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BOWLING GREEN
Title
BOWLING GREEN
Date
190-
Description
Dec - 17 - 1962. Steamer "Bowling Green." "Here My Friends," is my "Really-Real" first Steamboat Love. She - was built at Howards in 1904 - came out, new in early 1905. "And I mean - new." No hand me downs from any other steamboats. I went striker on her May 17th 1905, and remained for two years, without pay, except occasionally I had a chance to run as roof watchman for which I got "big pay" $2.80 a week, at the end of the week I had my $2.80. She was short and sweet, had to be short to get through the Green River locks. She coined the money for her owners. Her dimensions were 122' X 32' X 5' not overall. She had two boilers, with brooms in them ever hear of that? Well, I will explain to you sometime, I helped to operate them. Her engines were 4" X 6' stroke. This picture scene on Lower Green River, down bounds, for Evansville, note, the passengers on boiler deck. Cattle on main deck. Coops of poultry on head and roof. This and more I have seen on her many, many times, the on watch pilot as seen at wheel is definitely the late Captain James A. Burnette Sr. I was on watch at this time Chief Joseph Wattum, we always stood the forward watch. The Late Captain Sam G Smith was master, this in about 1906, more when I see you, from Myrtle and Courtney M. Ellis.
Joseph B. Williams
Title
Joseph B. Williams
Date
1905-08
Description
On August 10, 1905, while enroute up the Ohio River, she struck a snag at Sister's Island, below Golconda and near Bay City, Illinois and tore a hole 40 feet long in her hull, causing the boat to sink in shallow water. Three towboats went to the rescue of the wreck - the Fulton, Ranger and Wash Honshell - assisted in raising the Williams. She was then placed on the ways for repairs; damage estimated at $25,000.
Wreck of the Chalmette
Title
Wreck of the Chalmette
Date
1904
Description
The Chalmette was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana as the City of Vicksburg for the Anchor Line Packet Company of St. Louis, Missouri. She was wrecked by the cyclone in St. Louis on May 27, 1896 along with four other Anchor Line steamers. In the process of rebuilding by Captain W. H. Thorwegan as an excursion boat she was purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad interests and renamed the Chalmette, after a New Orleans suburb. She continued to operate as a packet boat on the lower Mississippi but sunk [sic] in 1904 at the head of Deadman's Bend, about 60 miles below Natchez., Betsy Ann in the background.
Queen City
Title
Queen City
Description
Photographed on board the QUEEN CITY some 60 years ago. The negative ws found in a second-hand book store in Cincinnati, Ohio with no clue as to who took it, The roof bell showing on the right today is doing service on the DELTA QUEEN. In Disneyland, in California, today there is a full -siz operating river steamboat named MARK TWAIN, which has a fancy spreader-bar between its smokestacks copied from the one you see in this picture. A section of the wire railing with its fanciful rosettes is used on the little steamer LADY GRACE. One of the gilded acorns surmounting the hogchain posts today is in the River Museum, Marietta, Ohio. We don't know the identity of the lady with the nice white shawl thrown over her shoulders, nor of her companions, but they are having a nice time sailing down the Ohio somewhere between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. They seem to be saying "Wish you were here." Too late: too late. But not too late for Grace and me to wish you and yours a Happy Voyage through 1961. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Ways.
BUCK ELK
Title
BUCK ELK
Date
190-
Description
Property of Norman G. Heckmann. NC Steelman. 1900's, Hermann, Mo.
Saint Louis Riverfront, Circa 1900
Title
Saint Louis Riverfront, Circa 1900
Description
Photograph of the St. Louis Riverfront, circa 1900. The U. S. Snagboat Horatio G. Wright is in the background. Positioned in front of it is the steam tug, Ella St. Clair, which operated on the riverfront from 1898 - 1902. An excursion steamboat and another boat are to the right of the image. Women and children are walking the levee.
Quincy
Title
Quincy
Date
1906-07
Description
The Quincy sunk near Trempeleau, Wis., on the Mississippi River.
Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Title
Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Date
1905-12-04
Description
Receipt of Shipping for Mr. A. Langenberg, for delivery of good aboard the Str. BUCK ELK, signed by John Heckmann, clerk. Goods shipped include 5000 bricks, rope, and a skiff.
Nashville, Tennessee
Title
Nashville, Tennessee
Description
Levee at Nashville, Tennessee. Left to right: Belle of Calhoun, J. B. Richardson, R. Dunbar, Jewel, Dewey.
Fred Swain
Title
Fred Swain
Date
1909-08-20
Description
The Fred Swain was built at Stillwater, Minnesota in 1900. She was a sidewheeler with no texas. Her dimensions were:- 142 x 28.3 x 4.5 feet; tonnage, gross and net, 124 tons. She operated mostly on the Illinois River around Peoria. On August 20, 1909, she burned to the water's edge at Peoria, Illinois; fifty-eight persons were aboard but no lives lost.
Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Title
Buck Elk Bill of Lading
Date
1904-04-14
Description
Receipt of shipment to Mr. A. Langenberg on the Str. BUCK ELK, payment received by Sam'l Heckmann.
