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
Towboats crowd each other along the Ohio, where modern river traffic surpasses anything in tonnage that was known in the days when steamboating was at its height.
The Jack Frost was built in 1881 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Her dimensions were: - 165 x 30 x 5.4 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 351 tons. In the early 1900's she became the property evidently of Ohio River parties. She burned at Galipolis, Ohio, in October, 1914.
The Belle Memphis was a large Anchor Line boat built at the Howard Yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1880. Her dimensions were:- 267 x 42 x 7.5 feet. She operated in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade. On May 13, 1889 she took into the Vicksburg wharfboat the largest cargo of freight ever delivered by one steamer up to that date. It was a manifest of 11,024 packages weighing 813 tons. On
The Vim was originally built as the Hattie Brown, a single deck sternwheeler at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania in 1895. Her dimensions were:- 125 x 22.6 x 4.3 feet. She was built for J. W. Rice of Zanesville, Ohio and her engines came from the Lizzie Cassel. They were 12's with a 4-foot stroke. She ran various short trades on the Ohio River. The Hattie Brown was rebuilt at Jeffersonville, Indiana in
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.
assembly of the state, March4, 1819, and named for William W. Alexander who lived at America. He was a practicing physician, a politician and public man. He was a member of the legislature in 1882 and 1840 and Speaker of the House in 1822 and 1824. The area of Alexander county is 220 square miles. Cairo yesterday was \"a town set down in a low, flat plain and surrounded by high levees from which one