Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-06
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW TUG IMPERIAL GOES INTO
SERVICE ON BAY.
Rebuilding Wharves on Water Street.
Cargoes Of Ice Arrive-Per-
sonal and General.

| A new tug, owned In Baltimore and called
the Imperial, has gone into commission on
| Chesapeake bay and on its tributaries. and
| VIII engage In general towing The fmpe-
| rial Is one of the largest tugs In service on
the pay. She Is l15 feet long on the keel,
Zl4a rect beam and LIZ feet depth of hold.
She Is driven by fore and aft compound en-
sihes' with cylinders fifteen and thirty
inches In diameter, and with twenty-five.
| inch stroke of piston. She is modern I'm ALI
her equipment, being supplied with steam
reversing gear, and has large fire and
wrecking pumps. Her boiler is to furnish a
steam pressure of 100 pounds to the square
men, and she Is said to be quite a speedy
craft; capt. Herbert Cannon is in COM
mand or the Imperial. with Mr. Edward
Speuueh IN charge of the deck. Chief Engi-
heer augustus klages has charge of the
engine room. viz
The intensely hot weather of the mast
TWO Gays has caused a big drop in the de-
mand for fresh fish of all kinds This
morning there were but few buyers on
hand, while the receipts from the bav and
atlantic coast fishing shores were large.
AS consequence prices have dropped con-
slderably. and this morning the fish could
be bought at less than half the prices
quoted last week
The demand for shell fish of all kinds
was small, and prices asked for oysters,
Grams and crabs were lower today than
they have been this summer. The supply
OF crabs received this morning was small.
f f CRABS are now coming to market
from river points.
Workmen are engaged In rebuilding the
10th street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany. The structure is being greatly
strengthened and new piling is being driven
along its front. The freight pier of the
Randall Line Company at the foot of Sth
street, is also being rebuilt The wharf
there Is being torn away and an entirely
| new platform is to be built. 1t IL stated
the Randall company have in contemplation
the building of large warehouse and office
building on their wharf in the very near
future.
The repainting and overhauling of the
| machinery of the steamer Estelle Randall
has been completed and the steamer will be
ready for service in a few days. She is to
take her place on the Glymont mail route
In few days, to allow the steamer Kent 10
be painted and overhauled for the summer.
General News of the Port
The tug Irene yesterday afternoon
brought into port the barge Carroll, laden
with about 500 tons of ice from the Sus-
quehanna river She was taken to George
town to unload her cargo. The barge Elko
is also unloading ice at the 9th street wharf
of the American Ice Company.
The four-masted schooner Star OF the
Sea, laden with ice from the Kennebec
river, was brought into port yesterday by
the tug VIM H. Yerkes, jr., and will I'M
load at one of the American Ice Company's
wharves here The Star of the Sea has a
cargo of about. loo tons aboard and is
paying her first visit to this city. She
sailed from Bath about May a. and is said
to have had a very pleasant trip down the
coast. The schooner Catherine d. Perry,
loaded with ice, is on her way TO this city,
and several vessels are on the Kennebec
taking cargoes aboard to come here.
The new sand and gravel dredge building
at Alexandria for the Potomac Dredging
Company is rapidly approaching completion
about the end of this month The COM
pany has secured options on a number
of tracts of sand land along the river
and will have the dredge at work soon
al possible.
Mr.. Edward ]. Birmingham has been ap-
pointed second mate of the lighthouse ten
der Violet in place of Mate w. F. Outten,
who has been transferred to the tender
Holly.
Among the vessel charters recently re-
ported is that of the schooner Thomas
]. Shyrock, which is TO load lumber at
Newbern, N. c., for this city at private
terms.
The Lily and Howard which has been on
marine railway at Alexandria for new
wheel and shaft, will be launched today
The ram schooner Levin Marvel Is at
Alexandria discharging a cargo of shingles
from North Carolina for the dealers.
The schooners j. d. Bell. L. D. Ballard,
Samuel Wood, Mary Frances and Farmers
Friend are in port with cargoes of cord
wood from the lower river.
The longboat Osecola, with a cargo of
railway ties from a river point came into
port yesterday evening.
The tug Emma has arrived at George
town with the barges S. NJ. Provost and c.
J. Pugh, laden with hard coal~from Phila-
de1phia for the dealers.
The schooner Olcott has completed the
unloading of a cargo of fertilizer material
at Alexandria, and is taking aboard a load
of railway ties for the north.
The schooner Geo. C. A. Travers has
sailed from Bermuda Hundred for this city
with a cargo of lumber