Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-24
Marks From Below.
PARKERSBURG-R feet 3 inches
and rising. Clear and cold.

( The marks on the wharf at midnight
showed feet inches and rising.
The City of Wheeling left at noon yes
terday for Plttsburs with a good trip.
She will be down tonight and leave at
10 o'clock for Parkersburg
Ihe Avalon got away for Parkersburg
at II o'clock yesterday morning. She will
pass here for P!ttsburg Sunday morning
at 3 o'clock Captain Sanford Cramer is
The Annie Laurie, which formerly piled
in the Pittsburg and Muskngum trade, is
now in the Vicksburg- Greenville trade.
The repairs have been completed on the
CITY OF Pittsburg.
The Ben Hur is at Marietta receiving
new mud drum.
The New South has been launched from
the ways al Madison
The Louisville Commercial says: The
famous model of the great towing steamer
j. B. Williams, with its string of To coal
boats, barges and fuel boats which has
been on exhibition at the Paris exposition,
IS on its way back to America. This mod
ell interested the entire delegation from
the River Nile, and thousands of other
visitors from other rivers in Africa 1t is
believed that number of tow boats with
similar equipment will be constructed
within year to navigate the rivers in
far-away countries. This model was built
In Louisville the owners living here"
The Kanawha has resumed and will pass
here on her way up Sunday morning at
8 o'clock
To-day's down-river boats are Green
wood, Charleston; H. K. Bedford, Park
ersourg; Leroy, Darlington; Jewel New
port; City of Wheeling, Parkersburg.
Bayne, Steubenville.
The Jewel came up last night from New
port.
The Tornado passed down at o'clock
and the Acorn at 4 o'clock with towns of
coal.
The Dave Wood at a. M; Valley at
p M and B. D. Wood at 1880 p. m, were
~nGf a dow Hoo
Captain Conrad Mcdonald. of this city,
arrived in Pittsburg yesterday
Capt. George w. Conant al rived in
Plttsburg yesterday from this city. He Is
P:ttsburg and Louisville pilot.
But Little Coal Started Yesterday.
PITTSBURG, Pa, November 2s-The
marine engineers who are out on a strike.
presented a very strong front to-day, and
many tow boats were unable To tska 81
vantage of the barge stage Of water which
arrived this morning The Monongahela
Coal Company gave out yesterday that
the strike has not affected them and that
they will get out all the coal Originally
intended. Very little coal was started
south yesterday.
The strike of the engineers is one of the
nrst to occur in the marine history of the
port of P.ttsburg When the trouble was
first started, it was thought that il would
not amount to much, but the strength that
the engineers showed was a complete sur
prise TO the rivermen. 1t was expected
that fully 100000 bushels Of coal would
have been moved within Is hours and IN
less one side or the other yields, much of
this coal will have to remain in mort
There are 30,000.eo0 bushels here.
A L. Litten. president of the Engineers
Benehelal Association, No. so, made this
statement: As soon as the boats coming
up the Ohio river arrive with the empties
the trip of the crews will end and the en-
gineers Will walk ashore. Practically no
coal IS being moved from the Pittsburg
harbor. George H. Uhler, the national
president of our association. will be here
tonight at { o'clock. The engineers will
not return to work until the wage scale
is signed, and l think it win be sisned
before night