The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-10-14
RIVER NEWS


missing.
Carthage ...... 0.6 % fall
River Forecast.
The river at this place will fall
slowly for the next pa hours.
Today's Arrivals.
Henry Harley from Cairo.
Cowling from Metropolis.
Ohio from Bay City.
Bette owen from Brookport.
iOday's Departures.
Henry Harley for Cairo
Ollie L. for Dycusburg.
Ohio for Bay City.
Bette Owen ,or BrOokport.
Cowling for Metropolis.
Boats Due.
Kentucky from Hamburg. Tenn.
Concrete from Tennessee.
Waterways Prattle.
Business fair.
Stage. is feet.
Weather elear and warmer.
The river fell one-tenth Of foot
yesterday and a much lower stage is
expected
The tovboat ..yda has raised steam
and is pumping out barges belonging
to the Halcomb- Hayes Tie company.
Reports received here last night
were that the towboat Reaper, bound
for Donaldsonville La. passed Nat
chez last night and will arrive az her
destination saturday She will assist
in the work o. raising the sunken
barges owned BY the West kentucky
Coal company IL IS believed almost
all Of the coal can be saved.
Bob Moss. second mate on the
clyde. resumed his duties and went
out with his boat last night after a
weeks vacation.
From ne Tennessee river the Ken
lucky IS expected late this afternoon
or tonight. Rumors are out 20 the
eject thar she viii lie up here aud
the Chattanooga put On her place. II
this change Is made the Electra will
be placed in the Clyde's place next
week. The Harley will continue in
the Paducah-Caifo trade as long as
there is sufficient water.
The Bob Dudley will be In again
from Evansville some time tomorrow
Low water Is Affecting her schedule.
Wharfmaster Frank Brown still
continues IN a serious condition az
his home on North Sixth street. His
physician believes an 'opata,ion FOR
appendicitis may b. avoidhd.
The following clippings concerning
the coming trip OF President TAFT
down the Mississippi riSal are OF IN
terest; st. Louis Post-Dispatch OF
Monday:
Capt. Henry Partee, who pilotcd
the torpedo boat hotilla up the Mic.
sissippi river to St. Louis. has gone
10 Cairo. H., to make soundlngs OF
the watef TO ascertain whether the
warships will have any trouble get.
ling back to deep water. The river
is falling slowly-about one-tenth Oh
. foot or a little more than an inch a
day. The rivel stage at ST. Loui,
IS now sc feet above low-water
mark This reading does not mean
that there IL but SO feet Of water IN
the river, but that there is that much
water above the zero gauge. The
Macdonough, the flagship OF the
fotllla, draws Z feet and inches OF
water, but the other boats require but
five feet. II the river falls rapidly
during the next two weeks the boats
may not be able to make the trip "a
New Orleans with the President Taft
fleet. They might have to spend sew
eral months here waiting for a rise in
the river.
II necessary. the four torpedo
boats now at ST. Louis. can be light
ened so they will not draw more than
four feet said Lieutenant Com
mander David F. Sellers. OF the bu-
reau OF navigation in Washington,
yesterday. so that | do not suspect
there will be much trouble In getting
them down the river.
"The navy department at Wash
ington expresses no fear that the OFF,
GERS in charge of the fotilla at st.
Louis will permit themselves to be
bottled up there by falling water.
"The plan is that the naval yes
sells form a part Of the escort when
President Taft iOurupvc nv .rfvor from