Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-05
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMER RANDALL GOES TO
NEWPORT NEWS TO OVERHAUL.
Launch Stranger Returns to Port
Tugs Chartered to Run Fish
Marine Matters.

The steamer Harry Randall Of the RAN
dali line left here Sunday night last for
Newport News to file a charter to run ex-
cursions from Suffolk, Va, to the launch
ing of the battleship Virginia today. The
steamer was under the care of Capt. James
Barker. with Mr.. Frank Luckett as mate.
and Mr.. Charles Kersey had charge OF the
steamers engine room. Miss LOWE Ran
dali Miss Mary Harlow. Mr.. and Mrs j.
Frank Carlin and Capt. E. 8. Randall
made the trip from this city to Newport
News aboard the steamer.
The Randall is to go into the drydock
at the Newport News shipyard tomorrow
to have her hull repaired and to be given
general overhauling and painting to pre-
pare her for her work on the river during
the coming summer.
The master of the italian barkentine An
toni Dab dressed ships Sunday In honor
of Easter. From topmast head of all three
masts to the rail were strung all the ship s
bunting, and she presented a pretty sight.
Contrary to the usual custom of foreign
vessels the Dali did not show an Ameri-
can flag at her foremost head or in her
decorations.
The large power launch Stranger of this
city, which has been at boatyard on the
lower river receiving her spring overhaul
ing and painting, has returned to port
ready for service. She is lying at Rea-
gan's boatyard
Capt. Theodore Keene is in command of
the Randall line steamer Wakefield. while
Capt. Harry Randall is detained ashore by
business Captain Bailey Reed is COM
manding the steamer Arrowsmith on the
lower Potomac route.
The power yacht Greyhound was out for
trial spin OF several mics down the river
Sunday. During the winter the engine of
the little craft has been given general
overhauling and the Greyhound is now one
of the fastest boats of her class on the Po-
Tor mos OF xrI1 ho cfo nd hnr
sails bent in the next few days and the
yacht will be ready for summer cruising.
Large throngs Of excursionists have
taken advantage of the partial holiday of
Easter time to visit Newport News to wit
ness the launching of the battleship Vir-
ginia, which took place there today. Every
stateroom on the Norfolk and Washington
Line steamers had been sold and last
night many who made the trip were un-
able to obtain rooms, though the company
ran both the regular steamer and the New
port News to take care of the throng
General News of Port.
The tugs James o. Carter and VIM. III.
Yerkes, jr., of this city, and the power
schooner Lauretta Curran of Baltimore
have been chartered to run fish from the
traps in the river below Alexandria to
the market here. Within the next ten days
forty or fifty vessels and five or six tugs
will be in service bringing the shad and
herring from the lower river to this city.
The wrecking company has succeeded in
moving the large foIr-masted schooner
Gardner Deering which was sunk off Point
Lookout into ShoaI water and are patching
the hole in her Side preparatory to pumping
her out and taking her to Baltimore to be
rebuilt. 80
The ram schooner Jennie D. Bell which
was hauled ashore last December near Fire
Island, New York, to protect her from the
ice, was put overheard again last week. The
life savers from the Fire Island station
is frequent visitor here with lumber car
gooes. Nfu
The schooner VIM. Marshall, which has
been loading a large cargo of railway ties
at Alexandria, sailed from that port Sunday.
The ties she has aboard come from along
the line of the Southern railway in Virginia
and North Carolina
The sailing barge Daniel is at Georgetown
with a cargo of cord wood from upper
Machodoc creek. .r-ef
The schooner J. P. Robinson after I'M
leading cargo of grain at Alexandria,
took aboard cargo of general stores and
sailed yesterday for river point.
The bark Essex has about completed dis
charging her cargo of lumber ut the wharf
of T. W. Riley. The Essex loaded this lum-
Der at Fernandina last December and day
in the Patuxant river throughout the win
ter, waiting an opportunity to come up the
river through the ice to unload
The overhauling of the harbor tug Vigil
liant was nearly completed day or two
ago, and the vessel was about ready to be
launched, when it was discovered that the
under portion of her oyerhangfng stern
above her rudder was badly decayed. The
workmen replaced the imperfect timbers
wi