 In the first weeks of "Providence"'s service, Company President Jim Fisk would dress in an elegant "Admiral's" uniform to personally welcome aboard passengers, a practice which was soon discontinued.Two further innovations however were to prove more permanent.Fisk fitted his ship's crews with uniforms, which had an agreeable impact on customers, and he also employed a band of musicians on each vessel to entertain passengers on their journey, both innovations of which would henceforth become traditions on Fall River Line steamers.