The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
WARRIOR STEAMER
 LOADING FREIGHT
 FOR MAIDEN TRIP
DeBardeIeben Accepts City of Birmingham From Builders and Steamer Is Now In l
 Commission

City of Birmingham, first o1
 the self-propellers designated ! and built especially for the Warrior river traffic is now ir
 service.
 A long delayed expectation
 has been realized. The vessel
 IS now loading at St. Louis for
 her maiden trip down the river
 to New Orleans, whence she
 VIII come up the river to Port
 of Birmingham.
 Birmingham shippers have the opporru- nity of loading her to the gunwa1es with freight from New Orleans and making her first trip up the river a veritaDle
 Vinolcation of their faith and then works
 Henry T. DeBardeleben, manager of
 warrior river transportation, was on the City of Birmingham last Wedues,av when she made her trial trip. Mir. De-
 Bardeleben says the vessel measured up
 to expectations and requirements, anu 'AoS hS iSilhdily accepted the era t Tn his official capacity and ordered her to load at St Louis for New Orleans. She IS expected to leave St. Louis today or tomorrow. When Mir DeBardeleb ben
 ieIt St. Louis Saturday the vessel al- ready had 400 of her complement of 2UyJ
 tons aboard. She was expected to carry fully 1,600 tons
 FORMAL CELEBRATION The City of Birmingham is now in the service of the Warrior river manage
 ment and subject to the orders of Man
 ager DeBardeleben When the new yes sei arrives at New Orleans, and during ner stay While being unloaded there formal celebration of the event will De held. It will be under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, and hign l state and local dignitares will take part By November 10 the boat will be ready to leave New Orleans for Port of Bir-
 mingham via Noble and Tuscaloosa The management hopes that Birming- 1 ham shippers will see to it that the City Of Birmingham gets a full cargo for her
 first trip up the river. Any kind oi goods can be cared for. The vessel has
 space for merchandise that must be pro- tected from the weather and has stee containers besides
 The City of Birmingham will stop a day or perhaps two days at Mobile fol | celebration and inspection there and will make stops at Demopolis and Tus- caloosa on the way to Port of Birmng- ham. It is expected to have party ot Birmingham shippers meet the vessel a, Tuscaloosa and come thence to Port ol Birmingham aboard her.
 COMPILING CARGO For the southbound trip MT. DeBar- deleben already has a fair cargo en- gagged. This will include steel for Mo- bile and lot of cotton promised by w. D. Nesbitt of the Birmingham Warrant Warehouse Company.
 It is possible that stop will be made at Eutaw on the way north. It is pre- , sumed that every point along the river will wish to have chance to see the new vessel and this opportunity will be afforded.
 The City of Birmingham has engines of 300 horsepower and a freight capacity of 2,000 tons On her trial trip she made more than eleven miles an hour downstream against heavy wind and more than eight miles upstream against
 the current. Some of the most promi- nent citizens of St. Louis witnessed the trial trip, and designers and other ex- perts in the art of shipbuilding pro- nounced the vessel everything that hac been expected
 The towboat Cordova, first of the power boats built for the Warrior, is onS waiting on sufficient depth of water be- tween Louisville and Cairo to make her trial trip and start down the Mississipp for Port of Birmingham. It is possible that she will yet reach Port of Bir- mingham ahead of the City of Bir- Iryoip oh a n,