The Watkins Regatta
The Erie Railway, as if to maintain its time honored reputation for low fares on all occasions of peculiar attraction to the public, announces that excursion tickets from principal stations on its line to Elmira and return, and Corning and return will be on sale from May 27th to 30th Inclusive, at exceptionally low rates, on account of the Watkins Regatta.
Passengers holding tickers over the Erie Railway for the above occasion can purchase excursion tickets from Elmira to Watkins and return via Northern Central Railway at $1 10, or from Corning to Watkins and return via Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railroad at 65 cents each. Erie tickets on sale at the depot.
Source: The Tri-State Union, Port Jervis, NY, 24 May 1873, Fultonhistory.com.