Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
ON THE RIVER FRONT
FORMER POTOMAC STEAMER SUE
UNDER NEW NAME.
Little Schooners to Engage in Ocean
Traffic - 0verhauling Sloop
Pelican-Other Matters.

The old weems Line steamer Sue, which
for many years ran on the Potomac river
and Chesapeake bay on a route between
this city and the lower river landings to
Baltimore, has not outlived a life of use
fulness. Under a new name she Is render
ing efficient service in northern waters and
bids fair to escape oslerizatfon for many
years to come. The Sue when displaced
from the Observation-Disclosures route by
the new propeller steamers Northumberland
and Calvert, was sold by the Weems line
to parties in Philadelphia and it was UNI
derstood she would be broken up. 1t was
found however, that she was in much bet
ter condition than was at first thought, and
since leaving here she has been rebuilt. and
when she went into commission this spring
it was under the name of Bristol. She
is employed on a route on the Delaware
river out of Philadelphia. The Upper
Delaware River Navigation Company is
the owner of the steamer and she halls
from Deer Island, Md.
The catch of Shad and herring by the
nets on the river have fallen off greatly in
the past two or three days, and the old
fishermen say the first run of the fish is
over. This does not mean the season is
over. but that the first schools that came
up the coast have arrived and gone. The
catch later in the season Will, 1t is expected,
be as large if not larger. than the catch
all sources yesterday amounted to about
GOO, while 10000 herring were received.
The fleet of vessels which each spring
run cargoes of pineapples from the West
Indies to Baltimore are fitting out for
the work. Among the fleet are the little
schooners Clemence Travers, Flora kinwan,
Kate Darlington, Hester A. Waters. Bill
Nye and Venus all wel-known visitors
to this city. They are all small two
masted schooners, and the largest of the
fleet is not over hundred feet long. They
will be employed in the work for about
ten weeks.
The failure of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal to resume business until May l of
this year has made the coal trade on the
river very dull. When the canal opens 1t
is said the season will be busy one and
that $50 boats and 600 men will be employed
in transporting coal from the mines to
Georgetown.
General River News.
The Philadelphia tug Peerless came into
port Friday afternoon with the barges
Elizabeth McNaughton, Vilanova, Rebecca
T. McLain and William w. Easton in tow
from Philadelphia. The barges have each
about 700 tons of hard coal aboard for the
dealers of Georgetown.
The barges Dom Pedro II and Julia Roll
Inns of Baltimore have been sold to parties
in Philadelphia, and are to be converted
into three-masted barges for the coasting
trade. They are to be fitted for carrying
lumber from Florida to the north Atlantic
ports. These are the last of the famed
feet of coffee clippers that for years sailed
between Rio and the Chesapeake.
Commodore Sutton, the harbormaster, is
having the pier at the harbor office wharf
given a general overhauling and repairing,
in line with the other wharf repair work
going on about the harbor. The work Is
being done by the harbOr office force under
the supervision of the commodore.
The power sloop Pelican has been hauled
out on the marine railway at Capt. Sonny
Reagan's wharf, for cleaning and painting
of hull and for other repair work, in prep
aration for the coming boating season on
the river. The Pelican wintered in the tidal
basin near the bathing beach.
The work on the steam launch Fern be-
longing to the United States fish commits
sion service, is about completed at Ben
nett's boatyard, and the little craft will be
ready TO go into service in a few days. The
Fern has been cleaned up and painted and
will be used at the Bryan's Point fishing
station during the coming fishing season in
the shad spawn taking work.
The tug George W. Pride is employed in
towing fish lighters from the Fairy Landing
fishing shore, below Mount Vernon, to this
city.
The schooner Spedden has gone to Vir-
gnia lumber port for cargo for Balti-
more.
The two-masted schooner Murray Van
diver, Capt. Pratt, has arrived in port from
a Virginia lumber port. with full cargo
of lumber.
wharf of ForSberg & Murray, and will dis
charge a big cargo of hard coal.
The three-masted bugeye-shaped schooner
Edna A. Pogue has completed the unloading
of her cargo of lumber and has sailed for
the James river for another cargo.
The ram schooner Lizzie A. Williams
with cargo of lumber and North Carolina
shingles for this port. is in Chesapeake
bay, bound here.
The tug Peerless, having delivered a tow
of coal-laden barges here sailed light, and
Will pick up tow of light barges on her
way down the river
The three-masted schooner VIM Cobb,
laden with plaster, from Red Beach, Maine.
arrived in port last night. She unloaded a
portion OF her cargo at Baltimore and
comes here to complete dscharging
The tug Sandow came into port yesterday
with tow of three coal-laden barpes fer
the dealers here and at Georgetown.