The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-15

Stacker Lee got in from Memphis
Al l2.l0 p. m, yesterday and left for
St Louis at $50 She had a good
consignment OF railroad ties.
While the Iiartweg was in port the
other day Mr.. Clarence Nichols. her
pilot, came walking up the leyee with
his oyercoat on his arm. As he passed
along Sixth street he attracted a
crowd Of men resting on the stone
wall One said; who is tha,?'
Don't you know him? That is Sam
Brown, RE is the man who owns all
the coal you have seen going down
he river lately"
Theseus broke crank pin yester-
day 1t vas fortunate accident that
no further damage was done
Ariadna got in from Buffalo Island
last night with a raft.
Carrie V leiJ last night for a barge
of logs at Elk Island She goes to CO
tonwood Point with an empty today
The steamer Edgar Cherry. which
sank in the Monongahela river lately,
has turned over and is total loss.
The Cherry was well remembered
here. She vas built ten years ago by
parties on the upper Tennessee river
to run between DanYille ana Sayan.
nah as an Independent packet Later
she was sold to the St Louis a Ten.
nessee River Packet Company which,
three years ago, disposed of her to the
Morgantown (W. Va Packet Com.
pany. The Cherry was a well-built.
fairly rapid boat
Cincinnati April ll.-Cincinnati Is
assured of a through line Of packet.
boats running to Memphis, st Louis
and the lower rivers this season
Those interested in the new venture
are Capt Robert Z. Lee, president Of
the Lee Line. of Memphis; Capt
James Henderson, president Of the
Cincinnati and pittsburg Packet Com
Dany. ana Capt James Rees, of the
James Rees Sons. OF Pittsburg. The
company will put four lirst-class boats
in this service when navigation opens
this season. As an experiment the
new company will send the Peters Lee
out Of here next Saturday. This boat
will alternate with the Rees Lee dur
ing the remainder Of the present sea
son in this trade When navigation
opens this season il Is the intention
of the company 20 have two boats a
week from here to the lower rivers.
If business justiiies the company viii
build moro boats TO accommodate the
trade. Capt X. Wise has been en-.
gagged as superintendent and agent of
the Cincinnati Offices, which have
been established here, and John G.
Dorman has been engaged to look
al.er the freight traffic of the new
company --Picayune Special.
Il is a reproach to Western enter
prise that forty-eight years have
elapsed since the practlcability Of im
proving the Ohio and making it re-
liable altyear-round waterway was
set forth by eminent en-
authority without any appli
cation of it having been made, says
the Louisville Herald We have in
other directions moved with lightning
Five transcontinental rail
ways have since 1856 spanned the con
tinent, but in that long period but one
dam has been built on the Ohio. No
European country with waterway
like the Ohio would have neglected II.
The people should move in the matter
The rivers and harbors committee is
The servant and not the master OF
congress is the servant and
not the master of the people. The
Ohio improvement scheme wants a
Morgan to do for II what the veneer
able senator from Alabama has done
'or the transisthumus connection be-
tween che Atlantic and the Pacific.
Who will be the Morgan of the Ohio?
Towboat pilots running into this
port complain that packet pilots do
act seem 10 understand that any coHr
tesy is due them. Occasions are not