Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE AT
ALEXANDRIA PIERS.

The improvements recently made and
those now being made viii. when completed.
greatly improve the appearance OF the Al
exandria water front. The old broken
down wharf and ferry slip formerly used
by the ferry line between this city and
Alexandria, has been torn down and in its
place q handsome and modern ferry house
and slip has been erected by the Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat Company Of this
city.
The Alexandria Chemical Company,
operating an extensive fertilizer making
plant at Alexandria, has recently acquir--
ed the wharf property at the foot of Queen
street. 1t is having the docks about the
property deepened and will build large piers
and docks for the unloading of large YES
sells.
On the wharf used by the Marshall Hall
steamer a waiting room and warehouse Is
being built and other improvements being
made.
1t Is stated that the new pier built by
the Mutual Ice Company will be extended
twenty feet and a large warehouse will be
placed on it, and the pier used as a steam
boat landing. These new wharves take the
place of old tumbledown structures.
There was an excellent demand for fresh
fish Of all kinds at the wholesale fish mar
ket on the wharf, but the supply was very
away up-higher than they have been for
some time.
Seventeen vessels with melons aboard
were lying at the 18th street wharf this
morning. and the demand was fair at
prices ranging from 81 to SO per hundred
The supply Of crabs hand at the
wharf market this morning fair and
the demand was good. They sold at $50
to 81 per barrel.
The schooner Aletnea. which has unload
ed cargo of lumber here, has been taken
TO the Alexandria shipyard and hauled
out on the marine railway there for clean
Ing and cauking of her hull and for such
other repair work may be necessary to
put the schooner in good order. She will be
put overheard today and will go to Vir-
gin1a lumber port to load a cargo of lumber
for this city
Repairs to Walkways.
The work Of rebuilding the walkway from
Reagan's boat house to the floats at which
the pleasure craft are berthed has been
resumed, the necessary permit from the
building inspectors office having been OBJ
tanned. Capt. Reagan is doing the work
himself. using home-built pile driver to
sink the piles into the bottom of the dock.
The new work at Reagan's will be COM
pleted tomorrow. The building of the new
walkway from the foot of 9th street to the
boathouse of the Capital Yacht Club, which
was started a few days ago has been stop
ped, 1T being necessary to obtain a permit
for the work from the District authorities.
Work on the walkway will be resumed in a
day two.
A large sloop-rigged boat owned by Mr..
Thomas Smith of this city is lying at
Whyte's boatyard. at the foot of Water
street, being fitted with a new cabin and
having other work done that will make her
a comfortable craft for summer trips on
the river. The vessel, when ready for serv-
Ice, will have accommodations aboard for
several persons, and will be one of the
largest of the sailing boats of the local fleet
of pleasure craft. She will be ready for
service in the fall Mr.. Whyte also has the
large skipjack Oneida in his boathouse to
have her freeboard raised and to have other
improvements made in her.
1t Is stated that the receipts Of lumber
have been so heavy during the past ten
days at this city that all the wharves are
filled up with 1t. and that the vessels now
arriving can find no place to put out their
cargoes. Many hundred thousand feet of
lumber are piled on the local wharves.
Mr.. Charley Carter has sufficiently recov-
cred from his recent operation as to be able
to return to his desk again.
The work OF rebuilding the pier at the
foot of 1914 street, for the unloading of
undertaken craft is being delayed waiting
the arrival of pile-driver to drive the piles
that will form the crib Of the new struc-
ture. The washing out of the crib caused
this pier to fall In when a load Of sand was
placed on 1t several months ago.
The Passing Craft.
The schooner Edith VerraL, laden with
pine wood from river point, has arrived
at Georgetown consigned to the dealers
there.
The steam barge E. James Tull has ar
rived in port from Aqua creek with car
go of about 10000 feet of pine boards con-
signed to local dealers.
The tug Camilla came into port yesterday
afternoon with lumber-laden barge be-
longing to johnson & Wimsatt In tow from
Occoquan The barge has a cargo of about
100000 feet of boards aboard.
The sailing scow Daniel is lying at an AL
exandria coal pier loading cargo of soft
coal for the ice-making plant and electric
light works at Colonial Beach
The tug George w. Pride, which was
raised Wednesday from the dock in which
she sank, has gone into service again and
is employed in towing mud-laden scows for
a dredging machine employed in deepening
the water in an Alexandria dock.
Some minor alterations are to be made in
the equipment Of the harbor police tug
Vigilant to fit her for license to carry pas
sengers unde rthe new regulations of the
United States steamboat inspection service
1t is expected she will be out of service for
a day or two, and while she is laid up the
harbor force will patrol the river in this vi
entity in small boats.
The barge F. w. Comisky was berthed
at Alexandria yesterday by the tug San
dow to unload a cargo of fertilizer ma
terial The barge comes from Baltimore.
The schooner Lemuel Kirman has ar
rived in port with cargo of cord wood
Mr.. Herman NJ. Grimes of the Randall
line has gone with a party on a ten-day
trip to Niagara and northern New York
Baltimore and Return, Baltimore and
Ohio r. r.,
Every Saturday and Sunday $1.25 All
trai inc