FINAL DISPOSITION: Burned at New Orleans during 1916 Mardi Gras
OWNERS: 1898: Merchants & Planters Packet Company; Mississippi Packet Company; Captain W.A. Duke; 1914: John F. Klein; 1916: People's Packet Company
OFFICERS & CREW: ca. 1905: E.R. Daigre (pilot); 1914: Captain Frank Gill (master), Elmer Good (pilot)
RIVERS: Mississippi River; Ohio River
OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 4936; Under ownership of Merchants & Planters Packet Company she ran tri-weekly New Orleans-Baton Rouge. Later under ownership of Mississippi Packet Company, she ran New Orleans-Bayou Sara semi-weekly. John F. Klein ran her on excursion at St. Louis in 1914, then ran excursions at Pittsburgh and the upper Ohio in 1915. Apparently owned by People's Packet Company by 1916. She departed Pittsburgh on a one-way Mardi Gras trip. She burned soon after arrival at New Orleans, ca. March 20, 1916
PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Busy scene at the Cincinnati waterfront