From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/1/1885, p. 1, c. 7

Steamer Gem’s Excursions.

Remember that there are two trips to Drewry’s Bluff Pic-Nic Grounds today (Saturday); two trips Sunday to City Point, Monitors, Dutch Gap, and Drewry’s Bluff, and six trips one every two hours) on Monday to Drewry’s Bluff Pic-Nic Grounds, commencing at 8 A.M. The tickets to Drewry’s Bluff are only 25 cents round trip – good to go and return on any one of the Gem’s trips. The Gem also makes two trips to Drewry’s Bluff every Wednesday and Friday afternoon. Thus you see there are fourteen excursion trips each week, and to the most attractive places on the river – Drewry’s Bluff Pic-Nic Grounds, Dutch Gap, City Point, and United States monitors. Excursionists from the Gem are cordially invited on board the monitors.

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