Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-02
ON THE RIVER FRONT
RECORD TIME IN BUILDING PILE
DRIVING MACHINE.
Black Bass Are Very; Scarce-Schoone1
Dora Meets With Mishap-
Other Matters.

clark OF this city left port yesterday aft
ernoon Tor Dogue, at .Quantico creek, Va,
"here sne Will be employed in bridge build
ing maze necessary by the double tracking
OF the washington Southern railway be-
tween Alexandra and Richmond The
keel TOT this machine was placed at Alex
andrfa less than six weeks ago The hull
and house was completed and the boat
launched inside of two weeks She was
then brought up to this city and the ma
chlnery, which was already on hand, was
installed and the heavy driving hammer
raised IN position and the machine has
been ready for service for about week
This is thought to be record time in the
puliulhg or boat of Its kind in this VI
clnity The driver is one of the largest ma
chimes on the Potomac, the weight used in
forcing the piles into the mud weighing
over two tons.
The demand for fresh fish, in spite of the
warm weather continues quite fair but the
supply is small and consists mainly Of fish
from the lower part of Chesapeake bay
and the Atlantic coast Hard crabs are be-
Ing received in fairly good quantities and
the demand for them is quite brisk.
There was an ample supply of watermel-
ons of all grades on sale at the wholesale
market on the oyster wharf this morning
and the demand was fairly brisk. Melons
from the Potomac are expected to be on
the market within the next week.
Building Operations Active.
The seamers running to points on the
lower Potomac are again taking large guam
titles Of bricks, lumber, sash, laths and
other building material from this city and
Alexandria to points on the river. There
has been more building done on the Poto-
mac this spring and summer than for ten
years past
Dean & Son, boat builders at Alexandria,
will shortly cOmnlata and launch
power launch for parties here. The launch
Is about twenty feet long and Is built for
speed.
Fishermen operating nets in the river
below Alexandria are commenting on the
absence of bass in the river this summer.
Few if any of these game fish have been
caught in the past three or four months.
and the fishermen are at loss to account
for it,
Formerly about this time of the year they
would be caught in fairly good quantities,
but SO far this year they have been ex-
tremely scarce
The schooner Dora which arrived at New
York Saturday last, had her foretopmast
carried away by gale on her way up
the coast from West Point, Va, with a
cargo of poplar wood. The Dora is owned
by Mr.. ]. o. Carter and others of this city.
The rebuilding of the tug George W.
Pride, which was damaged by fire at Alex
andria about month ago. will be COM
pleted this week. and the tug will at once
go into service.
The tug Spray has been chartered to tow
sand and gravel laden scows from Malta
woman creek to this city for the Potomac
Dredging Company. The machine of the
Potomac company will, 1t is stated, begin
work within the next two or three days.
During the coming fall, when the excur
sion season on the river Is over several of
the wharves used by the excursion steam
ers will be rebuilt and put in thorough Or
der to meet the District requirements.
The steamer Kent, which arrived up from
the lower river yesterday morning. landed
nineteen hogsheads of tobacco at Alexan-
dria, to be taken to Baltimore by the
Weems line steamers. 81
The United States army lighter Pontonier,
the tender to the Engineers Battalion, U.
s. A, at the Washington barracks, is max
ing daily trips to Fort Foote with detach-
ments of the engineers aboard
A steamer arriving at Baltimore SUNDAY
reports having sighted fifty-two sails or
vessels off Cape Hatteras, near the Dia-
mond Shoal lightship, all bound to the
north.
The lighthouse tender Maple, Captain
Amy, has returned to Baltimore from a
cruise among the light stations and buoys
in the lower part of Chesapeake bay. The
Maple on this trip completed the last OF
the summer buoyage work in the bay and
it's tributaries.
Personal and General.
Mr. Preston White of Rock Point has
been appointed a quartermaster in the Ran
dali line and is on duty aboard the steamer
Harry Randall. Capt. James Barker OF
the steamer Harry Randall, who has been
confined to his home for several days by
sickness, has recovered and is again on
duty.
Mr. Harry Love of Colton's Point, Nd,
who has been in Washington on business.
returned to his home yesterday
Mr. George Scott, who has been acting
as purser of the steamer Kent, has re-
turned to duty in the Randall line office,
and Mr. Michael Robb is aboard the Kent
as purser.
The Maryland oyster police boat Bessie
Jones. which patrols the lower Potomac
during the oyster season, has been taken
from the Wfcomico river to Cambridge,
Nd. where She will be hauled out on
marine railway to De given an na autea
nrenaratory to the opening of the OYSTER
taking season next month.
The schooner Walter P. Snow has ar
rived In port from the Rappahannock river
with a cargo Of pine lumber.
The schooner Alice Hill, which unloaded
a cargo of shingles at Alexandria, was
taken to Georgetown yesterday afternoon
by the tug D. M Key
Two three-masted schooners, supposed to
he laden with ice, are reported in the lower
part of the river and the tug Camilla has
gone after them and will bring them into
port.
part of a cargo of railway ties at Alex
andria, is lying at Bulk House wharf in
Upper Machodoc creek, completing her car
go.
The barge Mary C. McNally, with car
go of hard coal aboard, has arrived in port
from Baltimore.
The United States naval tug Tecumseh
Yesterday afternoon brought up from In
dian Head a large gun which had COM
pleted it's tests at the proving grounds.
Attractions at Cabin John Bridge.
Royal Italian Band of Philadelphia every
afternoon and evening in grand concert Ad-