ILLUSTRATIONS 13 



Captain Paul Kerz 241 



Of Galena, 111. On Steamers J. W. Mills and W. J. Young, 

 Jr. 



Captain J. M. Hawthorne 247 



Of LeClaire, Iowa. 88 Nov., 1927. Still piloting. 



Captain Sam R. Van Sant 251 



President Van Sant and Musser Transportation Company, 

 and LeClaire Navigation Company. 



Steamer Morning Star 261 



Built in 1911. 250 feet long, 70 feet wide, over all. She had 

 excellent passenger accommodation and could carry eight hun- 

 dred tons of freight. On her first trip, with a special party, she 

 went from Davenport, Iowa, to the mouth of the Mississippi, 

 no miles below New Orleans and from there to St. Paul, 

 Minn., and back to Davenport. The author was in charge until 

 1918 when she was sold to a Cincinnati company. She was the 

 last large boat in the St. Paul trade. 



Henry Whitmore 269 



Engineer. Fitted out first real rafter. 



The Last Raft 281 



Captain W. L. Hunter with steamer Ottumwa Belle, 1915, 

 Hudson, Wis., to Ft. Madison, Iowa. 



Map of the Mississippi and its tributaries . . . 311 

 Especially prepared by Max Mayer to illustrate this volume. 



