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—The lighthouse tender Oleander
left Memphis last Saturday for New
Orleans on an inspection‘ trip. She will
change lights, put them in their proper
channels and furnish light—house keep-
errs with oils.

—The hull of the steamer Beaver,
which burned at Cairo a few days ago
is a total wreck. Her.boilers and ma-
chinery may be saved."

—The steamer Margaret has re-
sumed iher trips in the New Orleans-
over-the—lake trade. She passed in-
spection last Saturday.

—-In reply to an interesting array of
facts concerning necessary work which
should be done in the vicinity -of Cairo,
by leading Cairo citizens a few days
ago, when the steamer Mississippi,

‘with the River Commisson aboard.
was in that harbor, Col. Bixby
of the River commission, stated

that nothing at all could be done
in the way of protecting river banks,
out»-of the money now at the com-
mission’s disposal, $25,000 from St.
Louis to Cairo. The money was by or-
der of congress to be used for dredg-

ing, unless it should appear that it.

was not all needed for that purpose, in
which case some of it might be used
for protective work. The Colonel said
as all tine money would be needed for
dredging, none could be spared for
the caving banks.

—The towboat Pittsburg, which de-

livered a tow of 23 coalboats at New-

Orleans several days ago, is ‘en route
to the Ohio River with empties.

—This week the Comeaux-LeBlanc
Transportation Company’-s upper coast
packet, Gem, resumed her regular days
in the trade, leaving New Orleans
Monday, Wednesday an-d Friday.

—The Carter Packet Company’s
steamer Columbia, on her arrival at
New Orleans last Wednesday, was
taken to lay up quarters at Carrollton,
where she will be overhauled. She
will be out of the trade several weeks.
The steamer Wm". Garig will take care
of ‘her trade while she is laid up.

—The steamer Boaz, with a tow of
Pittsburg coal, is on her way down
the river, bound for New Orleans. This
is her first trip down the river for
many months. - '

—'Ilh»e Oakland, with 45 coalboats
and barges of coal is on -her way to
New Orleans from the Ohio River.

—The steamer new Camelia, owned
by W. G. Coyle & Co., of New Orleans,
will resume her over-the-lake and
Tchefuncta River trade next Sunday,
leaving Milneburg daily upon the ar-
rival of trains from ‘the Louisville &
Nashville depot, head of Canal street.

—The Belle of tlhe Bends repaired
her wheel at Vicksburg this week. It
was recently damaged by the Georgia
Lee.

—-The repairs to the John A. Wood
have been completed and she will
again t-ow coal between Cairo and St.
Louis.

—The Vicksburg Herald says: That
the river men know who is ‘a good
boiler maker, is evidenced by the fact
that in one month, since he returned
home, Mr. Neil Callahan, has over-
hauled and put i-n tlhorough repair the
boiler on the steamers Annie P., of
Capt. Pugh’s fleet; the Osage, and the

'Plharr appeared with an armful

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WATERWAYF5 JOURNAL.

Sam A. Conner, of the Houston Bros.’
fleet. And of the J. C’. Atlee, flag ship
of the Park City Sand & Gravel C0’s.
fleet. All of which work was passed as
A1 by the U. S. marine inspectors.

—At Little Rock, Monday, the Sen-
ate passed the Little bill providing
for drastic ch-anges in St. Francis
levee district affairs. One of the pro-
posed changes being the election or the
directors of the -district instead of ap-
pointment by the governor.

—Capt. Pugh’s boat, the Annie P,
was launched from the Finnie Docks
at Vicksburg several days ago. She has
an entirely new hull. She will soon be
ready for work.

—The Vicksburg American says:
The Alice B. M‘ill=er is here from the
Yazoo with 19 bales of cotton and sun-
dries. Clerk Reub Jackson says the
Yazoo is falling fast and that every-
body is busy up there planting. He
says the planters on the Yazoo are
much; encouraged with the outlook.

—The Barker Line steamer Lock-
port and barge, which arrived late
Thlursday evening from ;Bayou La-
fourche, succeeded in getting away
‘again at 12:20 o’clock yesterday morn-
ing. Captain Barker having been fortu-
nate in getting all the laborers he
needed to [handle the freight to work
until after midnight, says the New Or-
leans Picayune of last Saturday. Of
the 125 sections of galvanized iron cui-
vert received on Thursday she took a
little over one-half, having been unable
to load the remainder owing to the
large quantity -of other freight she had
to deliver, but will take them‘ on her
next trip, leavin'g Monday.

—The Paducah News-Democrat says
of the proposed St. Louis-New Orleans
line =of boats: St. Louis rivermen are
talking of a li-ne of boats from that
port to New Orleans and the id-ea finds
much favor at the Crescent City and
the larger points along the father of
waters. Formerly there were such lines
and they did a. big business. If there
was another one established of the
right kind of ‘crafts a profitable busi-
ness no doubt could be built up. In
ante-bellum days there was ‘no such
river trade and traffic as was done be-
tween New Orleans and Louisville and
after the canal at Louisville was built
between New Orleans and Cincinnati
also. These days were great ones to
the river people and it is possible to
re-establish them again if the proper
effort is made and the right kind of
boats are put into the lines.

—-Before the oommissiomi departed
for its ‘trip down the river,‘I-Iarry N.
of
blue prints showing his plans to build
a levee around I-Iopefield point, there-
by protecting thousands of acres of
land now subject to overflow, says the
Memphis Commercial Appeal. Mr.
Pharr said he believed this property
could be converted into valuable man-
ufacturing places, and he wanted to
have the opinion of the commission on
his plans before he proceeded further.
The commission was urged to take
care of the caving bank at Walnut
Bend and to continue the work at
Osceola. It was also asked to buildea
two-mile revetment at Golden lake to
loop the caving band at Batton’s
at the foot of Presidents island. B. G.
Covington, chief engineer of the St.
Francis levee system, also suggested
that the levee opposite Memphis be-
tween mile 149 and mile 161, be en'-

larged. Maj. T. G. Dabney of the Yazoo,
Mississippi leve district reported that
all his levees were in evcellent shape
and expected but one point to trouble
them.

