The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-05-07
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SUSQUEHANNA LAUNCHED.
The Fine Steamer That VIII Ply Between
Port Deposit, Havre de Grace
and Baltimore.

The fine new steamer ''Susquehanna,
which will ply between Port Deposit,
lIavre de Grace and Baltimore, was launch
ed on Saturday at the shipvard of Charles
Reeder & Sons, Baltimor".
The vessel was dressed in rainbows of all
flags, except the Spanish, from stem to
stern and from starboard to port A stiff
breeze kept them swapping in the sunlight.
Federal Hill, the housetops and all points
of vantage were crowded with hundreds Of
onlookers. AS the vessel started down the
hanna" by Miss Ethel Virginia Nesbitt of
Port Deposit, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Nesbitt, Ind a niece of Mrs. Jacob
Tome.
She did not christen the vessel with
champagne, but with bottle of water
from the Susquehanna river, after which
the steamer is named. The bottle was
decorated with red, white and blue ribbons,
one of the ribbons being inscribed with
the date april 80, 1898" In the christen-
ing party on the forward deck OF the vessel
were Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Neshtt, Mr. and
Mrs. VIM. Porter, Mr.. and Mrs. George V.
ITaggerty, the Misses Lee, T.J. Nanneman,
George +. NJ. Stengle and Robert McClena-
han. As the steamer slid gracefully and
smoothly down the ways she was greeted
with cheers from hundreds of throats and
the whistles of the steamers Emma Giles
and Cambridge and the tugs Hanson H..
Keys and Petrol and the yacht Comet.
On the main deck of the Susqbehanna
was the Fifth Regiment Band, which
played maryland, My Maryland" as the
steamer took the water. The steamer
Emma Giles was present at the launch
with one hundred guests from Port Deposit
and two hundred visitors from Kent Island.
After the Susquehanna was returned to a
wharf the Emma Giles steamed down to
the mouth Of the harbor with the visitors
Refreshments were served, and President
w. c. Eliason exercised his usual diplo-
matte faculty of pleasing everyone.
The Susquehanna is a steel propeller 1865
feet long, 40 feet beam and 10! feet depth
Of hold. The main deck is to carry $50
tens of freight, and the vessel will have
accommodations for 1,200 excursionsts.
On the saloon deck will be eight state
rooms, with two berths in each. The
vessel will be equipped with engines having
cylinders measuring 20 and 80 inches. She
| will have Scotch steel boiler measuring
II by 123 feet, with a working pressure of
l25 pounds. A speed of fifteen knots is
expected of the vessel.
Among those invited to be present were:
| VIM. +. Wooddall Robert Rennert, Geo
Il. Baker, Capt. Timothy A. Hooper, Hope
II. Barroll, Thomas w. Eliason, Garrett
! FoXwell, Eugene NJ. Bonwell Tilghman
Schafer, DR.. r. b. Wilson, William Lana
han, Richard Laws Lee, Thomas Hill, j..
d. Ferguson, S. Z. Hill, J. Walter Skirven,
Wesley NJ. Oler, Miss Jennie Holtzlow,
Miss Estelle Randall, Thornton Rollins,
Commander Isaac f. Emerson, II. c. Nc
Comas, Walter Snyder, James Hooper,
Henry MUIR, J. p. Nicholson, Frederick
Neeseman, Capt. James Mccullough, Wash
ington W. Hopkins, John Oakford, c. c.
CALDWELL Harry l.. Smithson, William F.
Porter and +. Walter Giles.
The Susquehanna belongs to the Port
Deposit and ITavre de Grace Steamboat
Company, trading between the Upper
Chesapeake and Baltimore. She will also
act as an auxiliary to the Colchester Beach
excursion steamer Louise.