Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-05
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
NEW PIER TO BE BUILT NEAR
OLD sTIFF's WHARF.
Launch Rebecca w. in Service-Ad-
ditional Boats for Canal Business
-Harbor Notes.

Plans are being prepared so it is stated
oil the river, for the building of a new
wharf in King George county Va, short
distance above where Stiffs wharf former
ly stood, and when the wharf is completed
i. will be used as public steamboat land
ing. Stin's wharf was regularly carried
away by the ice each winter and the last
time the ice removed it It's owners would
not have 1t rebuilt, and the business for
merly done there was transferred to Stu
arts wharf. This is rather unhandy for
many OF the farmers who formerly used
Stif's as they had to drive a long distance
to reach Stuart's, and they have arranged
with the owner of the property to build
wharf on 1t. The pier, 1t is stated Is to
be built within the next few months and
will be put on the schedule of the river line
boats, and regular landings will be made
at 1t.
There was but poor demand for fresh
fish of all kinds at the wholesale fish mar
ket on the wharf this morning and the sup
ply was also light and came principally
from the James river. Fish from the nets
In the Potomac are scarce and high.
Over 100 barrels of hard crabs have been
brought up from the nets in the river to
the dealers at the wharf since yesterday
morning, and while the demand for them
barrel. Soft crabs are on sale at SOC to
40c per dozen wholesale. CLANS are being
received in good quantities and sell at 60c.
to roc per 100, with good demand Oysters
are also on sale, but the demand for them
is light
The season at the down-river excursion
resorts opens regularly today, and from
now until the middle of next September
daily trips will be made by the steamers
to Colonial Beach, Coltons, st. Georges Is
land and to points in the st. Mary's river,
Nd, and Coan river, Va. The outlook for
busy season at the river resorts is said to
be particularly bright.
The new power launch Rebecca w. be-
longing to Mr.. Don Williamson of this
city, went into commission yesterday for
the first time, when she took her owner and
a party on a trip on the river. The Re
becca w. was built and fitted out at Ben
retts boatyard this summer, and Is
handsome little craft. She will be used for
short trips on the river during this summer
The new piers of the Norfolk and Wash
iilgton Steamboat Company were decorated
with new bunting yesterday. From the
high f1agpole on the center of the new
building big American flag few and Nor
folk and Washington ferry and Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company were In
scribed on the flags that surmounted the
entrances to the two piers. This is the
first time the new building has been deco
rated.
General River Matters.
Trips on the canal from Georgetown to
the Great Falls are becoming more popu-
lar this season than ever before. For sew
eral years past the launch Louise has been
employed in the service, and recently an
other large launch has been added to the
canal feet. Before the summer Is over
the launch Dixie, which is now being re-
built and made ready for service, will also
be placed the canal, and will carry
raIa
way.
A force of hands will be started to work
at Benefits boatyard within the next day
or two to make the excavations necessary
before the work of laying the bed pieces
of the new marine railway can be started
The new railway, as has been stated, is
designed for the hauling out of small craft
and Is to be ready for use before the busy
fall season begins.
Work, it is stated is being pushed on
the new freight carrying barge which is
Low building at the boatyard of NJ M
Davis Son. at Solomon's Island Nd for
service on the Potomac river. The barge
Is to be ready for service early In the COM
ing month, and will be used to carry wood
and other cargoes from points on the lower
river to this city. The new barge Is to be
fitted with 1OO-horsepower gasoline mo-
tor, and will be the only vessel on the river
so equipped.
The schooner Thomas Richardson, laden
with pine lumber from Virginia ports has
arrived in port and Is lying in the stream
waiting a vacant berth at which she can
discharge her cargo.
The schooner Edith Verrall. laden with
cord wood, has arrived in port and will I'M
load at the wharf foot of 10th street.
The schooner Sidonia Curley is under
charter TO bring a cargo of boards from the
Rappahannock river to the dealers here.
Barge 10, 1t is stated, will go to Georgetown
for a cargo of coal as soon as she completes
the discharging of her cargo of ice at the
American Ice Company's pier foot of 10th
street.
The steam launch India. which was pur-
chased from parties in Alexandria, has been
put in service on the canal, taking excur-
sion parties up that waterway.
The big steam yacht Carmen of New
her owner and his family aboard. sailed
later in the day, and will return to her
home port with only her crew aboard
The Baltimore tug Pickwick tender to the
dredge at work in the river near the White
House, spent the holiday yesterday in port
here, while several of the members of her
crew were at their homes in Baltimore for
the day.
The Fourth was so generally observed
about the harbor that nearly all the tug
boats were laid up for the day, and their
crews given a holiday ashore
Capt. George Cook, master of the launch
Little Angus, in the service of the Potomac
Dredging Company, is In the city on short
leave of absence. The launch is lying at
the 9th street wharf waiting Capt Cook s
return to duty.
The barges Martha McCabe and j. c.
Easton We're brought into post yesterday by
the tug Emma from Norfolk.