The Paducah sun., 1906-01-12

IAN.
Mt Carmel-11.O, 0.S fall.
Nashville-156, 1.2 rise.
Pittsburg-3.5 0.2 rise.
Davis Island DAMS, 0.i rise.
st. Louis-9.1, 0.7 fall.
Paducah-25.1. 0.4 fall.
The river fell 04 of foot last
night, the gauge showing 25.1 this
morning.
Business is dull in local river cir
cles.
The Dick Fowler left for Cairo
at o'clock with a fairly good trip
of passengers and freight.
The Joe Fowler was the Evansville
packet today.
The Peters Lee en- route to Mem
phis is due tomorrow.
The Rees Lee en- route to Cincin-
natl was in at 10 o'clock last night
The Buttorff leaves Nashville to-
day and is due here Sunday.
The Kentucky arrived at this NOR
ming and will leave Saturday at 6.
The sprague passed up last night
with a big tow of empties for Pitts
burg.
The Margaret leaves today for the
Tennessee for tow of ties.
/ The Joe b. Williams is due to pass
up on the way to Pittsburg Sunday.
The Nashville Banner says: While
the gauge stood IA 12 feet, falling,
at the Broad street river front this
morning. the rain of today will have
tendency to change this order OF
things within the next "a hours. The
stage of the river is said to be Just
right for traffic and this has been de-
monstrated by the demand that has
just come from patrons OF the Ry-
man line between Nashville and Pa
dueah. The demand calls for a larger
steamer than the Buttorff and this
demand will be answered by the Of
ficers of the Ryman line Saturday,
when the steamer Richardson will be
put in this service and the Buttorff
tied up for the present.
The river tonnage at Cairo for the
past year amounted to 3.14S.516
tons, of which 576,724 tons are of
boats the balance. 3.03S,965 tons
are of barges. in and out Of port. In
1894 the total river tonnage at this
port was 2,629.15O tons. Gain Of
1905 over 1904 shows 472.173 tons.
Four thousand one hundred and six
ty-eight barges and 1,S72 boats
touched this port during the year as
against 1915 barges and Asa boats
the year preceding. This shows to-
tai increase of 962 boats and barges
over the year 1904.-Cairo Bulletin
Harry Mcfarland. one of the prin-
cipal engineers of the Lee Line and
recently engineer of the steamer City
of Cincinnati in the Louisville trade,
dropped dead at his home in New
Richmond Tuesday. lie was employ
ed last season on one of the Lee Line
steamers between Memphis and Gin
cinnati.. and In the early part of this
season was transferred from the
Memphis and Cincinnati boat to one
of the Lee, Line boats running in a
local trade out of Memphis. He re-
turned a few days ago from Memphis
and was i'll. but IL was not supposed,
however. that he was fatally i'll. He
was playing with his children when
the end came. A widow and three
children survive him.
The pilot house of the famous old
towboat, Dick Fulton. commanded by
Capt. Frederick Dippold for many
years, stands on the river bank in
front of his beautiful home at Sc
wickley, Pa. 1t affords fine view of
the Grand Ohio. fine place to be to
view the passing by of one of Pitts
burg's great coal fleets. When tow
boat passes the pilot house Of the
Dick Fulton. she salutes, which de-
notes that she is safe below Davis Is
land dam. The word is Immediately
phoned back to Pittsburg from Capt.
Dippold's residence. Capt. Fred G,
and Capt John NJ. Dippold are two
OF the best known and most success
full towboat men that leave Pittsburg,
Capt. Fred Dippold is in command OF
the Tom Rees and his brother, Capt.
John Dippold, is on the Raymond
Horner.-Courier-Journal.
During the wind of Tuesday the
Lucie Marmet, of the Marmet compa-
ny, met with an accident which may
lay her up for few days. The boat
was in one of the upper pools OF the
Great Kanawha river dropping out