Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEWLY DRE1aEDlcHAnNEL FILL
ING UP RAPIDLY.
Preparing for cdn,uE Fishing Season
Machinery for Tug Ordered
Among Freight Craft.

The building Of the new wall along the
| harbor side Of the Washington barracks
park, and the filling in of the inclosed area
with earth taken from the bottom of the
harbor. narrowed the harbor about hun
dred feet at the widest part of the re-
claimed ground 1t, however, gave the YES
sells in the harbor a deep channel along the
barracks front. for a channel thirty feet
deep was dug by the dredge in order to
obtain material to fill the low ground in
the park. This channel is rapidly filling
up again with the wash from the earth
piled along the sea wall of the park. The
wall was built in water about four feet
deep, but now at ordinary low tides the
base OF the new wall and for ten or fifteen
feet outside 1t is bare in places that were
Formerly covered by water deep enough for
river SchOoners,
The crews that are to operate the seines
at the Ballinger fishing shores in the Po-
tomac were sent down from Alexandria
saturday, and active preparations for the
coming fishing season will be made. 1t is
expected the big seines will be dipped at
the Gums not later than April 1. An early
start or the fishing. season is looked for,
for good one.
Mr.. Angus Cameron, president of the Po-
tomac Dredging Company, which will enter
the SAND and gravel digging business on
X,
order for boiler and engine for a tugboat
with firm In Baltimore. The hull of the
new boat Is building at the ship yard of
M. M. Davis at Solomons Island, Nd and
VIII be launched within the next month.
General Port News.
The tug Resale left Alexandria Saturday
with sand-digging machine and several
scows In tow. belonging to the Smoot COM
pany, bound for point on the river near
Bryan's Point, where the digging of sand
will be started. In about ten days all the
sand digging machines on the river will be
in operation.
ton of an unusually large number of sum-
mer cottages at points on the river this
spring, and within the last three or four
days two vessels laden with lumber and
building material have sailed and others
are to follow. The river steamers are also
carrying down large quantities of brick,
lumber, doors, frames and the like on each
trip. Colonial Beach is just now the chief
point where the building is going on, but
much is being done at other places.
Cumberland & Son are building a large
gilling skiff at their boat house at the foot
or 9th street southwest for parties down
river. The boat will be used during the
coming spring in fishing operations on the
Potomac.
1t is stated that the spring schedule on the
Randall Line steamers will go into effect
ABOUT March TO- when the steamer Wake
field returns to her route on the Potomac as
far down as Maddox creek.
The pile driving machines owned here and
at Alexandra ara preparing to start down
the river with a.,,foree of wharf builders
aboard to rebuild the wharves along the
lower Potomac AS Stated, the wharves
with few exceptions have been damaged,
and two or three,s have been practically
wiped out by the ice that carried them away
piece by piece lfr9gS
The bark Essex, laden with lumber, which
was brought into port Saturday morning by
the tug Yerkes, will unload a part of her
cargo at GeorgeteWn and the remainder at
the 18th street wharf-1
The ]. T. Paris has arrived from the
lower river with a cargo of cord wood.
The bugeye Kathleen sailed yesterday
with cargo of bricks and building material
for point on the lower Potomac.
The schooner Sidouia Curley has been
berthed at the 10th street wharf of the
American Ice Company to unload her cargo
of lumber.