Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-06
ON THE RIVER FRONT
POWER YACHT ISABELLE TO GO
OUT OF COMMISSION.

| The yawl-rigged power launch s;eabelle,
| belonging to Mr. Henry Seymour of this
! city. which has but recently returned from
/ trip of several weeks duration, to New
| London and other points on the New Eng
| land coast, is to go out of commission at
| once and will be laid up until spring.
| Workmen are now employed in stripping
her of all her furnishings. sails, small boats
and the like, which will be stored at Ben
netts boatyard, and the boat itself will be
| taken to the tidal basin and berthed in q
| sheltered place, where she will be out of
| danger from the drifting ice and the storms
during the winter months. The Seabelle is
the first of the large pleasure craft go
out of service this season at this city, Vile
delightful weather making boating trips on
| the river more pleasant than they were IN
] midsummer. The general laying up of the
| pleasure craft will begin about the first OF
next month. when fully half the pleasure
! boats owned here will be hauled out and
put under shelter for the winter months.
There was an excellent demand for fresh
| fish at the wholesale fish market on the
| 11th street wharf this morning and the de-
| mand was quite brisk. Prices are steady
| at the figures of the past week Rock, cat
| fish, trout, butterflsh and blues were on
1 sale
| Five vessels, with about SEQ bushels of
| oysters in all aboard, arrived at the oyster
|
| on the lower Potomac. The demand for the
| bivalves is good and they selling at
| prices ranging from so cents to 20 cents
! per buShel.
| Hard crabs, in quantities ample to meet
| the demand, are still being received by the
| wholesale dealers at the wharf from river
and bay sources. This morning they sold
| at $1.50 to So per barrel
Capt. Pete Baggott and James Petit have
| recently purchased a small sloop, and have
| her al Alexandria, at the Jones' Point boat
yard, being overhauled and put in order for
service. The boat will be made ready to
stand rough weather, and will be taken by
her owners on extended hunting trips this
| fall.
The work of recovering the hurricane
deck of the Randall Line steamer Wake
held with heavy canvas, to make 1t water
| tight and the overhauling of the machin-
! cry of the vessel will be completed within
| the next few Gays and the steamer will
| be ready for active service. AS soon as she
comes out she will resume her place on
| the Maddox creek route, relieving the
steamer Harry Randall, which will return
to the Nomini route The steamer 7. "
| Arrowsmith, on the Nomini route, will
| go out of service when relieved by the
Randall
| three-masted schooner laden with lum-
| Der for this city is reported hard and fast
ashore on the bar at Windmill Point. on
| Chesapeake bay. The vessel is supposed
| TO be the schooner Edna A. Pogue on her
way to this city from Norfolk. The tug
stranded vessel and though she pulled at
| her for several hours, the tug could not get
the vessel afoat. She may have to be
fghtened of a portion of her cargo be-
fore she is gotten Off the bar.
General River Matters.
The steamer Gov Mclean, the MARYLAND
| oyster police steamer. has returned to duty
on the lower Potomac. under the command
of Commander T. C. B. Howard the COM
ha md
Howard will conduct a vigorous campaign
against the Illegal dredgers and has given
notice that he proposes to put stop to the
taking of small oysters and shells from the
beds In the river. Numerous arrests have
| been made this season, and in each case the
Maryland magistrates have imposed heavy
| fines.
The Philadelphia barge Howard l.: Nefr
has loaded cargo Of railway ties at Lower
Cedar Point, on the Potomac and will take
them to Philadelphia via the Chesapeake
and Delaware canal. The tug Emma will
tow her to Chesapeake City.
The steam barge e. James Tull has ar
rived In port from Aqua creek with cargo
OF about 100000 feet of pine lumber cont
signed to the local dealers
The schooner Isaac Solomon, with a cargo
of about thirty cords of pine wood aboard,
has arrived in port from the lower river,
consigned to dealers.
The schooner E. S. Johnson has arrived
here with cargo of canned goods from a
Chesapeake bay port, and is at the 9th street
wharf unloading cargo.
The schooner Lottie Carter has been taken
to Georgetown wharf to discharge a cargo
of pine wood from the lower river
The tug M. Mitchell Davis, after deliver
ing the barkentine Shawmut here sailed at
once for the capes of the Chesapeake to
bring back vessels bound here.
l. The schooner Herald, which unIoaded a
cargo of crude asphalt here last week, has
sailed again for Havana, and will there load
another cargo of asphalt for this city.
schooner lanes h. Anderson of
yesterday under charter to go to the York
port.
The schooner Mary Gailard has completed
the discharging of cargo of shingles and
will return to Elizabeth City, N c. to load
a cargo for Baltimore.
Officer j. E. Preston of the harbor police
precinct, who was painfully injured several
weeks ago by being struck by a fast-mov-
| Ing car on Water street in front of the har-
| Dor station, and who has been confined to
| his bed by the accident, has recovered and
| is again on duty.
| The steam barge Daniel X. Jackson is still
doing duty tender to the contractors
| building the new Highway bridge Capt.
Owens expects to terminate his charter in
about months time and will at once re-
| turn to service on the river.
The steam launch Little Angus which
| was launched from the railway at Reagan's
| ice and is towing for her owners, the Po-
| tomac Dredging Company
|
| KIDNAPPED BOY RETURNED.