Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-04
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
CONTRACT FOR THE BUILDING OF
SIX SAND sCOwS
Old Inland Wharf Being RebuiIt-Re-
pairs TO Police Boat-Per-
sOnal Mention

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The Alexandra Marine Railway and
| Sh!pbuildtng Company has a contract to
| build six large sand .cows for Mr. John b.
i Lord of this city. They are each 10 be
| 10 feet long. Il feet wide and are to have a
| depth Of five feet. The bottom iimbers
| for the first of the scows are already in
position, and as the order is a hurry one
the work on it will be pushed The entire
| heet will be completed and turned over to
Mr. Lord by the middle of August The
| scows will be used to transport building
| sand from the down-river digging grounds
/ to Washington
contractor Banks has nearly completed
| the rebuilding of the old Inland wharf at
the foot of 9TH street for the government
| me work being done now is only tenn
porary. as 1t is understood the plans of the
engineer corps officers call for very elab-
| crate structure when the general improve
| heht OF the river front takes place The
| outer end of the old wharf has been cut on
! ABOUT twenty feet and rebuilt new piles
nave been driven and IL has been made a r.
SNAPPED structure. with the broad enn OUT
| mo the stream. giving a good berth for
| not more than two vessels. Before II can
| be used, however. considerable dredging
| VIII have TO be done, as the strai rhtentnsr
| of the wharf has made the water in front
| of 1t very shoal
| When the harhor DO ice boat yiu;I.,, ,,-,
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! placed on the ways at Benefits ward Tines
DAY II was found that her rudder stock WINS
| IN worse condition than It was thought to
be- So badly is 1t split on both sides mo-
| an entire new rudder will have TO he bufIt
| and put I'm place before the boat can 20 into
| service again. This will take three or four
| uays- IL is thought by the harbor officials
that the damage to the rudder was don.
while the boat was backing in the ic,. la ST
winter.
Falling on in Receipts.
| There has been great falling off in the
arrivals OF shad and herring at the fsfr
wharf in the past few days. and as a con-
sequence prices continue high The deal
| ers all say they Will go higher Since yes
terday but 10000 herring and only boo shs
| Pave Pave, been received Herring today are
selling at = per thousand. and roe shad a;
| sl6 to SIS per hundred, and buck shad nj
$50 to 81 per hundred.
The receipts at the Alexandria fish wharf
were $1,000 herring and 600 shad. Herring
sold at the same prices as at this market
| but shad were lower bringing only IS to
ST. per hundred.
No oyster-laden vessels have arrived at
the wharf for several days The canoe
Madcap with 19Op and a bugeye with
1000 CLAIMS are the only arrivals at the
oyster wharf since Tuesday
Inc body of Robert Rustin, colored who
was drowned by the sinking of the bugeye
Hiawatha on Friday last was recovered
near Mt Vernon. Mrs. Julia Dublin, nj.
aunt, living at 1913 street southeast, was
notified of the finding of the body.
Coming and Going of Vessels.
The tug NJ. NJ Davis left Wednesday
| night for the lower river to look for the Ice
laden schooner Young Bros. reported in the
mouth of the river bound for Georgetown.
The schooner Agnes. Capt March. and
the longboat Father and Son, Capt Ken.
drick. both loaded with cord wood for Car
ter & Clark, have finished cargo dischars-
ing and cleared for the lower river.
The schooner VIM. H. Skinner. Capt Har-
from jacksonville, Fla, for johnson q
Wimsatt, arrived up last night in tow OF
the tug NJ. NJ. Davis.
The steamer E. Jas. Tull, Capt. Selecmsn.
and the schooner Garrett, Capt. Whitmore.
both loaded with lumber for johnson a.
Wimsaft. are also in port
The steamer Lily and Howard. Capt Sis
son. cleared from Alexandria yesterday
evening, with a heavy cargo of miscella-
neous freight for merchants on Aqua
creek.
The schooner Alice Carlyle has completed
the discharging Of her cargo of lumber,
and has sailed for the Rappahannock to re-
load.
The schooner Ellen Matilda is at the
American Ice Company's wharf dischargins
a cargo of silver sand from Tangier sound
for Mr.. Frank Evans.
The schooner Addic, Capt. Jones. has ar
rived with pine wood for W. W. Riley
1Lc SCIOol1ST Emblem, Russell,
came into port last night with cargo Of
shingles for Frank Libbey q Co.
H. L. Biscoe yesterday evening received
the pungtes Quick Time. Capt Rowley. and
P Smith, Capt. Bryan, both from Pope's
creek, with cargoes Of lumber.
Dougherty's seagoing tug, the James ].
Brady, passed down the river Wednesday
evening with tow Of four light coal barges
bound for Philadelphia
Several cargoes of broken stone for the
riprap work about the Point Lookout light
house have been shipped from Georgetown
recently.
Repair WOrk-Personal Mention.
The schooner Lavinia Campbell is Oh the
Kennebec river, loading a cargo OF ice for
this port.
The revenue cutter Window has sailed
from Baltimore on a cruise on bay and
river far this city.
The heavy northwest wind Of yesterday
will greatly delay the arrival Of vessels at
this port, and the low tides will give cord
wood running vessels much trouble to get
into shore to load.
The schooners ]. P. Robinson and Mary
Francis have cleared from Carter & Clark's
for the lower river to reload.
Vessels arriving up from the lower river
report a heavy fog yesterday, lasting for
several hours During the fog the Weeus
line steamer Potomac went ashore on the
flats below Sheridan's Point wharf and was
aground from about midnight until day
break She was pulled of without damage
by the Norfolk steamer Newport News.
Mr. C. F. Sensner of the custom house
has requested Harbormaster Sutton to look
out for sloop, the Lennie, which was
stolen from Annapolis about month ago.
Commodore Sutton has instructed his Off
GERS to keep a lookout for the missing
craft.
The War Departments steam launch
Pleasanton went out of commission this
morning for about ten days, in order to be
put in order for the summer. Her engines
and boilers will be overhauled by Frosburg
& Murray, and Monday she will be hauled
out for painting at Benefits ship yard.
Capt. Samuel English has sold the little
side-wheel steamer Harry Loder of Alex
andria to Mr.. r. Lee Manning Of Farming
ton, Md. The consideration Ia not named.
The Loder's new owner wiz give her
thorough overhauling, and she will continue
or her tri-weeily route between Alexandria,