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原文传递 The Big News

题名：	The Big News
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID SMITH
摘要：	While news of vessels like the Coiner, which was detailed in the last column, was common in the issues of The Waterways Journal during 1935, there were also items dealing with packets. There was one packet still based at Pittsburgh, the Liberty. The magnificent Queen City had run its last trip in 1933 and was being utilized as a wharf-boat at Pittsburgh. A news story indicat- ed that the pilothouse and texas would be torn off the boat, but the mahogany paneling from the cabin was to be saved. The Senator Cordill had sunk on an improperly lowered wicket at Ohio River Lock 14 in February 1934, yet there were still published rumors that it might be rebuilt to run again. That didn't happen, and it was ultimately dismantled. The river industry was changing: progress was being made with boats like the big diesel prop Herbert Hoover of the Inland Waterways Corporation, the steam prop boats of the Mississippi Valley Barge Line and the very modern diesel prop towboats Peace and Neville of the Union Barge Line. Yet packets were still news. The big news in the pages of the WJ in 1935 seemed to concern a packet. It was announced in the March 2, 1935, issue that Greene Line Steamers of Cincinnati had purchased the packet Cape Girardeau from the Eagle Packet Company of St. Louis. This news wasn't simply announced but trumpeted from the pages. A lead story by Capt. Frederick Way Jr. speculated what the late Capt. Gordon C. Greene might have thought of this deal, and that the Greenes planned to use the boat in the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati packet trade. The Waterways Journal publisher, Donald T. Wright, had a story on the facing page with details of the sale. Wright mentioned in his story that "The news, incidentally is a great vindication of constant editorial predictions by The Waterways Journal that packet boat service, modernized and adjusted to suit today's changed conditions, can and will come back."
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	46
页码：	22,21