From the Stamford Mirror, September 13, 1893
A Big Excursion
Party
One of the largest excursion parties that has sailed out the
Rondout creek in many years was aboard the General Slocum, Tuesday
morning. There were fully 9,000 men, women, and children in the
party, representng half a dozen towns in Ulster county and as many
towns in Delaware. Two trains on the Ulster & Delaware railroad,
brought 1,000 passengers, there being ten cars in one train, and six
in the other. The others in the party were from Kingston, Rosendale,
Hurley, Ulster, and Marbletown. It was ten o'clock when the boat
steamed out of the creek, gally bedecked in flags, and fully 1,000
people stood on the docks and waved hankerchiefs at the
excursionists - Freeman.
It was the largest part that ever went to Albany from Rondout.
The day was pleasant, and the party enjoyed a two hours' visit in
Albany. It was night before Rondout was reached on the return trip
and two o'clock when Stamford [via the Ulster and Delaware] was
reached.
The steamer General Slocum brought up a party of about 1,000
excursionists from Rondout and intermediate points on Tuesday, Sept.
13 --Albany Argus.
one of the officers of the "Slocum" estimated there were 2,500
people on the boat. At least one thousand were from Delaware county,
and about half of them marched up State street. An Albany editor
said it was the largest excursion party that had visited the city
this season. The Albany boats blew their whistles, and hundreds of
people on the docks and buildings waved their handkerchiefs as a
"greeting."
