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Samuel Swartwout, and Philip Hone, of New York. 



Edwin Croswell, editor of the Albany Argus. 



Jacob Hays, high constable of New York city. 



John Meigs, high constable of Albany. 



Erastus Corning, Lewis Benedict and John Townsend, 

 h a r d w a re m e re h a n t s . 



Jesse Buel Jr., * of the engineer department, who was on 

 the road from the first survey until it was in opera- 

 tion. 



John I. Boyd, merchant. 



William Bay, physician. 



Simeon De Witt Bloodgood, counselor. 



L. H. Tupper, * steam boat captain. 



Thurlow Weed, * editor of Eceniug Journal. It is re- 

 markable that no notice of these excursions, nor anything 

 relating to the enterprise, is to be found in the files of the 

 Evening Journal. 



William B. Winne, the ancient penny post. 



Of course others must have been present and joined in 

 the excursion. It may be thought that I give importance 

 to trivial matters in this connection. Erroneous dates and 

 statements have been published concerning these events 

 by persons writing from memory many years after they 

 occurred. Happening as they did within my own mem- 

 ory, I have endeavored to corroborate my statements by 

 cotemporary authorities. 



It was intended that the English engine, which had 

 been designated the Robert Fulton, should move an im- 

 posing train. But the old difficulty attributed to the feed 

 pipe again interposed, and that machine was withdrawu, 

 and the party, which had been delayed till twelve o'clock, 

 was started off with a train of three cars drawn by the De 

 Witt Clinton, and the others followed by horse power. A 

 dinner was given to the party at Schenectady, whereat the 



* Survivors in May, 1875. 



