Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT.
News From the wharves and Among the
River Men.


tween Washington and Baltimore the steamer
| Sue has been scheduled for two trips per week
instead Of one, as heretofore. She will arrive
at IL pm. Wednesdays and sail at 8 am. Thurs
days. The Sunday schedule remains un-
changed. The Sue was built at Wilmington,
Del, in 1867, and is registered at Baltimore.
She measures $685. "a tons gross. 569. 20 net, l75l
feet over all, 27.0 beam, ss hold and l22 nomi-
nal horse power.
! The John E. Tyeert will continue to run
Virginia landings and connect with the Sue,
which will make the ports on the Maryland
! side.
| Agent E. B. Bowling Of the Norfolk and
| Washington Steamboat Company leaves today
on his annual vacation. He will do the worlds
fair. From Chicago he journeys to Duluth via
Sault de Ste. Marie, thence to st. Paul and
| thence down the river to New Orleans, with a
| brief layover at st. Louis. From the crescent
city he will go to Jacksonville, where he win
take Clyde liner for New York. He expects
| to take good many steamboat hints and to
give them local application on his return.
The Norfolk and Washington propeller Nor
folk Capt. Geoghegan, on her last trip up was
forced by fog to lie to off Maryland Point,
forty-five miles down stream. She arrived at
her dock four hours late
Batteau Annie was stolen from Raynor's boat
house one week ago and recovered by the har-
Dor police yesterday. 1t had been whitewashed
and then painted. 1t was Nund under the
Pilot Boy dock.
Schooner Shining Light, Alexandria, Capt.
Kelly, from the Patuxent river, with 4o0bushels
Of oysters.
The Angie McNamara, Crisfield, Capt. Rey-
nolds, from Pocomoke sound, brings up the
greatest oyster cargo Of the season-I.5o0 bush
els.
The first schooner cargo Of Tnngier oysters
| arrived today per Maggie, Capt. Adams
An Alexandria pile driver lowed yester-
day from its home port by the Fannie N. Gil
bert to the American Ice Company's dock.
Repairs will be made to the pier
Yacht Jessie Cotton is condemned and rests
at Raynor's boa. house.
Steamer Arrowsmith, Capt. Entwisle, was
troubled by fog on her trip up. She brought
large consignments Of freight.
~, Three. mast schooners Nelson Bartlett,
Thomaston, Me-, Capt. Watts, from st. John,
N. b., with laths, yesterday shifted from John
son h Wimsatt's dock to Smiths wharf
Three-master Flynn yesterday shifted from
Alexandria to Riley's dock to discharge lumber
from lower hold She was given a bulkhead
berth this morning
Mr.. Passeno reports to the harbor authorities
the loss Of a canoe-shaped boat painted red.
Miss Emile Woodward, Miss Eleanor
Schaunk, Miss Rudolph, Miss Robertson and
Miss Charlton, chaperoned by Mrs. VIM B.
Gibbs. transferred several harbor scenes to
canvas yesterday afternoon The bluffs of st.
Elizabeth presented fruitful subject. The
| young ladies complimented The EVENING STAR
by using its launch, Five Brothers.
Things are being put in shape for q race be-
tween the rival catboats Hustler, Jim Jam and
| RazZle Dazzle.
| Second Officer Phillips of the steamer Wake
field is i'll New York. His duties are being dis
charged by Adrian Posey, late first officer of the
Jane Moselev.
Yachts Lotus, Capt. Matched, and Bessie.
Can't. Tune, are laid mp for the winter.
TleG 4ssl u ,l,l.
since last issue brought in l,073 tons of coal.
| They lie at the docks of the American Ice Com
| pany, Carter < Clark. and Stevenson Bros.
They are being rapidly discharged. Littlefeld
| d Alyord hopper Potomac is at work on the
| barges at Carter & Clarks dock.
| Philadelphia and Reading barge No. 10, Capt.
| kerchener, is at Alexandria.
| Schooner Martin Wagner, Annapolis, Capt.
| Henson, is discharged.
Barges z. Z. jackson, Nos l and 2, are bound
hither with halfa million feet of lumber to John
| son Wimsatt. No. l comes from Newberne,
n. c., and No. from Fergurson's wharf,
i James river
There is mail at Riley's dock for Linwood E.
Phillips of the schooner Lizzie A. Williams.
| Mr.. Frere has drawings tor Il new lugger soon
! to be laid down. 1t is modelled after the French
chasse-maree and is type of craft common
| along the Mississippi and her tributaries. The
| new beat will carry fore and main masts with
quadrilateral fore and aft sails bent TO hoisting
yards with huff two-thirds the length of the
| after leech.
Shippers want more water in the channel
| The bar that makes out from the flats off the
| Norfolk and Washington dock is an impeachment
| to navigation.
The Alabama Dredging Company was to have
cut the Cedar Tree shoal away, but its machine,
| the Leo. has not done the work.
Messrs Golden, Richardson, Stuart and
Javins note an improvement in the fish trade.
| Engineer Mcintosh of the Gilbert is off duty
| today.
| The harbor Office improvements are COM
| pleted.
Assistant Agent Ketcham of the George Law
| is again on deck.
Capt. Parsons has added neat little jigger
mast rugged with lugsail to his yawl Winnie.
Capt. Z. $. Randall of the Samuel J. Pentz
is back from trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York. The captain is prospecting for
/ a new steamboat. He means to have the boat
of the Potomac feet
! Saimaker Bill Waddy will give an oyster roast
in his loft tonight. Mr.. Waddy has completed
the foresail, mainsail, main topsaii and jib of
the Emile Shindel, Baltimore.
| Mr. Guard of the Great Falls Ice Company is
still on leave.
! Mr.. Jesse Wilver, jr., Of the American Ice
Company has returned to duty at the dock.
There is lively movement of lumber at
| Riley's dock.
| Mate Jarisen of Eva Brooks is back from Bal
| timore.
The Curfew has been put in commission.
| Schooner Harry and Charley is again in the
| harness.
| The Maria Elizabeth. deep laden with toma-
| toes, il at Johnson & Wimsatt's dock.
| The TappahannOck schooners Maria Ashby,
| Capt. Warren; Elizabeth Anne, Capt Roberts
and Columbia. Capt. Courtney, that visited us
| SO often last summer, are now running to Balti-
more.
The four-master Daniel B. Fearing, Capt
Clifford, was not ashore on Handkerchief
Shoals reported While weighing anchor
| her engine gave out and she could not get
away. The Vineyard Haven tug Right Arm
| took her to Woods Holl.
Schooner Samuel Dilloway, Capt. Smith, 10 at
Boston.
Schooner Henry Sutton is at New York.
| The bargeJ J. Maury Dove, arrived here last
week. is one Of the largest and finest coal
barges that has ever come up the Potomac
river. 1t brought cargo of $40 tons Of fur
mace COAL which is being unioaded at Little
fields wharf for J. Maury Dove.
The steamer Occoquan arrived hero Saturday
night with deck load and tow Of piles for the
new city post Office, and is unloading at
Littlefed's wharf.
The schooner Eldridge Souther is at Little
| fields wharf with a cargo of 900 tons of crude
asphalt for the Barber Asphalt Paving Com
| pany.
Schooner Maria Elizabeth. Baltimore. Capt D. J.