Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-19
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The easterly storm is causing the water
to back up in the river and the tides last
night and again this morning were higher
than they have been for a year or more
Some anxiety was felt lest the water would
get on top of some of the lowlying lumber
and wood wharves and carry away the
lumber stored there, but the tide did not
come above the flooring of the piers and
no damage was done. All the lowlands
on both the Virginia and Maryland sides of
the river were flooded a foot or two deep
and the water was over the sea wall about
the Potomac Park. At Alexandria it food
ed the lower end of the streets running to
the river, and number of the merchants
spent the early portion of the night in their
places of business prepared to move perish
able stock to the second floor had the tide
reached a dangerous height. e..
Arrived: Schooner John p Robinson, cord
wood from Upper Machodoc creek for deal
ers: schooners Fannie Shepherd, Eddie
Cook and Avalon. oysters from Potomac
beds; steam barge E. James Tull light,
barge Lily of the West, lumber from Alex
andria to Fort Washington; tug Powhat-
an, towing scow laden with brick to
Georgetown.
Sailed: Schooner E. P. Evans light, for
river point to load oysters for this
market; barge Catherine Brady, light, for
Occoquan to load railway ties for Philadel-
phia; steam launch Gretchen. a cruise
to North Carolina waters; Mark Stevens,
for a river point to load; schooner Irene,
for the lower river to bring back a cargo
of cord wood for the dealers.
Memoranda: Schooner Thelma has been
chartered to load pine lumber at Jackson
vile, Fla, for this port; schooner John Nc
Ginnis is under charter to, load a cargo of
pine lumber the Rappahannock river for
Philadelphia; schooners Oakland r. Mason
Earl Biscoe, Lottie Carter and scow Daniel
are all at river points loading cargoes of
cord wood for this market; steam barge
f. James Tull has been chartered to take
RATS of pine~pling from Occoquan and
Quantico to the new bridge the Washington
Southern Railway Company is building over
NeabSco creek, Va.
The tug George w. Pride, belonging to
Capt. A. J. Fair, which has been employed
in general towing work on the river, has
gone out of commission and has been laid
up at Alexandria for the winter. She will
remain out of service until the opening of
the fishing season in the coming spring
The little sailing sloop belonging to Judge
Wright and used by him and his friends for
cruising purposes on the river has been
hauled out on the shore at Cumberlands
boathouse and will be given a general over
hauling, cleaning and painting before she
is put into the water again. The harbor
police boat is out on the railway at Ben
netts boatyard for repair work.
The dredging machine belonging to Capt
Augustus Dean of Alexandria has been
chartered to dig 1880 yards of material
from the site of one of the piers of the new
bridge across the Anacostia river, which Is
in process of construction by the Penn
Bridge Company. The little tug D. NJ.
Key has been chartered to assist the tug
James jackson in towing the mud-laden
scows from the machine to the dumping
ground in the river above the Highway
bridge.