brick-barge-tug

Updated: July 24, 2025

Here, where the hoot of the Haverstraw brick-barge-tug answers the howl of the locomotive on either shore, you shall find, with a complete installation of electric light, nickel-plated binnacles, and a calliope attachment to her steam-whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his office, at an average speed of seventeen knots an hour, and the barges can look out for themselves, Wilton Sargent, American.

Rudyard Kipling - The Day's Work - Volume 1