Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-03
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
PLEASURE CRAFT PREPARING
FOR 4TH OF JULY TRIPS.
New Schooner for Chesapeake Trade
Warships Not to Visit Washing
ton-Marine Notes.

Every power launch sailing craft used
for pleasure purposes on the river Is being
made ready for trip down the Potomac.
with party aboard to spend the Fourth.
The larger part of the feet will sail this
afternoon. and those that are left in port
Will get away early In the morning The
exodus will be general. and by noon tomor-
row. 1t is safe to say. that there will not be
a pleasure craft that Is in service left at
the yacht anchorages Many OF the YES
sells with power aboard Will make Colonial
Beach their objective point. while the sail
Ing craft will visit the resorts nearer home.
The day will be spent on the river and by
the morning of July all the fleet win be
back at their anchorages. Already a large
throng has gone to Colonial Beach and
other points on the river to spend the holt
day, and the outlook Is that the steamers
will go crowded from this city this evening
and tomorrow morning, The nearby river
resorts are anticipating big crowds on the
Fourth and arrangements are being made
to handle the throng with extra steamers,
Should 1t be necessary.
There was q small supply of fresh Ash on
sale at the wholesale fish market on the 11th
street wharf this morning. but the demand
for them was quite small and they are SELL
ing at rather low prices
Crabs are becoming more plentiful. and
the steamers arriving up from the lower
river yesterday evening and last night
drought over Il hundred barrels. The good
grades OF crabs sold from $f.50 to $3.50 per
barrel but uniform grades sold much lower.
CLAIMS are. in good demand and the supply
on hand Is excellent. They are selling al
II ON 80 cents to 20 cents per hundred.
new ram schooner is to be built at a
Bath, Me. shipyard for parties in Balu-
more, and will be used In the lumber trade
on Chesapeake bay. The new craft is to be
10 feet. long, will have d beam of 80 feet
and will be 1917 feet deep in the hold. The
schooner, when completed will be the
largest vessel Of her class afloat and Will
| carry cargo of several hundred thousand
feet OF lumber. She Is to be ready for
vice In the early part OF the coming win
ter and will be commanded by Capt. Will
liam j. Quillan. now master of the schooner
Sallie c. Marvil Of Bethel. Del
The French cruiser Jurien de la Graviere
and the Brazilian naval training ship Ben
jamin Constant will not visit this port,
was reported they were about to do. Both
vessels. IT is stated, have passed out of the
harbor at Hampton roads bound to north
ern ports. River men We're anxious that the
vessels should come up the Potomac, as a
visit from the ships would have been the
means of bringing other naval vessels here
as visitors
The steam launch Runaway of Alexandria
took party of young people on pleasure
|. trip down the river yesterday morning. The
start from this city was made about $50
O'Clock and the resorts along the river were
visited. The steam launch Samuel w. SUIT
ton was also out with party aboard yes
terday.
General River Matters.
The big tug Mitchell Davis. which is now
at Baltimore for her annual inspection. will
come to this city as soon as the United
States steamboat inspectors are through
with her. This visit will be the first she
has made here for several months since she
began work under charter at Newport
News. Capt. Tally Fowkes of the Davis is
in the city a visit to his family.
The steamer Gen. ]. A. Dumont, which
left here a day or two ago for Baltimore.
her home port, made the trip in safety
under the command of Capt Scott. The
steamer will be employed in running char
ter excursions out of Baltimore during the
| remainder of the summer.
The tugboat A. J. Hole, which sank in
| the river at Wikerson's wharf about a
month ago, has not yet been foated, al
| though several efforts to bring her uD have
| been made. The last effort to raise her was
| made last week. but like several prior at
! tempts failure, and the tug is still on
| the bottom. What her owners will now do
| is not known.
The houseboat of the Diamond Back Club
| of this city. which was sunk early in the
spring by the ice pulling the caulkug out
| of a seam, has been raised and the leaking
seam stopped up. The boat it is stated.
viii be overhauled and painted and made
ready for the fall hunting season on the
| lower Potomac. The houseboat, when the
| hunting season opens, Will be taken down
| point and will be used as the headquarters
of the clubs members their hunting
| trips down the river. The Diamond Backs
| houseboat Is with one exception the largest
on the river.
New wheat is now coming from down the
river to the mills here and at Alexand
| in large quantities, and will be made up into
| flour for local consumption. Yesterday af
ternoon the steamer Harry Randall. on her
regular trip from down the river brought
up several hundred red bags of the grain
! from the wharves In Westmoreland county.
Va. About five hundred bags were landed
at Alexandria and the remainder was
brought up to this city. The shipments of
new wheat will continue heavy from this
| time until the fall. The down river farm
| ers are said to be holding the grain in the
| hope of better prices.
| The tug William II. Yerkes, Jr. of this
| city went in TO Baltimore Saturday with d
! large four-masted schooner in tow. She
| will return to the caDes on the lookout for
ice-laden vessels bound here
| The schooner Zach. Sherman has COM
pleted the unloading of a cargo of about
| 200 tons of Kennebec river ice and has
gone to Newport News for a cargo to a port
! in New England.
| The schooner Joseph G.. Ray. laden with
| a cargo of railway ties from Alexandria,
! has arrived at Boston. her destination.
The big schooner Mary L. Newhall which
| unloaded cargo of Ice here a few days
| ago. In going out of Baltimore harbor Sat
| urday, bound for Savannah, went ashore
near Sparrow Point and stuck fast.
The schooner Nellie and Matte has been
| berthed at the wharf foot of X street
| southwest, to discharge cargo of pine lum-
| Der from the lower river.
Mr.. Mitte Grimes of the Randall line has
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