Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-08
APPLICATION TO Be
MADE 70 CONGRESS
THAT SECTION 4472 OF THE STAT
UTES WHICH PROHIBITS THE
pa3n CARRYING OF GASOLINE
ON ALL PASSENGER STEAMERS
BE Revised, as Gasoline Automobiles
Cannot be Carried on Ferry Boats.
The Packets All Tying Jp-0ther
News From Pittshurg.

PITTSBURG, August 7.-Supervising
Inspector Dumont. of the steamboat in
| spection service, ruled that section4473
! of the Revised Statutes absolutely prohib-
| its the carriage of naptha, benZine, etc,
| under any circumstances, as either freight
or stores on passenger steamers. which
includes ferry steamers, and therefore
prohibits the carriage of gasoline auto
| mobiles. when their tanks are supplied
with gasoline. 1t is suggested, however
| that application be made TO Congress for
relief. The decision and suggestion are
approved by the secretary of the treas
ury.
An epidemic of burned boilers seems to
have struck the boats that are now down
the river. The Dave Wood and the Belle
| MCGOWAN are held at Louisville for re-
iairs for that reason before starting for
| Pittsburg, and the j. c. Fisher at Gin
cinnati. The Fisher has been doing har-
Dor towing at Cincinnati, while the Re-
| lief went below with tow, but started
the return trip with enpties yesterday.
The John Moran has reached Cincinnati
with tow of coal. 1t is composed of %
flats and eight barges.
The government steamboat inspectors
this morning examined the Iron City
Sand Companys dredge boat, Harmony
There is little change in the condition
of the rivers. They seem to be about
stationary and the rivermen are putting
in the time getting all the floating stock
in good condition for a heavy season S
work.
The Mississippi and Ohio River Pilots
society is interesting itself in a move
ment to have the government retain the
forests at the headwaters of the Father
of Waters They will ask the authori-
ties to refrain from selling the timber
to lumbermen. AT the source of the Mis-
sissippi there is now an Indian reserva-
ton containing $4,000 acres, about one
fourth of which is water. Nearly 20 small
lakes lie in this reservation. 1t is claimed
by the pilots society that if the govern
ment allows all the timber to be cut out,
every spring will bring a flood sweeping
down the Mississippi valley. and that
the period of low water, during the sum
mer months. will be much longer.
The Greenwood is almost high and dry
at the foot of Duff" where she will
remain until there is a rise. 1t was the
intention of Capt. Green to have laid up
probably at Point Pleasant or Gallipols
for repairs. The new and light draught
Cricket will be here TO leave in place of
the Greenwood on Friday next.
The keystone State will leave Wheeling
this morning for Cincinnati. She was not
able by reason of low water to come
above that point. She will probably go
TO the bank on her arrival from Cincin-
natl unless there should be a rise in the
meantime, of which there is but little
prospect at this writing.
Pittsburg coal is selling at 10 cents per
bushel a Madison, Ind.
The Eenterprise is laid up at Steuben-
vile and the Charley Clarke at Wheel
ing.
The kanawha, owing to low water,
will not be here to-day to leave for Kan
awha river She started back last even
ing from Rochester, Pa.
AT many places on the upper Ohio river
teams are being driven across the stream.
Farmers for the past few days have been
able to ford the river at many places. The
pools of the Monongahela river are also.
getting low, and it may be that the boards
will not be replaced on the Monongahela
river dams again this season. The boards
were carried away by the last freshet.
The placing of the boards on the dams
furnishes is inches more water in the
pools. The sheeting on most of the dams
is rotten. however, and it is said that
most of the dams should be re-sheeted
At Louisville it is rumored that Capt.
Oscar Barrett is going to build an i'm
mense towboat with great power to han
die his big new 1000 ton model barges that
carry freight on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers.
The new steamer Telephone, which
should have reached here yesterday, got
only as far as Duff and was compelled to
turn back to Parkersburg.