The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-03-21
RIVER NEWs.


MIR. CIareuce Gibson went out
on the Floating Palace. Prices
show boat. in charge of the dining
room.
Fifteen million bushels of coal
is being held by the Combins at
Pittsburg for higher prices which
the prospective strike viii bring
about.
The towboat Charles Brown, val
ned at $4,000 was damaged $1O,-
600 by FIRE Friday at Lyles Land
ing. Allegheny. Capt. Frederick
Dippoh was overcome with the
smoke and was with difficulty
aroused by Mate Abram Wolfe.
ALI members of the crew escaped.
/ Captain Gordon O. Greene has
purchased the Q. P. & @. Line
boats. buying the interests of Cap
tain William E. Roe and Captain
ID r. NolI of Marietta. Captain
Greene is one of the most euccess-
full steamboat men on the Ohio
river. He now controls the pack
cts Stanley. Tacoma. Greenland,
Evergreen, Greenwood, Tacoma.
Courier, Chic and Cricket Capt.
Greene also owns wharfboat and
several fats. The Greene Line
boats will carry freight and passen-
gers toiall points between Cinoin-
natl, Charleston. Pomeroy and
.Pittsburg. The Greene Line
boats will burn Kanawha river
GOAL which will be towed out in
fats by the Cricket,
A pilot'e association is being or
ganized in the Great Kanawha
river by Captain Rash Burnside
and Captain James Wright. The
idea is good one but it has never
been successfully carried out be-
oause of a failure on the part of
some members to keep the oath
they take on becoming members
of the association Pilots and
Engineers associations are all
right. providing. all members stick
and that they be classified in pilots
as we'll as engineers. There are
some that are great deal better
than others. The best men are
always in demand, the other fellows
go when nobody else can be &C.
cured. A towboat pilot must be
skilled in the profession. He ham
dies very valuable cargoes. He re-
ceives good salary. He deserves
first GLASS pay and in this day and
age can demand it. Pilots, like
other classes of rivermen are be-
coming scarcer every year.
There was a pilots strike at
Pittsburg a few years ago. The
strike was broken by small num-
Der of pilots who sacrificed their
oath when they went to work.
Today the combine thinks less of
them, and their brother pilots look
on them with contempt. They
are outoasts in the profession in
the eyes of Harbor %, which is
made mp of the best pilots and
masters about Pittsburg -GaIli-
polls Tribune.
The good tow-boat J. 7. Hatfield,
property of The E j. Hickey
Transportation Co, of Covington,
Ky, with Capt Q. A. Gebhart as
master, and by the way, is the
youngest and said to be one of the
best masters in charge of a steam
boat on the Kanawha river; and
probably no large boat on the Ohio
river can chow 30 young master
He celebrated his Both birthday
ON Wednesday, March IA, 1906;
this date also closing a year oflarge
and successful business operations
by Capt. Gebhart with the tow.
boat Hatfield From March ii,
1905. to March IA, 1905. the j. T.
Hatfield mades51 round trips from
here to Cincinnati. besides the
many trips to Louisville. Madison,
up the Kanawha, mp the Ohio and
to other points, travelling in that
time distance of more than TO-
949 miles, handling l,121 empty
barges and 2. 367 loaded ones. lay
ing up during the year 55 days
during which time new battery
of boilers were placed on her. Only
one small accident occurred during
The year and that was the sinking
of two flats during a hard storm.