Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24
ALONG THE WHARF.
What the NavigatOrs and Coal Operators
Are Doing During High Water.


What the NavigatOrs and Coal Operators
Are Doing During High Water.
T. M. Jenkins & Co., the well-known coal
dealers, have removed from No. III Water
street to No. 120 Water street, where they
now occupy the handsome rooms recently
occupied by j. NJ. Schoonmaker & Co., the
coke dealers. The Schoonmaker firm has
removed to the new Hussey building on
Filth avenue, between Wood and Market
streets.
Local river operators are pleased by an
article in the Louisville Courier-JournGt OF
a recent date urging the purchase by the
government of all the locks on the Monon-
gahela river, and the opening OF that i'm
portant waterway to free navigation. The
purchase of the Louisville and Portland
canal in Kentucky is cited as an example.
The preparation of a bill providing for the
Federal purchase of the locks now owned
by the Monongahela Navigation Company
is in the hands of the Legislative Committee
OF the National Board of Steam Naviga-
tion, and bill to that effect will be pressed
at the coming session of Congress.
A river operator said yesterday: "Outside
OF the abolition of lock charges, which nee
essarily keep up freight rates, the rivermen
desire the purchase OF the dams by the Gov
ernment, because, in that event, the strong
Federal arm would be stretched out to pre-
vent the continuance of encroachments on
the river by mill owners, who are dumping
clnders and Stag into the stream and contin-
ually narrowing the channel. The Monon-
gahela Navigation Company cannot be ex-
pected to protest against the filling up of
the river at Bessemer and at Laughlins' be-
cause Captain M. Z. Moorhesd, who is a
member of that company, is also at the head
OF the Moorhead-McC Company, which
Is filling up the river at Soho. The Gov
ernment has begun to prosecute the sand
diggers, and we believe that if it got control
OF the Monongahela it would compel the
firms who have encroached upon the river
to remove, at their own expense, the cinders
which they have dumped"
The river yesterday afternoon marked liz
feet, having fallen six inches since Friday
evening. There ought to be a continual
movement of coal at that stage, but the
strike of the miners prevents. There seems
to be no prospect of an early settlement Of
the strike.
The steamboat Elaine departed at noon
yesterday for Parkersburg. The st. Law
renee went down at o'clock in the after
noon. The Rainbow will be in Monday
morning. The Iron Duke departed down
yesterday morning, conveying two barges OF
steel rails from Carnegie, Bros. & Co. for
Helena, Ark, and two barges of miscella-
neous freight for ST. Louis. The steamboat
Frank Gilmore arrived last evening from
Louisville. The Joseph B. Williams, with
a tow of coal, passed Cairo downward yes
terday.
Captain Addison Lysle has returned home
from his trip down the Ohio to Louisville
and Cincinnati. He is a member of the
Legislative Committee of the National
Board OF Steam Navigation, but has not yet
decided whether he will go to Washington
during the coming week to work with other
members Of the committee.
Captain Joseph h. Dunlap, who has for
some 16 years been connected with Gray's
Iron Line, has resigned the position of
superintendent of that line, and will look
alter personal interests for some time in
Beaver county, his old home. Captain Dun
lap is one of the old river men of this port,
and many regrets are expressed at his de-
parture.