The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-25
Gossip Of Steamboat Conditions Here.
abouts for Next Summer Be-
comes Rife Along the
Banks.
sTRECKFUs LINE QUERY
Old Reliable White coiiar Line and
Commodore Blair are Only
Sure Things Interesting
TO keckuk.

\ sippi river and in and out of Keokuk
promises TO return TO oldtime condi-
tons this summer. the gossips In the
Packet depots and along the river say.
The White Collar line already has
its plans well under way for a pros
porous season Last fall there was
some talk OF this line entering the
through trade from ST. Paul 10 St
louis But as Captain Blair is now
supposed, here, TO own only two boats,
the keokuk and the Helen Blair. it is
not likely he will attempt the through
trade unless he gets at least one more
boat. The Black hawk was wrecked
in the Ohio river early last year and
the Morning Star was SOL, so IT Is
said here, down the river
The keokuk vii; no doubt run in
the Quincy-Keokuk and the Burling-
ton-keokuk trade alternately. as last
summer. The Helen Blair may run
between Davenport and Saint Paul.
The canny Captain joe
Recently when Captain Joe Streck-
fus was asked 10 tell what he is go
ing to do with the quincy and the ST.
words along the upper river
generations, he replied: why, we're
going to put them in the 81: Louis St
Paul trade
But there are no actions of record.
such as arrangements for landings or
appointment OF agents, to keep Cap
tain Joe from changing MS mind be-
fore Lake keokuk thaws out
But it is said that the Srsckfus
line will have cOnOefition
May be Third Line.
The Tennessee river company is al
ready writing about running a boat
from keokuIs TO st. Louis. instead of
turning back at Quincy as their boat,
the Alabama, did last season If the
Tennessee River people want busi-
ness between st. Louis and keokuk,
they will have to square some dis
satisfied shippers, it is said Last
summer they were chiefly concerned
for the Calhoun county trade, and SUBJ
ordinated all Of the trade north of
there.
The Tennessee company boats
are long ways from the landing yet,
however, and their whistle is barely
audible amidst the gossip and the let
tiers sent out designed to test local
conditions at each city and seek to
discover in advance just how much.
freight will be available for each boat.
The old standbys here are the
White Collar line and the Streckfus
line, although the latter does not
stand very still for over a year at
time.
Expect Large Tourist Traffic.
Before the war, the number OF tour
lists carried over the upper Mississippi
river was limited only by the capacity
of The boats running between Keokuk
and Saint Paul That trip became
one OF the most popular ones in
America
Now, the, river men say that there
will be not only revival of the
freight business because the public
Is realizing more and more the import
.nce of river transportation, but there
Eli also be quite revival OF passen-
ger business.
There is no more pleasant nor beau :
.iful river trip in all the world than
he trip from 81. Louis TO st. Paul.
Native Germans who have made this
rip have said IL is far more beauti-
mi and interesting than the trip up
heir famous Rhine river. and eastern
srs have said that while the Hudson
% sonIewhat picturesque in some
places. the mississippi trip eclipses
he Hudson trip because the Missis-
sippi trip is longer and has such a
great variety Of interest
John T. ldcCutcheon said the view
rom Rand park in Keokuk has no su-