Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-09-06
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w. II. Warren, of Millenbeck, has
bought the gasoline boat, Hughes
Brothers," and has her at Owens
railway overhauling.
With a gasoline launch bottom up in
tow. the steam yacht Chilhower. of
Baltimore, arrived last week at the
Commercial Pier, jamestown Expo-
sition. The Chilhower found the launch.
which is a twenty-five footer, off Smiths
Point, drifting stem upward.
Capitalists of Richmond and Norfolk.
Va, it is stated, will put the steamer
MontaulS on the day route between
Washington and the jamestown Expo
sition, Old Point and Norfolk, to make
tri-weekly trips, and as soon as another
steamer can be secured the trips will
be made daily.
New Md, Del. & Va. R'y Co. IS sched-
ule on the Rappahannoek goes into
effect on the 8th inst. Boats between
Baltimore and the Rappahannock will
run as heretofore except there will be
no boat sailing from that city on Thurs
day afternoons. There will be two boats
from Frederick sburg to Norfolk each
week, leaving the former place Tues
day and Friday mornings. Returning
leave Norfolk 4 p. m. Wednesdays and
Sundays.
The steamer Calvert, of the Maryland,
Delaware and Virginia Railway Com
pany, which went aground on a bar in
the Coan river, near the mouth of the
Potomac, last Friday, was floated Mon
day. 1t took the combined efforts of
the tug Princess, which went to the
aid of the stranded steamer the
day she went aground, and the steamer
Northumberland, of the same company.
to pull the Calvert off. The Captain of
the Calvert was entering Coan river
early Friday morning, and as the
steamer was about to pass through a
narrow channel schooner was seen
bearing down on her. The captain.
seeing that there was danger of a
collision, steered the Calvert out Of
the way, but in doing so ran her high
up on bar.
The James River is to be improved
Not only the lower James, but the up-
per James, is capable of carrying
freight, or it can be made so. The
upper James River Valley League is
putting on foot plan to have the
channel of the upper river cleared of
obstruction, the water deepened and a
line of bateau boats put on between
Richmond and Lynchburg. At the
same time influential organizations are
at work to have the lower James inn
proved so that ocean liners and all
manner of large craft may reach the
Richmond docks, and in fact make
Richmond a real seaport. The bateau
boats coming down the river to the
falls to meet the larger craft that will
come up from Hampton Roads and the
Atlantic Ocean will or can give the
people of the upper James all the way
to Lynchburg the full benefit of water
transportation.
By the crashing and tearing of rend-
ing wood that shook the boat from
stem to stern, passengers of the
steamer Enoch Pratt, were warned al
an early hour Sunday morning that
an accident had happened to one of the
paddle wheels. A second later all the
lights of the steamer fickered out.
Many women rushed from the state
rooms, fearing the boat was sinking.
and for a short while pandemonium
reigned. The Pratt was on her way To
Baltimore from points on the Pianki-
tank river with about rs passengers.
The bay was so choppy that it would
have been dangerous for smaller
craft toventure out. When the steamer
was Off the PatuXent river and about
IN the middle of the bay sound came
that seemed as if the boat was being
ground to pieces. The engine stoned
and every electric light on the steamer
went out. By this time the passengers
on the steamer were awake, and MANY
OF them had rushed terrified from their
staterooms, many only partly dressed.
The women were nervous and hyster-
icai, and 1T was some time before they
were Gained and convinced that
the boat was not sinking. Most of the
passengers went back into their state
rooms, finished dressing and spent the
rest of the night on deck. Capt. Henry
Lucas was in charge of the steamer.
and when he found it could proceed no
further under its own power the anchor
was lowered. The Pratt remained
anchored until about a. M.
and then the freight steamer
Raleigh, of the Old Bay Line,
came up and towed her to a point in
/ the baY near the mouth of PatanSnn