Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-05
Navigation Notes.

Water TOUR 1eet, 1all OF one lncn Ill
twenty four hours.
The Saints line will have the Grand
Pacific in this morning to leave at 6 p. m.
The Diamond Joe line will have the
Libbie Conger in to leave at 10 a. m. Sat
urday.
Tomorrow at 9 a. m. the Gem City OF
the Saints line will leave for st. Louis on
her eighth weekly round trip between the
two Saints. The st. Louis Republican of
Wednesday, announcing the departure
of the Gem City, says:
The Gem and queen of the upper Mississip-
pi cast loose from her moorings yesterday at
4 o'clock sharp for St. Paul and the beauti-
full trout streams of Minnesota and WiscOn-
sin. Her beautiful cabin was thronged with
people, and every state-room full and all COM
fortably cared for. Capt VIM. Thompson
walked proudly her decks, and that natures
nobleman Capt. Pole Hatcher, was
attending the wants of the
guests in The cabin: and the good
humored Ed. Buckley was arranging his we'll
supplied larder with choicest of the markets
passengers on board. Among the list was
Col Clay Sexton, chief of our st. Louis fire
department A. Ball, A. Judah, Rev. DR..
Rhodes and friend, S. P. Qulnette. j. C. Bud
decke, B. A. Dyer, Chas. Froe!ich, Mrs. W. A.
Fonwall and daughter, Yes Patterson and wife,
Silas Adkins and family, Mrs. W. c. Butler,
Miss Brown, Miss Huey, Mrs. Phelps and son,
Miss Lille Doering, Miss T. M. Doering, Miss
Annie Dawson, Jno. L. Voolfolk and wife,
j. A. Rhineberg and family, Miss Rosa Bob
land, Miss Mary Bohland, o. G. Bryson and
wife, Miss Lille Treadway, Miss Lille Dyer,
Mrs. Fl. Treadway, Miss Mamie Sloan, j. A.
Mootz, Lawrence Casanova, Mr.. Edwards
and friend, Cas-. Keller, VIM M. LaForce,
Richard Morris, Andrew j. Madison,
P Thompson, Cord Hall, Mrs. J. HI.
Rollins and daughter, Miss Nellie Brown,
Capt. John Gum and party, Samuel Conn and
wife, c. M. Merriam, wife and three children,
G. F. Gould, George n: Buck, Miss Clara
Buddeck, Miss Durfee, Miss Lou Nohl, Miss
holland, Master Degnan, Mrs. Cook, Miss
Cook, G. Van Hoorbeck and wife, Mrs. NJ
Ticknor, Miss Julia Ticknor, Miss Rhodes,
Mrs. Rhodes and friend, Fl. Clay Sexton and
wife, Misses Sexton, G. A. Dyer, E. III. Dur
fee, Judge T. J. C. Fagg, Arthur Regner, wife
children, Theo. Blume, Louis Boedeker, Mrs.
Cubbage and daughter, James johnson and
wife, Thos. Forester and wife, j. Huey and
wife, J. j. Lyons and wife, l. Stansbury and
wife, VIM. Henneey and family, Herman
Rohne, wife and son, W. J. Harris, Jacot
Prasa, Miss Lad, Mr.. Fee and wife, Miss Fee,
L. NJ. Smith and son, Fred. Kuehler and wife
Mrs L. s. Metcalf and friend, Mrs. Theo
Hege and daughter, Miss Ball. Mr.. Johnston
and wife, Mrs. A. s. Kendrick, S. B. Brague
and wife, Miss Bowers, Philip Schae
fer, and party of fifteen ladies and gentlemen
from New Orleans. The Gem City on her last
trip round handled 5,S0l packages freight and
952 passengers.
To the tired business man and the weary
wife steamboat trip at this season of the
year IS restful and invigorating; and we have
| heard of dim tradition that "il's too nice fol
anything" when indulged in by those oi
younger years, who are in the ve-making
period of life. Aud it is not 50 bad, either, in
that way, for married people who have moi
forgotten how to be lovers. What can bt
more poetic or majestic than to be passen.
ger on grand steamboat gliding over the
CLASSY surface of the Mississippi, with its
willow fringed shores and towering bluffs il
the background. relieved at intervals by
glimpses of farm houses, and anon by stops al
the wharves of busy cities and beauteous ham
lets? And then when the curtain of night is
drawn as veil over nature, and naught but
the stars are to be seen in the hea
vens, while music and dancing are
the pastime on board the boat, how
inspiriting is the sudden flash of the
electric light as it CLEANS out upon the
shore and discloses, as it did at Port Louisa re
Pently, bevy of merry maldens on the bank
walking barefooted through the dew-lader
dog-fennel, all unconscious that the night
was to be 50 summarily turned into the
brightness of day at that particular point.
We repeat, there is poetry, pleasure and lots
of fun travelling by steamboat with goot
companionship. And for revival of this
remembered period the public are indebted to
Commodore Davidson, who has given us tn
| Gem (,itV and he DrODOSpS tn MT Otha
equally good packets in the line to satisfy th'
increasing river passenger business, which ii
now so overrunning the Gem that the great
est regret of its officers is in being obliged t.
deny urgent requests for state room accom-
modations, which pour In from nearly al
points after the boat leaves st. Louis on a
up-river trip! o glorious and grand Mississ
ippi river-lct us appreciate it as we should
"Time writes no wrinkles on thine azur
brow;
Such as Marquette beheld, thou rollest now!