The Steamer McDonald & Capt. Sam. Van Sant - 1878

VAN SANT

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 4/11/2017 at 21:44:47

The Clinton Age, Clinton, Iowa, March 1, 1878

The steamer McDonald, Capt. Sam Van Sant arrived from Princeton and LeClaire with ninety-one excursionists at half past 9 o’clock yesterday morning. She left Princeton at 7:30. The excursionists spent five hours in the city, and started home at 3 p.m. The bridge was swung by Supt. Flemming and two assistants, with pulley and spider. It was the most unique celebration of Washington’s birth the excursionists ever enjoyed. Free navigation of the Mississippi in this latitude isn’t often allowed on the 22nd of February.

The McDonald enters the Clinton and Davenport trade forthwith, commencing Wednesday next, and making two trips a week till the first of April. Capt. Van Sant thinks he will do a brisk trade-especially if the roads continue in their present state. – Davenport Gazette