Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-23
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
FIVE BELATED EHKINERS MISS AN
EXCURSION BOAT.
But They Attend the Shad Dinner,
Excursion-FeraOnal Items.

Just as the steamer Samuel J. Pentz's
lines were cast off yesterday evening and
she was backing out from the wharf with
the Mystic Shriners and their ladies aboard,
bound for River View and the planked shad
dinner, five belated Shrthers.= three of whom
were members of Almas Temple of this
city, came running out on the wharf, but
1t was too late for the boat to return for
them. They We're extremely anxious to get
to River View, and all sorts OF expedientS
we're proposed, but nothing feasible was
thought of until, with the assistance OF
Commodore Sutton. harbor master, the
services of the tug NJ. NJ. Davis were Sc
cured. The Shriners were landed at the
View amid the cheers of their comrades, IN
good time for the feast
The officers of the ice vessels now arrlV-
Ing in port report having experienced on
this trip from the Kennebec to the capes
of the Chesapeake continuation OF pal-
fling Southerly winds and heavy head seas
from the south, that kept them on one tack
or the other throughout the entire voyage.
The log book of the schooner Dayhgnl
shows that in the twelve days she was
making the trip she had only 1our hours
of favorable winds. She also encountered
a heavy squall just before she came INTO
the capes. and had to heaVe TO anu rue
out the gale. which lasted several hours.
The yacht Josephine took a large party
Of ladies and their escorts down the river
as far as Marshall Hall yesterday evening.
DR.. Gallaudet of the Kendall Green Coz
lege will give the pupils of his scnool tneIr
annual outing on the steamer Samuei >.
Pentz next Saturday. The trip Will re maze
as far Indian Head. The party Will stop
at River View on its return
The steam launch Americas. belonging 10
Mr.. T. ]. King of the Capital Yacht Clup.
is on the ways at Benne.'s ship yard to be
caulked and otherwise repaired.
The tug Baby. belonging to the toium-
Cap nradfyipp ComnanV OF this CITY,
has had her engines lined up ana some re-
pair work done at Moore's shop IN Alex
andria. While in the shop the tug u. NJ
Key towed for the company
The steam yacht Gretchen Is being re-
painted and decorated.
Two large sand scows for Mr.. ]. B. Lord
of this city have been launched at the
Alexandria ship yard during the past ten
days. Four more scows remain to be built
for the same order.
Coming In and Going Out.
The longboat Harry and Charley, Capt.
May with cordwood for Carter & Clark,
arrived this morning.
The Norfolk boat this morning had
cargo of over 1000 crates of garden vege-
tables for the local market.
The big four-masted schooner 1ndepend-
emit loaded with ice. in tow of the tug Peer
less, passed in the capes yesterday evening
from Bath Me, for this city.
The schooner City of Augusta cleared
coal to a Maine port at 90 cents per ton.
The schooner Maggie s. Hart has been
chartered to load steel rails from Baltimore
to Sidney. c. B.. at private terms. The
Hart sailed for Baltimore from this port
yesterday evening.
The pungy Highland Light loaded with
cordwood for James Greek canal, went
ashore at high water yesterday evening on
the flats in the Eastern branch. just off
Buzzard Point. She was still high and dry
this morning. but with good tide this
evening may float. About two weeks ago.
it is stated, this pungy went ashore near
where she now is and remained there for
two or three days.
The schooner Ostrich. which went ashore
off River View Monday, was pulled off by
the tug NJ. NJ. Davis yesterday evening
There have been received at the fish wharf
in the past twentyfour hours 800 Shad and
1o0 barrels of trout and salt water fish.
The shad sold at 81 per hundred for bucks
and SIS for roes. The trout and salt water
fish brought 81 to 50 per barrel. No herring
have been received at the wharf since yes
terday.
Personal Menti0n.
Mr. Alexander Beal will have charge of
the purser's office on the steamer North
cumberland during the summer. Mr. Joseph
Cough will be assistant purser and mail
agent aboard the same vessel.
Captain Ar Richards, first officer of the
steamer Harry Randall. will be the COM
mander of the steamer Kent.
Mr. Joseph Nash. engineer of the War
Departments launch, the Pleasanton. who
has been confined to his home by illness
for several days. has recovered and again
taken charge of his boat
Mr. Will Jones. purser of the Weems line
steamer Sue. has been transferred to the
steamer Potomac of the same line.
Captain James Beach, one of the oldest
and best-knoWn steamboat men on the Po-
tomac. is lying critically i'll at his home in
Alexandria. Captain Beach is the owner
of the tug Eva Belle Cain.