The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-02
STEEL BARGE IS
| ON ITS WAY HERE
L.n St. Louis Yesterday Morning
and VIII Arrive Here In the
Early Part Of This
Week
KEoKUK WILL GET GIFT
e,o Of New Orleans Dirt Will be
OFFICIALLY Dumped on Iowa
Soil At This
Point.
KEoKUK WILL GET GIFT

The steel barge from New Orleans,
which was due in Keokuk Friday,
probably will not arrive here now un.
til Tuesday or Wednesday. The barge
left st. Louis yesterday morning. 1t
ran aground below ST. Louis, which
still further impeded It's progress
This, and the fact that it was held up
for freight loading at Jeffries, La,
has delayed its passage north to st.
Paul.
There is a vast amount of interest
being manifest in the visit of this
steel barge to Keokuk. The Gate
city was asked several times yester-
day for news of the barge whether
there was any likelihood Of its getting
here as planned or not. It is probable
that the boat will be met by big
delegation Of citizens, besides the
officially designated reception COM
mittee.
A bag OF New Orleans soil will be
Il emptied on to Keokuk soil, by. Jas.
/ R. Edmonds who is with the boat and
represents the New Orleans Associa-
ton of Commerce. The barge carries
sacks of Louisiana dirt which Is be-
ing off1lially dumped as gift from
the south.
st. Louis Visit.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch con.
tains the following concerning the
visit Of the barge there:
Barge No. s." the first boat Of its
kind to navigate the Mississippi I'M
der its own power, ran aground TWEEN
ty miles below st. Louis Thursday
night while on Its maiden trip from
New Orleans to st. Paul, with st.
Louis as an objective point
Shortly after daybreak Friday the
barge was gotten off the sandbar
and moved slowly up the river to st.
Louis, tying up at the Slevee at noon.
A committee of welcome from the
Business Mems league went down the
river Thursday at p m. and met
the barge below Herculaneum, Mo.
When the trip was planned it was
thought the boat would be met at
jefferson Barracks, and that the par
ty would return at o'clock.
Owing to- the. distance made to
meet it and the time consumed on
board the barge, 1t was about a. m.
Friday when the committee reached
the city
Inventor az Guide.
J. H. Bernhard, the inventor, &C.
companied the committee, and acted
as guide aboard the new craft J. II.
Edmonds, representing. the Associa-
ton of Commerce of New Orleans
was aboard the barge with number
Of sacks of New Orleans dirt which
is being officially dumped at cities
along the way as a gift from the
southern city.
The barge was making about three
miles an hour when the launch tied
alongside and the committee boarded
It.
The vessel is 24O feet long, with a
S2-foot beam. and drawing six feet of
water, with a 1,ocO-ton cargo aboard.
The buoyancy of the craft was caused
oy the alright hold, which is kept
empty, Bernhard explained The
cargo consisted principally of lum-
per, sugar, rice, coffee and molasses
al carried on deck. The height from
Geek to top of cargo was IL feet.
Two Gas Engines.
Motive power is supplied by two To-
horsepower gas producer engines,
making the barge twin-screw affair.
me gas is made aboard from breeze
COKE, refuse product, at cost of
only 20 cents an hour.
A crew Of only seven men is carried