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Show 5649 99 3656 boat, which, regardless of piloting, did get stuck occasion-ally, and as I remember now, in cutting the lower places in the river, where there night be one or two channels, we might get into the wrong one, and would have to go back and get into the other one. By The Special Master: Q Well, when you refer to the " larger boat", do you refer to the scow, or to the " Betsy Ann"? A The scow with the equipment on it for the outfit. By Mr. Blackmar: Q Now, which one of these boats was it that they called the Marguerite? A The Marguerite was the scow, as I remember it, that pushed the equipment down. Q And the Betsy Ann was Mr. Wimmer's boat? A No, I think the Betsy Ann was made originally for the Government. It is a sort of hazy memory in my mind as to just what the Betsy Ann did; but I do not remember that the Marguerite was the power for the equipment -- the two scows that were to-gether with the equipment. Mr. Farnsworth. The Betsy Ann was the scow. They may |
