft.; estimated cost $5,000,000. Connects Riverside Drive Extension with Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. 
 
danger from fire. Eight mammoth boilers, with a steam pressure of 
 pounds to the square inch, furnish the power to give the 24-foot paddle 
 wheels fortv revolutions a minute Each wheel has nine curved paddles, 
 each 16 feet, 6 inches long, bv 4 feet wide, and their teatl 
 practically eliminates all jarring or vibration. 
 
 With a capacity equal to that of the five 
 largest hotels in New York City, the "Hen- 
 drick Hudson" will daily prove a luxurious 
 summer resort for about five thousand people. 
 With the great expanse of six decks, this 
 throng can dispose itself comfortably to see 
 the beauteous panorama and enjoy the 
 breezes that ever sweep the broad tidal river 
 and waft aboard the aroma of the forests. 
 
 No freight being carried, the entire in- 
 terior, conveniently arranged and magnifi- 
 
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 and ten smaller rooms, all artistically decorated. On the shade deck 
 there will be two Louis XVI drawing rooms in ivory enamel and gold. 
 On the saloon deck there will be two Japanese rooms, four in quartered 
 oak after the style of the Art Nouvtau, two Dutch rooms in oak, two 
 French Empire parlors in mahogany and 
 gold, and two in the colonial style in poplar 
 and mahogany. 
 
 There will be a large teakwood writing 
 room and a woman's boudoir in white ma- 
 hogany. The central feature of the interior 
 will be the grand stairway, surmounted by a 
 stained glass dome. 
 
 Frank E. Kirby, the eminent naval ar- 
 chitect, has had constant charge of every 
 
 Besides carrying a physician, the "Hen- 
 drick Hudson" will have a corps of sten- 
 ographers and typewritists, and a well- 
 equipped darkroom willafford photographers 
 opportunity to develop their pictures of the 
 Hudson on the spot. 
 
 In the main saloons there will be a series 
 of panel paintings by Vernon Howe Bailey, 
 depicting various scenes along the river, and 
 in the parlors will be found canvases bv 
 celebrated American and foreign artists. 
 
 The galley will be aft, under the main 
 deck, ventilated by a tall shaft, so that the 
 odor of cooking will not reach the decks. 
 The height of the two stacks, seventy feet, 
 will secure to the passengers immunity from 
 smoke and cinders, while the double casing 
 ell aft, will prevent their heating the vessel. 
 
 vi 11 be given to the com- 
 fort of passengers, so that all will find an 
 abundance of luxurious accommodations. 
 
 On the hurricane deck are large obser- 
 vation rooms, Convention Hall, all enclosed 
 in plate glass, giving an uninterrupted view 
 of both sides of the river. The after obser- 
 vation room can be reserved and rented as 
 a convention room. 
 
 The grand promenade around these 
 rooms is probably the most commodious 
 afloat, one seventh of a mile in circuit, 
 while the enormous main saloons and dining 
 room, finished in mahogany, will be tempting 
 in their elegant luxury. A string band will 
 occupy a stand suspended in an opening in 
 
 the saloon deck forward, so placed that the music will be heard also in of the stacks, which 
 
 the forward parr of the main deck, which will be finished in French gray That the life of one man should almost span the period of devel 
 
 oak. Three thousand people can sit comfortably within earshot of the opment from the pioneer voyage of the "Clermont" in 1807 to 
 orchestra. Besides these great saloons there will be fourteen large parlors the launching of the " Hendrick Hudson" in 1906 is one of the 
 
 ^KATHARINE L. OLCOTT, granddaughter of Commodore Alfred Van Santvoord, founder of the Hudson River Day Line, and daughter 
 ot Eben E. Olcott, president of the company. As the "Hendrick Hudson" glided down the ways Miss Olcott named the vessel, breaking 
 over the bow a bottle of water from a spring in the Catskills, and six doves were set free, after the Japanese custom, as the hull took to the water. 
 
 Olcott, the Sponsur* 
 
remarkable features of a century of progress in river navigation. Abram Van Santvoord, during the war of 1 812, was president of 
 
 From the day when Hudson explored the river in 1609 to the time the Village of Utica, controlled the towing business on the Hudson, 
 
 of Fulton there was a steadily increasing procession of sailing boats up 
 and down the Hudson, and the great river continued to be the chief 
 artery of trade until the completion of the Hudson River Railroad 
 in 1 85 1. But before that time the Van Santvoords, father and son, 
 had been potent factors in the utilization of the Hudson River 
 for the development of its huge and growing commerce. 
 
 boats, building the Daniel Dr 
 251 feet long, in 1 860, the great 
 freight-carriers, the Oswego and 
 theCayuga,and the famous River 
 Queen, which figured in the his- 
 tory of the Civil War. 
 
 Having held profitable freight 
 business in competition with the 
 railroads, the Commodore made 
 a radical departure in 1863 by 
 bidding more especially for pas- 
 senger traffic in establishing the 
 Albany Day Line. 
 
 The still further development 
 of this business, until it has called 
 for the construction of the greatest 
 river steamer in the world, has 
 been the work of the son-in-law 
 of Commodore Van Santvoord, 
 Eben E. Olcott, by profession a 
 mining engineer, now president 
 of the Hudson River Day Line. 
 
