Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW MARINE RAILWAY TO BE
BUILT AT ALEXANDRIA.
Ice Piow for Army Tug Warren-Brush
Fires About Asylum
Marine Notes.

new marine railway WILL it is stated.
be constructed early in the spring at Deans
boatyard at Alexandria and will be ready
to haul vessels before the busy season at
the boatyards sets in. The new railway
VIII be 100 feet long, and will be built of
heavy timber. so that any of the big boats
and most of the sailing craft that come up
the Potomac can be hauled out on it. Steam
power Will be used in raising and lowering
vessels, and the railway will be modern in
It's appliances. The berth for the railway
cradle in which vessels will rest was pre-
pared about. a year ago and the constrllc-
ton of the plant can be pushed when
started The new railway is badly needed.
as the big railway at Alexandria is the
only one in this vicinity on which large yes-
seis can be taken from the water and dur
ing the greater part of the year it was diff
cult to ind the railway vacant for hurry
repair job.
There was good supply and an excel
lent demand for all varieties of fresh fish
at the wholesale fish market on the nth
street wharf this morning. and sales were
made at the prices quoted yesterday The
disappearance of the ice from the creeks
has enabled the fishermen 10 put their nets
to work again for the local market
About 1900 bushels of oysters are still
ABOARD boats lying at the oyster wharf.
Ine demand was rather light this morning
The bivalves could be bought this morn
ing from Goc. to Si.2o per busheI
ne old naval steamer Phlox was torn
Gown at Alexandria last fall. leaving only
nef nun. and 1t is now stated this will he
DESTROYED this spring for the metal that is
IN IT. The hull is now in the cove Just
north or Alexandria. 1t will be beached a
snort distance from where she lies and
VIII ne set on fire and burned in order to
ger at the copper and other metal used to
fasten her tmbers together
Inc United States army engineers de-
ON
poatyard at Alexandria. to be measured for
new ice pillow. The Gen. Warren is used
by the engineer officers of the army to visit
Fort Washington and Fort Hunt or inenoc-
lioh TRIPS. ana as IL is necessary for her IN
run when ice is in the river the tug Is to he
fitted with a plow ~ ~
General River Notes.
Several large brush fires were burning n,
the hills about the Government HospitaI for
the insane yesterday afternoon The fire
covered several acres and the flames could
De seen from the wharves here.
The big flag pole built at Cumberlands
Doat yard for the marine barracks was
Wednesday loaded on wagons and taken to
the site at the barracks where n is 80 ~
erected ~ "
The schooner C. C. Wheeler will go to
boatyard on Chesapeake bay to be fitted
with a new foremost and a new maintop-
mast. These spars were lost in a suuau
to this city. - '"o fe'0ei
The steamer Wakefield will leave here
shortly for the Newport News shipyard for
extensive repair work to her hull and to
nave her engine and boiler put in thorough
order for service.
Capt. Gregory Mullin has been elected
delegate from Rescue Harbor, Association
of Masters and Pilots, of Baltimore to the
national convention of the steamboat men
which opens in this city Monday next.
The Maryland Dredging Company's
dredge Chesapeake, which has been lying
at Alexander for several weeks past. Is
being overhauied and put in thorough order
to resume the deepening of the water in the
channels in this vicinity as soon as the
weather will allow.
Beyond the carrying away of Stiff's wharf
on the Virginia side of the river by the
ice, which occurs every winter, it is stated
that all of the wharves remain unframed
so far this season, although the ice has
been quite heavy once twice. Last Win
ter there was hardly a wharf left on the
Potomac that was not more or less injured
by the ice.
The bugeye Mary Evis is lying at Alex
andria. discharging a cargo of oysters for
the dealers there.
The steamer E. James Tull. it is stated.
is lying in the lower river loading a cargo
of lumber for this city
Now that the river is open and there is
no immediate prospect of another freeze
the masters of number of vessels that
have been tied up here for the past six
weeks are making preparations to Join the
first tow going to the lower river.
The schooner Levin Woolford has COM
peted the d1scharging of a cargo of conduit
pipe at Fort Washington and Fort Hunt
and will sail for the lower Potomac
The tug William H. Yerkes. jr., of this
city left Baltimore yesterday for bay points
with seven light vessels in tow. Unless she
finds tow for Baltimore. it is stated tho
tug will come to this city in few days.