The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-03-04


gind ana get her stern aground, but
'eltased herself and came TO this side.
where shc was wiud.bouad al day
yesterday
The batieship Hereld arrived from
Memphis before day yesterday morn.
ng. she had 700 sacks Of cotton
iced lot Ct walnut blocks, stayes
3ane poles and handle stuff. Sine is
n charge Of the Georgia Lees crew
1lpt Tom Stai1 ia command. Nth
Purscr Booker in the office Purser
booker is an affable gentleman OF the
Did school He wears box.tosd boots
winter and summer lEc acquired this
aabit years ago when tie was a mud
'lerk Boots we're the Only thing for
climbing the high banks below here.
The Stacker Lee arrived at noon
yesterday from Memphis and left for
st. Louis at 2 p. M She did but little
BUSINESS here. She is the race horse
u tho Leo line il those waters
The Rees Lee arrived from St
.Quis II TAO b. N and left for Mem
his al sos p m yesterday
Jim Stewards fish market is a new
lace for steamboat men to loaf. but
the cold storage feature OF the place
makes it quite unpleasant this kind Of
weather.
The barge Arkansas City, sunk by
the ice just below the bridge with
logs, has been raised and is now on
the Mound City ways for repairs.
Capt. Bill Edwards. for many years
pilot On the Dick Fowler. is now Capt
# the Henrietta, running in Cumber
land river
There are twelve local towboats
working out Of Paducah,
The wind yesterday and night be-
IRE was hard on steamboats, and their
crews. The Herold laid up above Co
aous a Httle while TO wait the pass
ing Of very threatening clouds The
rowler failed to get here yesterday
1t being too windy to leave Paducah in
the morning, There was a marked de-
crease iii the wind al noon and it had
bout died out at night but was too
rough for towboats all day.
The Boeckler is laid UP at Eighth
street
The Barrett line has bought tho
John Mickey
The Joseph Henry which was sold
1t auction at Memphis last fan is to
be repaired at Paducah. She was for
many years in the service of the gov
arnmcnt as a light house tender, Geo
Haeae was one of her engineers when
he was young. Her new owners, it is
announced, will use her in the packet
.rada III The South.
The city Of Savannah Is due for ST
louis
Capt Bud smedley was at the boat |
store yesterday. He has about recoy !
cred,
The feasibility of Capt. Jno. W |
Kings plan for the improvement Of
the channel of the river was demons
tratdd this winter at Sliding Island
Crossing The ice lodged on sand
lump and formed a dyke, which direct
"a the current Of the river into one
channel, which cut ont and formed
good channel the lower way Capt
Kings theory is to assist the water to
run in a natural way where it 1t bound
10 cut it's own channel. To shut CT
The waste. and by concentrating the
10 WOO water by means OF portable
dykes, to che channel, the water does
the rest--no dredging Is necessary
Shoal water always occurs in places
like Sliding Island Crossing, where
the river is wide and the flow in d.
vided between three or four different
channels. 1t is natural for the chan
mel to 50 out the lower way thea in
gtead or turning in the middle Of the
river and going back, almost ny
stream, and coming out at the foot of
The Standard tar as 1t did before the
loo dyke was formed ON the middle
lump with the assistance Of This lee
dyke, 1t worked it's way through the !
bar and over to the foot Of the cut |
bar below Brookes point, and theu
over 60 the Missouri shore, which is I
with the ineSorable law
that tho river flows down stream, The 7.
in places like this. usually |
works out its own salvation, hut it T.
takes II too long and a littlo assist .
luce is necessary.
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