Register of Kentucky State Historical Society . ant rvand beauty of the South, adecks and saloons of Iers were so nes of the pictorial lifeof the pt riod. The New 1808, two barges, one of thirtytons, belonging to one Re ??!, of < in-cinnati, the other of forty tons,owned by Instone, of Frankfort,K< mueky. and six keelboats, did ....the earn ing trade of Louisville andShippingport. In 1810-] I, Isteamboat west of the Allegand christened the Xt u 0was built by Robert 1 uand Robert Living-ton. Thissteamer was built at Pittsburgand was 13S feet long anilabout three hundred (or fou
Register of Kentucky State Historical Society . ant rvand beauty of the South, adecks and saloons of Iers were so nes of the pictorial lifeof the pt riod. The New 1808, two barges, one of thirtytons, belonging to one Re ??!, of < in-cinnati, the other of forty tons,owned by Instone, of Frankfort,K< mueky. and six keelboats, did ....the earn ing trade of Louisville andShippingport. In 1810-] I, Isteamboat west of the Allegand christened the Xt u 0was built by Robert 1 uand Robert Living-ton. Thissteamer was built at Pittsburgand was 13S feet long anilabout three hundred (or four hun-dred, according to various iton- capacity. The inhabit;Pittsburg lined the banks <<f theriver and waved adieus ;. • Icraft weighed anchorof sight. On the secoileaving Pittsburg sinoi posite Cincinnati. There she received a : lieved and many rleiher owners, Nicholas J. \l(the grand uncle of the I;dore Roo evell I, yodown si ream, but never can comelack; the idea is absurd. When? ing betweenNatchez and .W; i »r cans on I lie. CAPTAIX JOHN \V. CANNO Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society. Mississippi. Accordingly the boat onits first trip was simply being takento its station for Mississippi trafficand carried no freight. Its passen-gers wore: Nicholas J. Roosevelt,his wife and children, the engineer,together with six or seven generalvorkhands and several days after the New Orleansleft Pittsburg she reached Louis-ville. There was a clear moon onthe night the strange little boatmade its appearance in mid streamof the Ohio, near the foot of Fourthstreet. The sensation that the craftproduced was akin to panic. Shewas pouring out clouds of blacksmoke and her engines wheezingterrifically. Many believed thatthe devil himself had come to townand the more ignorant of the popu-lation, who hail never heard of asteamboat, much less seen one,thought .the end of the world hailcome. The negro population, towhom the unearthly sounds of theboats whistle sug
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