All passengers other than those regularly shipped at the stated landing-places were required to pay at the rate of one dollar for every twenty miles, and half a dollar for each meal taken on board. Baggage was allowed free, if below sixty pounds in w^eight, and freight was carried at the rate of three cents a pound. Some of the old river boats had an interesting historv. One, called the New World, that used to run

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between New York and Albany, was cut up and taken to San Francisco, and, having been put together again, ran between that city and Sacramento as El Capitan. The Sivallow made a disastrous ending on the rocks in the forties, another found her final resting-place at Piermont, while Kingston was for years a tying-up place for decrepid hulls that once throbbed and trembled under the stress of over-taxed boilers and engines in the frequent mad races for supremacy on the river. When Vanderbilt's steamer, Westchester, was running and trying to monopolise business (in 1832) an association was formed to build and run a ri\'al boat in the interest of farmers and shippers. Subscribers were found all along the ri\^er and the famous Water Witch came into being. Then commenced a rivalry so intense that the rate of fare dropped to twelve-and-ahalf cents from New York to Peekskill. The war ended b}" the purchase of a controlling interest in the new boat by the " Commodore" and the restoration of high rates. Thomas Stanton built the Trojan at West Troy, and, afterwards, several other steamboats, the two best known being the Anjieiiia and the Daniel Drew, which was his last. The Dreiv was chartered to take the Prince of Wales and his suite to Albany, at the time that the Prince (now Edward VII.) made his memorable visit to America.