Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-25
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SHEPHERDS LANDING WILL BE
CONTINUED IN USE.
B. and o. Railway Pier There Rebuilt
Reed Birds Have Appeared
Personal and General.

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The big dredging machine owned by Au-
| gustus Deane & Son at Alexandria has COM
pleted the work Of deepening the water in
the slip at Shepherds used by the Balti-
| more and Ohio railway ferry between Alex
| andria and Shepherds Landing. D. c. The
! slip now has water enough In it to float the
! Dig car barge, with Its load of twelve heavy
| Irelght cars. on any tide. The rebuilding of
the pile work On both sides Of the slip at
| shepherds, which has been going on for
the past week, has been completed, and the
| structure Is again in the best Of order. 1t
| has been understood that when the new
| railway bridge was completed the Baltimore
| ana OHIO would abandon the ferry service
and send its trains south over the bridge,
but 1t is now understood the ferry service
Will be kept up for several months to come
and perhaps longer.
The supply of fresh fish on sale at the
| 18th street wharf fish market this morning
all kinds was light. Trout and butterfsh
constituted the bulk of the supply. but
tnere was scattering supply Of other va
rieties OF river and bay fish on sale. Prices
vance.
The stock of watermelons on sale aboard
vessels lying at the oyster wharf is still
quite large, and has been augmented In
the past twenty-four hours by the arrival
OF several boats bringing up big cargoes.
The demand Is fair. and prices range from
Sl5O to SIG per hundred, according to
grade.
Hard crabs are quite scarce. and are in
excellent demand at prices about those
given yesterday.
The river schooner Earl Biscoe. belonging
to j. o. Carter, which has been rebuilt at
Benefits railway during the past six
weeks, was put overheard Tuesday evening
last and has returned to service In general
freighting on the river. The longboat Osce-
ola is to be hauled out on the railway today,
and before she is launched again her hull
Will be put in thorough order. The Osceola
| Is owned by Mrs. j. B. Stamell of Prince
William county. in Virginia.
The tug James o. Carter left port yester-
day afternoon having in tow schooner
barge No. 8 of the Consolidated Coal Com
pany OF Baltimore. laden with Cumberland
for the mouth OF the river where she will
Join tow bound up the coast to Boston or
another port in New England. The tug
Camella came into port yesterday with
and took her up to Georgetown to load a
big cargo Of coal. as.
The work of rebuilding stuart's wharf on
the lower Potomac has been completed and
the pile driving machine has gone to River
side and Is now engaged In rebuilding the
wharf there These wharves were damaged
The long continued calm on the Atlantic
coast is now over and vessels are making
| their destinations. The schooner S. c. Mar
viii, twenty-five days out from Norfolk has
arrived a Charleston, and the schooner
the Josephine. twenty days out from New
port News. has arrived at Savannah. These
vessels would have ordinarily made the run
In about a week
General and Personal.
The Baltimore tug Emma. with three coal
laden barges in tow from PHILADELPHIA
came into port today. During the past two
or three months the dealers in coal have
been laying in large supplies of the fuel in
expectation of heavy demand in the early
fall
The steam yacht Gavota, owned by Mr.
John r. Dos Passos, has returned from a
cruise on the Potomac and a visit to the
Yeocomico river where Mr. Dos Passos
has a country home.
Pilot Charles Sly of the steamer Harry
Randall, is i'll at his home in ST. Mary's
county, Nd, and Pilot Jerry Posey of the
steamer Arrowsmth is temporarily aboard
the Randall in Mr.. Sly's place Mr. Aus
tin Kelley is acting as pilot OF the Arrow
smith.
Mr.. William Jones has been appointed
master of the tug j. T. Selectman, sue
ceeding Capt. Frank v. Kintz, who has
taken command of the tug D. NJ Key of
the Taylor Bros fleet.
The steamer Wakefield, which came up
from landings along the lower river ves-
terday. brought up eighteen hossheads Of
tobacco to Alexandria FOR transhinment to
Baltimore. She also had quantity of
peaches nears and other fruit IN bar o.roo
for this city ''ei 70" 81
Arrivals ana Departures.
Tho scboonars Clara couor+ ,,a ~
p,., 49, ,,o,4 -, Gnu L. L.
n,aiio,e came in'o p'' QUAY with cargoes
vi coro"ooo apoalu' his Is the hrst trip
of the last-named schooner with freight
aboard since she was purchased fror, bar
p,,tI-N -. &c., l hioiii hei
The schooner Fanny is renor+o, :. .,,o
river below Alexandria bound for this citv
with a cargo of sand
The schooner Bertha May arrived in mort
this morning with cargo of watermeions
from nearby points on tne Potomac
the schooner ChaFIes Mitchell Is lying at