The Paducah sun., 1906-01-19
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morning.
The Kentucky arrived out OF the
Tennessee river today with good
trip and leaves on the return trip
Saturday.
The Peters Lee is due tonight en-
route to Cincinnati.
The Rees Lee is due from Cincin-
natl Saturday morning.
The Chattanooga left Chattanoo-
ga Wednesday and is due Saturday.
The Joe Fowler was the Evans
Vile packet today.
The Margaret came in yesterday
from Cumberland river with tow
of 81 ,0O0 ties for the Aver and Lord
Co., and leaves for Tennessee river
today.
The Inverness leaves for the Cum
berland river today.
1t was thought a week ago that
the coalboat season was at an end
for an indefinite time. but the re-
cent rains have caused flood OF
water to rush into the river and 1t
is likely that several tows of coal
will again be started south from
Pittsburg.
Captain Norman Lauflin, aged sew
onty, a well-known Cincinnati, st.
Louis and New Orleans pilot. died
in Memphis, Tenn. a
The Peters Lee was detained at
Memphis by labor troubles and did
not clear for Cincinnati until We'd
nesday afternoon. rpH
Capt. WilliamiMcClellan. former
ly of st. Louis, but now of Shreve-
port, La, where he is connected
with the Louisiana railway and nav
igation company. has returned home
from Jeffersonville. Ind. where he
let the contracts for the construc-
ton of two iron barges and two
towboats, one to be built of steel
and the other of wood. The barges
are for railway transfer purposes
to operate between Angola and Wa
ter Valley, La. filling a gap of eight
and three-quarters miles in the rail-
way lines, now building. The bar
ges will be each 2l5 feet long. 81
feet beam and ~ feet depth of
hold. one being Intended for carry
ing passenger trains and the other
for freight cars. The towboats will
be each 145 feet long. 81 feet beam
and 5-foot hold. having a draft of
about 3 feet. One of the boats will
be named the William Edenborn,
but the other has not yet been nam
ed.
Captain John Z. Massengale, gen
eral manager of the st. Louis and
Tennessee river packet company, and
Theodore f. Hall. master of the
steamer City of Savannah, have
gone to Danville, Tenn, the former
to hunt quail and the latter to join
the steamer. which is wintering at
that point.-Globe-D
Capt. W. II. Leyhe, master Of the
steamer Grey Eagle. III winter quar-
ters here, and his wife are spending
a part of the winter at Hot Springs,
Ark.
Capt. Harry n. Crane. master of
the steamer City of Saltillo. and his
wife, have gone to Atlanta, Ga,
from which point they will go to the
TO spend a few weeks for
the benefit of the captains health.
The Helen White. has raised the
coal sunk by the Lizzie Bay at Gin
cinnati some weeks ago. The Bay
is still beached at Ludlow. Ky 97s'A
When the Ohio river is locked
aud DAMNED and there is 9-foot
stage in it all the year round from
to Cairo there will be a
number of the finest and fastest
boats ever seen running on the Ohio.
Railroads will be unable to compete
with them carrying freight and peo-
pie, for they will be able to make
as good time and give cheaper rates
Of transportation as railroads can
10. When a 9-foot stage becomes a
certainty the Ohio river business will
prosper as in palmy days. Come on
with your 9-foot stage.ICourier-
The longest and fastest boat that
ever was in the Cumberland river |
vas the big low pressure Jacob
,trader. She went to Nashville dur
ng the war in command of the late
capt. Nose Anders. Her cabin was
illed with Adams Express packages
or the soldiers and her deck was
illed with government freight. She
vent from Nashville TO the mouth of
river on her return trip
n less than ten hours. The late
barney Scales was one OF her pilots
IN that run -Courier- Iournal