Last Weeks Find At Howards

Last Tuesday evening we had a little work party at the museum sorting through boxes of material in the new collections building. One of the boxes contained blueprints. Back in the 1920's there apparently was a lot of interest in starting tourist operations on the river and someone had Howards design a 300' sidewheel tourist boat. The boat was to be powered by steam turbines, one on each wheel. Had it ever been built, it would have been a typical, well proportioned, Howard designed sidewheeler in the tradition of the old Anchor Line boats.
So if we have a lottery winner in our midst who wants to start a tourist boat operation, the design work has already been done all you'd need to do is to walk the blueprints across the street from the museum to Jeffboat.