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Also on the transportation schedules page that appeared in a July 1900 issue of The Adirondack News, were the following lines…
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New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
Adirondack Division
In October 1892, Dr. William Seward Webb completed the Mohawk and Malone Railroad through the Adirondack wilderness.
Six months later in April, 1893, Dr. Webb leased the line to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and a month later, it became their Adirondack Division.
The schedule on this ad shows both Montreal to New York times as well as for “Local Trains” from Utica to Fulton Chain Station.
On this schedule, Clearwater appeared as two words, but one word on the Raquette Lake Railroad schedule.
Herbert D. Carter was the general freight and passenger agent for the Adirondack Division from its beginning.
In 1895, he prepared a railroad map of the Adirondack line that was as popular then as it is informative now.
According to a Watertown paper in 1912, the folks at the Clearwater settlement and the New York Central were tired of the ridicule of the area’s name because its spring had a sign saying the water was not fit to drink.
So effective June 23, 1912, Clearwater became Carter Station, named after the popular agent who had died in 1911.
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Crosby Transportation Company
When the Old Forge Company (sometimes called Old Forge Improvement Company) formed in the spring of 1896, its directors established the Crosby Trans-portation Company named after the parent company’s vice-president Dr. Alexander Crosby.
The managers planned to control or own the various public steamers then running from Old Forge to the head of Fourth Lake and soon banned competing vessels from landing at its Navigation Dock.
The line’s steamers regularly stopped at the listed popular lake resorts.
Note that Hess Inn was listed as the Arrowhead; some thought its name changed when a gardener found arrowheads in 1902.
The Company’s primary steamers were the “Fulton,” the “Zip” and the “C. L. Stowell.”
Launched in May 1888 by guide Jack Sheppard, the “Fulton” was the first locally built Fulton Chain steamer.
Ten years later it was rebuilt and lengthened for the Company by its original designer, Theodore Seeber.
The “Zip” was formerly run on Oneida Lake before being launched locally by John Sprague and W. D. Sperry in 1894.
The “C. L. Stowell,” the largest steamer, was built by George Sweet and his son Vernon in late 1894.
To be continued…