Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-10
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
BUOY TENDER MAPLE LEAVES FOR
POINT LOOKOUT.
FreightinG Business Carried On in
small Sailing yessels--G;eneral
and Personal News.

The buoy tender Maple mas nniSheu ner
work in the river. and this morning sailed
for the station at Point Lookout. where she
will land the fifty or more cd buoys she has
collected Those which can be used again
will be trimmed up reprinted and made
ready for service once more. While the
Maple was working in the Eastern branch
yesterday evening she went ashore on the
mud flats just south Of the arsenal. The
combined power of her large engines sue
ceeded il: pulling her off without damage
after fifteen or twenty minutes work The
channel at the point where the Maple went
ashore is very narrow, and several vessels
have grounded on it recently
The freightng business on the Potomac
river in small sailing vessels is becoming
very heavy Hardly day passes but sew
eral such vessels laden with groceries and
with lumber bricks and other building ma
terial sail from Washington and Alexandra
for points on the creeks einptying into the
Potomac river. Tuesday the schooner J. L.
Wright, Capt. Kintz, cleared with such a
cargo for Montross from Alexandria. and
yesterday the j. R. Dixon sailed Each was
laden with goods enough to stock a store
As far as can be asCertained this business
has not been taken away from the steam
boats, but is for points to which steamboats,
cannot go. owing TO shallow water.
The Randall line steamer Harry Randall
this morning resumed her place upon the
NOI1ini route. after a lay-np OF over Two
weeks for thorough repairs to boiler and
machinery and for repainting. Capt. Jas
F. Barker is in command of her with ''Af'
Richards first officer: William Coleman.
quartermaster; Arthur Barker, deck mate.
and George Greason. steward. Mr.. Charles
kersey is in charge Of the engine room,
with Nicholas Keys as his assistant. The
steamer Kent. which has been running on
the route. is to be laid up and prepared for
the summer excursion business.
But Few Shad in Market
So few shad are being received here from
the lower river that they have to be
brought by rail from Philadelphia and New
York. The receipts of shad by the fish mon
on the wharf in the past twenty-four hours
have been about 1000. of which only 500
were from down the river Shad today
sold at s14 to s15 per 100 for roe and 81 to
s. per 200 for bucks. Since yesterday about
5000 herring have been received and were
sold at S.75 to 81 per 1000. The receipts
at the Alexandria wharf were light and
prices the same as in the local market.
For the first time in two months not
vessel was lying at the Washington fish
wharf yesterday evening, and but few
persons We're to be seen about it.
The snag puller belonging to the L. S.
engineer corps. which was recently repaired
at Alexandria, was yesterday brought up
between sth and 9th streets southwest
The big houseboat of the National Capt.
tai Yacht Club. which during each summer
lies out IN the stream at the foot Of 10th
street southwest, is at George T. Cumber-
lands repair yard, to be hauled over,
calked. repaiuted and otherwise put in or
der for the season. The boat is one of the
largest of its kind on the river and through
out the boating season is used as the head
quarters for the boats of the club. 1t is
expected she will be ready for service in
about ten days
The steamer Newport News has been
temporarily withdrawn from the route be-
tween this city and Norfolk, the steamer
Washington taking her place. After the
boilers Of the News are cleaned and some
work done to her she Will resume her place
upon the route.
The handsome little steam yacht Crotch
en-. after having her bottom scraped and
painted. was launched at the Alexandria
shipyard yesterday
Vessels Coming and Going
The Baltimore tug Sarah. having in tow
the schooner Bertha Dean. with a cargo of
1,290 tons of ice. arrived up yesterday
evening. The Dean was locked at the
American Ice Company's wharf in George
town. and will discharge cargo there.
The schooner Charles \. Joyce. Captain
Nhaley. with a cargo of yellow pine for
Libby & Co, arrived UP yesterday evening.
and is at W. W. Riley's wharf discharging
cargo
The schooner Young Brothers, in tow of
Taylor's tug Camilla, passed down the river
x.
load coal to eastern ports.
The schooner E. P. Evans. Captain Rus
sell, cleared light for the lower river yes
terday evening to reload for this port.
The steamer Dennis Simmons has COM
pieted the discharging Of her cargo. and
will sail this evening for Edenton. n. c.,
to load back to Alexandria
The schooner Maid OF the Mist, CAPTAIN
Eminizee. with a cargo of 10000 shingles
and 30,uO feet of lumber. from Newbern,
n C.. for johnson & Wimsatt. arrived up
Captain Selecman. with 5000 feet of lum-
Der, from Aqua creek. is also in port for
Johnson & Wimsatt
The steamer Ocyoquan. consigned to Car
ter S-Clark. arrived in port yesterday even
ing with pilng for the Norfolk and Wash
iugton steamboat wharf at Alexandria and
for z. 5. Randall
The Silver Star. Captain Taylor, has ar
rived with cargo of cord wood for Carter
& Clark and 800 bales Of straw for Cock
relI & Co.
The schooner American Patrol has been
sent 10 Georgetown by Carter & Clark to
discharge her cargo of cord wood.
The schooner Lavenia Campbell, which
sailed from the Kennebec river the I'd of
May. is expected to come in the capes at
any time.
Included in the cargo of the steamer
Harry Randall this morning were 100 sacks
of fertilizer from Baltimore, via the
steamer Potomac, for NoTnini and other
lower river points.
A little two-nasted bay schooner ran
ashore yesterday evening near Fort Foote
She succeeded in getting off at high water
last night
The schooner Emmett & Arthur. with a
cargo of building material cleared today for
the lower river.
The United States revenue cutter Window
left port yesterday evening for a cruise on
Chesapeake bay and to Baltimore.
Personal Mention.
Mr.. Stephen Gardella of the steamer Es-
telle Randall, who has been quite sick with
the grip, is recovering.
Capt W. H Robinson has succeeded Mr..
Charles Geoghegan as first officer of the
Weems line steamer Potomac.
Mr. George Cook has been transferred
from the steamer Kent to the steamer Es-
teile Randall first officer.
Mrs. F. L. Whitehead and children of Ar
lington. Va. sailed from Baltimore today
on the steamer Ely for Jamaica.
Thos- Carter, colored fireman of the
steamer Samuel j. Pentz. while at work on
her wheels this morning. was knocked over
board by a moving wheel and was painfully
injured about the back and limbs. The am
bulance took him to the Emergency Hospi-
tai for treatment