Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW LAMPS ERECTED ON FORT
WASHINGTON WHARF.
VIII Be Guiding Lights for Rivermen-
Tug Dallis In Service
Other Matters.

Two lamps on posts about ten feet high
have this week been erected on the outer
face of the quartermaster's wharf at Fort
Washington by the soldiers stationed at
the fort. The lamps VIII display white
lights and will be of use to vessel masters
as guiding lights when moving up and down
the river at night. The lamps were erected
for the purpose of lighting the wharf at
night when the army tug Gibbon reaches
there from this city on her evening trip.
The long wharf at Fort liant. Va, also
displays light on its outer end as
warning to vessels going up and down the
river to keep away. The Fort Hunt wharf
juts good half mile out into the river, and
the light Is necessary on dark nights to pre-
vent vessels from collidng with it.
The big seagoing barge Lewis Thompson,
which arrived here Thursday with a big
cargo of hard coal from Philadelphia came
from the Delaware river to this city by the
outside route in tow of the tug Dauntless.
The Thompson Is fitted with three nasts
and sails 10 take care OF herself at sea
should ii be necessary
captain Sonny Reagan has the little pow
er launch Bess in his boat house at the
foot of 18th street, and is overhauling the
boat and making her available for active
service on the river in the spring. The
launch is to be made few feet longer and
other changes made in her that win make
her more suitable and comfortable for
pleasure cruising She is also to be fitted
with larger and more powerful engine,
ana IL Is believed that when the Bess goes
into commission again she Will be found to
be smart little craft.
The tug Dallis. belonging to the High
Point Planta ton Company which broke her
propeller wheel in the ice early in the week
completed repairs yesterday morning and
resumed her trips to Gunston. Va. at once
The Dallis is used to bring the products of
a large dairy farm at High Point, Va, to
this city.
General River News.
The large barges Pirnlico and William A.
Smoot had the caulking pulled from the
seams in their hulls while being towed
through the ice on Chesapeake bay a day or
two ago, and arrived at Baltimore in a
sinking condition. The barge Chesapeake
had a hole punched in her hull by the fee,
and falling over lost part of her deck load
of poplar lumber from Virginia port. The
damaged barges are all well-known vessels
to this city. They are at shipyards at Bal
timore for repairs
The steam launch Maud II. is hauled out
at BENEFITS boatyard, and during the win
ter she will be put in good order for pleas
ure trips during the summer months.
The steam launch James ii. Douglas, be-
longing to the Potomac Dredging Company,
is stu at Deans boatyard, at Alexandria.
being fitted with an ice pillow and made
ready for service in the ice in Piscataway
creek.
cedar bushes at the top OF all their flag
poles i'm honor of the Christmas season.
The steamer Estelle Randall on her trip
up from Glymont Md, to this city yester-
day had in her cargo ten or twelve barrels
of dressed turkeys and chickens for the
local market. These turkeys are always IN
demand and command the highest market
prices.
The schooner n. NJ Porcella has been
berthed near the site of the new highway
bridge to unload her cargo of pier stone.
The schooner John A. Curtis Is at Saun-
ders' wharf on the James River, loading
a cargo of lumber for this city
The river steamers during the past week
have had big passengers lists to this city,
the country people coming here in large
numbers to do their Christmas buying.
The United States naval dispatch boat
Dolphin came up the river yesterday alter
noon and went to the navy yard.
The schooner Salisbury left here yes
terday morning in tow of the tug VIM. IL.
Yerkes~jr., for Baltimore to load
The schooner Bramble is laid up at Alex
andria until the ice conditions in the river
become more favorable for the moving OF
sailing vessels.