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Title
"
Cotton
Blossom
"
Subject
Steamboats
;
Showboats
;
Riverboats
; "
Grace
Devers
";
Towboats
;
Tugboats
;
Levees
;
Otto
Hitner
Description
The "
Cotton
Blossom
"
began
life
in
1896
as a
raft
for a
lumber
company
working
out
of
St
.
Paul
. She
handled
the
large
excursion
barge
named
"
Mississippi
" at
one
time
, was
renamed
"The
Princess
" and was then
sold
to the
Barrett
Line
for
use
as a
storeboat
at
Cairo
.
Otto
Hitner
bought
it
and
built
it
into a
showboat
and
named
it
"
Cotton
Blossom
".
It
had the
largest
hull
ever
used
as a
showboat
and
it
had
no
pilot
house
.
Hitner
operated
it
until
1929
.
We
think
the "
Grace
Devers
"
is
acting
as
tow
in this
picture
. The "
Cotton
Blossom
"
is
seen
here at the
Madison
Levee
. An
interesting
sidelight
to the "
Cotton
Blossom
"
appeared
in the
June
5
,
1928
Madison
Courier
. "
Suits
alleging
libel
will be
instituted
by the
owner
of the
showboat
Cotton
Blossom
,
now
anchored
in the
Paducah
port
,
against
Edna
Ferber
,
author
of the
novel
"
Showboat
",
Doubleday
Page
Company
,
publishers
;
Flo
Ziegfeld
,
staging
"
Show
Boat
" in
New
York
; and the
Universal
Film
Company
,
unless
satisfactory
settlement
can
be
made
immediately
,
it
was
revealed
in a
telegram
sent
to these
persons
by
Attorney
Charles
C
.
Grassham
, of
Paducah
,
Ky.
,
employed
as
counsel
by
D
.
Otto
Hitner
,
owner
of the
showboat
.
Attorney
Grassham
said
that
suit
for
$250,000
damages
by
reason
of
alleged
libelous
material
in the
novel
and
stage
offering
will be
instituted
in
New
York
unless
adjustment
is
reached
in
each
case
.
Mr
.
Hitner
claims
that he and
members
of his
family
have been
libeled
and that his
business
has been
ruined
. The
novel
"
Show
Boat
"
used
the
name
of "
Cotton
Blossom
" and
material
which
he
charges
is
libel.
"
Creator
Harry Lemen, photographer
Contributors
Madison-Jefferson County Public Library; Jefferson County Historical Society
Date
Photograph taken circa 1927
Type
Photograph
Format
Original: tif, scanned at 1200dpi with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Online: jpg, saved at 72dpi.; scanned image of 3x5 photograph
Identifier
"MJCPLriver5058-cottonblossom"
Source
Way's Packet Directory
Harry Lemen Collection of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
Rights
Permission to reproduce this image for other than personal use must be requested from the Director of the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library. Please contact at 420 W. Main St., Madison, IN 47250 (812) 265-2744.
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