Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-13
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

One of the big coal-carrying barges Of the
Consolidation Coal Company of Baltimore
has been chartered to bring a cargo of Ice
from the Maine ice fields to the Mutual
Ice Company at Alexandria and it 4 ex-
pected that the vessel will be at Alexandria
unloading within the next two weeks. The
barge Will bring a cargo of about 500 tons
OF the refrigerating material and 1t
is to be used in the cooling of fruit-iade
cars bound from the. south to the large
cities in the north. AT Alexandria nearly
all the fruit-carrying trains are provided
with a new supply of ice to preserve the
peaches and other fruit until they reach
Philadelphia. New York or Boston. Two
unloaded ice at Alexandria this spring
The tug d. NJ. Key, Capt. Raley, went
10 Occoquan yesterday after the barge
Katherine McIlvane which is to be brought
TO Alexandria to complete the loading of
d cargo of railway ties for New York
The barge, several days ago, was taken
from Georgetown, where she unloaded
cargo of hard coal, to Occoquan to load
ties, but there not being a supply on hand
10 I'LL the vessel 1t was decided to have her
return to the Alexandria shpyerd to COM
plete the loading of her cargo. The barge
VIII luau about 5000 ties, and will be ready
TO sail about the end of the coming week
Arrived-Schooner John 2. Robinson,
grain and pine lumber from Upper Macho-
uOC Green ioF THIS city ana GEORGETOWN;
schooner w. C. Goodman, from New York.
barreled pitch to Georgetown; scow Sea
King, cord wood, from river point; bug
eye j. H. Flrby, oysters. from the Potomac
river beds; tugs Minerva and j. T Select
man, with eight sand and grave-laden
barges, from down river point; schooner
Halle X. oysters, from Potomac beds; tug
William ii; Yerkes, jr., with a tow; tug
Camilla, with q tow of fsh-laden vessels
from the nets down the river
Sailed-Schooner w. H. Bixlie for n lower
river point to load for this city; tug Peer
less, towing barge Patuxent, light, for Nor
folk, and barge Wicomico, railway ties for
New York; schooner Sidney Jones. light for
down river point, to load cord wood for
TINS city; buseyes Nj. j. Stephenson and
Bessie Ford, to river points, to load fish for
this market; schooner Osceola, light for
Wades bay to load wood.
ACCOMMODATIONS Beulahand has
sailed from Norfolk, for this city with
cargo of pine lumber; schooner c. H Daiger
has been chartered to, load lumber at Coan
river for this port; barge Roanoke Is load
ing gravel, at this city, for the Jamestown
exposition grounds; schooner BERTHE has
sailed from Norfolk. for this city, with a
cargo of pine lumber aboard
The army tugs General Warren, in the
engineer service, and the Lieut. Alonzo
Gushing, In the quartermaster department
service, are being painted and put in trim
for summer service by the men aboard
them while they are plying I'D and down
the river.
The lighthouse service steamer Violet
which has been employed in the replacing
OF buoys along the river in the vicinity Of
this city yesterday completed the work and
she went down the river replacing the
buoys on both sides Of the channel
The tug Peerless arrived here today with
the big barge Majestic, loaded with hard
coal for Georgetown. The Peerless also
delivered the barge Maryland at Alexandria
to unload cargo of fertilizer material
The tug Camilla, belonging to the Taylor
fleet of Washington towboats, which was
haulde out on the marine railway at the
Alexandria shipyard, was put overheard
yesterday and will go into commission.
While on the railway the machinery of the
tug was given an overhauling. and she was
painted from stem to stern.