The Ohio River steamboating began the city's rapid growth, which was further swelled by the later development of railway traffic, and it now has two hundred and fifty thousand population.
The development of steamboating and afterwards of the railway systems, all the great lines seeking St. Louis, gave it rapid growth subsequently, and its population now reaches seven hundred thousand.
This, of course, may be one of the reasons whysteamboating was possible fifty years ago and is not now.
Doty, was at the time engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi, his headquarters being at Davenport.
I have attempted to give you an idea of steamboating on the Red Cedar.
From the newspapers of that time, it seems that there were a great many floods during the summer months, so that steamboating was common on all the rivers during the entire year until frost came.
It was just at this time when steamboating became certain and settled that the railroad entered Cedar Rapids in June, 1859, and from that time every enterprise which was started was in the line of railway extension as well as transportation.
The subject matter of steamboating on the Cedar will scarcely attract any attention today and means only a pleasure jaunt with more or less inconvenience among sandbars on the upper river.
Gildersleeve, the progenitor of that family which has ever since been foremost in the ranks of steamboating in Canada.
The baby was Barlow Cumberland, who then made his first steamboating on the Niagara River, on which he was afterwards to be so actively engaged.
This steamer, launched in April, 1838, and commanded by Captain Thomas Dick, introduces a family which for many years was connected with steamboating on the Niagara River Route.
These years were the zenith period for steamboating on Lake Ontario and the Niagara River, a constant succession of steamers passing to and fro between the ports.
Folger, who had done splendid service in the steamboating interests in the Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence River was appointed General Manager.
Such had been the courses of navigation and steamboating on the Niagara River from its earliest days--the rise to the zenith of prosperity and then the immeasurable fall due to the encircling of the lakes by the increasing railways.
A goodly number of railway and steamboating officials and friends were on board under the leadership of Sir Frank Smith.
The war of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, accompanied by its constant invasions of Canada, had interrupted any immediate expansion in steamboating enterprises.
We heard many a tale ofsteamboating adventure from these pilots.
Both these men became leaders in every species of steamboating enterprise.
Any account of steamboating on the Columbia would be incomplete without reference to Captain James Troup, who was born on the Columbia, and almost from early boyhood ran steamers upon it and its tributaries.
But such were the risks of steamboating on the Kootenai.
Both of these men became leaders in every species of steamboating enterprise.
Any account of steamboatingon the Columbia would be incomplete without reference to Capt.
You will hardly believe it, but many steamboat clerks always carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days.
It will easily be guessed, considering the pilot's boundless authority, that he was a great personage in the old steamboating days.
They have engaged chiefly in steamboatingand river business.
Mr. Kent engaged in steamboating for many years and was a popular commander.
In 1843 Mr. Hooper engaged in steamboating as clerk on the steamer Otter, on the Upper Mississippi and its tributaries, and was well known at Stillwater.
While in Galena he embarked in steamboating on the Mississippi.
Davidson commenced steamboating on the Upper Mississippi in 1856 with the Jacob Traber.
It is an error to suppose that the palmy days of steamboating on western rivers has passed.
With equal facility he turned his hand to lumbering, steamboating and statesmanship.
Why, I had not thought of doing any steamboating down here," laughed the capitalist.
By a reference to our files, we are enabled to present, at a glance, the astonishing increase in steamboating business since 1844.
I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me.
In the heyday of the steamboating prosperity, the river from end to end was flaked with coal-fleets and timber rafts, all managed by hand, and employing hosts of the rough characters whom I have been trying to describe.
Mississippi steamboating was born about 1812; at the end of thirty years, it had grown to mighty proportions; and in less than thirty more, it was dead!
Of course it is not absolutely dead, neither is a crippled octogenarian who could once jump twenty-two feet on level ground; but as contrasted with what it was in its prime vigor, Mississippi steamboating may be called dead.
It was one the most terrible of the many similar disasters recorded in the history of steamboating on the Mississippi; and to this day the burning of the Lytle is a favorite theme of conversation among old river men.
It was not so with steamboating and railroading, which has each its long tale of disasters such as give times of peace almost as dark a record as those of war.
Within ten years thereafter, steamboating was practically dead on the upper Mississippi.
In steamboatingin the fifties, this occurred very often.
It was evident at a glance that Captain Eden was not in financial straits, and it was equally evident that he was not steamboating for profit.
For ten years previous to the outbreak of the Rebellion, steamboating on the Mississippi was in the height of its glory.
He wanted to inform Captain Wass that the latter knew altogether too much about steamboating for the kind of work that was planned out along the coast in those ticklish times.
He had a pretty wide acquaintance in the Virginia port, and he knew the beaten paths of the steamboating transients, ashore for a bit of a blow.
There isn't any realsteamboating on this coast any longer.
The resting place of the last physical traces of steamboating on the upper Missouri, ROCK HAVEN (R), is passed almost in sight of the black steel link of railroad bridge spanning the river near Bismarck.
Although there was traffic on the Red River as early as 1857, not until the railroad crossed the Red, and Fargo became the southern terminus of river transportation, did steamboating boom.
Steamboating is impracticable here save only when the river is at flood-tide.
Keen-eyed, physically strong, acquainted with men and equal to any emergency, the typical captain of the first half century of steamboating in the West was a man any one was glad to number among his friends and acquaintances.
Even in the later days of steamboating the downstream traffic was ever heaviest.
Professor Trimble's description of steamboating on the rivers of the Inland Empire is intensely vivid and interesting.
My companions in toil swore bitterly about everything in general andsteamboating in particular.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steamboating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
