Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-20
@ e ORGET TOWN AFFAIkS.
CeYssspoSdsaes Of TAs Star. 49, sess

VBOhoBTOWN, NOV. ~, 1897.
The passage by the Council on Monday even.
ing OF an ordinance appropriating one hundred
dollars to assist in the establishment of ferry
over the Potomac, al the Little Falls, has caused
no little alarm among a large portion of our own
citizens and those Of Virginia, who are in the
habit Of attending the District markets for the
disposal OF their produce. 1t has been construed
INTO an intention upon the part our city author
tiles to allow the present thoroughfare for travel
TO and from Virginia to be interrupted by the re-
moval OF the inclined plane at the Little Falls
bridge, by the contractors for the construction Of
such step just at this time would prove greatly
Injurious To our citizens generally IL certainly
quires no arguments to prove.
This inclined plane furnishes the only reliable
means OF crossing the Potomac at near this
point, and to remove il at this season of the year.
just at the commencement of the fall trade. and
leave those who supply our markets with nearly
all the articles that enters into the daily consump-
ton Of every family, to say nothing Of the enor-
nous quantities Of pork and wood which daily,
during the fall and winter months, crosses at
this point, and to the uncertainties Of ferry,
and that, too, merely to accommodate two or
three persons, would be, we think, acting sui
cidal in the extreme. We all know that II is
almost an imPossibility to operate ferry at this
market wagons during even the summer months,
much less the heavy class Of vehicles generally
used In the transportation of the heavier articles
OF trade such as pork, &c, and that, too, at a
!,
Is liable to almost daily Interruptions by freshets
ice, and from other causes
We have been informed that some person or
persons engaged upon the work at the bridge has
already notified the citizens Of Virginia Of their
Intention to remove the inclined plane before
spoken OF, and thus suspend the travel over the
bridge. If this be the fact, we sincerely hope
that our city authorities will take immed late
steps to prevent this intention from being carried
into execution AS has already been said, {. suf-
hcient unto the day is the evil thereof IL the
contractors are ready to commence raising the
snperstructure, let them complete the interme-
d1ate spans and leave the connection with those
already up and the spans over the canal to be
raised last. During this time the masonry can
be or the weather continues favon0bte for such
work. completed so that there need occur but
one interruption TO travel, and that at a period of
the year when 1t will not be so seriously felt. g.
we have been requested by r. Ould, Esq =, to
say that copies Of the new code of laws for the
District will be left at the MAYORS for dstribu-
tion Saturday or Monday
The schooner Mill Boy, lying at the wharf of
MI Peter Berry, was robbed, few ghts since,
OF some fifteen to twenty bushels of cats. Most
OF II was recovered, a colored man informing
where 1t had been deposited by the thevs,
Business about the river wharves is rather
dull the only arrivals since our last are the schrs
Statesman, Wick, from N. York 10 the Messrs
Dodge; Ann Prickrell, Dukes, Philadelp hia to
Hyde IL Davidson, and the ID. f. Sawysr, Pear
son, New York, to Jos. N. Pearson
The quantities of flour and grain arriving is
quite limited. Flour is held at Sass IS. Wheat
Sll5aSl .25 for red and white Of good qualities
Corn, old, 7Oc. for white and yellow s