Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-28
HIS LAST TRIP.

man, a noted mariner, died in thi.
city last night of old age and genera
debility. He was born on the 10Th o.
March, 1911, and was nearly seventy
years of age. Capt. Warman was {
kind, devoted, earnest, quiet gentle.
man, held in high esteem by his &C.
quaintances, and was regarded Will
veneration ard exalted respect by al
who followed the river, where he wal
best known, and wherein he had beer
engaged for the past ffty-fve years.
The respected gentleman's frequenI
exposure to the weather and the hard.
ships incident to his calling as a pilor
on the river had given him a rather
ancient, and to some extent, feeble ap.
p%earanee, and he looked really Older
Than his years would indicate. He
was an abstemious, temperate man il
his personal habits and has enjoyed
God health throughout his career.
but for some time past his step has
grown slower and his form began
to bend low. His friends noticing
this we're frequently heard to remark
that the old mans race was nearly
run.
For some years past Captain War;
man has not been a regular worker al
his business as a pilot, but would make
occasional trips from here to New Or.
leans, to the Ohio river, to St. Louis
or other points, as the occasion offer.
ed. He knew well every feature O
our great river in its course of owe
thirteen hundred miles from the gul
to st. Louis, and even beyond. He wa
also fully acquainted with the Ohio anC
many Gifts tributaries, as well as nu
merous side streams of the main rive,
from Cairo to New Orleans, including
the White, the Arkansas and othe
rivers, No man was more capa
bic, nor were any more trusty
and whenever any Of GU,
local boat owners wished to send on
Of their vessels to some point up tn
country for repair, Captain Warmar
has for years been sought by them a
their favorite pilot. lie has a so
for some years past one Of the bes
pilots out of this port to White river
and other children also survive hin
all fully grown. He has always bee.
noted as a kind-hearted father an
took much pride in his children.
1t was in the early years ofthe pres
ent century that Captain Warman BE-
gan his life on the water. His fir
efforts in that line we're before steam
boats we're numerous, and keel an
fat boats were Pthe principal rive
craft. Captain Warman followed thi
business for a number years, ofte
occupying five months or more in
voyage from New 0rleansto Pittsbur
with a keel boat, propelled by pole
cast from the bow of the craft to tb
bottom of the river, and hen pushe
by the shoulders Of the crew, or b
catching against the Overhangingtrec
logs or cane-stalks, witha boat hook an
pulling the boat against the curren
Ten miles a day on the up stream tri
was an average run in those times an
fifteen miles was big speed.
In 1926 Captain Warman first Ell
ragged on a steamboat called Bridgt
water, where he remained for sewers
years. Captain Mitchell ran this boz
in the Ohio, Tennessee and New Oh
leans trade. A few years later be "a
with the late Captain Charles !
Church on the Virago, a boat of abot
/. $50 bales cotton capacity, up the VI
zoo river. This was about 1898 or 2
The veteran commander on the Jam,
Lee began his river career at this peric
. Early in the thirties Captain Warma
ran as pilot on the Montezuma and i
1884 went on the Adriatic, Captai
Samuel Perry, a big, clumsy sing
engine boat Of 500 tons, which "a
from Cincinnati TO New Orleans, an
was often over ten days making Il
upward voyage, She wa as strong
q craft as wood and iron could max
G had a cabin ia the lower hold and o
ten carried twenty-five at one tim
G charging from $50 to SIS each. Maj
I notable people travelled on the tn,
famous boat. On her first down Fri
when new, every berth was taken
c less han two hours after the boat p
= up her sign, and all at SIS each. TT
7 captain then ran on the Monarc
a six hundred ton boat, bui
a in 1888, at Cincinnati. att cost of$6C
b 900, one ofthe finest, as we'll as amor
the hrst, Of the improved doub
engine boats Of the time, and now
universally used on western river
The eaptain ran on this boat until l9i
The vessel had an upper cabin (
passengers. Previous to that peri,
river boats cabins were ia the hold
on the lower deck. Pilots in tho
days received $l2 per month, engi
GERS SIS and $50. The Monarch cou
carry a hundred cabin passengers, a
often took N as many as three hu
e dred on deck. She was a fast YES
|. for the time, aud often went frc
. New Orleans to Louisville in less
days.
d In 1912 Captain Warman went
the Louis PHILIPPE, in.the Cincinn
and New Orleans trade, Captain
" Hukill, Of this city, was a cabin boy