Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-01
ON THE RIVER FRONT
WARM WEATHER MAKES TRAVEL
HEAVY ON POTOMAC.
Good Grain Crop Along Lower Potomac
Rebuilding Glymont Wharf
Matters About Harbor.

Travel from this city to the resorts on the
lower Potomac has been exceptionally
heavy during the past three or four days.
heavier than 1t has been for several years,
1t is said. Saturday afternoon the steamer
Anne Arundel of the Weems line left here
filled with passengers going to points In
lower Maryland and the Coan and Wicom-
leo rivers, in Virginia. With her flags fly
Ing she left the wharf and stopped for q
few minutes of the arsenal while pho
tograph was made of her. The Colonial
Beach steamers Saturday night and Sunday
morning were we'll filled, and the river
steamers are carrying away full compile
ments of passengers on each trip. A con-
tinuation of this travel down the river is
expected for about two weeks; then the
tide will turn homeward and will be heavy
until the middle of September.
The u. S. dispatch boat Dolphin is lying
at her berth at the navy yard here having
returned from a cruise Saturday evening.
The u. s. naval yacht Oneida, one of the
practice ships of the Naval Battalion,
d. c. N. G., left port Saturday afternoon
on trip.
Reports coming from Westmoreland and
other counties in the northern neck of Vir-
ginia state that the wheat crop In that sec
ton has been the best In many years. Inc
oats yield has also been exceptionally good
and the outlook for the corn crop Is more
than promising. The peach and apple
yield will not be large, but the crop, from
the pear trees will be exceptionally so.
Tomatoes will also be plentiful, and the
picking of the fruit for the canning houses
will be started within the next ten days.
No Change in Market Conditions.
There was no material change In the
conditions in the wholesale fish market
on the 18th street wharf this morning.
The receipts of salt water fish from the
fisheries in the vicinity of Norfolk are
fair. and there is good demand. Hard
crabs are plentiful. and are selling at
about SIPS to 1928 per barrel. There is
a fair demand for them. Since Saturday
six or eight vessels with several thousand
watermelonS aboard have arrived at the
oyster wharf. and this morning business
was quite brisk at the wharf. The bulk
of the melons now sale are coming
from the eastern shore of Virginia, and
are excellent stock. The demand for
them is fair and prices are not high.
The freight wharf at GlymOnt Md,
has been rebuilt from the waters edge
up during the summer, and the workmen
are engaged in filling in the cut, which
forms the pier head with sand and gravel,
in order to bring 1t to level with the re-
mainder of the structure. Glymont is
one of the more important wharves on
the river, and all the steamers plying on
the Potomac stop there both going and
returning.
fert, which for many years piled on the
Potomac between this city and points or
the river, is lying near the Alexandria
shlpyard slowing going to pieces under
years ago there was perhaps no better
known craft on the river than the Pert
put she disappeared and but few of those
VINO were familiar with her knew what
had been her fate.
The tug Edith Goddard Winship, owned
by the Consolidation Coal Company. and
used In towing coal-laden barges about the
harbor. is lying at the wharf adjoining the
Dlstrlct morgue, having her boiler over
hauled.
The steam launch Cygnus is hauled out
on the marine railway at Reagan's boat
yard to have her hull given thorough
Cygnus, it is stated. has been chartered by
the officials at Fort Washington and will
be used as dispatch boat between Fort
washington and Fort Hunt. She is owned
by Mr.. August Forsberg of this city.
The steamer Samuel J. Pentz was put out
of commission yesterday afternoon by some
minor trouble with her engine and the
steamer Wakefield had to be called into
service to make her trips to River View.
The schoOners Zephyr, Farmers Friend
and Oakland have arrived in port with car
goes of cord wood from the lower Potomac
for dealers.
The Joe Allen, Inez and E. NJ. Klnefelter
were among the vessels laden with water
melons that came into port yesterday and
last night.
The barge Carolina is lying at Alexandra,
a cargo of ice from the Sus-
quehanna river. The ice will be used in
refrigeratng fruit-laden cars from the
south bound to northern markets.
The schooner ]. E. A. Cunningham is dis
charging cargo of lumber at Hammond's
wharf Alexandria.
The three-masted schooner Pendleton's
which brought cargo or
stone here for the new highway bridge, Is
at anchor near the site of the bridge and
Is unloading her cargo upon lighters.