Evening star., 1934-09-23

very fine boat, and fitted up at a very con-
siderable expense in an elegant style, for the
accommodation of passengers; but from the
necessary absence of Capt. Mix Of the Navy
on present commander "a gentleman highly
respected for his professional skill and polite
mAnners) her regular operation will be Sus-
pended until Thursday the 7th instant when
she will take passengers from Georgetown,
Washington and Alexandria, leaving Washing
ton every morning at o'clock for Aqua
Greek, where she will arrive at IL, and leave
the creek ut l o'clock with passengers from
the south for the before mentioned places,
where she will arrive early in the evening.
The fare Of each passenger will be five dollars,
Including one mea-anything extra will be
. separate charge.
NO passenger can be admitted on board and
And again at sum short of one dollar.
THE Directors.
IN. B. Should any parties be made up for
the purpose Of spending the day on board.
they viii please mention it to Capt. Mix one
day previous to their wishing to engage
THE washington big success and .
passenger on the boat, signing himself
Traveller" did not fail to write the editor
Of the Intelligencer about it, saying:
Z yesterday went in the Washington steam
boat down the Potomac and was delighted to
find that 1t was exempt from the disagreeable
ja<ring which have experienced in every other
boat Of the kind. This repetition of discordant
concussion was the only objection to this won-
dBrfM mode Of conveyance, and no doubt an
future steamboats, will be constructed with the
same excellent machinery.
TT Is almost impossible to describe the pleas
ing sensations of the traveller, who has every
LUXURY on board, who can read his book Or
write, and every now and then view the beau-
o1ul prospects and elegant country seats which
be passes and to which his attention Is called
By the admiration of his fellow passengers"
Recollections Of the oldest inhabitant, though
often Of great value, cannot always be passed
dong as facts. Indeed, some of the statements
made BY our highly honored and venerable
citizens, though made in the best of faith, upon
investigation, prove to be misleading, and this
b especially true Of Washington's first steam
boat, regarding which-After reading the fore
going quoted items, printed at the time-there
should be no doubt.
One oldtimer, whose name is not gisen,' =
quoted some years ago saying: "that
The fefTy"-referring to Joe .Johnson's ferry
which he bought in Baltimore, was the. first
steamboat on the river" II was named the
Dandy, and johnson was then living on Buzzard
Point. But the date of his bringing the Dandy
to these waters was most likely 1919.
James Clephane, pioneer WaShingtonian,
speaking from personal recollections before the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants December L
1875 refers to the Dandy as being the first
steamboat TO ply between Washington and
Alexandria, and he may have been the "oadfs
timer" just referred to. However, again; Mr..
Clephane Is recorded in the minutes of tho
Association Of Oldest Inhabitants as saying that
he arrived in New York in May, 1917, or two
years after the first steamboat began to operate
here.
Walter c. Clephane, writing of his father.
Lewis Clephane, one of the organizers of the
Republican party and resident of this city.
tells that his grandfather, James Clephanes
native of Edinburgh, Scotland, came to Washe
ington in 1917, and went to reside with h1o
brother, also named Lewis, q portrait painter.
then living IN the 1900 block Of G street north
west; that 1t was here that James Clephane
was married n 1919 Tn Ann Opjlyie