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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: personalityofame01hung (find matches) Title: The personality of American cities Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948 Subjects: Cities and towns Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast &amp; Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: evelopment of the HotelSchenley, the great Soldiers Memorial Hall which Alle-gheny county has just finished, the even greater CarnegieInstitute, the graceful twin-spired cathedral, all are go-ing toward the making of this fine, new civic center,and Pittsburgh being Pittsburgh, and the Pirates socialheroes, Forbes Field the finest baseball park in all thisland — a wizardry of glass and steel and concrete —is a distinctive feature of this improvement. The freight trains are gone from the downtown shop-ping streets and the two wicked grade crossings dis-appeared when the Pennsylvania built its splendid newUnion Station. Other fine railroad terminals and newhotels have added to the comfort of the stranger. Theyare beginning in a faint way to give transfers on thetrolley cars, and there is more than a promise that someday wayfarers will not be taxed a penny every time theywalk across the bridges that bind the heart of the city.The bridge companies are private afifairs, paying from fif- Text Appearing After Image: PITTSBURGH i8i teen to twenty percent in annual dividends, and they hangpretty tightly on to their bonanzas. But the PittsburghChamber of Commerce is after them, and that Chamberis a fairly energetic body. It has already sought thedevil in his lair and tried to abolish the smoke nuisance,with some definite results. A New York girl who has been living in Pittsburghfor the last four years complained that she had neverseen but two sunsets there. There is hope for that girl.If the Chamber of Commerce keeps hard at its anti-smoke campaign, she may yet stand on the Point anddown the muddy Ohio see something that dimly resem-bles the glorious dying of the day, as one sees it fromthe heights of New York citys Riverside Drive. A keen-eyed man sat in an easy chair in the luxuryof the Duquesne Club, and faced the New York man. Are we so bad? he demanded. You New Yorkmen like to paint us that way. You judge us falsely.You think that when you come out here you are goingto see a sort of modern Sodo Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: I. C. Woodward was a side-wheel packet boat launched in July 1898 by Andrew Axton & Son Co. of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company. She was named for ship captain Isaac C. Woodward. I. C. Woodward was 164 ft long by 42 ft wide with a 5 ft draft. She had 50 staterooms with additional passenger room in her texas.
  I. C. Woodward ran the Monongahela River twice weekly between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, between 1898 and 1911. She is known to have traveled farther south to Fairmont, West Virginia, once in 1912 and again in October 1913.
  On 27 September 1913 she took part in a parade celebrating Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's 125th anniversary. The parade consisted of 30 steamboats which sailed from Monongahela Wharf down the Ohio to the Davis Island Dam. The boats in line were the parade flagship Steel City, City of Parkersburg, Charles Brown, Alice Brown, Exporter, Sam Brown, Boaz, Raymond Horner, Swan, Sunshine, I. C. Woodward, Cruiser, Volunteer, A. R. Budd, J. C. Risher, Clyde, Rival, Voyager, Jim Brown, Rover, Charlie Clarke, Robt. J.
context_section_description: I. C. Woodward was a side-wheel packet boat launched in July 1898 by Andrew Axton & Son Co. of West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, for the Pittsburgh, Brownsville and Geneva Packet Company. She was named for ship captain Isaac C. Woodward. I. C. Woodward was 164 ft (50 m) long by 42 ft (13 m) wide with a 5 ft (1.5 m) draft. She had 50 staterooms with additional passenger room in her texas.
  I. C. Woodward ran the Monongahela River twice weekly between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, between 1898  and 1911. She is known to have traveled farther south to Fairmont, West Virginia, once in 1912 and again in October 1913.
  On 27 September 1913 she took part in a parade celebrating Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's 125th anniversary. The parade consisted of 30 steamboats which sailed from Monongahela Wharf down the Ohio to the Davis Island Dam. The boats in line were the parade flagship Steel City (formerly the Pittsburgh and Cincinnati packet Virginia), City of Parkersburg, Charles Brown, Alice Brown, Exporter, Sam Brown, Boaz, Raymond Horner, Swan, Sunshine, I. C. Woodward, Cruiser, Volunteer, A. R. Budd, J. C. Risher, Clyde, Rival, Voyager, Jim Brown, Rover, Charlie Clarke, Robt. J. Jenkins, Slipper, Bertha, Midland, Sam Barnum, Cadet, Twilight, and Troubadour.
  She was removed from service in 1913, sold to a group in either New Albany or Evansville, Indiana, and was converted into an excursion steamer named Virginia.
  In January 1915 (as I. C. Woodward) she was bought for $10,000 by an Evansville man, who wished to use her for the summer excursion business on the Ohio River, where she would be in opposition to the John S. Hopkins, which ran between Evansville and Henderson, Kentucky, every Sunday. There were also plans for occasional river excursions in and out of Owensboro, Kentucky. The steamer was in need of $9,000 worth of repair which were scheduled to be undertaken in Evansville starting that same month.
  She was purchased by a group from Charleston, West Virginia, and operated as City of Charleston from 1919 to 1921.
  On 21 May 1921 she was laid up in Gallipolis, Ohio, for new boilers before resuming duties on the Monongahela River when she caught fire and was destroyed along with a pumpboat owned by the Hickey Transportation Company of Cincinnati, which was tied up alongside her. The total loss of the Charleston was posted as $40,000.
caption: I. C. Woodward on Monongahela Wharf, 1913
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