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The '‘Jennie Whipple,”-“Long expected,*’ has “come at last.1* She heralded her approach with the thundering echoes of a brass cannon stationed on hebow, a fine-toned church bell which sne bad on board, and strains ,of music from the Eau C la ire Brass | Baqd which went below on the St. Croix tortieet Iier, last Friday. -—The Jennie Whinple is a queenly boat, and sits the water like a sea-gull.The following are her dimensions:— Length, 138 ft; breadth of beam, 30£ ft.; depth of hull, 3j ft.; length of main cabin, 55 ft.; length of ladies’ cabin, 30 ft. She has 24 excellent state rooms, and her cabins are truly elegant, being finished and furnbhed in a style unsurpassed by that of any Mississippi boat. All in all, she is a model craft; and having been built exclusively for the Chippewa trade, Eau Clairians may well be proud of her. Long may she wave. The officers of the ‘ J«nnte Whipple” are gentlemen—every one of them, as wocan Conscientiously testify. Capt. Wmiv ple will ever be found ready to do tile agreeable, and make his passengers coui-furljibly at ease; while Mr. Donaldson, j the gentlemanly clerk, and “Charley” Gray, the ma*e, are not excelled in their respective stations. Of 1st Engineer West. Church, we should say that tie is eminently a handsome man, and can make the “Jenniu” “Walk the waters like a thing of life,”
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Eau Claire Times
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Aug 25, 1857
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