Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-30

showed a stage of Is feet inches and
falling. The water continues to fall
at all upper points with the exception
of Morgantown, where the stage was
stationary yesterday morning. Should
the rate at which the Ohio is now .e-
ceding be kept up for a while longer
coal boat navigation will have to
cease.
There is now good coal boat water in
the Lower Mississippi.
The c. A.Hilton is the only boat ply
ing in the Little Kanawha river, max
ing three trips a week.
The new side-wheeler to be built for
the Cincinnati and Louisville mail line
VIII pushed forward to completion as
soon as possible
The Pittsburg and Cincinnati Packet
line has been doing a large freight
business. The packet Hudson, which
mas been undergoing extensive repairs
at the boatyaTds III Cincinnati, VIII
soon be put in commission again.
There has been very little real Win
ter weather thus far, but there is time
enough yet. For some years our most
severe weather has been close to the
advent OF the spring season.
Captain Gordon Green reports that
work is being pushed forward on the
hull of his new boat now in process OF
construction at Parkersburg. He has
not vet contracted for the machinery,
but will do so before long.
1t is generally conceded that in the
work of raising sunken craft OF
any kind Captain John A. Wood has
but few equals in the country, and no
matter how hard or olsagreeable the
lob may be, he is always ready to un-
dertake it,
There are those who contend that
the right kind of boat could make
living in the Pittsburg and st. Louis
trade There was "a time, number OF
years ago, when there was quite
number OF boats regularly in the trade
and they did well.
On February 5th the Virginia will
start number of Pittsburgers on
their way to the Mardi Gras at New
Orleans. At Cincinnati they will be
transferred to the palatial boat, New
South. of the Memphis, New Orleans
and Cincinnati Packet Company. and
thence conducted to their destination,
returning after the festivities by the
same route. The trip is expected to
consume about thirty days.
TIE Darlington, Ruth, Argand, t. M.
Bayne, Lexington and H. K. Bedford
were the boats in and out at the wharf
and each did a fair business.
The Ben Hur at / a. m, Kanawha at
ga. m and Keystone State at 6 a. m.
are to-day's boats clearing for Pitts
burg.
The Lorena at 4 a. m for GAINESVILLE
and the Virginia at a. m. for Cincln-
natl, pull out to-day from the landing.
Tomorrow packets are the Ben
Hur for Parkersburg and the three To-
calls.
The steamer Leroy will make a spe-
cial run this morning to carry the Odd
Fellows of Darlington to Hannibal,
where they will attend the funeral of
Rev. Wilson The order at Darlington
has a membership of about $50, all of
whom will be aboard the boat on the
round trip.
Captain Davis, of the Leroy, reports
that one of the Ark's barges is about
two feet out of water near Rockers
housen's coal mines.
In the shop Of Rankin & Fritsch's
machine works, in St. Louis, is being
built steamboat in which the hopes
of a number of st. Louis business men
are conferred. She is expected to bear
the name of St Louis into the Ell Dor
ado Of the Yukon and its tributaries
next summer and to bring back car
/ go of glittering nuggets. Capt Phil.
Rohan, the designer and builder OF
the vessel, will be her captain on the
expedition, which will be under the
direction of the ST. Louis and Yukon
| Mining and Transportation Company.
The st. Louis will be modern steel
boat, $50 feet in length by 26 feet
beam, with model bow and stern
wheel. She will have a speed of Is
| knots an hour and a capacity OF 250
tons.