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This 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 3 p.m., the boat arrives at Melrose at 3—exactly half way.Here she lays up all night, the passengers stopping at a hotel. She siarts again at a.m.. arriving at Defiance at lu o’clock. Going down stream fpur miles an hour are made, but against stream only three miles. The fare is one dollar each way, and meals on the boat are ttventy-flve 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 sturdily pulling the boat at u sharp walk, almost a trot. She bad half a dozen passengers.On the official letter head of the State Hoard of Public Works is the lithographed representation of a steam caualboat. “Smart Alecks,” who delight lu ridiculing tne canals, frequently grow fucetious over this picture and declare that there is no such thing as a steam caualboat. This morning I saw' the original of the picture. Its name is tne Blue Lodge, and it is the successorof another steamboat, the Masonic.At ottoville. 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 aud Toledo there is a steamer that burns gasoline. The largest caualboat in Ohio Is a steamer, the J. R. Fallls, which ruus between Defiance and Toledo. The objectionto steamers in the canal Is not so much the fact that they wash away the bauks 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.
NA, NA 22 Apr 2022
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