To make a similar trip leave Chicago between the 15th and 30th of September, provide for towage through the canal to La Salle, and float down the rivers, stopping when the weather is unpleasant.
It takes a much smaller investment if power is excluded; and if the boat goes only down stream, with force enough to manage her in currents and blows it is cheaper to hire towage when requisite.
This was of course agreed to, and the towage resumed.
Sailing-vessels still take the Cape route, because the heavytowage tolls through the canal more than offset the gain in time.
Steamships of deep draught reach their docks at the lower end of the city under their own steam, but sailing-craft pay heavy towage fees.
The charge for towage is $50 for a distance of from 4 to 6 miles off shore.
Towage is very seldom used, the only tug available being owned by the harbor corporation.
In the early era of steam, the prominent policy was to combine towage with carrying capacity by the steamer, for economical expedition.
And in return--" "I'll tear up the deadly document I extorted from Murphy and report a mere towage job to my owners.
It's up to the master of the tug very frequently whether, under such conditions, his task has been a mere towage job at the going rates or a salvage proposition to be settled in court.
Treating of the system of towage by hauling in a submerged wire rope as used on the River Rhine, boats employed, etc.
We have from time to time given accounts in this journal of the system of towage by hauling on a submerged wire rope, first experimented upon by Baron O.
He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled.
All he had to do was to race off to his consignees and stop payment of the towage bill before Falk had the time to get in and lift the money.
But amongst men of his own stature, or nearly, this frank use of his advantages, in such matters as the awful towage bills for instance, caused much impotent gnashing of teeth.
I was just fourteen days from the time I anchored off the bar till I reached the dock where I was to discharge cargo, and for towage and pilotage alone from the bar to the dock, paid $1,009.
On several of the large rivers on the Continent, with rapid currents, cable towage has been introduced in addition to the older methods of transporting merchandise by sailing and steam boats or by towage with screw or paddle tugs.
