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—Steamboatmen requiring any no-
tary work will call at the office of the
Waterways Journal, 314 Olive St.

—Clerk S. P. Jones is again on
the steamer Helen M. Gould, ‘run-
ning between Louisville and Madi-
son, Ind.

—Capt. Dennis Smith, pilot on the
Dick Fowler of Paducah, has re-
signed that position.

—Caut. William Moody of the
steamer Lizzie Bay is temporarily in
command of the Helen M. Gould, in
place of Capt. Sterling McIntyre,
who is enjoying a vacation.

IOWOGWMWDOGNIDO:

—Ora Collins resigned his posi-'

tion as pilot on the steamer Gazelle,
which plys between Evansville and
Cloverport, Ky., and will engage in
business at Bisbee, Ariz.

——At a regular meeting of Harbor
No. 25, Masters and Pilots of Pitts-
burg, last Monday night, the newly
elected officers were installed.

—The steamer Ada V., owned by
the Pittsburg Coal Company, struck
a snag and sank last Monday at
Morris Landing. No lives were lost.
The boat is lying in 12 feet of water.

—There has been a rumor on the
streets for several days that Capt.
John Quill, the veteran steamboat-
man, will retire from active business
as superintendent of the Birmingham
and Gulf Navigation Company, says
Mobile, Ala., item in the New Or-
leans Picayune. P. S, Griggs of the
company says in an interview: “You
can deny the report on authority of
the company. So far as the Birming-
ham and Gulf Navigation Company
is concerned, nothing is known, or
even whether Capt. Quill contem-
plates such a step. Capt. Quill is still
with the company as superintendent
of operations of the trafflc depart-
ment. We want him with us just as
long as he will stay. We consider
him one of the best men in the busi-
ness in the United States. It is very
probable that the report comes out
of a recent change in the transporta-
tion department, in which Capt.
W. W. Quarles becomes assist-
ant superintendent. Whether Capt.
Quill has mentioned in the past that
he contemplated retiring from active
steamboating I am unable to say.”
* * * -Judge Toulmin, in the
United States- District ‘Court, has
rendered a decision in the case of
Henry Hess. J. M. Friedman et 9.1.,
as administrators, against the tug
Nimrod, dismissing the libel brought
by the former and growing out of
the death by drowning of Alber. A.
Dannenberg in Mobile River in a col-
lision between the tug and a small
power boat occupied by the deceased.
The libel was for $13,000, the ap-
praised value of the bug. The costs
of court is placed upon libe1aIltS-
The opinion accompanying the de-
cree is quite exhaustive and goes over
the testimony heard in the case some
two months ago. Judge Toulmin
holds that the tug was not at fault
and that Albert Dannenberg was
guilty of negligence, when he ven-
tured_ outin the boat, knowing, as
he evidently did, the unreliability of
gasoline engines.

——It is reported Capt. Jack Good-
rich will be master of the Govern-
ment steamer Mississippi on the trip

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to New Orleans when she will carry
me Presidential party there. No
better selection could be ‘made than
this, because the captain is noted for
ability as a navigator and for cool-
headedness, and with him in charge
the chances for a fiasco such as the
Nichols affair in the Roosevelt river
parade would be lessened.

—Charles C. Langhart, the purser

of the City of Louisville and steamer
Indiana, is enjoying a vacation at
Henryville, a summer resort in In-
diana.
,—Harbor No. 25, Masters and Pilots
of Pittsburg have refused to approve
the plans of the C. & O. R. R. bridge
at Portsmouth, 0., presented by the
Portsmouth’Board of Trade.

—Capt. Thos. Barrows, formerly
of Golconda, 111., but now at Garland
City, Ark., _renewed for the Journal
this week.

—Capt. A, Kimball of Arkansas
City, Ark., remembered us with his
renewal this week. The captain says
he enjoys the Journal very much.

——Capt. T. P. Brashear of Little
Rock, Ark., who has been superin-
tendent of the Little Rock Packet
Co.’s steamers, has resigned. The
company is cutting wages and we see
the beginning of the end. They
wanted to cut Capt. Brashear from
$125 to $75. We can see the Little
Rock outflt going the same way as
the Kansas City crowd that started
with a splurge and dwindled to noth-
ing. They absolutely refused to hire
any one that knew anything about
steamboating.

—Capt. Frank Farnsley of the Bar-
rett Line was a visitor to our o-flice
last Thursday. He came up on the
Ferd Herold to look at the river and
returned Friday to Cairo.

—Capt. Archie Parker is now pilot
of Government dredge No. 6.

-—Capt. George A. Williams of
Owens-boro, Ky., added his name to
our subscription list this week. Capt.
Williams was clerk of the Frank Par-
goud in ’68, ’69 and ’70_ and many
of the other floating palaces of the
old days. He is now cashier of the
Farmers’ and Traders’ Bank of
Owensboro, Ky., and writes ins he
wants to keep in touch with the old
boys. He sends his regards to Phil.
Heuer and John Sullivan of this city,
both of whom were with him on boats
of his days.‘

——Capt. D. J. Jenkins, who for
years ran the ferryboat at Catletts-
Ibung,’Ky., and Crown City, 0., is now
at Maybury, W. Va. He subscribed
for the Journal this week.

Capt. Robert L. Gaines, pilot of the
snagboat John N. Macomb, called on
us last Wednesday. Capt. Gaines
has been pilot of the Government
towboat Minnetonka this summer.

—Capt. George Clifton of Green-
ville, Miss., was a visitor to our of-
flce last Monday. He was here ne-
gotiating for the purchase of the gas-
oline boat Wildwood No. 2.

—Capt. Dan Quinn of Vicksburg,
Miss., has been in the city for
several days. He is master of the
towboat Marie J. at Vicksburg.

—Pilot Henry Silbernagle is pilot-
ing the excursion steamer Hiawatha
at Louisville this summer. She was
formerly the W. J. Young, Jr., and is
now owned by the K. & 1. Bridge Co.
of Louisville.

——Capt. Walter Needham of the
steaboat Cotton Blossom was one of
our welcome guests this week. He

had just returned from a successful
trip up the Mississippi.

——Capt. Asa Woodward piloted the
Lsteamboat Cotton Blossom up the

‘Mississippi and return to St, Louis, .

leaving here for his
Madison last Tuesday.

--Capt. Vic Schiumacher is pilot-
ing the little towboat H. W. B. on
the Illinois River.

—The Quincy left here last Mon-
day at 10 a. m., for St. Paul, with the
largest trip of people she has had
this season. Capt. lVl‘aurice Killeen
is master, John Belk, mate; Billy
Todd and George Grey, engineers,
and George Kahl, steward.

——Pi1ot Charlie Nadal is piloting
the Government snag and dredge boat
Delatour to New Orleans. She was
luuilt at Sweeney’s shipyards at Jef-
fersonville, Ind. -

—The Hoosier Boy, Capt. Whit-
lock’s fast—speed launch from Rising
Sun, 1nd, left Cairo last Saturday
morning, and arrived at St. Louis the
same night—covering a distance of
200 miles, up-stream, in about 11
hours’ running time.

—The Upper Mississippi snag-
-boat David Tipton left here for the
Upper Mississippi last Monday in
charge of Capt. F. B. Martin and
Perry Ruby in the pilot ho-use.

—Capt. Jim Donohue accepted a
berth on a Government snagboat this
week.

—Capt. Dan Dipple is on a tender
which is towing dredge No. 4.

—Capt. Wm. Heckmann of Her-
man, Mo., is confined to his home
with malaria.

—-Dr. H. G. Voorhies, dental sur-

home in Ft.

‘geon of the U. S. Army, stationed at

Jefferson Barracks, was a caller at
our oflice this week.

—-We are indebted to our friend
Trot Rundle, purser of the Belle of
the Bends, at Vicksburg, for a num-
ber of pictures of the Belle of the
Bends and Falls City, both Morrissey
Line boats.

—Engineer Al. Jenson is in charge
of the engines of dredge No. 3.

-C'a.nt. F. M. Blrightman of Black-
ford, Ky., a famous and well known
steamboatman, now retired, last week
became one of our new subscribers to
the Journal.

