Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-12
ABB OUT GEORGETOWN
Large Traffic on the Canal Makes Business
Livsly.
Making Up for the Time Lost Through
the Cumberland Stakeholder
Matters of Interest.

The coal traffic on the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal is said at the Office to be heavier
at the present time than at any period
since the canal was repaired.
Yesterday there were shipped from Cum
berland, consigned to Williamsport and
Georgetown dealers in COAL cargoes aggre-
eating 1887 tons. There were twenty-three
beats in all. carrying an average load Of
100 tons. The lightness Of the cargoes Is
caused by the shallowness of the water on
the Cumberland level. This level is nine
miles in length. Below this point the river
widens, and numerous small streams empty
themselves into the canal, thus increasing
the quantity of water. At the lower end Of
the level the canal company's big pump
does much toward increasing the waters
depth.
On 1887 tons there will be paid in tolls by
the time the cargOes reach town 81. 1O4.o1.
There are nearly 100 working boats on the
canal at the present time. The canafs pres
ent prosperous condition has been brought
about largely through the recent Cumber-
land strike which caused for weeks almost
a complete tie-up Of the traffic in coal. The
orders for the black fuel are coming In
overwhelmingly. Most Of them are from
the manufacturing cities of New England.
where Cumberland and the Georges Creek
coal is used very extensively.
The activity about the canal company
Office is ahead Of any that has been enjoyed
for years. Captains are coming and going.
paying their tolls and grumbling, and con-
signees are hurrying to and fro with live
business haste. The coming and going of
vessels. bringing ice and carrying coal, Is
doing much for the Water street merchants
The ship chambers are all on hustle.
There's a horde of stevedores at work all
along the wharves of the river and canal
DR.. Robert Heath Dodge leaves tomorrow
to take permanent charge of a large sani
tarium near Baltimore.
Halleck Donahue, the choirmaster at st.
Johns Church. after several weeks rest,
will resume his work on Thursday next.
benjamin Darneille, who has been spend
Ing his vacation with his mother here,
leaves on Sunday to resume his theological
studies at the Alexandria Seminary.
Another still-born infant was found on
the wharf near the Columbia boat house
yesterday.
Ben Brown of the Courant had his fingers
severely crushed yesterday while working
one of the office presses
Jefferson avenue and 3lst and 10Th streets
are being improved below NJ.
Thomas s. Queen and wife have sold to
James ID. Loveless, for 81 $40, the tract in
Tenleytown. of which Robert Morris died
seized.
Ambrose Gosnell has sold to Joseph H.
Bradley. through w. B. Mackall and j. Bar
ton Miller, property 1922 jefferson street
fronting Is feet and having a depth of 1O5,
improved by two-story frame dwelling.
The marriage of Frederick kettner and
Miss Lizzie Ellis will be quietly celebrates
at q O'Clock this evening at Holy Trinity
Church.
The tremendous oak at the corner of 3lst
and Read streets, formerly used by civil
engineers as a starting point for neighbor-
ing surveys, will be destroyed today to
make room for building. The tree is said
to be at least two hundred years old.