Evening star., 1905-10-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ELECTRIC LAUNCH TRANSFORM
INTO POWER CRAFT.

The handsome electric power launch
Admiral Dewey, which has been used to
carry pleasure parties about on the canal
at River View, has been transformed into
gasoline power boat, and will be put In
service the river. The launch will be
known as the Enid" She has been
equipped with a six-horse-power engine
and has speed of about seven miles an
hour. The Enid Is about thirty feet long,
and will comfortably carry twelve or If
teen persons. She will be fitted with
cabin, which will be heated for service
during cold weather. and is to be used
for hunting trips on the river and for trips
to and from River View in the spring.
She will have her headquarters at River
View. When completed. the Enid will be
cne Of the handsomest boats on the river.
The arrival of a lath-laden vessel in port
here Is welcomed by every dealer in lum-
Der in the city. the demand for laths hav-
ing been very heavy for several weeks
past and the receipts of them particularly
light. The dealers state that the price
OF laths at the mills has advanced fully
twenty-five per cent in the past three
months and is going higher, and they are
hard to obtain at any price. The shortage
Is said to be due to the heavy demand for
laths in the northern markets., and the
mills in North Carolina and Virginia are
3.
1t Is also stated that the cargo of over a
million laths brought here on the barken-
tine Shawmut. now unloading at the 18th
street wharf was sold before they were
out of the vessel.
The river schooners Farmers Friend and
Uriah Horner are hauled out the marine
railway at the Alexandria shpyard and
will have their hulls caulked and painted,
and will be put in good order for efficient
service on the river, carrying wood and
lumber cargoes from river points to this
city during the fall and early winter. The
vessels will be launched, ready for service,
early this week. The schooner Sidonia
Curley arrived light at Alexandria yester-
day, and 1t is understood she will haul out
for her fall overhauling.
General Port News.
AS the longboat Peri was on her way up
the river with a cargo of cordwood from
Aqua creek Thursday last she was caught
by flaw in the breeze, and before her
mainsail could be lowered 1t was cut In
strips by the wind and carried away. The
longboat was making her way up the river
under her remaining sails when the tug
Camilla picked her up and brought her into
port here.
A party Of about sixty members Of the
Maryland Tobacco Leaf Association made
trip to Mount Vernon on the steamer
Charles Manchester yesterday morning, and
party of about sixty young ladies. pupils
of Miss Summers school, also visited the
tomb of Washington on the same trip.
Both parties returned home yesterday cven-
ing.
The power launch Louise K, with a party
of about ten persons aboard. left here yes
terday morning for cruise of several
days the river. The party will visit
Mattawoman creek and OccoQuan, and will
engage in hunting and fishing.
The work OF overhauling the steamer
Wakefield has been completed, and the
CT ,n1 hnr ynvo Ny1 kIo M
creek route this morning. She relieves the
steamer Harry Randall, which will resume
her trips on the Nomini and Lower Macho-
doc route as soon as minor repair work on
her is completed. The steamer Arrowsmith
now on the Nomini route. is to go to Balti-
more to go in a dry dock, as soon as the
Randall returns to duty.
The barge Arasapha was brought into
port yesterday by the tug Volunteer, and
was berthed at the foot Of X street to un-
load cargo Of about 100000 feet OF pine
boards from Norfolk On her way up the
river the Volunteer delivered the barge
Howard in Occoquan creek to load a cargo
of sulphur ore.
The Freight Handlers.
The schooner Bertha May has arrived in
port with cargo of about thirty-fve cords
of pine wood from a river point consigned
to dealers.
In addition to the laths the barkentine
Shawmut has aboard. she brought about
100000 feet of spruce lumber from st.
Johns. N. B., for use as flooring in one
OF the new buildings in process of erection
in this city.
The Willie Clarance and John Mills are
recent arrivals here from the lower river
beds with oysters in the shell aboard
The tug Camilla arrived in port yesterday
with tow of three small wood and oyster
laden vessels from the lower Potomac.
The schooner Kate Darlington has COM
pleted the unloading of cargo of hollow
York river for load of lumber for New
York.
Capt Bob Brown of the tug James o.
Carter has gone to Occoquan on fishing
expedition, and has promised to supply his
friends with a quantity of bass on his re-
turn home.