In the month of June, 1901, W. H. Lehman, Des Moines musician and piano dealer, displayed in his store windows his extensive photograph collection of steamboats making early trips on the Des Moines and Mississippi rivers. The one which attracted the most attention was the Alice, upon which Mr. Lehman and family came to Des Moines in 1857. The boat was originally a Mississippi river craft, but most of the last years of her life were spent on the Des Moines. She brought to this city many of its

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... dest residents, a number of whom became more or less famous. Among those who first stepped into what was then Fort Des Moines from the gang plank of the Alice were John A. Kasson, Simon Casady and D. O. Finch. The disposal or whereabouts of these pictures is not known. Other Des Moines river boats of the early day that traversed the waters between Keokuk and Des Moines were the Agatha, bringing governmental supplies and soldiers from Fort Sanford to Fort Des Moines, in May,