Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-06
ARRIVALS.

Lorena, GAINESVILLE.
H. K. Bedford, Charleston.
Queen City, Pittsburg.
Argand, Parkersburg.
Ruth, Sistersville.
Leroy, Darlington.
r. NJ. Bayne, Steubenville.
DEPARTURES.
Lorena, Pittsburg.
H. K. Bedford, Pittsburg.
Queen City, Cincinnati.
Argand Parkersburg.
Lexington, New Matamoras.
Ruth, Sistersville.
Leroy, Darlington.
T. NJ. Bayne, Steubenville.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
Pittsburg, Virginia, a. m.
Parkersburg, Ben Hur, II a. m.
Sistersville, Ruth, $3.50 p m.
Darlington, Leroy, $3.50 p. m.
Steubenville, T. NJ. Bayne, 2:30 p. m.
The marks at the wharf last even
ing showed a stage of feet and fall
ing. The sudden drop in the river is
accounted for by the raising Of the
wickets at Merrill, which has damned
I'D the water at thet point. Owing to
the dam the water pours through the
opening allowed for the steamboats,
1t the rate of about 20 miles an hour,
making it exceedingly difficult for the
boats going up stream to get through
against this strong current. Coming
down the boats are also in danger be-
cause they find it hard to right them
selves while in the swift stream.
The beautiful Virginia will be up
early this morning for Pittsburg, and
will return to Cincinnati Sunday, leav-
ing here at a. m.
Saturday the Bedford will leave at
$50 a. m. for Charleston and the W.
]. Cummins for Cincinnati at p. m.
The force of government engineers
who have been surveying the Ohio
river between here and Pittsburg for
a series of locks and dams to be put
along the river from Pittsburg to
Marietta, have gotten down to just
above Martins Ferry on their work,
and will be in this locality for several
days or a week Some of them came
down to the city on Edna, the small
packet which is transporting them
along the river
William Wolfe, of Short Creek, for
merly a steamboat captain residing at
West Wheeling, yesterday underwent
a successful operation for the removal
of cataract from his eye. The opera
ton was performed by Dr. Sadler, of
Pittsburg.
Rivermen are growing impatient
since they have gained free navigation
on the Monongahela for new fields of
activity. They are now agitating the
pushing of the work of construction
for two dams between Davis Island
and Merrill, for which the money is
available.
Wednesday evening at o'clock the
new steamer Robert E. Lee was sue
cessfully launched at Jacksonville.
The new boat is 240 feet in length, AZ
feet beam and 61s feet depth of hold.
Her engines are Of the most improved
pattern and are "a inches in diameter,
with 7-soot stroke. The boilers will
be of steel and four in number. The
Lee is side-wheeler and will have a
full cabin and Texas. The entire boat
viii be lighted by electricity. When
finished she will be the finest steamer
floating on Southern waters. She is
built for the Lee line, and will run be-
tween New Orleans and Memphis.
Capt. Ira Huntington is spending the
present week at his home in Gallipolis,
he having stopped off trip for rest.
Capt. George W. Bay, one of the own
ers of the boat, has command of the
Kanawha during his absence.
Capt. John McNair, of the steamer
Ruth, called yesterday at the Office of
Harbor No. %, Masters and Pilots.
The Ruth is towing French's snow
boat. the New Sensation, which ar
rived from the Ohio river yesterday
morning. The outfit will leave for the
Illinois river in a day or two.-St.
Louis paper.
The wharfboat at Moundsville sprung
a. leak and sank few days ago. She
will be raised and repaired.
Henry Best, former we'll known
river clerk, is one of the owners of the
vharfboat ct Marietta.
The ferryboat Ollie Neville, Of New