Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-05-06
HUDSON TO LEAVE.

The New Packet, the Queen City, VIII
Take the Place of the Hudson, in the
Pittsburg & Cincinnati Trade-Captain
Agnew, of the Hudson, to Command the
Queen City-Other River Notes.
As mentioned exclusively in the
Register a few days ago, it was prob
able that Capt R. R. Agnew, the pres
ent master of the Hudson, would be
selected to captain the elegant Queen
City. The selection Of Capt Agnew was
made Tuesday night, and he will have
| picked crew, the best on the river.
The Queen City will take the place of
! the Hudson, and will leave Pittsburg
! every Wednesday. Il will leave here
every Thursday morning for Cincin-
natl and every Tuesday morning for
! Pittsburg. The Hudson has been leased
/ to run in the COney Island excursion
trade out of Cincinnati this summer.
| She will start into the excursion bust
ness on May 29th, and will continue all
summer She will be under the COM
mand of Capt John Sweeney, now mate
Of the Virginia.
The United States snagboat E. A.
Woodruff will soon be ready for bust
/ ness after more or less extensive re-
pairs. She has just been equipped with
an electrical outfit enjoyed by no other
/ boat on the river. She has been fitted
| out with storage batteries which will
keep her electric lights going when
there is no steam on the boat or when
the machinery is not running for any
other cause. She is lying at Cincinnati.
The Waterways Journal editorially
says: "Persistently for twenty years
the rivermen at the head Of the Ohio
! have been endeavoring to have the
Monongahela made free, and their
efforts have at last been crowned with
success. It was the only navigable
stream in the United States on which
tolls were collected by private corpor-
alton. and the burdens the coalmen OF
the rich fuel-producing region had to
bear were very heavy ones. In less
! than a year from the passage Of the
act the property was condemned price
placed upon ii by viewers selected
under the condemnation proceedings,
and in a very short time the stream will
be as free as any waterway in this
broad land"
Whatever may be the opinion Of the
people. and river and coal men particu
larly, the people Of Benwood and Bell
aire do not support cordially the idea
of compelling the owners Of the Bell
! aire B. q O. bridge to remove any OF
the piers of the bridge at their own
| expense. A Bellaire riverman said the
other day that he did not think that
g -, in, viz
| live to see any change made in the
bridge. If any of the piers have to be
! changed, he thought the proper method
would be to do it at the governments
expense as the government had given
the bridge company the right of way
and had approved the application to
build the piers where they now stand.
If the government aCcedes to the coal
! GENERATORS and decides that the channel
pier should be removed, they should do
| it at their own expense instead OF COM
pelling the owners to make the change
at cost OF several hundred thousand
dollars. as the government is respon-
sible for all damage that has been IN
Cured to the river interests because
they originally gave the bridge company
the privilege Of building the structure
across the river as it now stands.
YESTERDAYS BOATS-Pittsbru, Lor-
ena. midnight, Ben Hur, p. m; Chtrles-
ton. Kanawha. $50 a. m; Sistersville'
Ruth. $3.50 p. m; Darlington, Leroy, $3.50
! p. m.
TO-DAYs BOATs-Cincinnau. Hudson,
a. M: Pittsburg, Bedford, a. m; Par
kersburg. Arsand, Il a. m; New Mata-
| moras. Lexington, II a. m; Sistersville,
Ruth. $50 p. m; Darlington, Leroy $3.50
| p. m.
The following boats passed down with
coal yesterday: J. o. Risher Mariner
| Joseph b. Williams. Belle MCGOWAN Pa
cidc No , Rescue. George Shiras Fred
Wilson. Little Fred. Tornado with IRON
Charley Hook. Charles Brown. Enterprise.
The James Moren and Clipper passed down
with lows the night before
The Ohio is on the upward trend The
wharf marks last evening indicated i feet
| 10 inches and rising.
PITTSBURG. May 5.-River 94-lO feet
and falling at the dam: weather clear and
warmer.