 The Hudson River Day Line 
 has ever been actively identified 
 with all river interests ; and the 
 public are always most bounti- 
 fully provided for. 
 
 ran some of the first boats on the Erie Canal, which was opened in 
 1825, and was one of the founders and the treasurer of the People's 
 Line, started in 1835. 
 
 His son, Alfred, born in 1 8 1 9, grew up in the business and inherited 
 with it the problem of competing successfully with steam railroads. 
 This he dealt with by increasing the size and carrying capacity of his 
 
 COMMODORE ALFRED VAN SANTVOORD, whose father 
 was a pioneer boatman on the Erie Canal. The son inherited and 
 extended the business and established the Day Line to Albany in 1863. 
 
 PRESIDENT E. E. OLCOTT, who succeeded his father-in-law, 
 Commodore Van Santvoord, as head of the Hudson River Day Line, 
 and built the "Hendrick Hudson" to meet the great increasing traffic. 
 
"HENDRICK HUDSON" just before the launching. Miss Olcott, 
 standing under the bow with a bottle of Catskill spring water, ready to 
 name the vessel. Her father, President E. E. Olcott, near the centre. 
 
 "HENDRICK HUDSON" starting down the ways to the cheering 
 of 500 steamship and railroad officials, and of Charles H. Haswell, 
 who recalled the launching of the "Chancellor Livingston" in 1816. 
 
HUDSON DAY LINER "HEN UR1CK HUDSON" floating on even keel in Newburgh Bay after the launching, March 31, 1906. 
 "HENDRICK HUDSON" seen from Marvel Shipyards after launching, a tug making fast to tow the hull down to W. & A. Fletcher Co.'s 
 yards at Hoboken to receive magnificent superstructure and machinery, which are to be triumphs of the arts of joiner, decorator and engineer. 
 
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 BY WM. W 
 
 In the log of the "Half Moon" it is recorded that when Hen- 
 drick Hudson sailed through the Narrows and past Staten Island 
 in 1609 he discovered three rivers and headed his vessel up "the 
 great streame. " This was the Shatemuc, in the Indian nomen- 
 clature, the North River to the earlier colonists, to distinguish it 
 from the South River, or the Delaware, and afterward properly 
 named the Hudson in honor of the man who sailed in the Half 
 Moon to a point 117 miles from the mouth of the stream, to 
 where the town of Hudson now stands, and sent a small boat as 
 far as the site of A'bany, 143 miles from the sea. The other 
 rivers that Hudson noted were the Kill von Kull and the East 
 River. 
 
 "THE GREAT STREAME" it is to-day, sometimes feebly de- 
 scribed as the "Rhine of America," rising in the famous North 
 Woods or Adirondacks, flowing for over 300 miles into New York 
 Bay, the tide reaching to Troy, 166 miles from its mouth, and 
 the broad, deep stream affording secure passage to the largest ships 
 as far as Hudson. In 1825 the Hudson was linked to the Great 
 Lakes by the Erie Canal, and prior to that an almost uninterrupted 
 waterway to the St. Lawrence was afforded by the portage between 
 the Hudson and Lake George. 
 
 Flanked at its mouth by New York City, Jersey City and Hobo- 
 ken, the Hudson is an important artery of trade laying tributary 
 a population of nearly 10,000,000. 
 
 During the last ten years the shipyards of the Hudson have pro- 
 duced all classes of wood and steel vessels, the largest of which is 
 the Hendrick Hudson. The contract for this craft is being filled 
 by the W. & A. Fletcher Co. of Hoboken, who sublet the build- 
 ing of the hull to the T. S. Marvel Shipbuilding Cc. of Newburgh, 
 
 duced all 
 the Hen 
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 and the cabinet work to John Englis & Sons of Brooklyn. Among 
 the vessels 5uilt by the Fletcher Co. are the celebrated Hudson 
 River steamers, Mary Powell, Albany, New York, Adirondack, 
 C. W. Morse, Onteora, Kaaterskill, etc. 
 
 But though man has possessed himself of the rich territory that 
 Hudson discovered, the natural grandeur of the river scenery has 
 survived his sometimes ruthless touch. 
 
 Passing the busy wharves of the cities the tourist has on one 
 hand the stately heights of the Palisades and on the other the beau- 
 tiful Riverside Park and Inwood sections of the metropolis, the 
 suburban city of Yonkers, and the magnificent country homes of 
 the wealthy. 
 
 The river spreads out into the Tappan Zee, 3^ miles wide and 
 iz miles long, with Tarrytown on the right bank and Stony Point 
 on the left. 
 
 Dunderberg (Thunder Mountain ) marks the beginning of the 
 Highlands of the Hudson. Peekskill rises on terraces from the bay 
 of that name, while on the left bank is West Point, the noted 
 United States Military Academy. 
 
 Just beyond is Newburgh, where Washington refused to be made 
 king, and across the river is Mt. Beacon, whose signal fires can be 
 seen in New Hampshire. At Poughkeepsie is the only bridge that 
 crosses the Hudson below Albany. At Kingston one enters the 
 region of the Catskill Mountains, and for twenty-five miles there 
 is unfolded a panorama of surpassing beauty. The crowning peak 
 of the Onteora is Slide Mountain, 4,205 feet high. 
 
 As the steamer nears Albany the valley widens into a fertile 
 farm region and above Troy one comes to the Mohawk, the chief 
 contributor to the great volume of water that makes the Hudson 
 "the great streame."