1 00:00:14,83 --> 00:00:15,54 Nancy 2 00:00:15,54 --> 00:00:21,12 and Roger are taking a boat trip today with their parents from Albany down to New 3 00:00:21,12 --> 00:00:21,45 York. 4 00:00:22,42 --> 00:00:29,39 Here is the name of the boat the Alexander Hamilton people are still coming 5 00:00:29,39 --> 00:00:30,63 up the gangplank 6 00:00:30,63 --> 00:00:37,54 but it is almost time to start it is 7 00:00:37,54 --> 00:00:40,51 time to start as Roger 8 00:00:40,51 --> 00:00:45,82 and Nancy look on men are taking away the gangplank 9 00:00:51,63 --> 00:00:51,99 next. 10 00:00:52,02 --> 00:01:02,91 They see this man loosening a large room which held the boat fast to the pier our 11 00:01:02,92 --> 00:01:07,42 boat big wheels turn the water as we back away from the pier 12 00:01:11,53 --> 00:01:13,35 back slowly out into the river 13 00:01:14,16 --> 00:01:19,50 and our boat ride has started down the mighty Hudson Nancy 14 00:01:19,50 --> 00:01:25,08 and Roger will see many ways by which people use the river this large ship does not 15 00:01:25,08 --> 00:01:28,11 carry passengers. It is being loaded with lumber 16 00:01:28,11 --> 00:01:35,07 and other heavy freight across the river we 17 00:01:35,08 --> 00:01:36,93 see a great hole in the ground. 18 00:01:38,62 --> 00:01:45,54 It is a rough quarry where people dig out stones because the quarry 19 00:01:45,54 --> 00:01:52,18 is near the Hudson River the stones are usually put on barges like the which 20 00:01:52,18 --> 00:01:59,01 carried them down the stream the barges are fastened by a long rope to a 21 00:01:59,01 --> 00:02:02,00 strong little. Some boats which hold them along. 22 00:02:04,02 --> 00:02:04,95 Nancy and Roger 23 00:02:04,95 --> 00:02:09,89 and all the other passengers are enjoying the smooth glide of the boat through the 24 00:02:09,89 --> 00:02:14,08 water this lighthouse is one way in which a both ship is made safe. 25 00:02:14,17 --> 00:02:17,67 It marks a shallow spot so boats can steer away from it. 26 00:02:22,84 --> 00:02:23,63 And here's another way 27 00:02:24,38 --> 00:02:29,48 that boat trips are made safe our boat is carrying many small boats on it a whole 28 00:02:29,48 --> 00:02:36,09 row of lifeboats on each side the lifeboats are brought in solid if they have overs 29 00:02:36,09 --> 00:02:36,71 for ruing 30 00:02:36,71 --> 00:02:41,79 and air tight tanks to keep them from sinking each of them old twenty people. 31 00:02:44,69 --> 00:02:48,90 Here's another boat another boat just like the one on which Roger 32 00:02:48,90 --> 00:02:52,99 and Nancy are writing it to has many people on it 33 00:02:53,68 --> 00:03:00,60 but they are going up the river for their board this boat is the hidden 34 00:03:00,60 --> 00:03:04,40 Rick said named after the man who discovered the river 35 00:03:11,77 --> 00:03:14,50 inside this pilot house is the captain of our boat 36 00:03:24,56 --> 00:03:26,30 says the captain. Let's go. 37 00:03:26,33 --> 00:03:27,09 He might be feeling 38 00:03:45,45 --> 00:03:51,02 well. Well you know I'm right and that's just getting really. 39 00:03:52,24 --> 00:03:55,47 Yes when I done it this way makes the boat go to the right. 40 00:03:57,94 --> 00:04:00,39 And this way down to the book. The laugh. 41 00:04:03,91 --> 00:04:05,38 That's because they go to the engineer. 42 00:04:10,20 --> 00:04:11,83 Down below in the engine room. 43 00:04:15,05 --> 00:04:18,07 Thanks kicking it back right back. 44 00:04:25,29 --> 00:04:29,11 Our boat has just passed under a bridge high bridge 45 00:04:29,11 --> 00:04:34,84 that was the carrier railroad trains across above the river from one shore to the 46 00:04:34,84 --> 00:04:35,02 other 47 00:04:38,56 --> 00:04:45,17 and now we are coming close to a town our captain has signaled 48 00:04:45,17 --> 00:04:45,62 everyone 49 00:04:45,62 --> 00:04:51,55 that we are producing for here is a very bold loaded with people in cars waiting 50 00:04:51,55 --> 00:04:52,47 for us to pass. 51 00:04:52,58 --> 00:04:56,25 So they can go across the river to the there's no bridge here for automobiles. 