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Attractive image of the steamship Commonwealth sailing between New York and Fall River Massachusetts.
On front Steamer Commonwealth, Fall River Line.
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The Commonwealth is the largest and most costly steamer in American waters. She was built at a cost of $2,000,000 and sails between New York and Fall River
Publisher A.C. Bosselman & Co, New York
It was the largest of the sound steamer ever built (known as the ‘Giantess of the Sound’). Commonwealth’s interior decoration was created by Pottier and Stymus Company of New York and featured several different architectural styles, for example, a Louis XVI style dining room and the adjoining café in Italian Renaissance. The vessel could accommodate 2000. Some of the rooms “are of regal luxury, arranged in suites with baths.” The double-skilled hull was steel and divided into water-tight compartments. After of the lobby was a library, or social hall, fitted with mahogany bookcases decorated with gilded composition. The barber shop is in old ivory, gilded; the men’s café and the purser’s room off the quarter deck, are in oak ornamentation in color. The grand saloon in Venetian, Gothic vaulted, with artistic ornamentation and color decorations in each section of the vaulting. Aft of the grand salon and separated from by portieres is a Louis XV saloon in old ivory, and on the gallery deck above an Adams saloon in prima vera. Forward of the saloon deck is an Empire saloon in mahogany with gilded ornaments, and on the gallery deck a Louis XVI saloon in solid color with gilded ornamentations. The Commonwealth’s engines are of triple expansion inclined pattern, with no walking beam, with about 3000 horse-power. The paddle wheels are constructed with feathering buckets.
The Fall River Line was a combination steamboat and railroad connection between New York City and Boston that operated between 1847 and 1937. It consisted of a railroad journey between Boston and Fall River, Massachusetts, where passengers would then board steamboats for the journey through Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound to the line's own Hudson River dock in Manhattan. For many years, it was the preferred route to take for travel between the two major cities. The line was extremely popular, and its steamboats were some of the most advanced and luxurious of their day.
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