Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER MAKES QUICK RUN
FROM MAINE TO POTOMAC.
Barge Mystery a Visitor Here - Re-
building Wharves on Lower
Potomac-Marine Notes.

nv iou -hidsted schooner Mary L. New
nan was Drought into port yesterday after
noon py the tug Camilla and berthed AT
| the 9Th street wharf of the American Ice
| Company. to discharge her cargo The
| schooner has aboard about 200 tons OF ice
from the Maine ice fields for local consumn-
| tion She sailed from Bath. June 4 and
win IaVor1ng breezes had a quick run down
me coast. coming in the capes OF The
chesapeake saturday. The tug VIM II
'eihes' IT.. picked her up in Chesapeake
pay. and started for this city with her
Down the river she was met by the ing
| camilla. which relieved the Yerkes of tho
| town, and brought her to this CITY making
ner last to the wharf here exactly one
week AFTER the vessel had sailed from tho
| port in the north. This trip. and the rrin
| OF the schooner Hattie 2. Simpson. are the
| record ones for the season
mere are now in port here five large
.esseis unloading cargoes of ice whose to-
.ai cargoes viii amount TO about 800 tons
rms Ice is being stored for use in this city
during the coming hot weather
The supply of fresh fish on hand at the
wholesale fish market the 18th street
wharf this morning was ample to meet the
demand. and consisted of trout butter
hsh and a small supply of catfish and other
varieties from Potomac river sources In
consequence of the enforcement of the laws
against CRYING wares on streets. the huck-
STEERS are not buying, claiming they cannot
Crabs. both soft and hard shelled. were
on the market, but the demand was heavier
than the supply, and prices keep up to ~
cents and 81 per dozen for soft and sl2J
10 SlJo per hundred for hard CLAIMS are
plentiful and the demand for them is good
Inc schooner Winfield s. Schuster four
master, which is discharging a cargo of
fertilizer material at Alexandria. is paying
her second visit to Potomac waters About
year ago. when just launched she cs~ae
70 TINS port with big cargo of ice from
Maine Since that time she has been cruis-
ing on the Atlantic coast from Maine TO
FLORIDA. On this trip she brings a cargo
from Florida port. The Schuster is a
vessel of 1.4S1 tons burden. and is one OF
the Potomac.
The power barge Mystery of Baltimore ~
one of the latest visitors to this port and
1t is stated she will remain here through
out the summer. The vessel Is equipped
with a gasoline power engine, driving a
propeller wheel that gives her a speed of
several miles an hour. She has a roomy
house and looks like a comfortable craft
She is As feet long. 13 feet wide, and IL
feet deep. and was built at Washington,
N. c., In 1900.
Repairs to Wharves and Vessels.
The rebuilding of Drills wharf Lower
Cedar Point, on the Potomac is rapidly
approaching completion and II will be
ready for service within the next few DAYS
AS soon the work is completed there the
pile driver and force of wharf builders will
60 to Colonial Beach TO complete the pier
there, the work which was temporarily
stopped for want of material. These
wharves were badly damaged by drifting
ice during the past winter.
The tug Agnes Miller, a dredging ma
chine and several scows belonging to Mr..
John Miller have been taken to Liverpool
Point, on the river, where, it is stated
they will be oyerhauled and painted
fore being brought back to this city to
resume service.
Several of the large sand and gravel car
rying scows belonging to one of the local
sand dredging companies at the Alex
andria shipyard, to be given overhaul
ing and to be made ready for active serv-
ice. The Washington-owned schooner, Sam
uel Wood, is on the big marine railway at
Alexandria for extensive repairs to her
hull. before she loads n cargo of railway
ties for Philadelphia.
Mr.. Augustus Deane of Alexandria has
gone to Colonial Beach to look after some
repair work on which one of his wharf
building machines Is employed
The tide of travel to Colonial Beach and
the other resorts on the river is growing
heavier each day although the season VIII
rot reach its height until about July 4 the
cottagers are engaged in fitting up the
summer homes preparatory to moving INTO
them.
Vessels Coming and Going.
The tug James o. Garter yesterday took
the barges Howard n. Neff and John J.
Brady, both laden with hard coal from
Chesapeake City, to Georgetown to unload
their cargoes The barges have aboard
about 500 tons each of fuel.
The schooner NJ Coulbourn has arrived
with a cargo of laths aboard, consigned TO
local dealers She comes from Norfolk
The schooner Susan E. Porter is in port
with a cargo of shingles aboard from a
North Carolina port. She is berthed at the
wharf foot of 18th street to discharge her
cargo.
The bugeye A. j. Lawson is lying at the
Of ETY.
of shingles from a Virginia port
The schooner Nettie of Alexandria mas
arrived at Georgetown with a cargo Oh
cordwood from the lower Potomac
The schooner Francis NJ. Capt Hdsan,
has completed the unloading of her cargo
of ice and has gone to the shlpyaru at
Newport News, where she Will go INTO i
drvdock for an overhauling.
The schooners r. NJ. Blundon. Loreha
Rrambel A. c. Eaton and MaylioWer are
among the recent arrivals in port with
cargoes of cordwood from points on me
lower Potomac
The favoring breezes have brought
number of lumber laden vessels into port
in the past twenty-four hours. in the heet
are the schooners Farmers Friend, VIM
"a Mcguire and Maud s., all from VIZ
ginia lumber points.
The sloop Daisy, with a general cargo
aboard from Alexandria, has sailed Tor
Piscataway creek points, sonslgned 10 n@f-
abo,+c doing business on the creek.