p. 1071 - on Upper Mississippi River, believed to be '1902-1910' Davenport, Iowa. First as sternwheel 'J.S' J.S. 'first ' J.S. excursion boat built at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 1901 - size 175'x33'x5.5'. engines 18"x7' stroke, built for Captain John Streckfus Sr. Originally placed in Davenport - Clinton, Iowa daily trade, offering "moonlight excursions". In this trade she was found to be too large and heavy to run the rapids every day. She was withdrawn and operated exclusively as an excursion boat, and made great success as such. She was lost by burning, on June 25, 1910 at "bad ax bend," near Victory Wisconsin. It is said that the fire which caused her destruction was touched off by a passenger who was confined in the jail located in hold.
The Spread Eagle packet is shown heading downstream below the Merchants Bridge. It was owned by Capts. Henry and Buck Leyhe who once operated the Eagle Packet Company. Located near Eads Bridge since 1874. A member of the famous Eagle fleet, the Spread Eagle was lost Jan. 18, 1918 when it hit an ice wall while at the head of a fleet of four Eagle steamboats on the Tennessee River.
Packet' Liberty' with photographers boat, when new- built-1889. Marietta Ohio, for apt John K. Booth- sold into the Memphis White River trade- Sold, early 1900s to Capts W. MEanes Sr. & T. Jackson, for a Mobile-Tombigbee Packet- who sold her to Winston & Henry Jones for the same trade- Sold circa 1911, to Montgomery Ala intos, for a towboat, on Alabama River, in Mobile- Montgomery trade-
Her cabin and tall stack feathers (which had been added in cotton trade were removed) - Vessel was next sold to Commadore John W. Hubbard, who had her rebuilt, and renamed 'City of Parkersburg' for Ohio River trade - This vessel was known as the BIG LIBERTY, and, 'The Boat that came back'- Bert Neville Selma Alabama
And times she could give the "Kate Adams" a good race-
Photograph of cargo and steamboats lining the Saint Louis levee in the 1890s. GRAND REPUBLIC (second) and BELLE OF CALHOUN, as well as the Anchor Line wharfboat are pictured. Eads Bridge in the background. Railroad tracks to the left.
Photograph of the flyers for the Missouri River Passenger Packet on YELLOW-STONE (D.N. Greenleaf, master) and for the Regular Passenger Packet for Lexington, Liberty, Weston, & St. Joseph, Missouri River on the steam boat KATE SWINNEY (P.M. Chouteau, master).
This is the boat I ride. It is the regular Illinois River Packet. After about the first of April, we will make two trips a week from St. Louis to Peoria. Tell May that it would be nice if she could make a trip, with us, on her honeymoon.
Photo advertisement for the Northern Line. Northerner, Canada, Metropolitan, Sucker State, Pembina, W. L. Ewing, Gray Eagle, Northern Light, Itasca, Key City, War Eagle, Hawkeye State.
Panoramic photograph of St. Louis, Missouri, 1865. Identifiable steamboats (from left to right) are: EDWARD WALSH, WARSAW, U. S. Mail Line C. E. KILLMAN, SULTANA, and EMPRESS. The Old Courthouse rises above the rest of the skyline.
Side-wheel packet A. C. Donnally at loading dock. This steamer ran Cincinnati to New Orleans before it burned on the Missouri shore just south of Cairo in February 1879.