page_title: Telephone (sternwheeler)
section_title: Telephone No. 2 unfit for service
hierarchical_section_title: Telephone (sternwheeler) / 1903 reconstruction (Telephone No. 3) / Telephone No. 2 unfit for service
caption_attribution_description: English: The sternwheeler Telephone undergoing reconstruction in June 1903. The upper works called the "house" were being shifted over to be reinstalled on to a newly built hull.
context_page_description: Telephone was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1884 by Captain Uriah Bonsor “U.B.” Scott for service on the Columbia River. Reputedly the fastest steamboat in the world in its time, Telephone served on the Columbia River and San Francisco Bay. Telephone was rebuilt at least twice. The first time was after a fire in 1887 which nearly destroyed the vessel. The reconstructed and much larger second vessel was sometimes referred to as Telephone No. 2. The third vessel, Telephone No. 3, built in 1903 and using components from the second steamer was larger but little used during its time on the Columbia river.
context_section_description: Telephone No. 2 had been running under the ownership of the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company (also known as the White Collar Line}, which sold all of its assets to the Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company (also known as the Regulator Line).  These assets did not include Telephone No. 2, however, as the steamer was considered unfit for service, and had not been operated after 1899, when it carried some troops from Vancouver, Washington to Portland in a little more than an hour.
  As of June 1902, Telephone No. 2 had not been in use for several years, and had been lying at the foot of Jefferson Street in Portland, where one John Stewart was the watchman on the steamer.
caption: Telephone No. 3 under reconstruction in June 1903
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