The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-18
RIVER NEWS

koOhOS N%O1ut4Old WIGS eOlU 1881 WICK
by Capt A. s. Leach to Mr.. e. e.
Eisenbarth the show boat man.
The deal was made through Capt.
Chas. r. Small and Frank l..
Sibley. of Gallipolis. She has
been in the Charleston and CALI
polls trade for the past ten years
Captain s. L Parsons, of the
Big Kanawha. was here the first
of the week. The boat is laid up
at Cincinnati.
Clerk James @. Holloway, of the
steamer Greenland, is visiting reIa.
tives here during the freeze-up.
A number of Pittsburg towboats
passed here in the past few days
with tows of GOAL for the lower
markets
Since Saturday. the 7th, river
weather has been in the district
from Cincinnati to Kanawhs, of
the most pronounced north pole
style. All of the Kanawha tow.
boats that we're making the second
trip of the winter. succeeded by
much hard work and ice-pounding
in getting into the mouth of Kama
wha. Some of them double tripped,
and all of them had their empties
strung out, single file behind them.
The Otto Marmet from the head of
the fuel fat to end of the last
empty eastern measured I 500 feet
It took her nearly the whole day
to get them through the snow 10
into the mouth of Kanawha after
arriving here
All the loaded barges from the
wtrks above are now in harbor
here, with the towbuets hitohed in
ready to go down the Ohio. just as
soon as there is an opening in the
Ohio which is now armored with
hard ice from shore to shore.
Captains Maddy and Morgan
have been busy during the past
ten days. They went to the wreck
of the Defender at Huntington the
morning after the accident; have
inspected the d ouglas Hall al Oak
Ridge, dropped" aboard nun
Der of towboatp, incidentally.
All the steamboatmen are in
sincere sympathy with the veteran
engineer "Shiner" Allis, of the
Defender He has been on the
river all his life. and is one of the
most careful and watohful men in !
the business 1t is the wish that
his son Ira, SO badly injured in the
explosion may speedily recover
and that they may soon be ON duty |
again.
Mr.. Gordon Jones timekeeper
On the New Richmond ferryboat
which is now undergoing. repairs
IN the Kanawha Docks. spent last
Sunday with his parents at Iron
ION.
The Greenland and Evergreen
nave taken refuge in Look Eight,
ill navigation opens.
Captain Dannie Patched is at
nome in his beautiful new house.
Alongside his father. Captain 'Ceph
1t the Government light Buffalo.
Engineer Wiley Smith of Mill.
wood, is in the city and is open to
engagement.
Boats in port: Andrews, Gill.
nam, Otto. Florence and Lucie
Marmet, Hatfield, Val P. Collins,
Nellie England. Goebel, Gardner,
Lewis and Winifrede.
Captain Pete Holloway is frozen
Up, (not his eloquence) at Cincin-
lati. He's helping his brother out.
Their Point Pleasant friends are
Missing them sadly.
The Sprague. W. W. O,Neil.
nd j. B. Findley passed here
'esterday morning, with heavy
oal tows, They were pushinR
trough the heavy Toe. and having
hard time all around. They are
ound for Louisville.
The ferry boat Wenona, of Ash
md, which has been undergoing !
spairs on the Kanawha Docks s al p
ais placs was taken 10 Ashland. I
aturday morning Captain Paul 5
homes superintendent the repairs
n the boat. d