Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-10
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SAND SCOw TO BE CHANGED INTO
A DREDGING MACHINE.
Overhauling Tug James Jackson
Completing New Buildings at Fort
Washington-Other Matters.

One Of the large sand and gravel scows
built at Alexandria for the Potomac Dredg-
ing Company will be taken to Baltimore in
few days to be used as hull for a new
sand and gravel digging machine to be
built for the Potomac company for use on
the river The scow, which Is 100 feet
loong and about 80 feet WIDE will have a
house about 60 feet long placed On 1t and
Will be equipped with modern sand pumps
and the latest types Of screens for separat-
Ing the sand and various sizes of gravel
The new machine will be ready for use on
the river in the early spring and will work
in conjunction with the big machine built
at Alexandria for the Potomac company
last spring, which is now taking sand and
gravel from Piscataway creek
The demand for fresh fish this morning
was not heavy, and the receipts of fish
from all sources were very light. Prices
this morning for fish of all kinds were firm
and high.
Since yesterday few boats laden with
oysters in the shell from the lower Po-
tomac came into port, but the demand for
the bivalves was quite light this morning.
Prices range from SOC. to 81 per bushel,
according to the grade of stock wanted.
Some few ducks, mainly from North
Carolina, were on sale at the oyster wharf
this morning, and when they were in good
condition they commanded a ready sale
at high prices.
One of the large sand and gravel dig
ging machines belonging here has been
taken into the swash channel the Vir-
g'n1a side Of the river, near Daingerfield
Point, between this city and Alexandria,
and is taking sand and gravel from the
river bottom there. This is, it is stated,
the first time sand and gravel digging
ms chine has ever worked in this vicinity.
and a superior quality of material is being
taken out by the machine.
Of General Interest.
The tug James Jackson of this city is
hauled out on the marine railway at the
Alexandra shipyard and is being equipped
with a new propeller wheel. The tug will
be ready for service in a few days.
1t is stated that the new Tangier Sand
Company, which is bringing barges of sand
from Colonial Beach to this city, has Sc
cured the services of a gasoline power boat
to tow its barges ION the Beach here
The new hospital building and bachelor
officers quarters at Fort Washington,
which have been in process of construction
for a year past, are now nearly completed
and will, 1t is stated at the fort be ready
for use in short time Painters are now
at work in the buildings painting and deco
rating them, and the heating apparatus is
being installed.
Capt. Roy T. Fowkes of the steamer
George Washington has returned from a
visit to his home in Nomini Creek, Va.
Messrs. John and William Schroth Of this
CITY TetuIIeu iioIiie yesterday from a very
| successful hunting trip in Maryland in the
vicinity of Glymont
The barges Ellen s. Jennings and Alexan-
| der Gibson. both laden with hard coal, have
sailed. in tow of a tug, from Philadelphia
for this city. They are expected to arrive
here today.
The steamer Pentz yesterday took sixty
barrels of cement from this city to Fort
Hunt, to be used in the work of improving
the post under the direction OF the United
States army engineers.
The schooner James B. Anderson laden
with pine lumber, from the York river, Va,
came into port today. She sailed from West
Point December ?. and had a slow trip up
the bay and Potomac river
The schooner W. Sommers is in port with
q cargo of canned goods for the dealers.
The Edith Verrall has arrived here with
cargo of cord wood from Virginia port on
the Potomac.
The Mark Stevens, laden with oysters In
the shell, from the mouth of the Potomac,
came into port yesterday
The tug Camilla brought q barge laden
| with lumber on the lower river, Into port
yesterday afternoon.