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Spe.-ial Cor. to ’(h8 Waterway Journal.

Ironton, 0., April 14, 1909.—Stage
l6.6 feet and fine boating water pre-
vailing ln the Ohio.

G. Wellington Englebreth of the
Coney Island Amusement company in
Cincinnati was in the city Thursday,
advertising the popular river outing
to be given this palatial steamer, May
4th, under auspices of Arnold Company
No. 23, U. R. K.. of P. of this city. The
island Queen was col.‘-tructed at Cin-
cinnati in 1896 and is the largest and

finest excursion steamer i11 inland
waters.
She has five elegant Promenade

Decks, a large Observation Cabin, lo-

cated on the fourth deck, especially.

adapted for sight seeing, and on the
second deck the Main Cabin, with a
finished floor 180 feet long and 32 feet
wide, upon which it is certainly‘ a rare
treat to “trip the light fantastic" ‘to in-
spiring music as the steamer glides
over the water.

With a sharp rise maturing at ‘head-
waters last week, a. coal fleet compris-
ing about 2,000,000 bushels of coal, left
the S-nxoky City’s harbor, and passed
here Saturday morning. A good deal of
it will go as far south as the New Or-
leans markets, being relhandled from
the monster coal harbor, known as
the pumpkin patch above Louisville,
Ky. The Jo B. Williams and the
Sprague are taking out powerful tows
of the black fuel from this harbor.

Capt. C. L. Bell, known from Pitts-
burg to New Orleans as a skiff builder
and civil war veteran, died at his home
in Racine, Ohio, Tuesday night from
the effects of three bullet wounds,
fired Sunday morning with suicidal in-
tent.

The Cruiser and Samuel Clark pass-
ed’ down the yellow Ohio with big
tows of coal, also the J. 0. Cole went
with a big fleet of timber this week.

West Virginia officers went on ‘the
Olhio side of the river last night at
East Liverpool and cut loose an al-
leged boot leg boat, and started to
float them down to New Cumberland,
W. Va., where charges against the al-
leged owners were made reputable.
This is the first ‘time officers from an
adjoining state ever came here to make
arrests for violations of the liquor
laws. Warrants were in blank, and
wholesale raids were the result.

A fierce gale raged along the river
Wednesday and steamboats navigated
under great difficulties. Waves rolled
over the ferryboat deck and several
packets had quite a time landing. The
Tacomia‘, after being tossed about for
some time, finally managed to run
ashore above the wharfboat. The Grey-

ound was carried almost a mile be-
low and drifted about for some time
before she was able to turn around.
The towboat Val. P. Collins, with a big
fleet of empties, was windbound at
Riverview ‘all afternoon.--Portsmouth
Times.

Benj. Chambers, one of the most
popular steamboat stewards along the
Ohio River and who has put in 22 years

 

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520 Masonic Temple,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
at his vocation‘ has resigned his posi-
tion on the steamer Greenwood. Mr.
Chambers’ home is in Newport, Ky.,
and as yet we have not learned what
he intends to do, but can state many
Of h.s friends will miss his smiling
countenance from the upper O"nio. Har-
Ty Feursinger, well known and popu-
lar steward, and formerly of the Ta-
coma, and who has been acting clerk
on the Greenwood is for the time be-

ing filling Mr. Chambers’ place.

Captain George Hamilton is again
circling the pilot wheel ill the sky
parlor on the Greenwood with his old
side-partner, Capt. E. L. Argo, after a
sick spell at his home in Gallipolis.
C'aptain Wm. Agnew, who was filling
his place has taken ‘a similar position
on the Courier in the Clncinnati—Mays-
ville trade.

The G1‘eeI1W00d passed up last even-
ing returning from the merry crowd
of Ironton ladies who made a most de-
lightful round trip on the favorite
packet. She cleared Cincinnati with an
enrollment of 50 passengers Wednes-
day evening.

ln conversation the other day with
H. C. Holloway, the clever purser on
the steamer Greenwood he explained
jocosely, did you ever notice a steam-
boat hog, not the quadruped general-
ly found on deck, but the two legged
one that makes lhimself conspicuous
up in the cabin. He said his boat, on
an up trip recently, had one of these
individuals aboard that surely was a
dandy. When the steward called out
supper, the man made a rush for the
table the same as a pig after his swill
and what he did to ‘the ibounteous re-
past served on the Greenwood was a
plenty. Not being contented with what
he sitlorred away in his interior he got
up and went to ‘another table and call-
ed for an-other supper. After getting up
again from the table he came to the
forepart of the cabin, bought four sto-
gies for 'a nickel from the porter and
was -overheard to remark, that he
didn’t feel a least bit hungry. Purser
Holloway says the old adage is true, it
takes all kinds of people to make a
world, but the two steamboat hogs last
summer down at a. Kentucky landing
eclipsed them all. There was a bridal
couple on the boat enjoying their hon-
eymoon and ‘to make them feel at
home, the steward set a. separate table
for them, and the first to be placed on
the table after the dishes was some
cake. After waiter’s back was turned
these two hogs sat down to the table
and had all the cake “put away” before
they were noticed and asked politely to
vacate and _go to ‘another table.—W.- J.
S‘. ’