Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-10
ALONG THE wHARvEs.
Ferry Service Between Here and Alexandria
to Be Resumed Tomorrow.

Ferry Service Between Here and Alexandria
to Be Resumed Tomorrow.
Capt. Entwisle. Pilot Owens, Purser Garnet
and Mate Phillips Of the Washington Steamboat
Company left this morning for Baltimore,
where they will take charge Of the
steamer T. V. Arrowsmith. She will
leave Baltimore tomorrow for Washington
and expects to make all landings between the
two cities. The Arrowsmi.h has been thor
oughly overhauled and refurnished. She Ia
now a better craft than ever and her engineers
believe that they will be able to get out OF her
greater amount of speed than she has shown
before.
Wind and weather permitting the ferry serv-
ice between Washington and Alexandria will be
resumed tomorrow. The Columbia will be the
first to start out. She has been pretty we'll
overhauled and her engines and boilers looked
after. The ferry boat Washington is on the
WAYS at Alexandria undergoing general repairs
and recalking. She will not resume her bust
ness for week or two.
The suspension Of navigation has been taken
advantage of by all the steamboat companies
way the freezeout has been a
blessing. Under the pressure of compe-
tition it was dangerous policy to
withdraw a boat from her route even
for a single trip. Most of the craft
were sorely in need of repair. Travel on the
less danger than heretofore. The steamers
that have gone through the repair mill
or are on the ways are the John ". Thompson,
Mattano, River Queen. Manchester, Samuel J.
Pentz, Wakefield. I. V. Arrowsmith. Florence
CCit and George Law.
The steam yacht Florence is fitting out for a
trip to the world fair. She will carry dis
tinguished party of New Workers and
few washingtonians. Who the guests
will be has not been learned. Her
cabin has been transformed from the
ragged and musty one of few months ago to a
saloon enameled in white and gold. Her boiler
deck. engine and engine room snow the same
remarkable change. She will be handled by
Capt. Hane, Chief Engineer James r. Gatchell
and Mate Joseph Cherry. She will sail for New
York as soon as her improvements are COM
pleted.
There was a large gathering Of steamboat
men at harbor police headquarters this morn
ing. The theme under discussion was. "What
will be the new name of the old John w.
Thompson| Chief Engineer Tennyson said
he could not betray this state secret but he as
sured the assemblage that the new name was
poetic. practical catchy, short and expressive.
Mate John W. Dyer, Captain Johensen,
Captain Spransy and Engineer Conway
thought the renewed steamer should be called
Presh. after a certain member of Commodore
Randalls family. and Capt. Dolman and Capt.
Tulle believed that Lark was the name selected
Inc thompson Is on the ways at VtOodhall's ship
yard Baltimore. 1t will be launched with impres-
sive ceremonies in a few weeks. A large party of
Washingtonians and Alexandrians will 20 over
via rail and come back aboard the Thompson
The first sail to enter Washington harbOr
since the freeze arrived this morning. It was
the pungy Idlewild, Capt. John Henry Rollins.
light, from Alexandria, to look out
for fishing berth. If the wind
changes from south to north today the
following schooners will attempt to escape from
the harbor: Sunny South, Capt Jerry Gibson;
Elnora Russell. Capt Stewart Russell; Edward
Dean, Capt. Lawrence; George B. Faunce,
Capt. Faunce; Cora Nc Kenny, Capt Walter
Wood; Mary Anne Belle, Capt. Carter, and the
oyster PUNCHES George Revere and Mary
Parker,