Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-19
ABOUT GEORGETOWN
The Low Water Supply in the Canal Re-
plenished.
A Suggestion About the M Street
tiOn-A WindfaIl of Fortune.


Chesapeake and Ohio canal have been con-
siderabfy swollen by the rains, but no DAM
age to the canal has been reported. Re
ports from dam No. 4. eighty-five miles up.
state that the water in the great trade
trough has risen about three feet. This is
healthy and needed increase in the depth,
as for some time the water has been so low
that heavy traffic has been interfered with.
1t was found necessary during the last
week or two of the drought to tighten the
cargoes from fifteen to twenty TONS and
even then the boats could not get through
the Cumberland level until the canal COM
rany's big pumps had been put to work
taking water from the river. The banks OF
the canal are, no doubt all solid, in spite
OF the rains. as report Of any defect would
have been sent to headquarters at once by
some of the company's representatives scat
tered all along the line.
The coal receipts yesterday in Georgetown
were smaller than they have been for some
time. the rain interfering somewhat with
the boats movements.
The Nj Street Market.
The following letter, signed by the execu-
tive committee of the West Washington
Citizens Association. DR.. l.. W. Richie,
chairman, was today forwarded to the
Commissioners: I'VE would respectfully
call yt ur attention to the present opportuni-
ty afforded in the reconstruction of the NJ
street market house of correcting a great
evil that has existed in the past and one
that promises to become much greater in
the future, owing to the passage of the cars
OF the Washington and Georgetown Rail-
road Company to the Aqueduct bridge viz ::
The crowded ard impossible condition of NJ
street adjacent TO the market caused by the
accumulation of country wagons and tenn
porary store fixtures at that point. We
would suggest that the portion of the mar
ket 10 be improved be reconstructed with
VIDE Pc SsaSeway down the center and open
sides. so as TO admit of country wagons be-
Ing backed under such shelter. thereby af-
iordlnS great protection to them and also to
purchasers from the inclemency of the
wea her, the rear portion of said structure
being found amply sufficient for the pur-
poses or the present regular stall owners"
The Lock Tenders Good Fortune.
1t has now been established beyond a
doubt that the good fortune reported to
have befallen the children and heirs of
John McCaffrey, the canal boatman who
Georgetown suddenly in 1852, and made a
fortune in the grain business in Chicago is a
SOLID reality, and not an unfounded ro-
nance. Seaman, the lock tender on the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal who married
the eldest daughter of McCaffrey and
whose three living children by her are heirs
10 her snare, has placed his claim in the
hands OF e. +. L. Beale. A letter received
day before yesterday from the Chicago law
yers who first brought the death of Nc
Cafrey to the notice of the heirs states
that at the lowest estimate the estate of
the deceased Is worth S4OOOO Mr. ReaIe
as representative of Seaman's children
Will leave in day or two for Chicago.
Seaman is still In charge of his canal lock
at 18th street. The present Mrs. Seaman is
second wife. The eldest daughter of Nc
Caffrey had seven children, but all died but
three.
Arlington Cattle Market.
AT the Arlington live stock yards Mon
day 11o cattle We're up, and sold to butch
er5 as follows: Best, to lie: good. z
"a to 3 1-Sc.; medium. IL to 3 3-Sc.; COM
mon, IL to &c. Seven hundred and
twenty-five sheep and lambs: Lambs. IA
to 1-4c.; sheep. 2 IL to Lie; calves.
TO lie Ten cows and calves sold from
W TO SR per head. State of the market
fair for all kinds of stock
Notes OF Interest.
James M. Green ard Henry c. Stewart.
IT., trustees. have sold to Ida c. Six. for
$5,2io, lot 2)3. in Detweilers sub of square
w. being on the north side of street
between 9th and 18th streets, improved
by new two-story and basement dwelling.
Later the party of the second part trans
r. Shelley.
There are three sets Of surveyors at work
near the Aqueduct bridge, one running
INES Tor the proposed Great Falls road, one
making preliminary arrangements for the
establishment of a grade, etc, on Prospect
avenue between Both and 3Sth, and the
third establishing private lines for vicinity
property holders.
j. b. McGirr has resigned the presidency
of the Georgetown Catholic Union.
Miss Cora Dietz and Miss Blanche Quack-
erbush are spending few weeks at Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Sadie Sullivan has returned home
from a months visit to New York and
Philadelphia.