Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-26
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HARBOR DREDGE CREW LEAVE
FOR NEW FIELD OF WORK.
Schooner Brown Runs Ashore on Flats
Chartered After Long Delay
Personal and General.

drauiic dredge No 3 of the Atlantic. Gulf
and Pacific. Dredging Company. who have
been employed in deepening the water in
the river channels hereabouts for several
months past left day or two ago for
Philadelphia, where they will go aboard
another dredge of the A., G. and p. Com
pany, engaged in harbor work there. The
big dredge will not be taken away from this
city for the present, it is expected it will
be used in some further dredging work
about the harbor under the supervision of
the United States army engineers. Should
1t be necessary for the dredge to leave here
for other fields of labor the pontoons she
has been using to float the line of pipe
through which the liquid mud is pumped
ashore will not be taken away with her.
but WILL 1t is stated, be stored in the tidal
basin until the spring.
There was but a small supply of fresh fish
on sale at the wholesale fish market on the
18th street wharf this morning, while the
demand was unusually good. AS a conse-
quence prices are somewhat higher except
for rock, which are selling as low as I
cents per pound.
There was an ample supply of oysters on
sale at the wholesale oyster wharf this
morning, eight or ten vessels lying there
with oysters aboard. The demand was
fairly good at prices ranging from 80 cents
to I'D cents per bushel for small stock and
selected stock.
Clans are on sale, but the supply is small
Wild geese sold this morning at IS cents to
81 each.
The schooner S. l.. Bowen completed the
unloading of a cargo here yesterday after
noon and sailed for the lower Potomac. On
her way down the river the vessel made too
much of a tack to the eastward and went
ashore on the flats short distance below
the United States naval magazine There
she remained for two or three hours until
me tide came in, and her crew We're then
he int
The schooner Alice NJ Colbourn a fire.
quent visitor to this port, was one of the
vessels involved in the fight between vessel
owners and the shippers during the mast
summer. While the war was on all the
ports on the Atlantic coast were filled with
ldle schoonerS, whose owners would NOT
take cargoes at the rates offered. Although
the nsht was called off about a month ago
the Colbourn did not get a charter until a
days " '''
General and Personal Items.
The three-masted schooner Norman,
winch brought a cargo of laths here. has
been chartered to load railway ties at AL
eXandria for a New England port. pre-
sumably Boston. The Norman was yester-
day taken to the Alexandria ship yard and
berthed alongside the railway wharf there
to load directly from the cars as they come
IN from along the line of the Southern
railway.
The schooner Captain Green was locked
at Smoots wharf at Alexandria Yesterday
ana at onca began the unloading of her
cargo of fertilizer material for the Alex
andria Chemical Company
Both Capt j. d. Hart of the steamer
River Queen and Capt. Thomas A Owens
or the steam barge D. X. Jackson have re-
ceiVed letters from the steamboat inspec-
tors notifying them of the suspension of
their licenses, as mentioned in the Star as
result of collision of their steamers
The suspension dates from Monday last
Capt James Marmaduke is temporarily
in command of the steam barge Daniel X
jackson for Capt. Owens The Jackson is
employed by the contractors for the build
ing of the new highway bridge in trans
porting the workmen to and from the piers
and in the moving of stone and material
from point to point as it Is needed
Capt. John c. Moore of the United States
revenue cutter service, who has been SUI
perintending the construction of the new
revenue cutters at Baltimore and PhiladeI-
phla, has been sent to the Pacific coast
on duty in connection with the construction
OF new revenue cutters. During Captain
Moore's absence Capt William c. DeHart
Will act as superintendent of construction.
Mr.. William Hayden is acting as chief
engineer of the harbor police boat Vigilant
during the illness of Chief Engineer Jimmy
Neall.
The schooner Walter P. Snow. with a
cargo of pine lumber from the James river
came into port yesterday afternoon, con-
signed to the dealers.
The schooner Father and Son has arrived
in port from a point on the river. laden
with railway ties.
The schooner Sidney Jones, laden with
cord wood from a Potomac river point
came into port yesterday afternoon.
The schooner John H. Mcguire arrived at
Alexandra yesterday evening with a load
of lumber from Nomini creek.
The c. A. Pryor is at the oyster wharf,
where she arrived last night with cargo
of Potomac oysters.
The tug George w. Pride left port yester-
day with a string of six light oyster boats
in tow, bound to the oyster beds on the
lower river to load.
The schooner John A. Curtis is expected
to arrive here by the end of the week with
a cargo of hemp from the James river.