Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER C. F. ROEHLE CHANGES
OWNERS AND MASTER.

Inc two-masted bay schooner Charles
f. Roehle. has been sold by her owners In
baltimore to Capt. John F. MARITIME who
VIII reDulld the vessel and will 1t Is
stated assume command of her The YES
SCI IS now at a shfpyard at SharpstoWn
ma, being overhauled She was built at
Pocomoke City in 1883 for the bay trade
and has been in this service almost con-
tlnuousiy since she was built, She is a
vessel OF sixty-seven tons burden fs sew
ehty-seven feet long and has been a fire.
quent visitor here with lumber and other
cargoes. captain Martina. 1t is understood
VIII continue her in the bay trade.
Captain Albert Ross, who has been the
inspector Of United States naval GOLFERS
Tor a year or more has been relieved from
tnat duty and been appointed a member
OF the lighthouse board, with headquarters
in this city.
There was good supply Of all kinds of
fresh fish, except shad on sale at the
wholesale fish market on the wharf this
morning. but the demand for the fish was
but light The shad and herring fishing
season Is drawing to a close rapidly less
than 200 shad and 500 herring being on sale
at the wharf this morning. Gray trout and
salt water fish were plentiful.
oysters aboard vessels from the bed In
the river are scarce, but a supply sufficient
to meet the demand is coming from Nor
folk.
Two vessels laden with CLAIMS from the
eastern shore of Virginia came into port
this mornlng and are the first clam-laden
boats to arrive here this season. They sell
at 65 cents per hundred
Some few hard-sheIled crabs are on sale
but few. If any, soft crabs are being
brought to market.
The United States army cable laying
ship Cyrus w. Field returned to Fort
Washington from this city Friday morn
ing. Yesterday shs took up old cable
which ran from Fort Washington to Fort
Hunt, and will sail for Fort Monroe to do
some cable laying work about that post
The army torpedo planter, Major Ring
gold, will remain at Fort Washington until
about July l.
clam shell dredging machine Is at
work deepening the water in front of the
new pier recently built between the Nor
folk line wharf and the Mt Vernon line
pier. 1t Is stated the new pier Is to be
used as coaling pier for the steamer
Charles Manchester, and the deepening of
the water is made necessary in order TO
dock coal-laden barges alongside the pier
SO that they may unload their cargoes
The little power launch Billy, which was
hauled out on the marine railway at Rea-
cams boatyard to repair damaged wheel
has been put overheard ready for service
The power sloop Two Friends and the
launch Avon, which were on the railway
with the Billy, have also been launched and
are again In commission.
General River Matters.
Alexandria to be hauled out on the marine
railway, there to be fitted with new
wheel and for some minor repair work
The iron to be used on the boiler of the
steamer I. V. Arrowsmith has, 1t is stated
arrived and the rebuilding of the boiler will
be resumed at once. Work will be pushed
in order to have the steamer ready for ex-
cursion business on the river as soon as
possible: When the boiler of the Smith"
is completed it will be practically new
Capt. Theodore Keene has assumed the
command of the yacht Gretchen and is
making her ready for her mort hern trip.
Capt. Walter Posey has recovered from
his recent Illness and has returned to the
command of the tug George W. Pride
Capt. George Davis has been made master
of the tug Baby OF the Columbia Sand Com
panyS fleet.
The big sand digging machine OF the Po-
tomac Dredging Company has completed
her work at Mattawonan creek and has
returned to her regular digging grounds in
Piscatway creek.
The steamer Lily and Howard has sailed
for Wades bay. on the lower Potomac and
will there load railway ties for this city
On her way up she will stop at Occoquan
and pick up big raft of piles to be
brought here for use in the railway tunnel
work now going on under Capitol hill.
There will be about 800 piles in the raft
The schooners Leroy II. Seymour and
Annie Mills are among the recent arrivals
in part with cargoes of cord wood from the
lower Potomac consigned to local dealers
The bugeye Annie s. Croswell lis in port
with a load of salted herring from the fish,
packing houses on the lower river for COM
mission dealers here
The two-masted schooner Murray Van
diver has arrived with a cargo Of about a
hundred thousand feet of pine lumber from
the Rappahannock river.
The big four-masted schooner A. Starr
Jones, which unloaded cargo of phosphate
rock at Alexandria, has been chartered to
load railway ties there for Boston,
The schoonels John McCabe and J. A.
Cunningham are in port from the lower
river. with cargoes of Virginia pine lumber
The barges Ellen s. Jennings and Provost
are at Alexandria unloading cargoes OF
hard coal from Philadelphia. They each