Evening star., 1900-07-07
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMER ARROWsMITH STARTS ON
SINNER SCHEDULE.
Schooner Gets Aground Near Shep-
herds POint-The Passing Craft
Personal Mention.

| The steamer T. v. Arrowsmith of the
Washington Steamboat Company started on
| her regular summer route this morning.
Under her new schedule she will leave her
| wharf here every Monday and Wednesday
| at pm. and Alexandria at pm. for CO.
| lonial Beach, Colton's, Piney Point, St
| Georges Island Miler's. Coan, Barnes,
| Bundick's, Cowart's, Walnut Point, Lewis
eta. Lodge. Mundy's Point and Kinsale.
Returning. she will leave Kinsale at II
am. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. touching
| at most of the above landings, and arriv-
| ing in Washington during the night
| Saturdays she will leave here at 9 pm.
and will stop only at Colonial Beach. Col
tons. Piney Point. St. Georges Island, and
Smiths Creek (Miller's). Returning, she
will leave Mil.ers wharf Sundays and.
touching at the above landings, will arrive
in Washington about 10 pm.
The steamer Wakefield of the same line
drops all the landings in the mouth of the
river and makes Nomini her terminus. She
will sail from this city at am. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The two-maSted schooner Mab1e, which
left this port about o'clock yesterday
evening light. went ashore on the flats a
short distance above Shepherds landing of
the Baltimore and Ohia railway about 5
o'clock She stuck hard and fast. and all
efforts to get her off We're Intellectual until
the rising tide foated her during the night.
Smoots tug Rosaie with a sand barge
in tow. a.so got ashore yesterday evening
at the mouth of the James Creek canal,
in the Eastern branch. She remained
ashore until the tug Edith Goddard Win
ship got line to her and pulled her off.
The sand scow was also got off at high
water.
Wheat in large quaEtitic: is being brought
up hy The down-rivcr steamers on every
trip. and the prospects are the run of the
gram Will continue for some time unless
there is sudden and decided fall in price.
Yesterday morning fhF -, WulS fol
h;;d in her cargo over 900 bags about
lN" bushels of wheat, from out of Coan
ard 1e"cGmico rivers. for the Alexandria
mt rchant= and yesterday afternoon two
small schonucrs. both wheat laden also ar
rived at Alexandria. Considerable grain
was also brought to this port for the
GEORGETOWN merchants. Most of this wheat
is of The 1901 crop.
Vessels With CnreOes.
The three-masted schooner Gilkey. with a
cargo of loo tons of ice from Rockport,
Ne, for the Purity Ice Company, arrived
this morning and dOcked in George
town. This is the second ice-laden vessel
to arrive in port this season not consigned
to the American Ice Company.
The schooner E. p. Evans, a wel-known
trader 10 this port, has been scid by Mr.. j.
7. Russell of St. Mary's county Nd to
Samuel w. Russell of this city. She is of
thlrty-six tons gross and thirty-fOur tons
net The papers transferring the vessel
from the Annapolis district to this district
Were received at the custom house today.
The steamer Lily and Howard, after COM
pleting the discharge of her cargo of wood
al Carter & Clark's. will sail this evening
for lower river points
The steamer Potomac of the Weems line
arrived from Baltimore this morning with
heavy miscellaneous cargo and large
passenger list.
The schooner Winnie Lowry is ilischarg-
ing her cargo of laths from ST. Johns at the
bs e r.fT
branch.
The schooner United has completed the
discharging of her cargo of white sand and
VIII clear light for the lower river TO re-
load.
The steamer E. James Full, with a cargo
of Virginia pine lumber. is at T. w. Riley
wharf. foot of \ street, unloading.
The schooner VIM. Oliver. with cargo of
white sand. passed up the river for George
town yesterday evening.
The Santa Barbara, the United States en-
gineer corps launch. used by the engineers
in charge of the Mattawoman flats i'm
provements, was in port for a short while
yesterday.
The steamer Harry Randall, with a cargo
of country produce, etc. for the local mer-
chants, from the lower river arrived yes
terday evening.
The steamer Dennis Simmins. with a
cargo of lumber from Edenton. N. c., for
johnson Wimsatt, arrived this morning.
The schooner Grace Watson. Captain
Massey. is in port with about 10000 feet Of
lumber for Galiher & Bro.
The schooner Leonard, with a cargo of
cord wood for w. w. Riley, Is in port
The schooner Jones has arrived with cord
wood for Garter & Clark.
The schooner General Merwin with a
cargo of ice for the American Ice Com
pany, was brought up by the tug ]. F.
Brady of Baltimore, and docked at the 10th
street wharf this morning.
The Fish Wharf
The receipts at the fish wharf this morn
Ing We're % barrels, all told. from the Nor
folk and down river steamers. Prices re-
main low that the merchants say the
fish hardly pay for the handling. This
morning trout brought 81 per barrel: tayEors
80 to 81 per barrel. and mackerel, which
Usually bring Il cents per pound, sold for
> cents. Hard crabs We're scarce and in
demand. but II barrels arriving on the
river beats. This morning they sold at 81
for -four barrel to 1IJ for a sugar barrel
In about two weeks the fishermen will be
getting their nets overheard in the Potomac
and perch, rock and other river fish will be
in the market.
Mr.. S B. Greenlaw a well-known steam
beat man, has been appointed purser of the
Randall Line steamer Kent.
Mr. Ct X. Johansen, agent of the Wash
!ngton Steamboat Company, is still confined
to his home by illness.
A fine horse belonging to Mr.. Thos. w.
Riley fell dead from the effects of the in
tense heat at the wharf foot of 11th street
yesterday evening.
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Large crowds continue to go daily to
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