Bowling Green, KY. B.G. Ice and Cold Storage Co. Str. EMMA in foreground. 11-22-1962 Steamer Emma – 1901-1923 at Bowling Green Ky. on Barren River head of navigation. In 1924 she was renamed M.C. Clay. Built at Evansville Ind. In 1901, size 85’x22’x3.9. She had two boilers, western river type engines were – 10”x4½’ stroke slide value poppet cut-off. She towed, RR cross ties, coal, and asphalt, under command of Capt’n J. Mike Speck, Teb Howell, Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain James E. Wallace, on the Emma, I was a member of her crew under Captn Jessie L. Wilson, and Captain Jas. E. Wallace, Charlie Lucas was chief engineer (Cylinder Cock Charlie as he was known). Had my real, really first pay job as a deckhand on this boat at age 15, under command of Captn Jessie L.
Wilson. I was a little too light for decking especially when we hit a coal pile.
Captain Wilson and my father were very close friends and Captain Jessie carried
me on the payroll as a deckhand, but put me in the firebox to haul ashes down
through the ash well. At other times, I spent in the engine room with Chief
Lucas. Then later on when was about 19, I was a watchman on her, in command
of Captain James E. Wallace. Captain Wallace is now living in Bowling Green, Ky.,
in his 91st year. By Courtney M. Ellis, Nashville, Tenn.
A photograph of Washington Avenue looking west. Automobiles, pedestrians, electric streetcars and horse-drawn wagons are visible., This is a wider view of another photograph in the collection.
Boats lined up along the St. Louis levee. Union Elevator visible on the Illinois shore. Boats are, from left to right, unnamed, the snagboat C. R. Suter, the showboat French's New Sensation, and a steamer ----lyde. Date range of photograph could be from 1888 to about 1910.
Photograph of the towboat DEL COMMUNE. In the lower right corner of photograph are the words,“St. Louis MO. Engineer District Floating Plant / Tow Boat Del Commune Broadside View / MAR 28, 1938 / 3377."
The caption on the back of this photograph indicates that it is the Silver Moon Hotel which was replaced by the Arcade Building. Other accounts suggest this was known as the Hotel Moser, which had the Silver Moon Restaurant on the first floor.