Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-01
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONERS CAUGHT INA GALE OF
GREAT SEVERITY.
One Runs Before trfor a Day Under
Bare POIes-Genera1
News.

|
ney and George L. Prebham arrived We'd
nesday night in tow of the tugs Camilla
| and James o. Carter. with eargoes of ice.
| The log book of the Prebham shows that
she sailed from Bath May 81. On the oath
| she ran into a heavy east-northeast gale
| and had to run before it under bare poles.
| The gale continued the 25th and 18th and
| was SO severe that the vessel hove too
| and lay for forty-eight hours. with the
| seas breaking over her decks almost con-
stantly, flooding the galley and putting out
the cooks fire. During the gale the big
mizzen sail was blown away. No other
| damage was done the vessel
The Phinney also struck the same gale;
| but at less severe stage She sailed
| from Bath, Me, May 20, and was eleven
days on the trip.
The steam yacht Susquehanna of New
| York arrived in port on a pleasure cruise
| Wednesday evening. She is owned by Mr..
| Frank Smithers, and is one of the hand
soonest vessels that have recently visited
| Washington. She is 1873 feet long, % feet
beam and draws 1112 feet of water Her
tonnage is 2;3 net and 116 gross tons. Her
| hull is black. contrasting with the bright
| brasswork and mahogany color of her
house and upper works. Inside she is
| fitted up in magnificent style and has
every comfort and convenience. She has
aboard as passengers Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Smithers. Mr. John Carr and wife. Miss
The Susquehanna will remain in pert until
late this evening or tomorrow morning.
improvements Under Contract.
Mr.. John Callahan, general manager of
the Norfolk AMI Washington line of steam
ers, was recently in Baltimore, and made
the final arrangements with the Sparrow
! Point shipyard to put the new hurricane
deck saloons and state rooms on the steam
ers Washington and Norfolk. Both steam
ers also to receive new boilers and to
| have other work done in the way of inn
provements. The steamers will be taken
to Baltimore, one at a time, the first one
going within the coming week. Both steam
ers will be ready for service again by the
middle of July.
The receipts at the fish wharf since yes
terday have been 1000 herring. 151 shad
and about seventy barrels of trout The
shad are mainly from the trap nets along
the river and the herring from Pullen's
shore, not far from Mt. Vernon. They were
brought up in the sloop Beivedere and
small nancy. The shad this morning sold
at from % to % cents each; the herring
brought 30 cents per hundred, and the trout
| from $3.50 to s. per barrel. Fish are now
bringing good prices. and the limited sup
ply will keep the figures up.
The second of the six big scows being
built at the Alexandria shipyard for Mr..
John B. Lord of this city is now rapidly
approaching completion. 1t will be launch
ed next week.
boatyard in Alexandria for Mr.. VIM. Violet.
Messrs. Robert Evans. John Sutton and
others are building at Deans shipyard in
Alexandria a large houseboat for fishing
| and dLcking purposes along the river
The bottom tin.bers for large scow for
the National Sand Dredging Company were
this morning laid at George Cumberland's
boat yard.
General Notes.
The entrance to the James Creek canal is
still blocked up by Mr.. Lords sunken scow.
1t is said he has been notified by the har-
bormaster to have it removed at once. YES
sells can only get in and out of the canal
at very high water, and then only when
they are of light draft. Several Wood-laden
boats and sand scows lying in the
Eastern branch waiting for the obstruction
to be removed from the mouth of the canal.
1t is understood that the scow will be
| raised this evening
A party of 125 young ladies from the
Cumberland Valley State Normal School
went to Mt. Vernon this afternoon on the
steamer Charles Manchester. The young
ladies, escorted by the teachers of the in
stitution, will spend several days in the
city seeing the points of interest
Capt. Ernest Harper of the pungy Frank
lin this morning reported to Harbormaster
sutton that some one unknown stole his
yawlboat last night from T. r. Riley's
wharf, foot of N street.
Freight Craft With Cargoes.
The schooner NJ. f. Burton from Nor
folk with 100000 feet of lumber and the
schooner Murray Nandiver from Peters
burg with 100000 feet, have arrived for
| johnson & Wimsatt.
The tugboats Peri and Five Sisters the
schooner Cooper and the PUNCHES Miami
and Pert have arrived with about 200 cords
OF pine wood for Carter & Clark.