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Tbls morning we met the only regular canalpacket in the Btate-lhe Willie—which runs between Delphos and Defiance, making two round trips a week, in these days of railroads it is an interesting fact that the Willie carries passengers as well as freight, on regular schedule time. The distance is thirty-six miles. The time made is as follows; Leaving Delphos at S p.m., the hoat arrives at Melrose at —exactly half way.Here she lays up all night, the passengers stopping at a hotel. Bhe starts again at 6 a.m., arriving at Defiance at in o’clock. Going down stream fpur miles an hour are made, butagainst stream only three miles. The fare is one dollar each way, and meals on the boat are twenty-five cents. A good business is done both in passengers and freight. A pair of wiry mules draw theWillie, and when we met her they were sturdilypulling the boat at a sharp walk, almost a trot. Bhe had half a dozen passengers.On the official letter head of the State Board of Public Works is the lithographed representation of a steam canalboat. “Smart Alecks,” who delight lu ridiculing me canals, frequently grow facetious over this picture and declare that there is no such thing as a steam canalboat. Thismorning I saw' the original of the picture. Its name is the Blue Lodge, and it is the successor of another steamboat, the Masonic.At Uitoville, six miles below Delphos, we passed the Blue Lodge, which runs from Delphos to Toledo. It has a capacity of two thousand bushels of grain. The Blue Lodge burns coal, but between Napoleon and Toledo there is asteamer that burns gasoline. The largest caual-boal Su Ohio is a steamer, the J. R. Fallls, which ruus between Defiance aud Toledo. The objection to steamers in the canal is, not so mucb the fact that they wash away the banks as that the machinery Wastes a great deni of space.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, May 30, 1891
Page 12
Full Page
Clipped by
Bob E.
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