WATERWAYS JOURNAL. ~ I I000 I . PERSONAL. . I —S‘teamboatm-en requiring any no- tary work will call at the office of the Waterways Journal, 314 Olive St. —The United ‘States engineers of- fice at Pittsbu-rg has been removed from the postoffice Ibuilding to the twenty-second floor of the Farmers’ Bank building. —Capt. Steve Green, now on the Cleremond, in the Louisville-Leaven- worth trade, was formerly on the 'Bellevue, and the Bellevue is now commanded by Capt. Jack Mitchell. —“'0. I. C." M. J. I’urcel'l, the vet- eran grocery drummer, who s-tartevd on the road -over a ‘half centruy ago, and .has since been ‘ass-ociate-d with some of the" largest and best houses In the city, has transferred his sample cases to his early stamping ground on Pe- ters streetflbetween Poydras .and Gra- vir, he now being with the old re- liable farm of ISohm-idt & Zeiglor, Lim- ited. All the s-teamlboac men‘ know and like Mr. Purcell, and will wish :h-im every success in his new posi- tion.—New Orleans Picayune. -—~'I‘he Lee line has been instructed to receive freight for all points on Arkans-as River ‘as far a‘ Dardanell-e, including Little Rock, and to issue through bills of 1adin.g to all points as far as Little Rock for the Little .Rock Packet Conipany, which operats the packets Grand and Rapids. The Lee Line -makes connection: with the company at Memrphis. —-Louis Dean, second clerk on New Orelans steamers, will have charge of the bar on the steamer Trudeau. —-Thomas L. Phillips died at his home in Covington, Ohio, on last Sat- urday. He was for many years en- gineer. on the Cincinnati and Louis- ville muail line steamers General Lytle and Ben Franklin and on the steamer Shirley. He leaves a widow and six chi1‘.'lren', one of whom is City Attorney George E. Philipps of Gov- ington. —Capt. Joseph ‘B. Williams, a vet- eran riverman of Pittsburg, 1l1ia.S pat- en-ted -an invention that has won much praise from steamh-oat me-n all over the country, and has been‘ indorsed by the officialls of the National Associa- tion of Masters and Pilots, stays the Louisville Courier-Journal. It is Ign‘-o«w»n as the Williams le-ak detertor, and is an alarm arrangement which is ‘set in -motion‘ the ‘moment water en- ters the hold of a boat. The invention consists of a brass ahead 6 inches in diameter and 11-8 .in'c‘hes high, con- taining a. special delicate steel plate. 'C~on.r.'ected with this i.s a "brass box, 12 inches deep and 8 inches in diam- eter, in which is a. battery, and ‘at- _ t.ached is a bell which can be of any size desired. To the bottom of the box is attached 3. three-q11"dI‘te1”-im0'h pipe run to the “hold of the vessel. A quarter of an inch of water around the base of this pipe will ‘set the bell ringing on the bridge and the waking of the soundest sleeper is guaranted. The secret, of -the invention is in the brass head, where the peculiarly sen‘- -sitive rplat-e is woilzued upon by the compression of the air when the water covers the base. In his working model Capt. Williamzs uses a three- fOuI"0‘h1Sl-lI1-Ch. hose, and ‘a slight touch -on this or the blowing of the breath through it will sound the song. The arrangement is such that the battery can be separated fr-om the part con- taining the delicate mechanism and the gong located in any place the cap- ta-in of the ship wishes. The inven- tion is also regarded as an ideal bur- gslar alarm, as the small :1;-ose coud be spreazl about the house and the 'flrst step of the intruder would wake up the neighborhood. Capt. W.’ll- liams, who is 74 years of age, ran boats between Pittsburg and New Orleans for years, and also navi- gated the Tennessee River and the Upper Mississippi. ‘The