Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-22
ON THE RIVER FRONT
VESSELS LOADING AND SAILING
WITH CARGoEs OF TIES.
Stranger Tugs Visit Washington
New Boat for District Government
Launched-General Matters.

The three-masted schooner Charles Mitch
ell, which has been lying at anchor off Alex
andria for the past week for orders, sailed
yesterday in tow of the tug Pride for Som
erset Beach, where she will take aboard
railway ties. From there she will go to
Boyd's Hole, near Stuart's wharf, for an
other consignment of ties, and will then
come to Alexandria to complete her cargo.
The Mitchell will carry her cargo to a New
England port The schooners Norman and
Lucia Porter, which have been lying at
Shoots wharf for the past ten days load
ing ties, have completed their cargoes and
will sail today. The Norman goes to Bos-
ton and the Porter to Salem, Mass. The
schooner Helen Golden is lying at anchor on
Alexandria, and 1t is stated she, too, will
load ties there for a northern point the
shipments Of ties have been unusually
heavy this year.
There was good supply of salt water
trout tailors, porgies and Spanish mack
erel sale at the 18th street Wholesale
| fish market this morning, and the demand
for them was good Prices were firm at
about the figures of last week.
| Hard and soft-shell crabs are scarce, ana
as a consequence prices have advanced,
| hard crabs selling this morning at $2.oO
| to 1875 per barrel and soft crabs at ~ to
| 80 cents per dozen. The bulk of the sup
| ply is coming from river sources.
The watermelon market at the oyster
wharf is oversupplied, the receipts having
| been very heavy since Saturday. The poorer
grade of melons could be bought this morn
Ing as low as $50 per hundred 1 while the
| best stock sold at sla to SIT per hundreo.
The tug Frank *. Esberlck which
| brought a barge into port here SATURDAY
last made her first visit to the Potomac ON
that trip The Esberick halls from Pnaa-
delphia, where she was built in 1890 She IS
an iron hulled boat of sixty-nine gross TONS
and carries a crew of seven men. Anotner
stranger on the Potomac was the niue tug
Dispatch of Baltimore whlch Visit ,s., r,e n'r
| few DAYS ago The Dispatch registers Out
| nine tons and is forty-one feet long.
The great power yacht Mary, owned IN
Alexandria, which has been lying at Colo
brought back to Alexandria today Capt
Keith Davis the master of the boat, was
quite badly injured at the Beacn by 3elns
| caught between the boat ana the wharf.
| Two of his ribs were broken anu he wac
| otherwise hurt.
The tug Peerless is out of service at Bal
timore having some repair work done 10
her machinery.
Six coal-carrying barges of the Allegheny
Coal Company Of this city have been taken
to the Alexandria shipyard to be hauled out
on the marine railway for calking and re-
pair work to hulls.
General News of Port.
Several of the foremen and officials of the
naval gun foundry here made trip to
Colonial Beach Saturday evening last
aboard the launch Runaway, belonging to
Mr.. Joseph Moore The party returned
home early this morning.
A quantity of heavy lumber knees, to be
used in the building of lighters at Alexan-
dria, were unloaded at the Alexandria wharf
by the Weems line on a recent trip. The
knees came from Nova Scotia.
The small railwav az Reapap'c hoaf va I'd
is being put in order for the hauling out Of
steam launches this fall. A new capstan
is to be put in place and the railway will
be otherwise improved.
The steamer Jane Moseley, which has
been employed in running excursions out
of Baltimore harbOr for the past two weeks,
returned to this city Saturday last, and
will at once resume excursion trips on the
Potomac.
The big sidewheel ateamer Pocahontas,
which was burned at Richmond last spring,
has been taken to Wilmington, where she
will be rebuilt.
The schooner VIM. Cobb which unloaded
cargo of cement at Georgetown, has been
chartered to go to Baltimore to load a
cargo there for a New England port
The~steam barge James X. Jackson, with
lumber aboard, has arrived in port ard is
discharging her cargo.
The bugeye r. H. Stuart, with cargo of
white sand from Colonial Beach, came Tito
port Saturday evening.
The schooner Christopher c. Fallon laden
with laths from the vicinity Of Norfolk has
arrived at Alexandria.
The schooner Clemmie c. Travers is in
port with cargo of pine lumber from a
Virginia lumber port for the dealers
The Mayfiower and Mary Francis are here
with cargoes Of cord wood from a river
point
The schooner A. ]. Holland laden with
canned goods from the factories en- the
lower Potomac. unloaded at Alexandria
Saturday.
The two-masted schooner Samuel Wood
or this city, which carried cargo of rail-
way ties to Philadelphia, has returned
laden with hard coal.
The two-masted schooner Uriah Horner
Is at the wharf foot of 9th street unloading
a cargo of lumber from Aqua creek
The barge Urans of Philadelphia has ar
rived at Alexandria with cargo Of fertiI-
izer material for the Alexandria chemical
works.
The schooners Urbanna and W. H. Tyler,
both with lumber aboard from Virginia
lumber ports. arrived Saturday.
Capt. William Luckett of the steamer
Samuel j. Pentz will, upon the arrival of
the naval fleet with the midshipmen aboard,
pilot 1t up the Potomac. He will go aboard
the flagship at Piney Point.
Capt. r. j. tombstone, well known here
as master of the schooner Maria O. Sell
has sold his interest In that vessel and will
take command of the schooner NJ D. Cres-
sy of Bath, Me, engaged in coasting trade
out of the same port