page_title: Alice (sternwheeler)
section_title: Rivalry with Gov. Grover
hierarchical_section_title: Alice (sternwheeler) / Rivalry with Gov. Grover
caption_attribution_description: English: The sternwheeler Governor Grover, in the locks at Oregon City, March 1873.
context_page_description: Alice was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the 1870s and 1880s. Alice was the largest vessel built above Willamette Falls and was considered in its day to be the "Queen of the River". This steamer was rebuilt after near-destruction in a fire at Oregon City, Oregon in May 1873. In 1876, it was withdrawn from the upper Willamette River and transferred to the Columbia River, where it was worked as a towboat moving ocean-going ships to and from Portland and Astoria, Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River.
context_section_description: One of the rival vessels of Alice on the upper Willamette in early 1873 was the sternwheeler Gov. Grover, owned by the Willamette River Transportation Company, of which Bernard Goldsmith was president. On Thursday, March 27, 1873, there were rumors that there would be a race between the two boats.   There was not an actually test of which steamer was capable of the faster speed.
  The Grover left the newly completed Willamette Locks at 8:30 a.m., stopped at all the landings along the way, and arrived at Salem at 5:00 p.m. with 33 passengers.  After a short stop in Salem, Grover went on to Corvallis.
  Alice departed the Oregon City boat basin at 9:56 a.m. the same day, and arrived at Salem a few minutes after Grover, with 15 passengers and ten tons of through freight.  Alice loaded 8 tons of freight, and departed for Corvallis about one and a half minutes after the Grover.  According to a newspaper report from Salem, "they were both making the water fly when they passed out of sight."
caption: Gov. Grover, rival sternwheeler to Alice, shown in the then newly completed Willamette Locks, March 1873.
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