The first steamer that made the trip to Albany in twelve hours was the steamer _Sun_, of which the writer was the engineer. She was a double engine, called the Woolf engine, high and low pressure—had six high-pressure boilers, 24 feet long, and 30 inches in diameter, intended to carry 120 pounds of steam—cylinder, four feet stroke. The first attempt to use hard coal on a steamer on the Hudson River was made by the Messrs. Mowatt on the steamer _Sun_ and the _Henry Eckford_ in 1825. Wood and coal were tried together; then coal alone. The trial was not successful, but it was soon seen that what was wanted was a strong draft or the use of some kind of a blower. The writer received $50 for making the trial. In those days, blowers were unknown. The first blower was introduced by the late Robert L. Stevens, on board the _North America_ in 1826. About the year 1827 the steam chimney was introduced by the late J. P. Allaire. He claimed he had a patent for the same, but I think he had not. In 1825 the steam towing business was commenced by the late Mowatts on the Hudson River, with the steamboat _Henry Eckford_ and six barges. About the same year Mr. William C. Redfield introduced the passenger-barge, towing, with the steamers _Swift-sure_ and _Abe Commerce_ and the barges _Lady Clinton_ and _Lady Van Rensselaer_; it was an aristocratic [venture]—got up to catch the support of the rich and powerful, but it did not succeed well, and in two years it went down. All the fixtures about the ferry landings, the bridges, the floating box underneath, the chains and pulleys, were all invented by Mr. Fulton. I have many things in my memory in regard to him. All of the above was written wholly from memory; not one word or a line of reference have I had before me while writing this historical record of old times. When I get in good health I have much to say on these subjects. Apparently he never “got in good health,” for no other record of his than this is known. [Illustration: [Fleuron]] DOMINIE SOLOMON FROELIGH AND HIS GREAT SCHISM