52 00:04:57,57 --> 00:05:03,89 There are many kinds of boats on the river here for example is a kayak a little 53 00:05:03,89 --> 00:05:05,69 boat the pens the big pedals 54 00:05:12,98 --> 00:05:16,98 this man is having an easier time he has rigged up a seal 55 00:05:17,82 --> 00:05:18,27 or his canoe 56 00:05:24,48 --> 00:05:26,44 and these people have a larger sail boat 57 00:05:27,40 --> 00:05:31,48 when the wind is blowing they can take it easy and let the breeze blow them alone. 58 00:05:33,18 --> 00:05:36,64 I know Roger and Nancy are wondering what makes our boat go. 59 00:05:37,55 --> 00:05:41,32 They remember the captain told them that our engineer was down below. 60 00:05:42,31 --> 00:05:43,96 And here they are about the engine room 61 00:05:45,15 --> 00:05:48,26 but a piece of machinery to make the boat go 62 00:05:49,71 --> 00:05:59,86 and how powerful all. 63 00:06:03,27 --> 00:06:05,00 The engineer can stop the book 64 00:06:05,74 --> 00:06:17,52 or go ahead by pulling back on these livery. 65 00:06:17,54 --> 00:06:22,84 Roger and Nancy again come upon Dick. So that they won't miss anything. 66 00:06:25,06 --> 00:06:30,88 Just in time our boat is passing the Palisades famous rocky cliffs along the Hudson 67 00:06:31,65 --> 00:06:32,55 near New York City. 68 00:06:35,77 --> 00:06:40,09 This is another preschool carrying about the same kind of heavy goods 69 00:06:40,09 --> 00:06:42,76 that freight trains carry on land 70 00:06:47,35 --> 00:06:53,36 and this is a motor yacht right then Britney finished people on if they are going 71 00:06:53,36 --> 00:06:55,54 for a pleasure ride up the river 72 00:06:59,12 --> 00:07:01,24 and down a cabin cruiser 73 00:07:06,78 --> 00:07:08,24 these people seem to be in a hurry. 74 00:07:12,33 --> 00:07:14,68 Barnabus of the small boats in our large boat. 75 00:07:14,83 --> 00:07:18,91 Roger and Nancy now see the broad span of the George Washington Bridge. 76 00:07:20,05 --> 00:07:21,45 We are passing far beneath it. 77 00:07:21,55 --> 00:07:26,57 So we cannot see the many cars and buses hurrying to and fro across the bridge 78 00:07:28,53 --> 00:07:33,15 and here below the Washington Bridge is a fireboat practicing 79 00:07:37,48 --> 00:07:44,29 we see how far it can throw its beam of water a fireball is they're used for 80 00:07:44,29 --> 00:07:49,16 fighting fire on ships in the harbor or fires on the piers at the water's edge. 81 00:07:51,66 --> 00:07:56,41 The Hudson River has many boats here this border just white blue in the water 82 00:07:57,19 --> 00:08:00,97 that's because it is filled with gasoline. It has. No engine but it. 83 00:08:01,06 --> 00:08:03,05 Juggling little tug is pushing it. 84 00:08:06,87 --> 00:08:13,18 Roger and Nancy must of seen something unusual it is unusual. 85 00:08:13,61 --> 00:08:16,08 Nowadays when most boats are run by engines. 86 00:08:16,34 --> 00:08:22,52 This is a sailing boat but it sails are all put away and its master bear. 87 00:08:22,93 --> 00:08:28,59 While it is anchored in the river here is a ferry boat much like the one we saw far 88 00:08:28,59 --> 00:08:31,93 back up the river. This one too is loaded with cars 89 00:08:31,93 --> 00:08:38,91 and people coming from New Jersey to New York this is a police patrol 90 00:08:38,91 --> 00:08:39,48 boat 91 00:08:46,89 --> 00:08:48,76 an ocean liner has just come in 92 00:08:49,76 --> 00:08:56,61 and it turns is dumping it to its pier over here 93 00:08:56,61 --> 00:08:59,78 is a big great boat already tied up at its pier. 94 00:09:01,40 --> 00:09:05,42 It is not a long ocean from Cuba and the mineral 95 00:09:05,42 --> 00:09:14,94 and moving bangs of sugar from I 96 00:09:14,95 --> 00:09:19,36 thought he had a huge ocean liner is backing out into the stream. 97 00:09:22,85 --> 00:09:29,40 One of the largest ships afloat most big ocean liners have gone a little tug like 98 00:09:29,40 --> 00:09:34,22 the don't have turned them about in the river when starting out on a voyage or 99 00:09:34,22 --> 00:09:34,93 when coming in 100 00:09:47,21 --> 00:09:49,91 our journey from opening to New York is over 101 00:09:50,75 --> 00:09:56,07 but for the people on this big liner journey across the broad Atlantic Ocean has 102 00:09:56,07 --> 00:09:56,86 just begun. 103 00:09:59,08 --> 00:10:06,98 For.