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TOP: Captain Edgar "Jocko" Meeks uses a telegraph to communicate with the engine room.

Pilothouse control and radar navigation was not established until the 1940s.

BELOW: A contemporary pilot house outfitted with advanced radar systems, computers, phones and other innovative equipment.

Marting, the company's contract with

CG&E spawns the construction of another facility in 1931 — the Mill

Street terminal in Cincinnati. Located next to the utility's company plant at

Front and Rose Sts., the new building is able to unload coal barges into either railroad trucks or cars.

In 1937, Ingersoll formed an Illinois division of the company to move coal from Havana, 111. to Commonwealth

Edison's steam plants in Chicago. Head- ed for a short time by Ingersoll's son

A.C., the division eventually fell under the direction of John C. Marting (son of W.W.) whose tenure with company spanned 35 years.

An era ceased in 1938 when both

Ingersolls left the company to establish

Central Barge Company in Chicago, which would eventually evolve to become part of the Valley Line. W.W.

Marting, Ingersoll's original partner takes over the company that he worked to establish — as general manager — position he would hold until his death in 1945. The 1950s brought about myriad of change for ORCO, beginning in 1954, when the company was taken over by a group of New York businessmen headed by Simon H. Scheuer, instilling a change in leadership and direction.

Scheuer, along with attorney Eli Gold- ston, the company's new vice president, collaborated in the selling of coalmines to focus on barging. One year later, West

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Midland Enterprises Expands With The Times

Since planting its roots in 1925 as a small coal delivery business known as the Ohio River Company (ORCO), Mid- land Enterprises has evolved from one chartered boat and four barges to more than 85 boats and 2,400 barges moving the entire eastern inland waterways sys- tem. Established by Albert Converse

Ingersoll, the Ohio River Company's main focus at that time was to float West

Virginia coal to Cincinnati using its pre- miere boat — the E.D. Kenna. Built for its newest customer, Cincinnati Gas &

Electric (the company's longest running business relationship), the vessel cost $179,325 in 1926. Subsequent to this successful venture, the company's demand continued to grow, causing a need for added capital. Ingersoll called upon C.E. Hutchinson, president of the

West Virginia Coal and Coke Company to discuss a possible venture. Talks between Ingersoll and Hutchison proved favorable, as ORCO was incorporated as a subsidiary of the coal-mining com- pany on April 17, 1925. Operating under the partnership of Ingersoll and W.W.

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