Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-15
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
Harbor officials Have Been Stricken With
Dread Disease.
They Cannot Speak Regarding Any.
thing Occurring Nearer Than
San Francisco.

San FrnnciscO.
In consequence Of the order issued by
| the Commissioners directing that no news
| concerning District affairs shall be given
| to the press without authority from them,
the harbor office was a dry place to the
! reporter for The Star today. Harbor-
master Sutton said that he would say
| nothing. The officers of the harbor cruiser
| Joe Blackburn said that they would say
| nothing. They all did it. Everybody at
| harbor headquarters carried out the in
| structions of the Commissioners SO faith
| fully that it required several minutes
| longer than usual to get all the news there
| was.
Harbormaster Sutton today caused to be
posted at the harbor office, and in the va
| rious shipping offices along the Washing
| ton and Georgetown fronts, copies of the
| act establishing harbor regulations for the
| District of Columbia. This act provides
| that every vessel coming to anchor in the
| Potomac river between the junction of
| nels and the extension Of the south line Of
| street southwest shall anchor as near
the fats possible, SO that the channel
| shall not be INSTRUCTED. and that If such
| vessel is to be moored for more than
| twelve hours it shall be moored by both
anchors, SO that no obstruction Of the
channel shall result from the swinging of
the craft with the tides. No vessel shall
| be permitted to anchor in the Washington
| channel between the extended lines of P
and streets southwest, but may come to
| anchor above the line Of K street extended.
| No vessel shall anchor that 1t will be
| within four hundred feet of any wharf,
| the said anchorage to continue only
| twenty-four hours, unless otherwise order
| ed or directed by the harbor master. No
| vessel shall be permitted to lie in 18th
| street canal, New Jersey avenue canal or
| James creek canal, or at the entrance
| thereof, unless such obstructing vessel is
| actually engaged in loading or discharging
| cargo, and, at the discretion of the harbor
| master. shall be removed to such place
that it shall not obstruct any passing YES
| sells.
| Any captain or owner of any barge,
scow or other craft which shall sink in
said channels shall raise and remove that
| end of wharveS or in docks, when required
| by the harbo~ master, shall haul either
way to accommodate vessels going in or
| coming out of such wharves or docks. No
| vessel shall occupy the berths of regular
| steamers or sailing packets without the
| permission of the recognized occupants of
those berths. They shall also be required
to rig in all fore-and-aft spars have boats
| hoisted and davits turned in, as the har
Dor master shall direct. Vessels when not
engaged in loading or discharging cargo
| shall give place to such vessels ready
| to deliver or receive freights. If the cap
tain or other person in charge of interior
| ing craft shall refuse to move when notf-
| fed by the regular occupant of the berth
| the harbor master shall order him to move
to another berth or into the stream. The
| act further provides that in the absence or
temporary inability of the harbor master
| the pilot of the police cruiser Joe Black
| burn, now Harbor Officer Russell Dean,
shall be in authority. Any person failing
| to comply with the new harbor regulations
| shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof in the Police
Court of the District, shall be punished by
fine not exceeding 500, or by imprison-
! ment not exceeding six months, or by both
such punishments, in the discretion of the
court. The third section of the act repeats
all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent
With these provisions.
The effect Of the new law will be to
greatly augment the authority Of the har-
Dor police, and to reform many OF the
abuses OF the harbor privileges.
The Arrowsnaith.
The steamer T. v. Arrowsmith, belonging
to the Washington Steamboat Company
Gimited), is at Baltimore for extensive
renovation. In the first place, her ma
| ch;nery is being completely overhauled;
new parts will be supplied wherever 1t
shall be deemed advisable with view to
| increasing the speed of the steamer. Sub
| stantially all of the machinery now in the
Arrowsmith is new, she having within the
| past two years received new boilers, a new
cylinder, new piston, new beam and new
eccentric. But even these new parts will
be disassembled and made as fresh new.
Her hull is to be practically rebuilt, and
, this will increase her beam by four feet
, and her displacement by eighty tons. About
J | the only part of the old Arrowsmith which
has not been replaced since she came into
the possession of her present owners is The
| joiner work between decks. She will come
around to Washington about the 1st OF
, May and will go on the lower Potomac
route, taking in the new territory around
the bay and in the river of ST. Mary's, the
region of Maryland first settled by Euro
| will I,r .1a,1 tnry|
Entwise, and her chief engineer will he
t Mr.. Fox. Her other officers have not been
| engaged.
Some Notes.
The tug Juno of Alexandria is at Balti-
more for the purpose of receiving a fine
new Scotch boiler, and having extensive re-
pairs made to her hull and machinery,
preparatory to making strong bids for the
ice-towing business of the coming season.
The propeller John E. Tygert of the
| Weems line, successors to the Maryland
and Virginia Steamboat Company, Is being
overhauled at Baltimore with view to
making ready for the warm weather trade.
The steamer Jane Mosely has been pur-
chased by the Peoples Transportion Com
pany, vice the Lady of the Lake, burned.
The Mosely is one of the best known
Der of years was on the Washington. and
, | Norfolk route. 1t Is understood that she
will be placed again on this run. She was
, bought from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company, which had been using her
| between Baltimore and Bay Ridge. She
| will be renovated throughout.
| Oyster dredgers cut out today; that Is.
| dredging is to be suspended for the season
| today. 1t is said at the front that the season
has been a splendid one for oysters, but an
| improbable one for the oystermen, es-
pecially for the boatmen. number of
oyster craft came up today, and will con-
, tinue to arrive during the next few days.
Prices at the wharf range from 40 to "a
cents per bushel.
River freights are heavy. The business
of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company is particularly brisk. The Poto-
mac boats are bringing up large quantities
Of oysters, poultry and fish.
Justice Aldrich Dead.
P. Emory Aldrich, senior associate JUS