The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-11-24
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The John X. Speed will leave st. Louis to-
day for New Orleans.
The Wichita, from White river, passed here
early in the week for vicksburg
The Delta made her usual weekly Memphis
vicksburs trip, with good cargoes.
The Julia made her Memphis vicksburg trip
as usual this week. Good business.
The steamer City OF St. Louis, after having
been here since Saturday night taking the dry
freight Of the Hill City off barges, got away
early this morning for New Orleans, says the
Mondays Memphis Scimitar.
The New Orleans Times Democrat OF Sum
day says: "Only two OF the half dozen boats
advertised to leave yesterday managed to get
away. They were the Whisper and Chicka-
saw The st. James offered $780, but was up-
able to ship crew, and ut the upper landing
the Ruth, Gem City and City of Camden shared
similar fate. 1t was currently reported on
the wharf during the day that Captain H-J.
Brinker, Jr. had determined to follow in the
footsteps Of the Scovell and ship an Italian
crew on the Gem II the negroes proved obdur-
ate, but II there was anything in the report the
plan was not put into execution. The boats
will make an endeavor to get away this morn
ing. The steel barges, after many delays,
managed to finish discharging yesterday. This
new line has felt the scarcity Of labor even
more keenly than the local packets. By the
time the next trip is made, however, some rig
ging for discharging will be devised and this
long delay in dscharging the packet freight is
not likely to happen again.
The Pittsburg News says; There is not a
barge of steel rails awaiting shipment south
when the rise comes in the local rivers. OF all
the loaded craft only four are filed with metal
products. They have cargoes Of nails and wire
Usually the Carnegie Steel Company sends
steel rails on nearly every rise but on the next
water no such freight will be handled, unless
the rails are loaded soon. So far the coal COM
bine has received no notice of any such ship
ment being contemplated Within the last
ten years it is claimed that the sending of rails
by barges to Southern ports has become quite
an important side issue in the river freight
business, hence the present lack is more sur
prising. Some river men claim, however, that
most rails shipped by river are sent out on
Spring rises, and account for the present con-
dition on that score. But as the Southern
climate is mild all winter, the laying of tracks
can be carried on without difficulty through
out the winter months. About the last big
river shipment of rails from here sunk at the
trap, and the rails were in the water months
before being recovered. They were insured.
The following River and Steamboat items
are taken from Mondays New Orleans Plea
yune: The upper Mississippi is closed for the
winter, and all raftboats and other craft have
been laid up until spring.-The Louisville
Courier-J Journal of Saturday reports that En-
gineer Fred A. Baxter, of Captain L. Burners
steamer, Fred A. Blanks, was seriously scalded
at Paducah on Wednesday by the bursting OF
throttle valve chamber Mr.. Baxter lives in
Monroe, LATHE big tow-boat, Resolute, own
ed by the Alabama Block Coal Company, has
recently left Mound City, ILL.,, for Greenville,
was thoroughly overhauled and repaired on
the Mound City ways, and is said to be
practically as good as new.-Captain James
Grasty, of the steamer City of st. Louis, has
been reinstated as member of the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers society.-sixty marine engi-
neers were installed as members of the Marine
Engineers Association at Cincinnati last Mon
day night Captain Hugh Moren, director
in the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company, states that henceforth all
the boats that may be built by the company
will have compound engines. He says they
not only require less fuel than the common
type, but are also much easier on the boilers,
as each engine is fitted up with inter attach
ment, thus overcoming the necessity of clean
ing boilers so often. To clean set of tow-boat
boilers requires the boats to lay up from IL to
IS hours.