six o'clock
Trinity Parish , or Corporation , is the richest single church organization in the United States , enjoying revenues of over five hundred thousand dollars a year . In Revolutionary times the royalist clergy persisted in reading prayers for the king of England till their voices were drowned by the drum and fife of patriots marching up the center aisle . It was now past two o'clock and the Harris party was driven to the Hotel Windsor for lunch . Promptly at six o'clock the conductor of the fast Western Express shouted , `` All aboard , '' and Colonel Harris , Gertrude , and Mr. Searles in their own private car , left busy New York for Harrisville . The Express creeps slowly along the steel way , under cross-streets , through arched tunnels , and over the Harlem River till the Hudson is reached , and then this world-famed river is followed 142 miles to Albany , the capital of the Empire State . This tide-water ride on the American Rhine is unsurpassed . The Express is whirled through tunnels , over bridges , past the magnificent summer houses of the magnates of the metropolis that adorn the high bluffs , past wooded hill and winding dale , grand mountains , and sparkling rivulets .