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Even the Mississippi River seems to know when it has crossed the Mason-Dixon line. The Upper Mississippi is a Yankee protestant-work-ethic river, always busy. The lower Mississippi below Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio comes in, is a grander, more leisurely affair—a world of colonels and judges and mint juleps. No wonder that Currier and Ives chose to immortalize the steamboat race between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee rather than between the small, plain packet boats north of St. Louis.
In that 1870 race, the Robert E. Lee won, and was awarded a pair of deer antlers to display atop the pilot house as the sign of victory, long a custom on the Lower Mississippi, where steamboat racing was an affair of gentlemen with time on their hands, a sport the same as deer hunting or horse racing. Races were announced several weeks in advance, and the boats gotten ready, the engines tuned, cargo cleared, and the crew trained. The race was a betting affair, a spectator sport, covered by the press.
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On the Upper Mississippi, steamboat races were even more frequent, but they were all impromptu affairs engaged in by boats at work hauling cargo or passengers, who happened to meet on their way. Much as boys who are rivals for the same girl will do when they want to show off. 'Beat you to the corner,' the rival says. 'Beat you to Dubuque,' or 'See you in St. Paul,' the Captain of the challenging boat would cry—and the race would be on, putting in peril crew, passenger, and cargo. Boys, after all, will be boys.
Also in the centre of the village, right on the High Street, is the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.Visitors, particularly kids ages 6 to 12, should prepare for a swizzfiggingly, flushbuckingly. He worked for an oil company in Canada before serving 23 years in the Royal Air Force. Roald Dahl died on November 23 1990, aged 74. He was buried in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in. St Paul's CofE Primary School. In your light shall we see light. Welcome; Who's Who; Vacancies; Contact Details; Key Information. Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, aged 74. He was buried in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Great Missenden - the Buckinghamshire village where today The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre continues his extraordinary mission to amaze, thrill and inspire generations of children and their parents. His mortal remains were buried at St. Paul’s Church in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. His body was buried along with his snooker cues, chocolates.
And what did the winner get to wear on the roof of the pilot house or suspended between the smokestacks? No rack of antlers fresh from some gentleman's hunt graced the working packet boat. That was the South. Rather, it was a fit symbol for all those stereotypes we have of the North.
You may already have seen that victory symbol if you have looked closely at photographs of packet boats and remarked to yourself that the top of a pilot house was a very odd place to hang a push broom.
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That broom tells you the winner has made a clean sweep.
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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.
The most famous steamboat race ever chronicled on the Upper Mississippi River was between a tortoise and a hare in 1856. And as you learned in the pages of your third-grade reader, such a race is not always a foregone conclusion.
The hare in this race was the famous War Eagle, owned and captained by Daniel Smith Harris. Its record speed of sixteen and a half miles per hour from Galena to St. Paul has never been broken.
The tortoise was the Itasca, already living in the shadow of an identical twin steamboat, the Key City. The Key City had turned out to be three miles an hour faster than her sister.
As with most races on the Upper Mississippi, this encounter was impromptu. The War Eagle was taking on cargo at Dunleith, headed for St. Paul, when the news arrived of Queen Victoria's greeting to President Buchanan, the first message via the new Atlantic Cable. In 1856, the telegraph had not yet reached St. Paul, and Smith Harris decided to get there first with the news. He was aware that the Itasca, taking on cargo at Prairie du Chien, sixty-one miles upriver, had also received the news, but for a hare, a sixty-one-mile handicap was nothing.
Both boats pulled out at six in the evening. The War Eagle passed its regular stops, added resin to its fires to increase steam pressure. The Itasca, meanwhile, not even aware that it was racing, dawdled along, stopping at every landing for sociable visits.
Not until both boats were in sight of St. Paul did the Itasca realize the race was on. It fired up, eased into the dock ahead of the War Eagle by mere inches. The Itasca had averaged just over twelve miles an hour, the War Eagle more than sixteen.
What your third-grade reader did not tell you, however, was that real life sometimes gets complicated, and winners are often hard to decide.
As the Itasca was easing in for the landing, Smith Harris tied the paper with Queen Victoria's message on it to a large piece of coal, and threw it from the roof of the pilot house over the Itasca to a man on the dock, winning the race to be the first with the news of the Atlantic cable.
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Rock Island Lines with Roald Tweet is underwritten by Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.