Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 112

Bo-- k .HITE SETTLERS ' i e FIRST STEAM- INDIAN, OF THE MIDDLE 1\ 2 BOAT ON THE WEST FIRST CAR- e | : | GREAT LAKES WAS PADDLING HIS - — bt | RIED THEIR PRO- [ i TP THE T WALK-IN-THE ST . o DUCTS DOWN THE , MIGHTY MISSIS- ’WB"’Q?-“" FRVIEE50 \/8 : | BURFALO IN 1818 SIPPI WAS THE ORLEANS IN FLAT- Ao T2 fi2 For THREE VEARS “ i BOATS. MicH SIPI N ORLEAN WHICH MEANT ST SERA, . % ; . THE FLATBOATS WERE BER— — 50LD AS LUMBER, AND "FATHER OF : THE CREWS WENT WATERS ¥ HOME ON HORSEBACK. WENTY VEARS ARTER THE FIRST HE STEAMBOAT INTRODUCED> A !HESE oL STEAMBOATS NLY AN EXPERT PILOT CouLp> STEAMBOAT MADE THE TRIP FROM | | GOLDEN AGE OF COMMERCE INTOTHE | | "5 \RNED WOoOD FOR BUEL, AND KEEP A BOAT IN THE WINDING, PiTTSBURGH TO NEW ORLEANS (1811) | | MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TWIN-STACKED = ’ SHIFTING CHANNEL OF THE MISS- HUNDREDS OF STEAMERS WERE "PADDLE-WHEELERS " DESCENDED THE FIRENNADIY SIS ER - o B MADE TO TAKE ON WOOD> AT 1SSIPPl. SNAGS', SUBMERGED PUFFING UP AND POWN THE Miss- RWER LADEN WITH MEAT,CLOTH AND = 7 - it e A .55 FARM IMPLEMENTS, AND RETURNED FUELING STATIONS ALONG THE TREES, AND> ROCKS MADE NAVIGA TARIES. WITH MOLASSES, SUGAR ANE> COTTON. TION DIFFICULT AND> HAZARDOUS - ACES BETWEEN RIVAL STEAMERS WERE AN EXCITING FEATURE OF TRAVEL ONTHE MISSISSIPP) \N THE OLD PAYS. THE ELEMENT OF DANGER WAS NEVER LACKING. u 1840 THERE WERE MORE STEAMBOATS PLYING THE MI1SS- 1651PP1 RIVER SYSTEM THAN THERE WERE IN THE WHNOLE BaiTisH EMPIRE. ;@M A STEAMER CAME TO | TGRIEF ON A SNAG” OR WAS t SUNK AN A COLLISION. THE AVERAGE i LIFE OF A RIVER STEAMBOAT i RIVER STEAMER MIGHT BE FOUND SOUTHERN PLANTERS, TRADERS AND> AGENTS FROM THE NORTH, BACI¢- WOODSMEN AND IMMIGRANTS BOUND FORTHE WEST. o -4 WAS ONLY THREE YEARS. — ° ¢Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansficld) NOTE - THE RACE ATTRACTED NATIONWIDE INTEREST AND 1TS PROGRESS WAS REP ED BY TELEGRAPH, —° TEAMBOAT RACING REACHED QEAR TNE MOUTH OF THE ONIO E‘HE CwiIL WAR PARALYZED COM- OF A RACE AN ENGINEER. TS CLIMAX IN JUNE,1870, WHEN THE NATCHEZ RAN AGROUNP, AND | | MERCE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, BUT IT WOULD CROWD ON TOO MUCH STEAM | | THE FAMOLIS RACE BETWEEN THE THE VICTORIOUS LEE"SPED ON RECOVERED AND THE STEAMBOAT AND THE VESSEL WOULD BLOW UP. | | "ROBERT E. LEE" AND THE "WATCHEZ" | 7O FINISH IN THE REMARKABLE RULEL- SUPREME UNTIL RAILROADS | FREQUENTLY, STEAMERS CAUGHT UP THE MISSISSIPPI FROM NEW TIME OF THREE DAYS, EIGHTEEN WERE BUILT PARALLELING THE ' FIRE FROM TMEIR OWN SPARKS ,~ ORLEANS TO ST.1ouis TOOK PLACE . ! HOURS AND THIRTY MINUTES. —* "FATHER OF WATERS K ——