sinking of two of his boats set him to thinking about a warning device and he stud- ied out the invention during the last year or so when illness kept him to the house, The detectors have been installed on the steamers Margaret and Alice of the Rodgers Line and have been given high praise. —We had the pleasure of a trip on the Cape Girardeau with Capt. Buck Leyhe, one of the finest on the lriver. George Street and Charlie 0’Neal -are the sta-rgaze-rs on her. -——Capt. John Flanigan is still in charge of the Ferd Herold, Nick Jo- kerst purser, Joe Conners and Guy Walker pilots, Frank Smith mate and Val -Kinsella and Frank O’Nea1 barkeepers, and Irvie McCann, en- gineer. —Capt. A. L. Youngblood of Gil- lett, Ark., is a patronto be appre- ciated by The Journal. A few days ago he renewed his subscription to November, 1911. ——-Capt. Henry Thomas of the Ohio steamer Hattie Brown is sick in a hospital at Madison, Ind. Lew Bowen is in charge of his steamer. —Capt. Henry Leyhe of the ex- cursion steamer Alton states that he is willing to race his boat against the excursion steamer City of Provi- dence at any time when excursionists are not aboard. ’ —The Oklahoma Sand, Gravel and Material Company was incor- porated in St. Louis last Wednes- day with a capital of $200,000. —~The steamer -Scout and three barges departed Friday for the Osage River, where they will be used in the tie business by the Osage Tie and Timber Company. —Ca'pt.~ L. Bruner of New Or- leans is visiting his sister in Little Rock, Ark. —~Ca.pts. William‘ Neihysel and John Davis are the pilots on the New Or- leans steamer Natchez. —The Cotton Blossom which gave a performance at Carondelet, Thursday night, left there Friday morning for the Illinois River and will go up that stream as far as La Salle. Captain Sol York, of Peoria, Il1.s., who piloted the “West Wind” to St. Louis is taking the Cotton Blossom up and may re- main on her until she leaves the Illi- nois River. ' —The r-iver at this point is expect- ed to reach a stage of at least 30 feet by Sunday or Monday. —«C'apt. W. L. Hickman of He-r- man, Mo., was in the city this week and secured the contract for the steamer J. F. Silber to tow barges \oaded with garbage to Chesley Island. —~Capt. Morgian, of Vicksburg, Miss, was in the city this Week to look over the steamer Annie Russell with a view to purchasing her. He owns and oper- ates the Buck Elk at Vicksburg. It is said that he is about to close a deal for the Annie Russell, A LITTLE MORE HISTORY -FROM ’61 T0 '65. By Geo. Alter, Colorado Springs, Colo. December, 1865.——A correspondent says whatever dangers‘ (and they have been many) the Eleventh Iowa has since passed through, I consider their return in‘ December, 1861, to Jefferson ‘City on the steamer Isa- bella, with one -hundred and seventy- th:ree kegs of gunpowder, flve hundred green ‘soldiers and a reciale-ss crew on board, the most imminent. The making of West Virginia was started on the 17th or 18th of April, 1861, on the steamer ‘Conroy, between Wellsburg and Wheeling, and the scheme completed at the N-orthvwest— ern Bank of Virginia at W'hee.ling. The party on the trip were Messrs. Roub- ert Waugh, Joseph Applegate, Wyle Crothers, Campbell Tarr. John D. Nichols, James Henry and Dr. ‘Cald- well. ' May, 1861—Chippewa 2nd, burned on Missouri River. April, 1861-«Fine canoe Lake Pepin. May 9, 1861—The fine steamer Grey Eagle struck pier at Rock Island bridge and was destroyed. "June 22, 1861-Northern Belle and War Eagle transported the First M111- nesota from St. Paul to La Crosse. 