{"id":428,"date":"2011-08-04T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2011-08-04T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:49:29","slug":"kate-adams-1882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Kate Adams (first of three) 1882"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Way’s Packet Directory has the following history of the KATE ADAMS (the first) as follows; built Sewickley, PA, 1882. 250 feet long x 37 foot width x 8 foot draft.\u00a0 Five boilers .\u00a0 Boat built\u00a0entire under contract\u00a0to\u00a0James Rees & Sons., Pittsburg.\u00a0 Built for Maj. John D. Adams and named for his wife.\u00a0 He headed the Memphis & Arkansas\u00a0City Packet Co..\u00a0 Had an Edison\u00a0electric light system, one of the first so equiped.\u00a0 This boat and the WILL S. HAYES were completed side by side at the Rees shop bordering the Allegheny River near the Point, Pittsburg.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0hull origionally intended for the KATE was sold to the Lee Line, Memphis, to become the JAMES LEE whereupon a second hull, almost identical\u00a0was built for the KATE.\u00a0 These two side-wheelers, alike in many respects, vied for the speed championship between Helena Ark. and Memphis, 90 miles.\u00a0 On Sunday March 18, 1883, the KATE\u00a0ADAMS “went over the track” in 5 hours 18 1\/2 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 The previous record was held by the JAMES LEE at 5 hours 33 minutes.\u00a0 The owners of the JAMES LEE handed over a elegant set of deer horns which the KATE wore the rest of her career.\u00a0\u00a0 Fred Way also wrote “She Takes the Horns” which recounts various steamboat races and disasters.\u00a0 Deer horns went to the fastest boat and were prominently displayed by the winning steamboat.\u00a0 Compare this picture to the JAMES LEE at shipyard picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way’s Packet Directory has the following history of the KATE ADAMS (the first) as follows; built Sewickley, PA, 1882. 250 feet long x 37 foot width x 8 foot draft.\u00a0 Five boilers .\u00a0 Boat built\u00a0entire under contract\u00a0to\u00a0James Rees & Sons., … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}