Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-29
STEAMERS CHANGE ABOUT.
Speculation as to the Arrangement of the
Different Packets.

Speculation as to the Arrangement of the
Different Packets.
A good deal of talk has been going on
among the river people and shippers,
lately. in regard TO the retirement Of
the Pittsburg and Cincinnati packet
C. w. Bachelor, which has been hug
ging the Pittsburg wharf for the past
few months. The only reasons for re-
tirement that have been given to the
public by her owners are that, in the
first place, she is too light for the Gin
cinnati trade, and in the second place,
the business OF the past few months
could just as well be done by the three
larger packets, viz: the Scotia, Hudson
and Congo, all of which have been run
ming whenever the stage OF water would
allow. 1t is now reported that the new
steamer Iron Queen, on her completion.
will be placed on the days formerly &C.
cupied by the Bachelor, and that the
latter will be placed on short trade.
Where that is is matter for specula-
tion.
Considerable trade comes to the Gin
cinnati line at Pittsburg from the Mon
ongahela valley, which has to be
brought down by rail and transferred,
at great inconvenience and expense to
shippers, while another large portion is
diverted to other channels for this rea-
son, and it is surmised the Bachelor
will be placed on this run up the Mo-
| nongahela, as feeder of the main line
boats. Another report is that she will
be placed in the Wheeling line, in
which the Bedford now holds full sway.
Another story has it that the Bay line,
running from Charleston, West Virgin
ia, to Pittsburg, has been bucking rath-
er hard against the Cincinnati company
and that as consequence the Batchel-
or will be placed in the Kanawha trade,
as a competitor. Still another report
has il that she will be used in Clncinna-
ii, as a sort of an independent feeder TO
the line, having no set run, only TO be
in port at the lower end TO catch trade
which come in too late for the regular
Pittsburg packets, and which is picked
up by the Big Sandy boats and trans
ferred to short line packets at Parkers-
burg and Wheeling.
The elegant new packet for the Pitts
burg and Cincinnati trade, the Iron
queen, HOW utdIIuS IOu plCllOh az
Marietta, will be one of the finest
steamboats, ever launched on the upper
Ohio. She is built more especially to
accommodate the fast increasing pas
senger traffic in this trade, and no eX-
pense has been spared to make her con-
venient and comfortable. Her entire
length is 235 feet, with carrying
capacity of 900 tons. She has AZ state
rooms in her first cabin, and 10 rooms
for passengers in her Texas, exclusive
of officers quarters. All the lower berths
are double. Her guards have been
made narrow, so that no freight
can be stored there, and they will be
for the exclusive use of the passengers.
This is to conform with the ideas Of
Captain Phillips. She will be lighted
throughout by electricity, and her
equipment in this line will include
three arc and seventy incandescent
lights. She is built especially fer
speed, and it is claimed she will outrun
the fastest boat in the Cincinnati line.
1t is the intention to have her ready TO
enter the trade about April /, in time
for the excursion season. During this
season she will carry band.-EGst
Liverpool Crisis.