Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-15
WATER WALLS.
Personal and General News from the
River Bank.

River Bank.
Business good on the landing yesterday.
Tee Bachelor leaves for Pittsburgh to-
day.
The Courier is the Parkersburg packet
to-day.
The Annie L. passed down with tow of
emptie3.
The Nail City passed up with tow Of
ties yesterday.
The Enterprise passed up with tow OF
empty coal barges.
The Stockdae is due down to-day en-
route for Cincinnati.
The Diurnal left at i1;20 yesterday
morning for Parkersburg.
Robert Lea is making the new cylinders
for the Tom Dodsworth.-Phts En-.
The Emma Graham is due up from Cln-
cinnati to-day, ell route for Pittsburgh.
The new tow boat Clifton left Pittsburgh
on Saturday morning on her maiden trip.
The Carrier is en- route from st. Louis,
and should reach here the latter part OF the
week.
The river was failing slowly at dark, last
night, with feet inches OF water in the
channel.
The Regular and Telegram arrived with
large crowds OF passengers and laid over
until the close OF the circus.
Captain Lew Hates denies the report
that anybody was hurt on his boat, the
Will Kyle, at Louisville, Tuesday, while
freight was being taken out OF the hold.
The st. Lawrence arrived here en- route
for Cincinnati early yesterday morning,
away behind time. She took aboard
large consignment OF nails and glassware.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette says
the st. Lawrence did not get away until
yesterday afternoon, having been delayed
by some necessary repairs 10 one OF her
boilers.
The Sidney, recently sold by Capt List,
has been hauled out on the Diamond 10
Ways, at Dubuque, where she will receive
new cylinders and undergo extensive alter
atoms and improvements.
About all that remains of the old Smith.
field street bridge is the old piers, and they
will be taken out of the way just as soon as
the water in the river gets down low
enough. 1t is now generally admitted that
the new bridge is not any too high.-Pitts.
Com. Gazette.
TRAINING CRLvS FOR SERVICE N CASE OF FIRE.
The Supervising Inspector General OF
Steamboats, at Washington, ID. C., is now
rivers OF system OF regulations, for prom
inent display on board Of vessels. assigning
to each member of crew a special duty in
case of an alarm of fire. In doing this
he has invited suggestions from each
of the Supervising Inspectors.
Nearly all have responded, and the
matter furnished besides being singularly
clear and intelligent, agrees closely in
nearly all the principal points. There are
slight differences, OF course, but it is not
expected that any of the inspectors will OPP
pose the adoption OF form embodying the.
best features of all. Directness and sim.
plicity Of wording will be aimed at, so that
there shall be no chance for misunder-
standing or confusion, and it is expected
that crews, after being drilled few times,
will be prepared as far as possible for all
such emergencies.
ST. Louis, May l4.-River rose . inches,
and is 10 feet inches by gauge. Weather
cloudy, windy and warmer.
EVANSVILLE, May 1i.-Weather cloudy,
with light rain at intervals and southern
wind Mercury 7so. River IL feet scant
and falling.
LOUISVILLE, May l4-River falling, 6
feet 10 inches in the canal; feet inches
in the chute on falls. Weather cloudy
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