Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-14
That Is What the Pine Bluff. Arkansas River Packet Company Is Planning as Future Schedule.
THE NOWLAND'S TRIP

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 river steamer being loaded to the guards With bales of cotton and darky roustabouts rolling them over the gangplank to the deck was novel sight witnessed by the peo- pie of Little Rock and A4gcnta yes terdaN, says Saturday's Little Rock Gazette IL reminded one of the antc-bcllum days, sure enough. The darkies were right in their element and the appearance of a Mississippi river steamer on the Arkansas river here after the lapse of many years made the occasion for a celebration ilidi idSltt unlll Jllt boat SIHTIGu down he stream for Memphis.
 The Lucille Rowland arrived yes terday morning from Memphis after an absence of three years. By 3 o'clock she mad 200 bales of cot ton aboard and half hour later was on her way back to Tennessee loaded to the water line On board the vessel were prominent business
 men from Memphis, Pine Bluff and other commercial centcrs. The trip was made primarily to let the business men of Little Rock know that tne Arkansas river was still on the map and was sufficiently deep to float big boats The sec ondary objecC of the trip was to take from the compress in Argcnta 1 1,20O bales of cotton and deliver them to the Inman Cotton company at Memphis.
 The packet was in charge of Edward Rowland Jr., secretary of the Arkansas River Packet com pany Among those who accom- panied hm to investigate the ad- vantages of river transportation were: Ziha Bennitt. George Gabriel. G. w. Dodd and l.. T. Manker of Memphis; C. E. Philpot, agent of A,,1,o pany, R. B. Malone. J. w. Jones, l.. O. Knox and B. H. Hammitt, man. ager of the Consumers Cotton com pany: T. B. Floore, secretarytreas- urer of the Dilley Foundry com pany; w. H. Bennitt, agent of the Inman Cotton company; J. w. AL len. A. D. Foster, cashier of the Merchants and Planters bank; M. E. Bloom. cashier of the Citizens bank of Pine Bluff. and J. C. Cross of Pendleton.
 In charge of the vessel was Cap tain E. A. Stanfield Owing to the sandbars and shoals in the rive. three experienced pilots were taken along, E. A. Botsford, Gray Dunne and Matt Down. The trip was nn eventful as far as any accidents or delays were concerned. The Now land left Memphis on Tuesday aft ernoon. Thursday evening the yes sel stopped at Pine Bluff for few hours to take on number of buS1- ness men who wanted to investigate for themselves. Little Rock was reached at ) o'clock yesterday morning. The boat was moored on the north side of the river few hundred .eet below the free bridge and the work of loading cotton be- gan immediately after sunrise. Fifty | were brought along from Memphis, but it was found l necessary to employ about an equal number here By o'clock in the afternoon the Rowland was loaded to her capacity and shortly there after she started down stream.
 The trip of the Rowland to Little Rock served to relieve the conges- ton that has been caused by the car shortage. Bales of cotton to the number of several thousand have been lying in Argenta for the past several months, and the send-