Steamboat

<p><span class="deck">Teetotaling twin brothers built the most wonderful car of their era, and its day of glory may not be over yet</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Self-taught, the Bard brothers specialized in the painting of gleaming, accurate little steamboats</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> GIBBONS v. OGDEN</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Portfolio of Paintings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Her life preservers weighted with scrap-iron, her lifeboats mere decoration, the excursion steamer General Slocum left New York’s Third Street pier at 9:30 on the morning of June 15,1904, with thirteen-hundred picknickers bound for a Long Island beach. Less than an hour later, she was afire.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The 1,200-Mile Race Between the Natchez and the</span> Robert E. Lee </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> She lived only six years, but it was a history-packed career</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A determined collector brings a steamboat to her museum of Americana—by rail.</span> </p>

<p>In an annual ritual, Naval Academy plebes must work together to climb a greased obelisk that honors the captain of the SS Central America.</p>