Show steamboat memories london opinion commenting on the recent celebration of the conen ary of tho the steamboat remarks roi narka that it la is interesting to noto note that the british admiralty of that period rejected reject cil the invention with tile tho declaration that a paddle wheel steamboat could be of no use in navigation and that a dr lardner a pundit of that day who proved that no steam vessel could over ever cross tho the atlantic lived long enough to holt bolt to america in a steamer along with ith another inana wife |