Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT
WEEMS LINE TO START STEAMER
FROM BALTIMORE.
Steamer Wakefield Preparing for
Service-Fire Boats New Pier
General and Personal

1t is stated that the Weems line will en-
deavor to send the propeller steamer Anne
Arundel up the Potomac from Baltimore to
this city this week. If the steamer comes
she will leave on her return trip Thursday
afternoon. The side-wheel steamers will be
placed on her route as soon as the ice con-
ditions will allow.
The overhauling of the boiler of the
steamer Wakefield of the Randall line,
which has been under repair for several
weeks, is now about completed. AS soon as
the ice conditions will allow, 1t is stated,
the steamer will leave here for the New
port News shipyard, where she will go into
the dry dock to have a number of plates in
her hull renewed and for other repair work.
The Wakefield will resume her place on the
Wirt'S wharf route about the latter part or
March.
There was an excellent supply of fresh
fish of all kinds from southern waters on
sale this morning, but fresh water fish were
very scarce and comman ded high prices.
The demand for all grades of the fish was
fair.
On the oyster wharf the bulk of the
stock on sale came from Norfolk, although
there are still few fish from the beds
in the river in the fish houses. Prices
range from 81 to $50 per bushel for
oysters in the shell and $1.40 per gallon
for shucked stock.
AS the steamer Estelle Randall was leav-
ing her wharf at Alexandria Saturday for
this city projection on a bunch Of fender
piles caught under the sliding iron on the
after part of the steamers guards and rip
ped off a section of the iron which was left
hanging on the pile. The damage done was
immaterial and was quickly repaired.
Capt Danl French of this city is in COM
mand of one of the big dredging machines
of the engineer corps Of the army making
improvements in the harbor of Boston. In
a letter to Capt. Dean of the harbor police
boat Vigilant Capt. French states he has
regained his health. which was quite bad
when he left this city about a year ago.
General River News.
Mr. Jeff Burnell, chief engineer of the
Motley Hall excursion steamer River
Queen is aboard his boat, after several
months spent ashore, and is experimenting
the overhauling of the boiler and ma
chinery of the Queen.
Capt. James Geoghegan, formerly known
here as master of the steamer Sue of the
Weems line is in command of the Balti-
more ice-breaking steamer Latrobe, now
employed in crushing the ice that inter
feres with the movement of vessels in and
out of Baltimore harbor.
Mr.. Samuel d. Myers, one of the engineers
aboard the Diamond Shoal lightship, has
been ordered to report aboard the new
lightship, No. 16, now at New York. as as
siStant engineer, and VIII accompany that
ship to the Pacific.
The schooner Cherubim. Captain Num-
ford is still ashore In Pamlico sound, North
Carolina, where she was blown in a gale
January Is. The vessel is resting easily
and can be fioated on high water.
The old wharf of the steamer Estelle
Randall between the morgue wharf and
the piers of the police boat Vigilant. is be-
ing cleared up by the harbor masters
force, preparatory TO being turned over TO
the fire department authorities. The pier
and headquarters of the new fire boat and
harbor fire force will be located at this
wharf and ii is stated that work on the
structure will be started In the spring.
Few of the buoys in the river in this
vicinity have been displaced by the ice,
although they have not been showing since
the freeze came being buried under the
water by the ice. 1t is thought. however,
by rivermen that when the ice begins 10
move 1t will take the buoys along with It,
Foes have several times in the past week
covered the lower part of the river and the
bay and have added TO the difficulty ex-
perienced by the masters of steamers In
navigating their boats through the Ice.
The schooner Sarah s. Tyler. Captain
yetia, which sailed from this city about
three weeks ago. just before the freeze
came. is reported frozen up in the
Yeocomico river, one of the tributaries of
the Potomac on the Virginia side. The
Tyler was on her way TO Walkerton. Va. to
take aboard cargo of pine lumber for the
dealers here.