Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-28
WATER WAITS.
Stray and Regular Matters Along the
River and Wharf.


River and Wharf.
The Diurnal is the Parkersburg packet
to day.
The Abner O'Neal will not take the
Bachelors trade as reported, but will con-
tinue in her own trade.
1t was reported on the landing yesterday,
that the Jennie Campbell would leave for
New Orleans in few days.
The river was still falling at the rate of
four inches per day. The MARKS showing
four feet Of water in the channel.
The st. Lawrence is due to-day from
Cincinnati, and will lay up. The Sidney
will take her place, Saturday, for Cincin-
natl.
The steamer Welcome, which has been
On the docks for the last ten days, having
her boy repaired, was set ahoat again last
evening.
The Scotia, from Cincinnati en- route for
Pittsburg, passed up very light yesterday.
She expects to tie up at Pittsburg and come
down with the next rise.
The Cincinnati Times is responsible for
the following: Capt. Charlie Russell is
wearing the telegraph wires out between
this point and Pittsburg, to find out If that
blessed baby is getting tooth.
The Bachelor arrived yesterday morning
and tied up, as the water was a little too
shallow for her TO run with any comfort.
She will be taken to PIT Pleasant and placed
on the docks for general repairs about the
10th of August.
The Emma Graham passed down ell route
for Cincinnati yesterday. The pilot re-
ported that they touched bottom several
places between Pittsburg and our city and
that the Graham would lay up at Cincin-
natl until the river rose.
The steamer Buckeye State is four years
old; has been running steadily has never
been .docked her machinery has not de.
tanned the boat FIVE minutes, and is not
dollar has been expended on it. She has
an iron wheel, the same one that she start
ed with.
Monday from Fort Benton, 80 days out
from port TO port. She brought out 5000
sacks OF wheat from the lower end OF the
river, and Capt. Coulson reports the damage
sustained at the Atchison bridge as being
light. The Wyoming will lie up at st.
Louis for the present.
In the Scientific american a description is
given OF the Pilgrim, a large steamer OF the
Fall River Line, at John Roach ship yards
at Chester Pa. The Pilgrim is the largest
steamboat ever built, being 800 feet over all,
SO feet wide over guards and II feet depth
of hold. She will have powerful machine
~, as the following description implies:
The Pilgrim, now in process of construc-
ton by Mr.. John Roach for the Fall River
Line, is the largest steamboat ever built
The company required the most commodi-
Gus steamer with the highest power and
speed attainable, and this boat will in a
few months be completed and delivered by
the builder. Her shaft will be the largest
ever constructed. Each half of the shaft is
to be connected amidship by the crank and
is, Of course, Of the same length. Each
measures 80 feet inches in length, and
is 2sH inches at its largest and %
inches at its smallest diameter and weigh
each 81, 200 pounds. This enormous shaft
implies the size of the engine and also the
size and power Of the boat, though in re-
spect TO the stability and speed of the lat
ter other conditions are 10 be considered, of
which we will make mention hereafter
In considering this statement many will
think Of large sidewheel steamers, inciud.
ing the Great Eastern, but they must also
remember that each OF her wheels is
driven by q separate engine, which calls
for smaller engine, while in this case one
engine drives both wheels and is intended
to do so at the highest speed and attainable
power. Hence the necessity OF q large
piece OF machinery. What Is implied BY
the size of the shaft is carried out in all
parts of the engine. The cylinder is 8 feet
inches in interior diameter with IA feet
stroke, and was cast in the same works.
The working beam from center to center is
% feet long by IL feet inches across and
weighs 3s tons. The paddle wheels are IL
feet in diameter.
On CITY, July 27.-Riyer inches
on the stand. Weather clear aud hot
PITTsBrReH, July 27.-Riyer % inches
and falling. Weather clear and hot.
CINCINNATI, July 27.-River 10 feet and
inches and falling. Weather clear and
hot Departed-Katie Stockdale for Pitts
burg. with
LOUISVILLE, July 27.-River falling falls.
6 feet in the canal and 4 feet ON the canal
Weather clear and hot
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