The Jeanie Johnston had left Philadelphia at 9.30 am on Monday morning for the short voyage up the Delaware River. Among those on board was Eamon Daly from Philadelphia, now living in Berlin NJ, who was enrolled by Capt Tom McCarthy as assistant cook for the short voyage. Eamon, who passed his old parish St. Leo's en route, was given the honor by Capt. McCarthy of steering the ship for a portion of the voyage.

Following its enormous success in Philadelphia where 10,000 people had visited the ship, the short New Jersey visit promises to be equally successful. By Tuesday evening over 1500 visitors, braving temperatures approaching 90 degrees, had boarded the vessel berthed at the Burlington Power Plant. Visitors were ferried by courtesy coaches from the Burlington Promenade to the plant which has a well serviced deep water dock. The host committee had a tent erected where a traveling exhibition on the Great Hunger, on loan from the Irish American History Museum in Albany, was mounted.