Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-03
WAITE WAITS.
An Interesting Budget OF News from
the River.

The cold snap mas III q great measure
stopped the packets on the river, as the ice
is much thicker. The smaller packets were
compelled to stop, and the Parkcrsourg
and Cincinnati packets will not leave as
advertised.
The marks at the river last night showed
9 feet IL inches of water in the channel and
the water recedirg slowly.
The Diurnal arrived at & o'clock yester.
day and will lay up at the wharf until
Monday.
The Sidney, which was advertised to leave
Yesterday, will not swing out into the
stream until noon to-day.
The Abner O'Neal is laid up a Steuben-
vile.
The Telegram, Princess and c.. Y. Lucas
were running in their respective trades
yesterday.
The following towboats passed down,
yesterday, with coal:tows: Jim Brown.
John Cook and Mount Glare.
The Geo. Roberts passed up light.
The Annie l.. passed down with a tow OF
brick boats.
Tho Little Anna went to the bank at
noon yesterday and will continue in that
position until the weather moderates.
Capt. Fred Kemple, who is at pr, sent
steward of the steamer Courier, has been
steamboating on the Ohio for the last thirty
years.
Henry Jones, the oblig ing colored porter
OF the steamer Courier, has Just recovered
from a severe spell Of sickness and is again
able to be at his post of duty.
1t is claimed, and we think justly too,
that Wheeling according to her population
hrs turned out more and the best steam
boatmen that run the Ohio river, and on
the lower trade the most popular stewards
are Wheeling boys, Ed. Brown, Campbell
and others.
Capt. Nathan Wintringer, the present
and popular commander Of the steamer c.
W. Bachelor, learned his trade as a ma
chinist years ago in what was known as
Philips machine shop, just north Of the
water works. He was counted a first class
workman in every respect.
There are hogs, cows, calves and all kinds
of stock placed on some of the boats COM
ing to this landing, and should the boat be
a day and a half or two days coming to
port, the poor dumb brutes are fed moth
ing. Sometimes a farmer will put hay on
for them, but where one is fed nine go
without.
joss. Huffman, of Matamoras, is at
present cooking on the steamer Courier.
AS Henry Scelada and one of the boys OF
the C.. W. Bachelor were drawing ice on
the boat the other morning, the boy fell on
one of the pieces cutting a bad cash in his
nose.
James Robinson, Jr., has quit steam.
boating and gone into the green grocer
business on Market street.
Phe steamer Diurnal came to the land
ing yesterday with about fifty people, bat
a light freight trip. She will remain uattl
Monday and will resume if the weather is
favorable. Her wheels We're badly broken
and she was obliged 10 stop at point along
the rivar and have thpm rpnairp6
The Courier left Parkersburg for this
port, but it is doubtful if she will get
through. Capt. John says he will come
through il he is forced to come over the
hills on yankee. jumpers.
Thomas Glasscock brought all OF his
moving over yesterday to be taken down
to Sistersyille on the Diurnal, but as she
was laid up, he put them on the wharf
boat.
AS the Diurnal was coming up on her
last trip, one Of her wheels struck a cake OF
ice which loosened one of the paddles or
buckets, and it went crashing through the
wbeelhouse Onward and struck the bulk
head of the stateroom where the cabin boys
sleep. Should it passed through there
would have been a loss OF life, as there
were six of the boys in the room. They
did not wait to be told TO move out, but went
with one accord. 1t was a narrow escape.
Daniel Z. Petty, carpenter OF the Dlurnal,
has had, as the saying is, a regular picnic,
repairing wheels.
Capt John Muhleman, engineer OF the
Diurnal, will leave for his h0re to-day at
Buck Hill Bottom, Monroe county.
sUNKES ARG
The following communication was re-
oeived from d. ID. Johnson, of Long Beach,
W. Va: The sunken barge upon which
the towboat Relief was wrecked lies on the
West Virginia side, but nearly in the chan
mel, the upper side of he barge lying di-
rectly between the Government light on
the Ohio bank and Johnson's store on the
West Virginia side of the river. During
low water, boats must pass on the Ohio
side of the barge where there is plenty Of
water at the lowest stage. l have been
familiar with the lead Of the river here for
thirty years and know whereof l speak"
~PIrrsBuReH, February 2-River 5 feet, 10
inches and falling.