Large Steamboat Album
Title
Large Steamboat Album
Description
Loading the sternwheeler Oakland. From page 2 of large steamboat album.
J. L. McFeeters Journal
Title
J. L. McFeeters Journal
Description
The J.L. McFeeters Journal 1904 collection consists of a single journal that Capt. J.L. McFeeters wrote in daily. Entries include details on the weather and river water levels but also include details of Capt. McFeeters personal and work life. Capt. McFeeters discussed the deaths of political figures and friends, ship fires on the Edgar Cheery and Mayflower, and his bank account records. Capt. McFeeters also references W.L. Sibert several times who was promoted from Caption to Major by President T. Roosevelt in 1904. Capt. McFeeters worked on a snag boat in 1904.
M. W. Kelly
Title
M. W. Kelly
Description
The M. W. Kelly was built at the Howard Yards, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1900. Her dimensions were 150 x 32 x 4.0 feet. Her tonnage was 95, gross and net. She was built expressly for the Chattahooche River trade and was a fine looking steamboat. Her home port was Appalachicola, Florida. On December 19, 1900, Charles R. Baker, a colored deckhand fell overboard and was drowned. On January 6, 1902, while ascending the Chattahooche River she struck a snag in Frances Bend and sank. The damage was listed as $20,000 to the steamer and $500 to the cargo. Such a high damage figure would imply that she was a total loss but such was not the case. She sank twice more as near Eufala, Alabama in 1906 and finally at the Columbus, Georgia wharf in 1908. After the 1908 sinking she was dismantled. Her cabin was installed on the City of Eufala which burned at Neal's landing in 1914.
Corwin H. Spencer
Title
Corwin H. Spencer
Description
The Corwin H. Spencer was originally built as the Anchor Line steamer City of Monroe at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1887. Badly damaged by the cyclone at St. Louis on May 27, 1896 she was rebuilt into the Hill City. She was 327 feet long, 44 feet beam, and 8.5 feet depth of hold. Purchased by Captain T. B. Sims at a U. S. Marshall sale in January 1898. In 1903 again sold, converted into an excursion boat and renamed the Corwin H. Spencer. She burned just above Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on October 12, 1906.
Columbia
Title
Columbia
Description
The Columbia was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1903. She was 170 feet long, 29 feet beam and four feet depth of hold. Her registry indicateds that her tonnage, both net and gross, was 139, and her indicated horse power 185. She had her first inspection on October 27, 1903. She was named for the town of Columbia, Louisiana. This boat is the sternwheeler that ran in the New Orleans and Bends trade, and later up the Red and Ouachita Rivers for the Carter Packet Company of New Orleans. Charges filed by J.L. Ross, pilot of the Columbia, against the steamer St. James, charging violation of pilot rules was investigated on November 23, 1905. The case was a near collicion of the two vessels on October 30th. As a result, the licenses of pilots E. R. Daigre of the St. James, and Ross of the Columbia, were suspended 10 days each. Her life was comparatively short - less than seven years. On February 26, 1910, while she was coming up pthe Mississippi, she started to make a landing at Grand Levee, nine miles above Bayou Sara, Louisiana. She hit a submerged obstruction and knocked a large hole in her port side, abreast of the derrick. She started to sink. As she listed over at a 45 degree angle, fire broke out, and that part of her cabin that was above water was destroyed. A negro fireman named John Henry left the boat as she started down, but for some unknown reason went aboard her again. He was forced to jump into the river and was drowned. Whether this is the Joh Henry written about by Roark Bradford we do not know. The Columbia was a total loss, but insurance amounting to $12,000 coverred most of her value; this was estimated at $16,000. \"Columbia\" has always been a popular name for nessels and there were many \"gems of the rivers\" as well as \"gems of the ocean.\" For instance, in 1904 there was a Pittsburgh - Monongahela River packet; a Kanawha River boat out of Wheeling, West Virginia; a Louisville ferry; two Upper Mississippi River packets, one in the Clinton and Davenport trade and the other out of St. Paul - and two boats on the Missouri River, one registered in Kansas City, Missouri, and the other Great Falls, Montana, all bearing the patriotic name. In addition there two steamers named Columbia in New Orleans.
Expansion
Title
Expansion
Date
1904
Description
Excursion on Expansion Washburnites on their way to Mannhaven. 1904.
Henry M. Stanley
Title
Henry M. Stanley
Date
1907-09-03
Description
Wreck of Str. Henry M. Stanley. Gallipolis, O. 9/3/07
Photograph of Steamer City of Monroe
Title
Photograph of Steamer City of Monroe
Description
Page 3 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of Monroe was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1887 to 1905. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.
Photograph of Steamer City of St. Louis
Title
Photograph of Steamer City of St. Louis
Description
Page 1 Carpenter-Moore Family Riverboat Scrapbook A -- City of St. Louis was part of the Anchor Line and served cities between St. Louis and New Orleans from 1883 to 1903. This page is part of a scrapbook that contains hundreds of photographs of riverboats operating on the Mississippi River from the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries.

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