Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The new office building under construc-
ton for the Washington and Potomac
Steamboat Company at the pier betv cen Nj
and n streets used by the River view
and Colonial Beach steamers is rapidly ap-
proaching completion and will be ready for
use before the opening of the excursion
season. The exterior wood of the build
ing is all completed, and the workmen are
now employed in finishing up the interior
The building will have four rooms. two on
the first floor and two on tie second. The
first floor rooms will be used for ucket
office and store room and the offices or the
company's excursion bu; ness VIII De on
the second floor. Within the next week the
carpenters will be through the interior work
and then the pebble dash will be put on
the front of the building, which VIII be
one of the neatest on the r. er 'front.'
The big Philadelphia barges Magnolia and
Wescott laden with gravel and broken
stone for the Jamestown exposition grounds,
sailed from Alexandria in tow of tug
Saturday, and 1t Is stated mat put lew
more loads of the gravel remain to be
shipped. Many hundred tons of gravel have
been sent from Alexandria to the EXPOSE
ton grounds during the past three months
for use in thes construction work going on
there Large quantities of the material
also have been shipped in barge and schoon-
err from the st. Mary river to the exposition
grounds.
pine lumber from a Virginia port to the
dealers here; schooner Eta of Baltimore
laths from Norfolk; schooner George W.
Kimble, fish from the nets in the lower
river: schooner Maud s., lumber from the
lower river to Alexandria; tug Rosalie, with
tow of sand and gravel laden scows from
Piscataway creek; bugeye Goldie G.. lum-
Der from Ropes creek, Md, for a Washing
ton order; schooner Smart, oysters from
Potomac beds
sailed-schooner Lottie Carter, light, for
a river point to load cord wood back to this
city schooner James E. Clark for Vir-
gnia lumber port to load for this city;
bugeye Jackson, light for a river point to
point, to take up fish-running work; schoon-
er American Eagle. for lower river point
to load; schooner Mayfower, for point on
the lower Potomac to load cord wood.
Memoranda-SchoonerR r. Mason will sail
for Potomac point to load for this city;
schooner Escort is in the Wicomico river
loading oysters for this city; tug Radiant
has arrived at Baltimore. towing s. o.
barges 81 and n, light. from this city;
power barge E. James Tull is at Occoquan
loading a cargo for this port schooner
Grace G. Bennett is loading lumber for this
city at a North Carolina port
The American Ice Company is endeavoring
to charter a schooner of about 100 tons
burden to bring a cargo of ice from the
Kennebec or another Maine point to the
Home Ice Company of Alexandria, but the
charter has not yet been made. The ice
this vessel brings to the Potomac will be
used in icing refrigerator cars loaded with
spring vegetables on their way to northern
markets from the south.
The easterly winds on the Atlantic coast
have been responsible for the tides being
unusually high during the past two days
A week ago the tides were so low that the
river steamers were wing trouble in get
ting into the creeks. This week they have
all the water they want.