Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-29
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
PLANS UNDER wAYyFOR NUMBER OF
IMPROVEMENTS.
Buildings to Be Constructed at Mill
tary Posts -GonzaEa Cadets
at River View.

Plans are now being" prepared for extern
stve improvements at the heavy artillery
stations on the river near Mt. Vernon, Fort
Washington. Nd, and Fort Hunt Va At
the last named post an administration
building, quarters for the non-commission-
ed officers, company barracks, large
stables and other smaller buildings are to
be erected and there is to be built at Fort
Washington quarters for six commissioned
officers. barracks for the men, stables. etc.
The work of erecting these buildings will
be begun early in June and they are to be
ready for occupancy by the latter part OF
August or the early part of september
The Gonzaga College Cadets had their
annual excursion to River View today and
accompanied them. The cadet band and
the battalion went down on the morning
boat, and this afternoon the annual COM
petitive drill will take place.
Mr.. Tavenner foreman of the District
garbage scows, reports that some one last
night went aboard one of the scows lying
in the forks of the channel and stole a
large canvas awning.
The big three-masted schooner o. d.
Wetherell, with a cargo of ice, arrived IN
Georgetown in tow Of the tug M. M. Davis
last night
Since yesterday but 200 shad and thirty
barrels of salt water trout have been re-
ceved by the local fish dealers. The shad
sold at from 80 to SIS per hundred and the
trout at $3.50 to s. per barrel. Under the
fish law no Shad can be offered Tor sale
after the 10th of June.
The handsome steam launch Jennie Irene
has been chartered by Mr.. A. p. Barber
to take a party Of children to the Great
The sailing yacht Bessie, belonging. to
Mr.. c. II. Brown. has been fitted with a
new iron centerboard and new suit OF
sails by the boat exchange, and was out on
trial trip yesterday evening.
The repaiTS to the boiler of the war De-
partment launch Pieasanton have been COM
pleted and she is again ready for service.
Trot Lines Prohibited.
Trot lines or lines with series of hooks
on them cannot hereafter be used in fish
ing In the Potomac river, and Harbormaster
Sutton has so notified the fishermen For
some time it has been the custom of the
fishermen to set trot lines in the Eastern
branch and the flats, and as the lines
have a hundred or more hooks on them
many fish are thus caught. Recently, how
ever, the matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the authorities and the harbor ponce
will see that the regulation is obeyed.
The schooner VIM. James. Capt. clark,
has sailed from Chester, Pa, bound Tor
this port, with a cargo Of plaster for the
Keystone Plaster Company.
The steamer Tull sailed yesterday evening
with a miscellaneous cargo for points on
Occoquan bay and creek.
The steam launch Buena Vista has had
her name changed to the j. S. Douglas by
her owner. Mr.. Smoot of Alexandria.
Banks scow, which was adrift on the
river Saturday and Sunday, was taken In
tow by a tug yesterday and brought back
to Banks wharf. foot of 18th street.
The new steam launch leila. in charge of
Capt. DeNaughn, arrived yesterday even
irg The lola is about thirty feet long, six
feet beam, and will make about nine miles
an hour
The schooner Sullivan Sawn. which dis
charged a cargo of ice here last week, went
ashore on Sharps Island on her way from
Baltimore Saturday. but was floated by the
tug Sarah yesterday. The Sawin was unin-
jured.
The schooner Emma Burton has sailed
from Norfolk for Johnson & Wimsatt, at
this port with cargo of lumber
The schooner ]. D. Bell. with a cargo OF
wood for Carter & Clark. has arrived.
Mr.. Frank Boswell of the firm of Boswell
& Co. boilermakers, is suffering from a
large abscess on one of his hands.
MIR. Robert Richardson has severed his
connection with the keystone Plaster Com
pany, and has gone 10 Virginia to spend
the summer