Word: steamboating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...morrow, between four and five o'clock, Yale rows the University of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania men arrived yesterday morning from New York in the steamboat "City of Worcester." Efforts were made to secure quarters at Gale's Ferry, near the other crews, but no place could be found, so that the crew were obliged to put up at the Crocker House, where they now are. The men hardly look like a university crew, and one would scarcely think them equal to a four mile race. Yesterday afternoon they took a time row over the course, followed by their coach, Ellis...
...Harvard freshmen arrived at Groton at half-past thee yesterday afternoon, and took the steamboat "Cecile" for the quarters. A little difficulty was experienced in getting all the baggage on shore, as trunks and all had to be transported some little distance in Capt. Moulthrop's small row boat. However, everything was finally landed, and he freshmen sat down to supper. At about seven o'clock the men took a short row, returning before it became very dark. Their work is still rather rough, but great improvement may be expected during the coming week...
Excursions in N. H. 8 this week are to Nantasket, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 26 and 27. Steamboat leaves Rowe's wharf...
...terrible steamboat disaster has occurred on the Ohio River near Ripley Landing, W. Va., by which three lives were lost and a number of persons seriously injured by the bursting of the main steam pipe of the steamer Sidney...
...people come to the rooms and inflict upon the occupants a long description of the merits of their wares, or an account of a mother who has been unable to do any work for ten or twelve years, or else the beggar relates how he was disabled in a steamboat explosion, or some similar disaster. A man actually presented us a paper not long ago, which on careful examination we found to be the identical paper shown last year, in which a subscription was asked to enable the bearer to erect a tombstone to the memory of his loved sister...