Show captain dave silver savor everybody who tools took a trip on the I 1 missouri a dozen or twenty yea years rs ago remembers captain dave silver ono one of 0 f the handsomest menthal men that ever guided the destinies of those old timers captain silver is ia still alive he be is somewhere in ill the south I 1 think but wherever r he is bo is still sti 11 the courtly stately figure that used to stand forward and bow to the passengers leaving the boat at jefferson city st joe omaha or kansas city westport landing it was then they all know knew young T handsome dave silver they all liked to ride on 0 n his bis boat it was the lucas I 1 think on one e of the fastest whatever that ever rode the thi river she wore the champions deer horns on the pilot house for years it was hard on captain silver for all of the floating palaces to pass out of the river forever but he had another misfortune i ile he had bad a brother how he loved himl they were inseparable one day they were standing near the rail of a big boat just as she was pushing 0 off the brother leaned forward a bit H t the ra rail ia broke and before captain dave could catch him the man had fallen into the water the boat swung around at that instant and poor silver was dragged un under der the wheel its joel joe gasped captain dave that was all he said ho he had bad seen his brother go under the vicious paddles and he fell into a partial faint that was one of the reasons that this tall handsome man with the elegant manner and gray hair and beard left the missouri for the low banked streams of the far so south uth detroit free press |