InJoV-. 1905] PROCEEDINGS S. I. ASs'n ARTS AND SCIENCES. 5 



REGULAR MEETING. 



Saturday, November i8th, 1905. 



The meeting: was held at the Staten Island Academ.y. 

 President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 

 Twenty-three members were present. 



The minutes of the meeting- of October 2Tst w^re read -and approved. 

 Mr. Ira K. Morris .presented two old time-tables issued in 1819, to- 

 :g-ether with the following- paper, which was read by the Secretary: 



The Old Ferry and Coach Routes Between New York and 

 Philadelphia, via Staten Island. 



For a period of several years following: the close of the War of 18 12 

 — say up to the time of the awful financial panics that came with the 

 commencement of the '30's — there was great activity in public im- 

 provements throug^hout the country, but most especially along- the line 

 •of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing-ton. 



Among: the most interesting: of the relics of those old days which 

 have come into my possession are two time-tables that give us a very 

 clear idea of how the .people traveled at that time. They read as fol- 

 lows: 



OLD UNION LINE 

 FOR PHILADELPHIA. 



Via New-Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton «& Bristol. 

 Fare Throug:h, $5. 



The Vice-President's Steamboat Nautilus will leave New York every 

 day (Sundays excepted) from Whitehall Wharf, 



At II A. M. 

 for Staten Island. From here the passengers will be received without 

 delay into the superior fast sailing- Steamboat Bellona, Captain Cornel- 

 ius Vanderbilt, for Brunswick; from thence'in Post Chaises to Trenton, 

 where they lodg:e, and arrive next morning- at 10 o'clock in Philadel- 

 phia with the commodious and fast-sailing: Steamboat Philadelphia, 

 Captain Jenkins, in time to take the Old Union Line Baltimore Steam- 

 boat, which leaves at 12 o'clock every day. 



For seats, apply at No. 145 Broadway; No. 5 Courtlandt st., 2d office 

 from Broadway; at the Steamboat Hotel, corner of Washington and 



