Editor's Note: This article is from the January 1, 1851 issue of  Holden's Magazine​.

                         View on the Hudson River at Anthony’s Nose
The Frontispiece of this Number, is a sketch which cannot fail to interest all – as well from the natural beauty of the scenery, as from the hallowed associations connected with it. It was sketched from nature, expressly for Holden’s, and engraved by J.W. Orr. Every one who has passed the spot, by railroad or on the river, will note the fidelity of the engraving.

The building of the Hudson River Railroad has modified, to say the least, the scenery on the east bank of the Hudson. Monsieur Anthony’s profile, and especially Monsieur Anthony’s nose, has suffered by all the blasting, and excavating, and tunneling for the iron track. And indeed things have very much changed since the days of Dolph Heyliger and Antony Vander Heyden. The number of witches has very much decreased, the “storm-ship” has not been seen for these many years, and the trip from the city of the Manhattoes, to the goodly town of the Van Rensellaers, Gansevoorts, and Rosebooms, will now be reduced from four days to as many hours.
In accordance with the spirit and progress of the age, we are bound to let the spirits of the past sleep in their inaccessible hiding places, and talk of railroads and tunnels.
The Hudson River Road is now in full operation between New York and Poughkeepsie, and will probably be completed to Albany by the end of the present year, 1851. Its total cost from New York to Albany is estimated at nine millions of dollars. This includes the expense of a double track from New York to Poughkeepsie, and of the depots along the road. The cost of grading the road from New York to Poughkeepsie, averaged in round numbers, $42,480 per mile. Much of the road is built in the river on solid stone causeways, and between these two points there are no less than ten tunnels: one of these at New Hamburgh is 830 feet in length. The one represented in the engraving at Anthony’s Nose is between 300 and 400 feet in length. The expense of grading the road from Poughkeepsie to Albany will be much less. It is estimated that it will average $28,985 per mile. We are informed that no tunnel will be required above Poughkeepsie. One of 880 feet in length was contemplated at Judson’s Point, six miles north of Hudson, but upon examination it is proved that this may be dispensed with, and indeed it would not in all probability stand if built, as the rock is a mixture of slate and graywacke, and liable to decompose upon exposure to the atmosphere.

The running time of the express trains between New York and Albany, will not be over four hours – and possibly may be less. This is an average of forty miles an hour. It is proposed to run thus express trains each day both ways, and four way trains. The locomotives on this road are the finest in the country, and ranging in weight from eighteen to twenty-two tons. The passenger cars are surpassed in convenience and elegance by none.

The rates of fare established for passengers have been on the scale of one and one third cents per mile, with the exception of the two months of January and February, when the rate was raised to two cents per mile. These rates are very low, and will command the bulk of travel. They are equivalent to two dollars through to Albany in the summer, and three in winder. Most persons prefer to ride on a rail-road rather than on a steamboat, even if the expense is a little greater, and when the time of making the journey is one half, most of the travelling public will patronize the rail-road, though the fare should be double or treble that of the steamboat.

Thus are the facilities of intercommunication being rapidly and wonderfully increased. Distant points are brought in close proximity, and a vastly enlarged intercourse between the inhabitants of different sections of the country is promoting a sympathy of feeling, and a oneness of interests, which cannot but be promotive of intelligence, liberality and union. 

William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd (c. 1655 – 23 May 1701),[1] was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kidd

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CAPTAIN KIDD - LYRICS

My name is Captain Kidd
As I sailed, as I sailed
Oh my name is Captain Kidd as I sailed
My name is Captain Kidd
And God's laws I did forbid
And most wickedly I did as I sailed

I murdered William Moore
As I sailed, as I sailed
I murdered William Moore as I sailed
Oh I murdered William Moore
And I left him in his gore
More than thirty leagues from shore as I sailed
And being crueler still,
As I sailed, as I sailed
And being crueler still,
As I sailed
Oh being crueler still,  the gunner did I kill
All his precious blood did spill
As I sailed, as I sailed

I steered from sound to sound
As I sailed, As I sailed
I steered from sound to sound
As I sailed
Oh I steered from sound to sound
Any many ships I found
And many men I drowned
As I sailed, As I sailed

I spied three ships from France
As I sailed, As I sailed
I spied three ships from France
As I sailed
Well I spied three ships from France
And on them did advance
And I took them all by chance
As I sailed, As I sailed

Well I spied three ships from Spain
As I sailed, As I sailed
I spied three ships from Spain
As I sailed
Oh I spied three ships from Spain
And I set them all aflame
Until all on board were slain
As I sailed, As I sailed

Then overtook at last,
I must die, I must die
Then overtook at last,
I must die
Well when overtook at last
Into prison I was cast
And my sentence it was cast
I must die, I must die

Well to the execution dock
I must go, I must go
Well to the execution dock
I must go
Well to the execution dock
Lay me head upon the block
God’s laws no more I'll mock
As I sail, As I sail

Well my name is Captain Kidd
As I sailed, As I sailed
Well my name is Captain Kidd
As I sailed
Well my name is Captain Kidd
God’s laws I did forbid
And most wickedly I did
As I sailed, As I sailed

Kingston-Rhinecliff ferries “Transport” and “Kingston” in their slips along the Rondout in the 1930s. The steam ferry “Transport” had been running on the route since 1881 while the “Kingston” a more modern diesel ferry began operating locally in 1930. It was unusual for the ferry company to own and operate more than one boat on the route. The historic ferry slip location is along the Rondout Creek Promenade at the eastern edge of the Hudson River Maritime Museum campus.

In 1942, so few automobiles were using the ferry, due to World War II gas rationing, the privately owned ferry company discontinued operation. In 1946 the New York State Bridge Authority (NYSBA) was charged by the New York State Legislature with the operation of the ferry. NYSBA purchased the necessary equipment and the ferry crossings started up again in May 1946. The George Clinton ran for the nine years of planning and construction of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge. The ferry was discontinued with the 1957 opening of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge.