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PERSONAL. .
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Steamboatmen requiring any no-

tary work will call at the office of the
Waterways Journal, 314 Olive St.

——The IG. W. Hill left Paducah
Tuesday night for St. Louis and is
due here to enter the St. Louis and
Callhoun county trade.

——-Thro-ugh the kindness of our
friend, Pleas. Buchanan, better known
among his friendis or the river as
“Buck,” of the Cairo Boats-tore, Capts.
Jesse Nichols of Cairo and G. W.
Hendricks of the Greenfield ferry be-
came subscribers to The Journal this
week. The Journal extends thanks.

—-Wednesday of this week the Wig-
gi.ns Ferny 4Coiii‘psany launched two
wharfboats at the foot of Spruce
street and at the Big Four depot on
the East Side, and same began their
operations Friday. Also, t.he tug
Kavanaugh and the transfer bo-at Me-
dill were beaclied VVediiesday.

——The steamer City of Saltillo is
due to arrive here Saturday from‘ the
Teniiessee River. She will depart at
once on her first trip of the sea.son
for the Tennessee River.

——Pilot Lovell of the Paducah-
Cairo steamer Dick Fowler is on the
sick 1’.-st, and Capt. Austin Owen is
temporarily filling his position on the
boat.

—.I. M. Keller of Monroe, La, will
sail with us another year. We re-
ceived a good letter from him this
week renewing his isniibscriptloii to
The Journal.

—-The Sidney of the D"amond Jo
Line will begin her trips b~'etwe~en St.
Louis and Keokuk about the first of
April.

—Capt. \V. H. Pugh wrote us -on
the 26th of February as follows from
Mobile, Ala: During -her trip up the
river, the :st~ea.m.er John Quill], the
chief clerk, VV. VV. Crow, fell over-
board sand. was drowned, He leaves
a widow and four small children -and
ostilier relatives to mourn «his loss. De-
ceased was very popular among
ste»amlboat~men and -others along the
river.

——After being with the Maryland
Casualty Company Of Philadelphia.
Pa., for eleven years, J. T. .Fe~nn-e»l,
W§el.l-known’ enginee-r on Mississippi
River boats some years 3.80. has
taken a, p0»Sii‘tlOll With the Parker
.}3=oii1er Comzpany of that city. M1‘-
Fennel expects to make a trip '60
Maic-higan, leaving iahiiadeilnhia about
the umidldzlre of March «and will stop at
S-t. Louis en route.

——-Capt. Wm. M. Neyliisel of New
01-.1.ean:s will be a reader of The Jour-
nal for another year. We received
a good letter from him this week, ‘re-
newing his subscription and tendering
good wishes.

—'.l‘h~.1'-ongli the kindness of the Na-
tional M»ani1factu1~*i1ig' Co-.mD'aI1‘Y Of
Eddzyvill-e, Iowa, W’. J. Free became E
subscriber to The Journal this week.

-——-A-t the regulsar meeting Of H31“
bor No. 28, Masters and Pilots, Munf
day mowing in their rooms in the
HOlUS€‘P builuding, an amend-nient to‘?!
bill in Congress to include oificeis,
as well as river inecham-cs and l-aboi-
crs. in am cigliit-hour working (18)
was un-anim‘ou.s1Y i‘1\d01'5'e‘1- , , I

—C=apt. Mlack ‘Cole, who visited Pa-
Miobile, Ala.. o J0111 ‘
Martha Hennen. The Hennen has been

laid up for a time on account of low
water.

—~C=apt. Thomas Parker, retired
s-teani.boat.inan of St. Louis, is serious-
ly ill of pr.eum=onia at his home, 122
Ferry street.

—Capt. Austin Owen, for years pi-
lot on the Bettie Owen, which burned»
several weeks ago, is lonesome, says
the Paducah Sun. In fact, Cap-t. Owen
has been lonesome since the day the
Bettie was -saved from sinking and
was beached in a corn: field below
the Illinois C~'eiitral incline. Capt.
Owen piloted the Bettie fo-r five
ye-a1's «and was at the wheel when the
disastrous accident happened to her.
Before that he piloted the ferryboat
before the Owen -for eight years, Da_v
after day Capt.'Owen was at the wheel
and it is a har-d matter for him to
keep away from the ferry landing.

——Crapt. John A. Cotter, United
States supervising i-nspector of steam
vessels of this district, returned yes-
terday nio-rning from Wasliington.
where he had .been -attending the an-
nual meeting of the National Board of
Supervisin.g Inspectors of Steam Ves-
sels, which was in session daily ior
about five weeks, says the New Or-
leans Picayune. Capt. Cotter, who
reports having had. a very pleasant
visit vanscl shows it in his looks, states
that a large amount of work was
done by the b-card at its sessions in
the way of revising ‘old rules and
framing new ones governing the navi-
gation of vessels of the United States.
notices of which will be sent out in
due time by the Department of Coin-
merce and Labor and the supervising
inspector general of steam vessels.

—Denver, Col-o, February 28.——
Threatened with starvation and in a
pitiable plight from the ravages of
tuberculosis, two women and a man
and a five-year-old boy are fighting
death to-day in a squalid hut here.
The man is Capt. Samuel Berg, hero
of the Slocum‘ disaster, who has saved
more than 100 lives since he was 13
years old. Although his wife, child
and himself were in terrible plight.
Berg lias undertaken to care for an-
other in-valid, a poor woman, who
came to his door begging for food.
Berg, who is only 37 years old, spent

3 years as a government life saver.

—Capt, Frank Agnew, commander
of the slteamer Chatan-ooga, this morn-
ing up-on this ‘boat’s arrivalhere, dis-
played a handsome gold watch, pre-
sented to him by the Chattanooga
Packet Company for his many Yea1‘S
of faithful service, says the Paducah
Sun of last Monday. The Watch is
of the Howard make. and is highly
valued by it.s owner. It was With
much pride that Capt. Agl1€WSh0W'9d
the timepiece to his rivernien friends-

__,]’gL1nes Byers of the United States
steamer Lookout. at Kingman, Ala..
becanle a _sub:g(:-1'11)-'e)‘ to The JOlll'll€t1
this week.

—Work on the sunken steamer City
of Providence is progressing nicely»
The harbor boat Erastus Wells was
taken -down to the River des P61‘-e-S
Tuesday to. assist in the work. Capt.
Thorwegen, who was on the sick list
for several days last week, has re
c-overd and is able to look after the
Work of raising his steamer.

—-(‘apt Saunders A. l“o\vlor -of P-‘1~
duc-ill '1 few days 21:0 l*ll"<’1"“~"“d W“
.(.- l " ‘
(mm.(,, St~0(;k of the F()W1Gl'-ClLllll-

b,m,,.h noatsto,-e_ 1\:11-_ Crunibuugli and
‘Er; wartha E ]rmvlgr, who held the
int'erests of the Fowler estate. Tetll“

ing on «account of advanced age. The
business of Fowler, Crum-baugh & Co.
was estlablished 42 years ago, the firm
first being known as Fowler, Lee &
Co. The members of the old firm were
Capt. L. A. Wofler, Ca-pt. J. H. Fowler,
T. L. Lee and G. C. Cruni.b-augh. Mr.
Lee withdrew from‘ the partnership
in 1876, whereupon the fir:m became
known as Fowler Bros. & Co, On the
death of Capt. L. A, Fowler, in 1880,
the firm name was again changed to
Fowler, Cru-mbaugh & Co. The firm
will still hold its interests in the
Evansville and Paducah packets, John
H0p‘1(ni'l‘i.S and Joe- Fowler, and the dis-
solution will not affect the ownership
of the two ste.amboats. The business
of the company will be enlarged and
a general supply store for steamboat
outfits will be maintained. Supplies
of ‘every variety will be furnished
packets touching at the port of Pa-
ducah, and it is confidently expected
t:h.at the business will grow to splen-
did proport»i~ons.

—The ferryboat Glyde, "owned by
the Wiggins Ferry Company, was
launched Monday at the foot of
Spruce s«treet. She will be given a.
few repairs, She is expected to be-
gii. service in a few days.

—The Sidney street ferryboat Flor-
ence, whicli .sank recently during the
ice break-up here, is expected to be
launched within the next few days.

——Capt. H. C. Gilbert, president of
the Evan.sville, Paducah and Cairo
Packet Company, has resigned on ac-
count of ill health. He intends to go
south, where he thinks he can regain
his health.

—Charles E. Crider, son of Capt.
‘R. B. Crider, of the steamer J. B.
Ilichardson, who died at his home in
Iowa a few days ago, was buried on
the banks of the Cumberland River.

——The steamer Susie Hazard-, which
has been undergoing repairs here, is
ready for service.

-—The S. S. Brown is scheduled to
arrive here on next Thursday from
Meiiiphis to go into the trade between
the two cities. The 'Brown’s name
has been changed to the “Rees Lee,”
by the Lee Line, who purchase-d her,
and_is the finest boat on the Miss-
issippi.

—A Nashville dispatch says:

When the new st-eanier Nashville, that
is to run in the Paducah—N'ash.vllle
trade, arrived in port here Saturday.
she was given an ovation by the peo-
ple of the city. But the real ovation
was due to wait for the next day,
which was Sunday. Early in the day
crowds of men began to pour down
to the river and onto to the boat, all
of them in search of the bar. The
boat crew had a hard time convinc-
ing the crowds that they were not
dealing out liquid refreshments and
were puzzled to knoxv why such a
thing happened. The mystery was
soon explained, when the princlpai of
the girl’s supply sch-ool called over
the telephone that he would not take
his girls down the river on the follow-
ing Friday. The agent told him that
he was under contract to do so and
would have to fulfill it. The school-
ma~s»te1- argued that he had made the
contract under a niisamneliensioii and
could not be held to it. Then in-
duirios Worc made and the tzaliso of
mm disturbance was found to be in
the ad in a new'sil‘c1ll9.|‘. VVWCU 1'9“
“free meals and beer.” instead of
“I're(= meals and berth.”

DEATH OF JOHN HINTON CARTER.

John Hinton Carter, widely known
a generation ago throughout the Mis-
sissippi Valley as “Commodore Roll-
ingpin,” died VVednesday at the home
of his daughter, the wife of Judge F,
.l. Cutter, at Marietta, Ohio, follow-
ing a stroke of paralysis. He will be
buried there to-morroiw.

Mr. Carter was born in Marietta
Ohio, and was 78 years old. He came
to St. Louis in 1870, quitting his oc-
cupation as pastry cook on Miss~issi«ppi
River steaiiib'oats, and became river
reporter on the old‘ St. Iiouis Times,
where he was employed continuously
for sixteen years, the close companion
of such veteran newspaper men as
E:u,g~ene Fields, Walter B. Stevens,
William A. Kelsoe and Antoine Rivet.

He published Commodore Rolling-
pin's Almanac.” filled with the charac-
teristic odd and witty sayings for
which he was noted, for more than
twenty years. He was also known as
the writer of poems, humorous ballads
and sketches, and was the author of a
number of books, several of which
had a wide circulation. Ainonvg his
'books. were “Historical Annals of
Steamrboating on the Mississippi Riv-
er,” “Log Cabin Poems," “Log of Coin-
niodore Rollingpin,” “The Man at the
\’Vheel," “The Impression Club" and
“Thomas Rutherton,” which was a
practical autobiography.

During the visit of the Grand Duke
Alexis to this country Carter was as-
signed by the St, Louis Times to act
as correspondent. incognito while serv-
ing as pastry cook on his tour down
the river to Memphis. Carter was the
Iirst publisher of the Veiled Prophets
»prograniine. He served for a number
of years on the staff of the ‘St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, and moved to New
York when Joseph Pulit;:5or bought the
New York World. When he went to
New York he is said to have had $40 -
000, which he lost in unfortunate in-
vestments. He returned to St. Louis
ten years ago, broken in fortune,

He left St. Louis two years ago and
went to Marietta, Ohio, to live with
his dallghtei‘. His wife died here
more than ten years ago. He is also
su1‘vi\'ed by two sons, Edward B. Car-
ter of St. Louis and William N, Car-
ter of Bartelsville, Okla,

 

MARINE PATENTS.

 

Prepared for the Waterways Jouy.
11511 by Royal E. Bu-rham, solicitor oi’
patents -and counsellor in patent
0311865. 807 Bond Building, Washing.
ton, D.  from whom il'lustra.tio.ns
and specimens may be obtained for
10 cents.

948,989. Subaqueous rock—bre.aker.
Barton H. Coffey. -Elizabetli. N. J.

949.881. Padclle—wheel. Henry Du-
sek, Cameron, Tex.

949,933. Soil—reclaiming means for
water currents. Jennie VV. Kelner,
Omaha, Neb_

950,240. Life preserver. Stephan
Pichler, Brooklyn, N. Y.

950,242. Dllmping-;scow_ William
\V. Robinson, Phiiladelphia, Pa, as-

signor of 'one—halt' to John H, Math-
is. Primos, Pa.

——l{(‘('.oIIl.l_v, at l\lo1'guii City, La,,
Judge 'l‘lio1nas Reber stated that he
intended to place two boats in the

Natchez and Teche trade.