Bear Mountain — Harriman State Park ALL FACILITIES OPERATED BY (&omm\*B\tmttB of tip {taltaafrn interstate Park Bear Mountain Inn A Restaurant and Cafeteria Table D'Hote Afternoon Tea A la Carte Unsurpassed Scenic Mountain Trips Via Comfortable Automobile Buses QUEENSBORO and return (13 miles) • 3 .50 BEAUTIFUL LAKE TIORATI and return (16 miles) 75 LAKE KANAWAUKE (Famous Boy Scout Camp) and return (24 miles) 1.00 CELEBRATED SEVEN LAKES DRIVE (40 miles) 1.50 ALL BUSES START FROM UPPER BUS STAND AND RETURN IN AMPLE TIME TO CATCH RETURN BOAT Where the AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY Joins the Hudson However long or complicated the itinerary for your vacation tour through the Great Lakes, the glorious west, the Canadian Rockies, Alaska, the St. Lawrence and Saguenay, Evangeline Land, or New England, it may be planned so that you can board a Day Liner at Albany for a leisurely sail down this historic waterway to New York City. Indeed, your tour may begin with a cruise up the Hudson if you do not desire to keep this feature in store for the end of the journey. Let us plan your tour, make your reservations and provide your tickets and coupons. And protect yourself always by carrying American Express Travelers Cheques. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL DEPARTMENT SOLD ON ALL BOATS OF THIS LINE CHOCOLATES HORTON'S ICE CREAM The Premier Ice Cream of America For Seventy-five Years 1851 SOLD EXCLUSIVELY ON THIS BOAT 1926 A New Hotel Without "VPS"! ITS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! One Price for All the Rooms! (7^HE 12-story fireproof Cornish Arms ^ Hotel, just opened, has eliminated all the hokum of "up" prices. This con­ venient and comfortable new hotel has only one price for a single room and bath, $2.50. Room for two, with^bath, $4. Remember, there are no "ups." There's a bath with every room; 340 rooms to select from. Excellent restaurant service at moderate prices. Room with bath, single, $2.50 Room for two with bath, 4.00 One rate only—No "Ups" Come and Compare! CORNISH ARMS HOTEL 311 West 23d St., at Eighth Ave. Sid Blake, Manager New York The Candy Tour Grandfather Bought FAMOUS SINCE 1806 For sale on this Steamer HOTEL BRETTON HALL BROADWAY, 85th to 86th Sts., NEW YORK SUBWAY STATION AT DOOR L STATION 2 BLOCKS EAST Convenient to Everything LARGE, QUIET, AIRY ROOMS Special Rates during Spring and Summer Months Single Rooms with Bath—Also Suites of 2, 3, and 4 Rooms, 1 or 2 Baths—Transient or Permanent Restaurant Service A la carte Hackel-Berge Trio Renders Nightly Concerts Broadway Surface Cars direct from 129th St. Pier to Bretton Hall in ten minutes Fifth Ave. and 29th St., N. Y. City IN SHOPPING DISTRICT SINGLE ROOMS - - - - $2.50 PER DAY WITH PRIVATE BATH - - $3.00 PER DAY ROOM WITH PRIVATE BATH FOR TWO $5.00 to $7.00 PER DAY PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH $7.00 to $12.00 PER DAY Descriptive booklet with floor plan giving fixed room prices may be found with purser of this steamer JOHN F. GARRETY, Manager 44' ST. HOTEL A New Hotel Just Completed New^ York's Best Location Fireproof Construction SSOTROOMS—350 BATHS ' $3,—$4,—$5 Per Day Restaurant a la Carte 3 Minutes from 20 Theatres HM 44th St., East of Broadway - JOHN McGLYNN ij^txttt i&ntktftlivt Thirty-Three West Fifty-First Street Just West of Fifth Avenue NEW YORK CITY Seclusion of a home in the heart of every­ thing. Rooms single or en suite on leases or transiently. Fall leases now being made. BRESLIN n Ownership Management WILLARD D. ROCKEFELLER Tel. Circle 0250 NEW YORK 111! BROADWAY AT 29™ STREET III! Ideally located for the transacting 111! of business with ease and dispatch and for the enjoyment of New 'Ill York's unequalled attractions. Hotel St. Andrew Broadway at 72d St., New York Located between Central Park and River­ side Drive. Most convenient to Theatre, Shop and Business Districts. $3.00 Single Rooms with Private Bath, $4.00 Double Rooms with Running Water, $2.50 Single $3.00 Double MODERATE IN PRICE Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, p A^FQ Single $2.50 Up $5.00 per day and up KAILS: Double 400TJp Booklet and map of ?