Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-17
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
ROCK FISH BITING FREELY ALONG
THE RIVHFLATS WALL.
Movements of Vessels That Are on the
Stream fOBsPleasure and
Rsl0ness.

Mr.. A. o. Bliss has changed the name Of
his large naphtha dgas launch from the
Adrott to the Crawling. The launch is now
cruising about the lower river resorts with
her owner and a1large party of his friends
on board. She was at last reports at Co.
lonial Beach, and yesterday morning uhler
q Co. shipped twelve-foot yawl boat to
Colonial Beach to be used tender for
the launch
The new boat being built for the Gray
ling by Uhler & Co. will be ready for ship
ment in a short time The Grayling is the
largest and most comfortable of the large
fleet of launches on the Potomac.
The schooner F. & T. Lupton, from this
port, has arrived in Baltimore to load coal.
The schooner St L. Peckham, which has
been looked for at Alexandria for some
days past with a cargo of ice from the
Penobscot river, arrived at Alexandria yes
terday evening. She sailed from Bangor
on July =. This is the first ice-laden vessel
to reach Alexandria this season. She is
dlscharg1ng at the wharf of the Mutual Ice
Company.
The schooner Estelle Finney with cargo
OF ice for the American Ice Company, sailed
from Bath in the early part of last week
and is looked for at the 10th street wharf
either on Thursday or Friday next.
The schooner Ella Treadwell, with
Faunces crew of summer seine fishermen
on board, and the pungy ]. d. Faunce sail
ed for the fishing grounds on Saturday
evening. The nets will be put overheard
whenever the outlook for good fishing
is favorable. In the course of a few days
Potomac river fish will again be upon the
market.
The tug Engineer has been rebuilt, after
being burned to the waters edge, while
lying in the Eastern branch about three or
tour months ago, and will again go into
commission this afternoon or tomorrow
Thn t,,rr ,i,l, boil NT,~
Richards, is now practically a new vessel,
and will be used largely for conveying
sand.
The barge George B. Roberts, with
cargo of hard coal for Johnson Bros,
rived yesterday.
The tug Stella of Baltimore sailed today
with large tow of light coal barges for
Philadelphia to reload.
The schooner Murray Vandiver, having
on board 100000 feet of pine lumber from
Malkerton, Va, and the steamer Dennis
Simmons, with a cargo of 100000 shingles
from Edenton, n. c., for Johnson & VIM
satt. are both in port.
The schooner Grace Watson has cleared
light for the Rappahannock to reload
lumber.
The steamer Wakefield of the Washing
ton Steamboat Company. arrived from the
lower river yesterday evening with a heavy
cargo of boxes of fruit, vegetables, grain
etc. for the local dealers.
The lumber-laden schooner J. 7. Fergu-
son, which has been ashore at Alexandria
for some days past, was pulled off by the
tug Minerva Saturday evening and locked
at H. X. Fields wharf
The ice-aden schooner Young Brothers
which is discharging her cargo at the East
ern branch wharf came in the capes at
night and her officers failed to note the
spars of the Sunken vessel, showing above
the water off the whistling buoy near Cape
Henry.
Capt f. s. Randall, manager of the Ran
dali line and of River View. is now rapidly
N u npy q rl,a,
govt.
Adjutant General Corbin, with party
OF friends. was out in the launch Pleasan-
ing.
The schooner Young Brothers. after dis
charging her between-deck load of ice at
the 10Th street wharf, has been taken to
the Eastern branch ice wharf to complete
the dischargeinE of her cargo