Around 1833 the Champlain Transportation Company published rules and regulations for passengers on its vessels. The following excerpt is from these regulations:

. . . . . Passengers will breakfast before they come on board; dinner will be served up exactly at 2 o'clock; tea with meats, which is also supper, at eight in the evening and breakfast at seven in the morning. No one has a claim on the steward for victuals at any other hours . . . .

The back cabin of eight berths, but which will at a push, accommodate twelve person, is exclusively for the ladies and their children. Servants to sleep on the floor. Any greater number of persons, who pay full fare, will be accommodated with sofas or cross-lockers.

The great cabin of sixteen berths which will accommodate twenty-four persons, is for gentlemen. The first who apply and pay their passage money, will have their choice of the sixteen berths. Any greater number of persons will be accommodated with cross-lockers. According to the order in which passengers pay their fare, they will be entitled to entry into the wash-room. Gentlemen are not permitted to soil or dirty unnecessarily any article used in the wash-room and not to remain in longer than ten minutes each, washing themselves.

. . . . it is therefore not permitted that any person shall smoke in the ladies cabin, or in the great cabin, under the penalty, first, of one dollar and a half, and a half a dollar for each half hour they offend against the rule: the money to be spent in wine for the company. . . . On deck it is allowed to smoke. In the ladies cabin, and in the great cabin, cards and all other games are to cease at 10 o'clock at night, that those persons who wish to sleep may not be disturbed. . . . . . . .

As the steamboat has been fitted up in elegant style, order is necessary to keep it so; gentlemen will therefore please to observe cleanliness, and a reasonable attention not to injure the furniture; for this purpose no one must sit on a table, under the penalty of a half a dollar for each time, and every breakage of table, chairs, sofas or windows, tearing of curtains or injury of any kind will be visited with the severest penalty of the law.

1) What time will dinner, supper and breakfast be served? ____________________________

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2) Who sleeps in the back cabin? ________________________________________________

3) Where do servants sleep? ____________________________________________________

4) What determines who gets the sixteen berths in the great cabin and the order of entry into the wash-room? ______________________________________________________________

5) How long does each man get in the wash-room? __________________________________

6) What are two things that a man can be fined for? _________________________________

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