The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1908-01-15
RIVER NEWS.

/ Engineer Ohas van Hlatre, ls
home for few days visit with his
parents.
Engineer John Galloway is now
head engineer on the Greenwood.
Oapt. Nell Brown, who is 70
years old, has retired from the river
THE winter and is taking things
easy at his pleasant home at Hart
ford City.
The fret Joe of the season made
it's appearance here Friday in the
Ohio river.
The j. t. Hatfield passed down
with big tow of Kanawba GOAL
The Hatfield makes more trips
past this oity than any pusher that
stirs the waters in this locality and
is great money maker torit own.
ers. e. j. Hickey & 90 The ma
ohinerY on the Hatfield was form
erly on the old Henry DsBus and
is said to be some of the best that
can be found on any towboat the
size of the Hatfeld.-Ironton, .
Correspondence. Waterways Jour.
nal.
The steamer Neva has resumed
her trips between Winfield and
Gallipolis.
Two red lights instead of white
lights on sterns of all steamers on
waters emptying into the Gulf of
Mexico is change proposed by
Ohio rivermen. Rivermen cay that
the present white signal lights are
faulty. The principal objection is
that white lights throw dark DIR.
ole or shade through which pilots
cannot see when 4..empting to
pass boet NJ night. At distance.
also. white lights oan not easily be
distinguished form many shore
lights.
The Robert 2. Gillian was taken
out on the Campbells Greek ways
Saturday, for repairs. The rise in
the river fl oated her off Sunday
but was put on again Monday.
Capt. Chas. Gebhart, we are in
formed, had to leave his boat, the
j. t. Hatfield, at Cincinnati on
account of siokness and go to
hospital
The Lucy Marmet in Friday md
laid up until the river falls She
is one of the busiest boats on the
river.
Capt. Chas Morris. of the Lucy
Marmet, is home for few days
Capt. E A. Burnside, Superin.
tendent of the Oampbell's Greek
Goal 90, who is on the go most of
the time, is home for few dayS
visiting his family
The T. j. Hatfield in Sunday
morning with tow of empties and
left yesterday morning for Cinoin.
natl with tow of GOAL.
The Winifrade in from Oinoin
natl with empties and continued
on to the mines and laid up Pilot
Jim NJ Hooff came home Monday.
The Greenland will probably be
laid up here until spriuR, az there
10 very little business for packet
boats. The Greenland has been
undergoing general repairs and
will be the same as new when she
comes out again. The Point Pleas.
ant Machine Works put in new
haDgeb and made extensive repairs
to the machinery. She will also
be repainted.
Engineer Homer Butler. of the
r. P. Gillian, is home for few
days visit
Mate Esau Aiker, OF the R. P.
Gillian, was hero Sunday.
Mr. Ed. Wright, who has been
on the j B Lewis with Capt. John
Martin, has been granted pilots
license from Charleston to Oinoin-
natl He belongs to our famous
Kanawha river Wrights. all of
whom seem to be natural born
pilots.
The water reached it's highest
one year ago this month. Saturday.
January l9th-52.2 feet. Sunday,
March 18th. it reached 30 feet
Tho production "As Told in tho
Hills" which will be seen at Hooff's
Opera House tonight, is one that
has number of up to.date speoi.
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