1861—The Fanny I-llarris’ went to Fort Rid-gley up the Minnesota River after iSlh»erman's ‘battery, taking it to La Crosse. When ‘she arrived she looked like she had been with Sher- man up -some of those Bay-ous around Vicksburg (get Old Timers on the Up- per Mississippi and read it) Noventber 6, 186l.—iSeventh Iowa, to Belmont on steamer Montgomery. August 17', 1861—The Ffth Iowa, when on their way up the Missouri, and 40 miles above Jefferson City, was met by the steamer W.hite Cloud, the Colonel of a3'mon=ths’regiment,wh-osc term had expired, reported things to -be unsafe. The 5th returned to Jeffer- son City and disembarked. August 6, 18-61—SeVen‘th« Iowa left Burlington on the Jennie Whipple for St. Louis. January 13, 1862—Seventh Iowa embarked at ‘St. Louis for the south on the steamer Continental; the weather was extremely cold~——cold~ 5 miles be- low Vicksburg at a wood yard and was sunk in‘ captured by '15,-men of the 29th Mis- souri. 1862—G. H. Wilson sunk Mississippi. 1862—-Lake City captured and burn- ed by Gurrillas on the Missouri River at Carson's Landing. ’ April 19, 1862-\S‘e-venteenth Iowa left Kc-oluk on the steamer Warsaw for St. Louis. May 5 embarked .on the steamer Continental for Hamburg Landing, Tenn. . May 2, 1863-Went from Memphis to Grand Lake on steamer Gladiator. ’ February, l862—+Seventh Iowa went to Pittsburg Landing. on steamer White Cloud. March 10, l8624Eleventh. Iowa went down the Missouri to Savannah on the Tennessee River on steamer Great Western. Last of March, 1862-Fifteenth Iowa e'l1rbarked at St. Louis on steam- er Minr.-e‘h-alia for I-‘ittsbt rg Landing; arrived on’ April (3th. September - 10 1862—Twenty—first Iowa left Dubuque -for St. Louis on steamer Henry Clay. March 26—Lei‘t in upper St. Louis for Millil;in’s Bend on steamer Grosebeck. December 29, l8G2—Gen. Blount"s command entered Van Buren, Ark., after shelling the «place; captured and burned the following steamboats lay- ing there with stores: Violet, Key West, Fredericli l~Iotre‘o, Rose Doug- las, and the ferryboat, the Ben Corson, -made her escape. Septemlber‘ '1, I862--Twentieth Iowa arrived at Davenport from ‘Clinton on steamers Canada, Bill Herlaerson and Ad Ilines. On the 4th left for ‘t. Louis on the Metropolitan (she Vvas one of the big ones on the Upper Mis- sissippi). June 5th, 1803, went to Viclisbmg on the John D. Perry. 011 13th crossed to \‘.'arrent~on on Em- pire City. July .4th went to Department of the Gulf on the Iatan (the last time I saw the Iatan. she came out of Red River with a load of cattle in 1867). November 10, 1863.—Col. Currie, with a. detachment of Marine Brigade, (lost!-0ye':l, by lire, Capt. Montgom- ery's plantation on Bayou Phalia, Bol- iver comity, Mississippi, in retaliation for the b1:1'nin;,' of the Allen Collier. August 13, l863—Twenty—sec-ond Iowa on steanter Baltic, ‘bound for_ Carrc-llton. January 2, 1863—Twenty—sixth Iowa embarked on steamer Tecum- seh, went to mouth of Yazoo and back to mouth of VVhite River. 1863—Twe-nty-ninth Iowa‘ went into Yazoo Pass to Fort Petiiberton» on ‘steamer Emma No. 2. 1863—l7‘anny Harris s1:u.i i11 Upper Mississippi. April 17, 1863-C-o11i'ederates de- stroyed the Diana on‘ Grand Lake. March 30, 1863—C-onfederates -burned the City of Vicksburg. May 13, l863—Fifteenth Iowa crossed river from Hard Times to Grand Gulf on the Moderator; on- the 20th left Younds’ Point for Haine'-s‘ Bluff on the ‘Crescent City. . June 5, 1863-Nineteenth Iowa left St. Louis on the Henry Oh-outeau for Viclcsbuigz on 23rd of July embarked or.» the Sunny South for Port Hudson; August 12th lelt on the James Ray- ntoncl for Carrollton. April 2, 1863—Twenty—si.\:th lowa went to Greenville, Miss, on the Funny Ogden and Kate Qassell; on the 26th went to Mil]il