Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-23
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LANDING PLACE AT FORT HUNT,
VA, BEING REBUILT.
New Wheel for Launch Eola-Tugs and
Their Tows-Other
River Matters.

The work of rebuilding the old wharf at
Fort Hunt on the Virginia side of the river
opposite Fort Washington, is being pushed
rapidly along, but II will be week or ten
days before the work is completed. The
face of the pier where the steamboats,
land has been supplied with fender and
moving piles and it has been strengthened
The wharf builders are now working on the
long stretch of wharf running into the
shore. The old and worn piles are being
taken up and new and stronger ones sub
stituted for them. The wharf is being put
In thorough order to resist the crushing
force of the ice piling on 1t during the
freeze, II one should come this winter. 1t
is stated that new pier for Fort Hunt will
be built early in the coming spring. The
new structure will be located about 100
yards to the north of the present wharf.
Work at the Shipyards.
The little power launch Eola, belonging to
the Eola Boat Club, is on the railway at
Reagan's boatyard to be fitted with a new
design wheel which Is expected to give the
little craft more speed and to make her
available for extended trips on the river.
The steamer Estelle Randall was brought
up from the Alexandria shipyard yesterday
afternoon and has been berthed at the dock
adjoining the River View wharf until she
is needed to go on the Glymont mail route.
Dean G. Son, shipbuilders, at Alexandria,
have the timber ON the ground at their boat
building yard at Alexandria for sixty
foot lighter. to be built for parties in this
city. The bottom timbers for the new boat
will be laid, it is stated, within the next
day or two. and the lighter will be ready for
launching about the middle Of next month.
The tug Spray Is employed in towing
scows laden with broken stone from the
auarries at Occoquan to this city, where
the stone is used in concrete foundations
and for ohtar work.
The tug George w. Pride has been char
tered by the Potomac Dredging Company to
tow sand and gravel laden barges from the
digging machines in Mattawoman creek to
this city. She takes the place of the Balti-
more tug Solicitor, owned by the Baltimore
Shipbuilding Company, which has returned
home.
barge. formerly railway car float in
New York. is lying at the wharf foot of
1872 street southwest unloading a cargo of
sand and gravel for the new Tangier Sand
Company. The barge loaded its cargo at
Colonial Beach and is the second or third
barge to come to this city for the new sand
company.
General Matters.
The pontoons and pipe used by dredge 3
of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Dredging
Company in it's work about this city have
been loaded on fiat cars at the Alexandria
shipyard for shipment to Cape May, where
the big dredge is now at work. A pile-driv-
ing machine was used to take the pontoonS
from the water and place them on the fat
cars.
A dredging machine belonging to parties
in Alexandria, which has been employed in
some dredging work along the river about
Georgetown, completed her contract and
was yesterday taken back to Alexandria,
where, 1t is stated she will go into winter
quarters for the season.. .-as
The steamers arriving yesterday and this
morning brought up large quantities of
dressed poultry and holly bushes for the
Thanksgiving demand p,
The ram schooner Lizzie A Williams
has arrived in port with a cargo of pine
lumber from North. Carolina.
The schooner Bertha May is at Aitche
sons wharf, Alexandria, unloading big
cargo of cord wood for the dealers.
The VIM. Turner came into port yester-
day with a load of oysters aboard from
the beds in the lower Potomac.
tank barges laden with oil for the dealers
in this city. s.-t-- ts g..
The schooner Clarence A. Holland was
brought into port by the tug Camilla
yesterday afternoon from a North Caro-
lima port, with lumber and shingles
aboard.
The schooner Flying Sc,Id has been
taken to Alexandria to complete the dis
charging of her cargo of shingles.
The schooner Amelia Price has sailed
from Baltimore for this city with cargo
of fertilizer. ".a