Evening star., 1900-04-21
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
MOVEMENT ON FOOT FOR NEW
STEAMBOAT LINE.
Vessels to Connect From Csmbridre.
Md, With ChEsaDsake Beach
RailrOad-Personal.

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There is a movement Oh foot among the
business men Of this city to establish a
steamboat line from Cambridge, and the
Choptank and Tired Avon rivers on the
eastern shore of Maryland, to connect with
the Chesapeake Beach railroad line, run
ming into Washington. The scheme has
taken such definite shape, 1t Is said, that
the projectors are now looking for a suit
able steamer to put upon the route The
country about Cambridge is wonderfully
rich, and at present all its products 90 to
Baltimore by two lines of steamers Those
In the new scheme, however. hope to be
able to divert considerable portion of
this trade to Washington, by offering the
farmers Of the eastern shore a much speed
Ter means of getting their products to mar
ket. AS it is now it takes the greater por-
ton of night to go by boat from Cam
bridge to Baltimore. By the new plan from
three and half to four hours would be
necessary to reach either this market or
that of Baltimore The projectors of the
proposed line are very much in earnest,
and strong hopes are expressed that 1t will
be started.
Wharf and Warehouse.
The United States will shortly begin the
erection, on the site of the old Inland and
Seaboard Coasting Company's wharf, at
the foot of o street, substantial wharf
and warehouse for the convenience of gov
ernment buoy, light house and revenue YES
sells coming to this port. AS it is now, gov
ernment vessels. when they arrive here,
either have to anchor out in the stream or
trust to finding a wharf vacant at which
they can tie up; and in summer, when the
harbor is crowded with Ice vessels, this is
very difficult to do. The new wharf will
therefore be a great convenience.
There is a missing Whitehead torpedo in
the Potomac river, and the former owners
of the submarine boat Holland wish to re-
cover it. When the Holland was giving its
exhibitions recently off Mount Vernon she
hred torpedo at an imaginary enemy.
The torpedo was supposed to float when it
was through running. but instead of doing
SO it went to the bottom. Though the
Holland people offered a reward for the
recovery of the missile of war, 1t had not
been found up to within the last day or
two. 1t was unloaded; so there is no dan
ger should it come to the surface and be
struck by passing vessel
Receipts Recorded.
The receipts of fish at the fish wharf
since yesterday were about 1900 shad and
10000 herring. Shad sold at from SO to
s12 per hundred for roes, and from s5 to Sc
for bucks. Prices for herring remain about
the same yeSterday-from 81 to 81 so per
thousand The demand for fish today was
light.
At the Alexandria fish wharf the receipts
We're 100000 herring and 100 shad Prices
are about the same as this city
The schooner LOttie L. Thomas Capt
Gibson, is the only arrival on the oyster
wharf. She has a cargo of 800 bushels of
oysters.
After an absence of several days ducks
are again plentiful on the river between
this port and Alexandria. Yesterday even
ing several large f1ocks. numbering two hun
nj fn h
OF Four Mile run and about Daingerfeld's
Island. their favorite feeding grounds
The deepening of the Potomac, under the
direction of the United States engineer
corps Is progressing rapidly. The powerful
dredge Pugh has been at work for several
weeks past on the lower end of the Mat
tawoman shoal bar, and is daily taking up
thousands of cubic yards4of sand and mud
and Will give an average depth of twenty
four feet over it. y
The barges C. F.. Pugh and F. Thomson.
with 654 tons of hard, goal, have, left, ,Phila-
deLphla in tow. for Stephenson & Bro.
The United States engineering corps are
now making soundings on the south end
or the flats Improvement near the Wash
ington channel and up the GEORGETOWN
channel in the neighborhood of the Long
bridge. -
The hulk of the old steamer Mary Wash
fngton. which for many years was one of
the favorte excursion boats out of Wash
ington. Is lying high and dry alongside the
slowly falling to pieces.
Movements of Small Craft.
The schooner John P. Robinson, which
Clark here yesterday, cleared from Alex
andria with a miscellaneous cargo for
points along the lower river
The schooner Aeolius which was renorted
ashore off Alexandria, has been foated and
is now at II. X. Fields dock discharg-
ing cargo of lumber
Ine nshermen hauling seine in Great
Hunting creek, below Alexandria, have
made number of big hauls Of shad and
herring within the past few days, one fish
erman taking over 1000 herring and over
a hundred shad in small piece Of net.
The tug Rosalie, with two scows loaded
with sand in tow, arrived up yesterday
evening for Louis Smoot.
The big schooner Young Bros. Is loading
ice from the kennebec river icehouses for
TINS city. The Young Bros. is a regular
trader to this port and is one of the largest
vessels coming here.
1t has been determined not to take the
steamer Harry Randall to Baltimore for
noier oVerhauling, but to have the work
done here.
The schooner Maggie Cline is on the ma
rine railway at Alexandria to have her bot
tom caulked and painted.
The lighthouse tender Jessamine Is lying
at Thos. r. Rieys wharf foot of street
The German-American Clubs steam yacht
May successfully underwent her annual in
spection this morning
The United States revenue cutter Win
dom has arrived in Baltimore from this
port
Personal Mention.
Mr.. John Callahan, manager of the Nor
folk and Washington line, has gone to Nor
folk on business for the line.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Newport News from Norfolk and Old Point
were Capt. Strong of the 4th Artillery and
Mrs Strong and Mr.. George Macintosh of
Norfolk.
Lieut.. e. c. Chaytori has been detached
from the command of the revenue cutter
Guthrie and assigned to the Smith. at New
Orleans; He will be relieved by Lieut.. John
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ANTI-CiGAKETTE WAR.
Meeting Held Last Night at the Y. NJ.