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Safe Haven For Steamboats
| 题名： | Safe Haven For Steamboats |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | KEITH NORRINGTON |
| 摘要： | Happy New Year! Along with the onset of winter, we begin the first Old Boat Column of 2022 with a look back at Alton Slough, a narrow inlet on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River opposite Alton, 111.; this area was long a popular mooring place for steamboats to take refuge from ice and other rigors of winter. One of the true tales concerning the Alton Slough involves several members of the Hot Stove Navigation League of America-St. Louis Scuttle No. 1. This august group of riverboat enthusiasts met informally during the winter months, when the boats were laid up, to share photos, memorabilia and to talk river. Nearly nine decades ago, on Sunday, January 6, 1935, C.W. Stoll, Louisville correspondent for The Waterways Journal, was a student at Carleton College in Minnesota. Returning from his home at Louisville to school from the Christmas break, he made a special side trip to St. Louis to visit river friends. Staunch Hot Stove League members Stoll, Ruth Ferris, Rudy Gerber and Dick Lemen drove up to Alton Slough and were soon slogging through the mud to be greeted by the friendly watchman, George Coleman, with whom the young people were acquainted, and who graciously gave them the run of the fleet. Among the boats wintering in the slough were the Golden Eagle and Cape Girardeau, both owned by the Eagle Packet Company. Also moored there was the excursion steamer Idlewild and the towboats Mamie S. Barrett and Betsara. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 39 |
| 页码： | 18,17 |
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