Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-08
Echoes From the L.vee.

THE Voyager Is doing some worK in the pool.
THE Crescent is at the head of the Merriman.
THE Ed Roberts is laid up opposite Sewickley.
NUMBER Of yachts were out in the riverlas
evening.
THE Courier has stopped running account OF
the water.
STAGE of water below Davis Island dam feet.
River falling.
THE l. NJ Bunton is to have a new wheel put in
and her boilers replaced by new ones.
THE Bedford. Captain Greene has stopped rum
ming between Wheeling and Pittsburg.
THE repairs on the Germania at Brownsville arc
about completed. She had new wheel put In.
+ THE Princess and Two Brothers were the only
day.
THE jim Wood is at Raccoon being treated to .
new coat Of paint to supply that burned on re-
Gently.
THE Adam Jacobs came in last night and will
leave for Morgantown and way points to-day sts
O'Clock.
ALEX HENDERSON. of the Cincinnati wharf,
boat, returned yesterday from tri p down the
Ohio. He reports the river business dull.
THE Mink No. has had her pilot ho9se lowered.
She has been at the Ninth street @ bridgs for some
now at Church's docks.
STEPHEN r. JOHNSON. delivery clerk on the
Cincinnati wharfboat. went TO Cincinnati last
evening. He will not return for several weeks.
ONE of the Western Dredge Company's boats
was at work in the MonOngahela river, opposite
the Baltimore and ohio Railroad station Saturday
cleaning the channel
CAPTAIN WILLIAM BooKHlRr. pilot on the
HUDSON. has gone to Cincinnati to act as pilot IN
one of the Big Sandy steamers plying between
Cincinnati and Pomeroy till navigation begins
again on the Upper Ohio.
THIS time last year the Cincinnati packets were
running. and drove lively trade. The low water
forced the boats to lay up sooner than usual This
year. 1t now looks as though no packets will be
running to Cincinnati for some months. The wefer
registered feet yesterday, but that Is only feet in
the channel.
DUrF's BAR has been the common sticking place
for the boats up and down the river this season.
and made worse. AS il now Is. IL Is very lumpy.
and will require a deal OF work to restore IL 10 q
good condition. More trouble has been expert
enced at this point than any place along the river
between here and Cincinnati
THE following boats at the wharf yester-
day: The Scotia, Pacific. Fred Wilson, Iron
Duke Iron Age. Iron SIDES, " & w: 0NS1L I.it Jos.
Clifton. Lud Keefer. John T. Walton. Smoky
CITY, Beaver, 1. n. Bunton. Diamond. Twilight
j. NJ. Bowel. 9. W. Batchelor Maggie, Joseph
Walton, City of Pittsburg and j. Nj. Gusky.
THE snagboat Woodruff that has been at Cincin-
natl for some time past has taken on supplies and
is expected to get to work within few days. The
condition of the rivers about sucn as 70
possible to do the best work at this time, and The
Efforts of the coal men OF this city should be re-
warded by having her sent up here To remove some
of the worst distractions In the river bed.
EXTENSIVE repairs have been going on for some
time at Lock No. 8. They will soon be completed.
A Golfer dam was put in and :he locks pumped dry
This was made imperative from the nature OF the
repairs. as 1t had been found that the large IRON
yates were too heavy and cumbersome and were
doing much injury 10 the masonry. These gates
had been made in this city some time
ago. They were thought to be an improvement at
the time. Experience has proved them otherwise.
and they are 10 be removed and replaced by
and quicker but do not loosen and weaken ths
walls