Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — FAST STEAMERS. [ARTICLE]

FAST STEAMERS.

Mew Yark Want* Them tor the Benefit of Suburban Reeldente. Steamboats that can go forty miles an hour are soon to make several suburbs a part of all-devouring New York as Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Hampton Court, Cheleea, Kew, Clacton, Windsor, Margate, Ramsgate, etc., are part of London, says the New York Press. The steamboats on the Thames are perhaps the vilest In the world. Those In New York waters are the most palatial. The St Johns, Sandy Hook and Monmouth have made the approach to the Hook a long stretch of the most delightful summer homes. Similar boats will line Jamaica bay with cottages as soon as Barren Island is cleaned out. The proposed forty-' mile boats on the Hudson will extend New York thirty miles up the shores of the American Rhine tn an incredibly short time. Many thousands of New Yorkers who now refuse to leave the city on account of the crush of morning and afternoon travel on the railroads will joyfully take up a residence in the country when they can go forty miles an hour by boat, with plenty of unconfined air, plenty of elbow room, no smoke, no cinders, no

dust, no every-day train annoyances. The day will bring two outings of the most delightful and fascinating description, with attendant health. Instead of breathing another man’s contaminating breath In a close and foulsmelling car, the boat commuter on AU his lunge with the pure ozone of heaven. Instead of contracting himself twice dally into the smallest possible space he may expand with an honest, fearless inflation. Even in the most Inclement weather the decks will be free to him should he desire to brave and breathe the elements.