February 5, 1927

Steamboat Building in Elizabeth, PA

A Journal of daily activities at the Elizabeth Marine Ways 1898 to 1925 

February 5, 1927

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Saturday February 5, 1927    Raining   Temperature 34Rained very hard until 2 PM today.   I went to the Carnegie Ways at the invite of Superintendent Mays  and looked their new Boat  City of Pittsburgh over   she is all Steel Hull, Decks, Etc and is fit out   with steam up she is shurely the last word in the Steam Boat line on the Monongahela River and cost at least $ 400,000   in going the cook House I met one of the old time Stewards  Tom Gates   I knew him 35 years age on the Steamer Fred Wilson then owned by ONeil and Company.

 

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