—Charles W. Vandergrift, steam-
boat steward, of New Orleans, La.,
is enjoying a vacation at Seattle,
Wash,

——-Fred De Graeffenreid, an Oua-
chita River steamboat clerk, is now
drummer for a coffee house, his ter-
ritory being in the state of Georgia.

——-Sam G. Smith, late of the Evans-
ville & Green River Packet Com-
Dan)’. and formerly in the employ of
the Nowland line of steamers on the
Lower Mississippi River, is now in
charge of the weighing of cars of
the A. & V. Railroad incline at
Vicksburg, Miss.

—The remains of Capt. Jim Dent,
Who died at Mineral Springs, Tex.,
a few days ago, were shipped to Ya-
zoo City, Miss., for burial. The de-
ceased was 62 years old, and had
been a Yazoo River master and pilot
for many years. He leaves a widow
and several children.

—Capt. Thomas Smedes, formerly
of Vicksburg, Miss., died a few days
ago at Houston, Tex. At one time
Capt, Smedes was superintendent of
the transfer company operating be-
tween Vicksbug and Delta, and also
of the wharfboat company there. He

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is survived by a widow and seven
children. His death was caused by
injuries received recently by being
thrown from a buggy.

——Capt. William H. Wood, well-
known Ohio and Lower Mississippi
River man, was drowned at New Al-
bany, Ind., one day last week. He
was 63 years of age.

——Arthur VV. Lucas, of New Or-
leans, has been granted pilot license
to operate boats from New Orleans
to Southport.

—The route of Pilot Fred W.
Gleason of New Orleans has been
extended by New Orleans local in-
spectors from Burns to New Or-
leans.

—-New Orleans local inspectors
have renewed for five years the li-
cense of Pilot John Aubic of New
Orleans.

—Assistant New Orleans Local
Boiler Inspector Dromgool is in New
York City, attending the bedside of
his brother, Thomas Dromgool, ell-
gineer on one of the s=Lcan1shins rur.
ning out of that prrt, who \\':m .=Pri-
ously injured recently while on zluty.
Capt. J. L. McFeeters is lem-
pcraiily in command of the G.)'.'ur \-
2’.-nent boat T. P. Roberts. at Pitts-
bnrg. in the absence of Capt. P. R.
Dreneman,

—~Capt. Fred Ehrhart, who was
injured several days ago by falling
down the forward hatch of the
steamer Peters Lee at Memphis, is
reported much improved.

—Newt_ Harlan is second clerk on
the steamer Chattanooga, now in the
Evansville t"ade.

——Capt. King Hale of the steamer
Kentucky, running out of Paducah.
is improving rapidly and will be able
to take char-to of the boat within a
few days. lie was injurerl 1‘ecer.‘;l,\'
by being ran into and knocked
down by a negro, who was chased
from the boat by the mate.

—~There is talk of constructing a
larger boat at Jeffersonville, Ind.,
for the Kentucky River excursion
business, to run in place of the Park
City next season.

—Henry Rawlinson of Memphis
has returned from his vacation,
which he spent at the Seattle Fair.
Mr. Rawlinson is employed in the
Lee Line oflice at Memphis.

—Capt.. VV. B. Lee is clerk on the
Paducah steamer Dick Fowler. in
place of Georg) Thompson. who re-
signed,

—The license of Pilot L. Coinson
of New Orleans has been extended
from the mouth of Red River to and
on the Black and Ouachita Rivers
to Monroe, La.

—Capt. VVilliani Gaskill, former
pilot on the steamer J. B. Williams,
now steward of the Mionongiahela
packet Columbia. was given a.pleas-
ant surprise while the boat was at
the local wharf yesterday. says :1
Pittsburg dispatch of last Saturday.
Charles McKinney and Thomas Mid-
deaw, representing the cabin crew,
presented Steward Gaskill with a
handsomely engraved masters’ and
pilots’ pin, with the figures “25,”
surrounded by a wreath. Capt. Gas-
kill is a recent addition to the mem-
bership of the local harbor.

—Steward Joe l.ec1-aire is on the
Alton now. ,

——lf W. lirancl-, of Mitldleport, 0..
will send vs a 2-cent stamp we will
reply to h‘s letter, otherwise We do
not consider it worthy of notice.