Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-27
ON THE RIVER FRONT
TUG EUGENIA DISABLED BY
BREAKING HER CRANK.
Rebuilding Fort Hunt Wharf-Vessels
Repairing at Boat Yards-oen-
eral Matters Along Shore.

The tug Eugenia, Capt. Isaac Force, De-
longing to the Smoot Sand Company OF
this city, was brought up from Alexandra
day or two ago in a disabled conuitioh
and Is now lying at the wharf, 1oot Oh
Sd street southwest for repairs. several
days ago as the tug was on her way u
this city she broke the crank Of her engine
and fioated around in disabled csndltioh
until another tug came along and took her
to Alexandria. The Eugenia Will De out oi
service for several days longer. Meanwhile
the tug Resale will 60 the towing FOR the
company.
A nile driver is at the government wharf
at Sheridan's Point, the landing place 1or
Fort Hunt putting the structure IN cohui-
ton for the landing of vessels. Inc ou.ei
end of the wharf, where pies nave peeh
broken off, will be renewed
The two-masted schooner l.. IL. BramDle,
recently purchased from Baltimore partles
by Capt. James Elliott of this CITY, Is pc
ing overhauled at Alexandra ana niaue
lower river to take on cargo IN rev
days under the command of captain hopey
The Bramble will be kept in the pay ana
Potomac river trade.
hauled out on the marine railway at Alex
andria, has been launched and has saiieu
The river schooner Lottie Carter is hauled
| out on the marine railway at AleXahuria
| for general repairs.
The overhauling of the Earl Biscoe at
! Benefits boat yard here has been com
| pleted and she will be put overheard IN the
next two or three days. The hull or the
schooner has been rebuilt while the vessel
| was on the railway.
Deane & Son have one of the large scows
of the National Sand Dredging Company at
| their boat yard, near Alexandra, to De re-
| built from the waters edge up
| new steamer for the United States
| coast survey service is being built at VIII
| borough has been assigned to the duty OF
| inspecting the machinery to be placed IN
the craft. Mr.. Godsborough was chief en-
| gineer of the steamer Blake. and his berth
| aboard that vessel VIII be hled by Engineer
| Yang
| The two-masted schooner James B! An
| derson, laden with lumber from Walkerton,
| Va and the schooner Norman from st.
Johns NJ B., with laths for this city, are
| reported on their way here.
| The steamer Gen Dumont has been
| chartered to run excursions from Chesa-
peake Beach to Cambridge. Cliborne, Ok
| ford and other points on Chesapeake bay.
| By this route Washington is less than fifty
miles from Maryland's eastern shore.
Five cars loaded with the steel parts
of the new railway bridge, were delivered
at the south end of the bridge Monday
morning last. The material will be used
| in the construction work on the spans at
| the Virginia end of the bridge.
The tug Dauntless early in the week
| brought car float from Baltimore to take
the place of the one in service on the Balti-
more and Ohio railway ferry between Alex
andria and Shepherds, d. c. The old barge,
which was damaged in an accident last
| week, will be taken to Baltimore to be
| hauled out and repaired. The substituted
| barge is somewhat smaller than the one
| taken away, and fewer cars can be handled
on it.
The schooner Ella Hill. Captain Dixon.
| which has been employed in summer fish
| ing for several wee ks past had very sue
1 CSf nj fol da ~ furn 1fv,O
| thirty barrels of rock to this market
| The United States naval tug Triton, with
one of the ordnance foundry barges in tow,
| came up from Indian Head Monday even
| Ing. On the barge was a six or eight-lnch
| gun, which has recently been tested at
| Indian Head, and which will be sent to the
| ship for which it built.
| The Baltimore schooner Kate H. Thigh
man is in port with a cargo of lumber and
| laths from Virginia point for the dealers.
| The schooners VIM. Donnelly and Jennie
D. Bell, both laden with pine boards from
| North Carolina, have arrived in port
| The tug Spray Monday afternoon
! brought a pile-driving machine from Alex
! andria to do some wharf-building work
| here.
| The barkentine Emita has completed the
| loading of big cargo of railway ties at
| Alexandria and will sail with them for
| Boston. The ties came from Virginia points
| along the line of the Southern railway.
| The schooner Jennie Lippert has arrived
In port and is lying at the wharf at the
foot of 1872 street to unload her cargo.
| The schooner Belmont, with lumber from
| river point, has arrived in port for the
| local dealers.
The schooners Father and Son. Peri Flrt
of the Wave and Mayfiower, all laden with
cordwood, are the last arrivals of the wood
carrying fleet.
The schooner Minnie s.. with a big cargo
of lumber aboard. has arrived in port from
a Virginia lumber point.
The tug NJ. Mitchell Davis, having
brought an ice-laden schooner into port,
has sailed for the capes of the Chesapeake
on the lookout for other vessels bound here
The sloop Rita Gator has arrived at Alex
andria with cargo and is unloading at
the Queen street dock.
The schooner Carson with cargo of
glass making sand aboard from the Severn
river, was locked at Alexandria yesterday.
The sand is for the Alexandria glass bottle
manufacturing plants.