The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-17
Zig Transfer Boat That People Are
Looking for Won't be Here Until
That Tlme or Friday
Morning.
OFFICIALS ARE HERE
Designer and Builder Of Immense
Craft, J. J. schreiner, Cap
tain and Pilots over
Rapids Today.

morning will the big river transfer
boat that Keokuk people have been
keeping the telephone wires hot ask
ing about, put in an appearance here.
]. j. Schreiner, designer and builder
OF the Yoakum, which is an exact du-
plicate Of the Albatross which passed
Keokuk several years ago, was in the
city this afternoon with Captain Thos.
Dolson, master of the boat, and Cap
tan James Richtman, the Streckfus
boat line pilot.
In speaking with Gate City report
er, Mr.. Schreiner under whose direc-
ton the Yoakum was constructed at
Dubuque, said that it would be i'm
possible to leave Monrose until day af-
Yoakum is three days ahead of the
crest of the river rise wave which is
not expected for forty-eight hours, to
arrive in this district
Engineer E. j. Sauer and Captain
Gum accompanied the designer and
two other captains to Keokuk today,
aboard the government steamer Grace,
which made the trip over the rapids
without difficulty The balance of the
Yoakum's crew is on the boat
Keokuk Hardest to Pass.
Keokuk is the only place on the en-.
tire river between Dubuque and Baton
Rouge. La, that the officers of the
boat anticipate trouble. The rapids
here must have five foot stage, &C
crding to Mr.. Schreiner, this after.
noon The boat draws four feet and
three inches of water.
4 Captain Browinski, superintendent
4 Of the marine service of the Santa Fe
railroad went to st. Louis this morn
4 ing to make arrangements for the com
i ing of the Yoakum and her crew there
4 and will return here tomorrow te
again board the boat and accompany
it the entire distance. At st. Louis
the Yoakum party will be "wined ane
dined',
4 1t is not probable that the Yoakun
will stop at Keokuk on her trip dowr
the river. The big boat will sail ovel
the rapids without any trouble 1t is
expected and there will probably be
no stops until Louisiana or Alton are
reached. Captain Schreiner said to
day that the delay at Montrose viii
not deter any plans for running but II
rather q welcome stop
Facts About the Yoakum.
| Those who stand on the shore AM
watch the transfer boat, Yoakum
Ipass, remember the following:
1t is one of the largest steamers OF
the Mississippi or any other river II
the world.
The cost of building the Yoakun
was $4,000.
The boat will be used to transfe
cars at Baton Rouge, La, across tn
river, for the Santa Fee Railway Co
the owners of the craft.
The Yoakum will carry sixteel
freight cars on its two tracks.
The boat was named for B. F
Yoakum, one of the high officials o
the Santa Fee railroad company. MI
Yoakum will meet the boat at 81
| Louis.
| From stem to stern, the side whee
| boat is 30S and 4-10th feet over all
The Yoakum is 81 feet across decks.
1t took fifteen months to build tn
| Yoakum. The boat was to have lef
Dubuque last March but the water wa
too low.
The Yoakum can run fifteen mile
an hour without any trouble. A
twelve miles. the boat is loafing alone
according to ]. ]. Schreiner.
The Yoakum left Dubuque last Sal
urday morning at 9 o'clock. 1t is no
known when the transfer will reac
its destination, Baton Rouge.