Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
ON THE RIVER FRONT
CUTTER WINDOW SAILS ON YES
SEL-SAvING CRUISE.
overhauling Steamer Estelle Randall
Calvert in Dock for Painting
Other Marine Matters.

Inc revenue cutter William Window
"hlch aided ten or twelve vessels that were
piown ashore In a storm about three weeks
ago, mas sailed from Baltimore for a cruise
on her station. The Window will on this
"TRIP endeavor to float several vessels she
was unable to reach on her last cruise
While it is not known positively, it is
thought she may visit this city before she
returns to Baltimore from this cruise 1t
has now been considerably over a year
since the cutter dropped her anchor in the
Potomac about this city.
The supply of trout, bluefish, Spanish
mackerel and other varieties of saltwater
nSh on sale at the wholesale fish market.
at the 11th street wharf, this morning was
larger than it has been for several weeks
past. and there was also good supply of
Potomac-caught fish on sale. The demand
was fair and prices are firm. Much of the
hsh now on sale at the wharf Is coming
from the fisheries on the New Jersey coast.
since yesterday morning the E. p. Evans,
Fannie Shepherd, Lottie Thomas and
George b. Faunce have come into port with
cargoes of Potomac river oysters in all
about LEO bushels. The demand for the
biyalves is quite good the wharf this morn
ing being well filled with wagons waiting
to load for the uptown dealers Prices
range from SOC. to 75c. per bushel accord
ing to size.
The barge Daniel, owned by parties in
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new dress of sails from bow to stern and
has gone to a point on the river to load a
cargo back to this city.
Boiermakers and machinists are aboard
the steamer Estelle Randall, giving her a
general overhauling and putting her ma
chinery in the best of order. A new speed
wheel has been ordered for the steamer.
and when it arrives she will be hauled out
on the marine railway at Alexandria to
have it put on and to have the metal on
her hull renewed. The Estelle Randall is
one of the smallest boats on the river, but
she is used on the Glymont mail route when
the river is covered with ice, and it is but
seldom that she fails to carry the mails to
the wharf in spite of the ice.
The schooner Rover. Captain Lange, has
been chartered to bring lumber from New
Haven Conn.,, to the site of the new light
house on Point No Point in Chesapeake
bay where the lumber will be used in the
construction of the new light. The work
on the light is progressing but slowly.
Out of Commission.
The Weems line steamer Calvert, which
has been running upon the route between
this city and river landings to Baltimore
for the past two years, Is temporarily off
the route and has gone out of service. She
at the yard of the Baltimore Shipbuild-
ing company, locked for cleaning of hull,
painting and for any repair work that may
be found necessary The new steamer Anne
Arundel has taken the place of the Cal
vert on the Washington-Baltim route.
The tug Camilla of this city has gone to
Nomini, Va, to bring a large raft of pine
piling to this city. The piles will be used in
some of the public works going on here
The handsome little steam yacht Adele
came into port yesterday afternoon and is
lying at anchor in the stream off the foot
of 18th street.
The tug M. Mitchell Davis of this city is
under charter for short time. towing for
one of the dredging companies at work
deepening the water in the channels about
the harbor of Newport News.
The four-ma Sted schooner John R. Teel,
which lay at anchor off Alexandria for two
months and which was chartered few
days ago to load coal at Baltimore, will
carry her cargo to Jobos, Island of Porto
Rico and not to a northern port was
first stated.
The Baltimore tug Neptune came into port
yesterday afternoon with the barges George
B. Roberts and I. j. Naulty in tow. The
parges bring cargoes of hard coal from
Philadelphia to the Georgetown dealers.
The schooner Mayflower is in port with a
full cargo of cord wood from the lower river
for the dealers.
The schooner John R. P Moore is loading
railway ties at Marshall Hall, Md, and u
Is stated she will take them to Philadelphia
The schooner Clara Leonard, with bricks
for Nomini; the Ruth and Ella, lumber and
building material for Coan, and the steam
barge Lily and Howard, with hard COAL
for Occoquan, left port yesterday.
The schooner Hawthorn will complete the
unloading of a cargo of acid phosphate al
Alexandria within the next day or two, and
will, it is stated, load railway ties.
The tug Unity came into port yesterday
with a tow of nine sand and slaSs-ladel
scows, from the dredges down the river.