*{ew Yor\ will be mailed you on request Take Subway or Red Broadway Car at 129th St. Landing Hudson River Day Line Magazine Vol. XXXIX No. 1 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE How the Desire to Serve the Public Has Developed A Magnificent Steamship Service By P. W. WILSON T IS AT A TABLE on a vessel, comfortable through the rising and falling tide. A trail as a yacht, that I write these words. of foam marks the progress of the vessel I Over waters, smooth like a mirror, this and long waves astern greet the rocks on greyhound of the River Hudson swiftly the distant shore with advancing splashes glides upstream. From her forward saloon of spray. there drift faint cadences of music, quiet A step from this table takes you to ample yet cheerful. And if the harmony floods the frames of glass through which, if the day be popular regions of the steamboat, it is chilly, you are able to feast your eyes on because, by an ingenious arrangement, the the lordly palisades. For centuries un­ orchestra is set between the decks where counted, these volcanic ramparts, with guests of the voyage do delight to congre­ their grey precipices have stood sentinel on gate. Behind the greenery of gracious ferns the River Hudson, second in dignity to no there may be heard the swish of the broad other river in the world. And the approach wheels as their blades feather a path of winter only illuminates a panorama of HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE MAGAZINE The Safety Barges, "Lady Clinton" and "Lady Van Rensselaer," Pioneers in Hudson River Pleasure Craft, Were the Forerunners of the Modern Day Line Palaces foliage with rainbow tints, which blend is, a century of unbroken transit represents soft reds and yellows of oak and elm and a long achievement. At Philadelphia, this birch with the scarlet of maple and the year, there are celebrations of the hundred evergreen of the perpetual fir. And as the and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration boat skims on its course, the bluff skylines of Independence, the signatures on which of Manhattan and Jersey City—squares of document certified the honorable birth of masonry that scrape the sky, and spires of this nation. For two-thirds of the entire churches, and the towers of universities national existence of the country, there­ and colleges, and the round roof of Grant's fore, Abram Van Santvoord and his direct Tomb-—vanish into the softening horizon descendants have been running River like the cloudcapped palaces of Shake­ Steamboats on the Hudson throughout the speare's dream. What wonder that on the warmer months of every year. Day Line Boats to Indian Point, to Bear Today we regard the railroads skirting Mountain and West Point and Albany, the eastern and western shores of the Hud­ there should be evident among the pil­ son as the main vehicle of traffic. But it grims of pleasure a happiness as un­ was not the railroad that threw open the restrained as it is wholesome? Here is a route to Albany. It was the steamboat. scene that lends itself to the courtesies of a Until the year 1831 there was no railroad neighborly nation. at all. And it was on a barge that the original American locomotive, the De Witt A Century of Service Clinton, exhibited in the Grand Central And, in this year of grace, 1926. it is one Station, New York, was carried to Albany, whole century since Abram Van Santvoord there to inaugurate the Hudson and the first spread before his passengers the Mohawk Railroad between Albany and pageant of natural beauty and of American Schenectady. The steamboat was thus the history which together lend such charm to sponsor of the railroad. And Cornelius a trip up the Hudson. In the annals of a Vanderbilt was a Commodore on the water country, so young as the United States still long before he rode the iron horse on land. HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE MAGAZINE The "Mary Powell," a famous Hudson River Day Line Passenger Steamer that Carried Many Thousands of Pleasure-Seekers and Excursionists Only in 1851 was the railway between New About the Christian name of Hudson York and Albany completed. And as it there has been controversy. By birth and advanced to Poughkeepsie, steamboats like baptism he was Henry. But employed as the Armenia of the Day Line, connected he was by the Dutch, he signed himself with the trains and were an essential link Hendrick, and this is the spelling preserved in the traffic. In due course, there was on the nameplate of successive Day Line inevitably a bitter competition between steamboats. The spelling of the name was railroad and steamboat. Rates on the accepted by the eminent American writer, river were cut to 50 cents a trip, to 25 Washington Irving, "who lived on the cents, even to 6 cents. Indeed, in i860, Hudson, loved it and immortalized its you could travel to Albany by boat for a legends and its history." To its famous dis­ dime or without any charge at all. Today coverer, or more accurately, explorer, the there is cooperation not competition river was, perhaps, a disappointment. And between the Day Line and the railroads. when, in his small bark, the Half Moon, he Each enterprise, it is found, feeds the ascended as far as Albany, it was in the traffic of the other.