Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-19
THE KATE ADAMS.
Arrival Of the New and Beauti Steam.
boat OF the Memphis and Arkansas
City Packet Line.
Ablaze with Electric Lights, She Came
Down the River Last Night aed Tied
Up at 1890 O'Clock.

No nan who has ever enlisted his capital
and energies for Memphis has m ade Drawer
fight TO preserve her river trade than John
ID. Adams. For thirty-five years he has
been tried, aud eften BY fire, and as proven
himself true as the steel Of the best Toledo
blade. His lceaee in that time have been
many and have been large-in the aggregate
we'll up toward the millions-but ne has
risen superior 10 adversity to the traductiop
hate and malice of his enemies, and is still
intimately Identified with the city for
which Hurh OF the best years OF
his lie have been expended His latest
proof OF enterprise is the magnificent new
steamboat, Kate Adams, which tied up at
the landing last night about 1890 O'Clock.
She came down the river u blsEe of GLORY,
lighted by electricity from stem 10 stern, in
side and outside, up stairs and down, and BY
the few who were SO fortunate 10 be on the
bluff or at the leSee al that late hour was
much admired. She il andou stedIy the
queen of the river. Her lines are perfect,
her proportions true and her cabins are re-
pete with every luxury. The hull of the
Kate AID inns wac built by the Pittsburz Boat
yard Company, is PAS feet long and thirty
seven feet beam, with guards eighteen
feet wide, gracefully slipping in forward
and ait, which are fastened by chains and
protected by natural keels. Kuuckle ch aims
strengthen the inside of the hulls as we'll as
athwartship chains across the beams. The
hight between the decks Is fourteen feet, and
the planks Of the deck floor are eight inches
wide and four inches thick, and will
prove exceptionally strong, as they are
of the best and lightest wood and
well fastened. She trims on four feet for
...rS.-Ihe Psintips, which was done by
william 3 ggs d Co, oil Pitt burg, will
challenge the admiration OF the least critical
as the very best possible. The character.
conception and execution is such as to insure
to the above firm substantial benefits. well
worthy OF striving for. From the top of
the pilothouse TO The very keel Of the
boat, and both on the inside and outside,
nothing was sighted or slovenly done.
Various colors will hsrmonize in the cabin,
which is well proportioued and very hand
somely finished with a variety Of hard woods
susceptible of polish and requiring neither
oil nor paints. Ash, cherry, birds eye ma
pie, walnut and mahogany constitute the
varieties used. 1t is the first work of this
character ever put on Western or Southern
steamboat. The finishing of the saterooms,
we'll as officers quarters, is in keeping
with that of the cabin-the most elegant
and substantial that could be obtained.
There are comfortable accommodations
for seventy-Rve passengers i'll the cabin. The
steam of this elegant craft is generated in
eight feet long and forty-seven inches in
diameter, and capable of sustaining tensile
strain Of 10000 pounds. The maiu engines
have cylind' rs twehty-three inches in di-
ameter and nine feet stroke and are of bal
ance poppet-valve and adjustab cut of
order, working wheels thiry-two feet in
diameter witbssixteen feet buckets. The
rest Of the machinery is of a character to
insure the best of results. The steam
fittings, syphons, whistles, ETC., were fur
nished by Gray, Shook & Co., the well known
and reliable steam fitting firm of Pitts
burg. This handsome and comp lete steamer
is topped off by an excellent pilothouse with
a square, dome shaped roof, and a very fine
pair of chimneys, sixty feet high above the
hurricane roof and ornamented on top, loom
up in front OF the pilolhouse. The Kate
Adams complete cost $4,000, and takes the
place of the Dean Adams in the Memphis
and Arkansas river trade. She will be
free to-day 10 all visitors, and will no
doubt be crowded from morning until
night, and all will agree with the
APPEAL that Major John D. Adams has the
handsomest and best-spPointed steamboat
that has ever fioated on the Mississippi, a
boat worthy his reputation. and worthy the
mercha ants and the planters who do business
with the line. The officers are Mark R.
Cheek, captain; A. L. Cummins, chief clerk
Lee Cummins, Will Lash and Walker Out
Jaw, assistant clerks; William Hodge and
Elisha Egips, pilots; Lou Botte, chief en-
yineer; Henry Powers, male. Old Joe Flynn
laS oh aroe of the bar