Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The use of gasoline engines aboard Oys-
ter dredging boats will he largely in
creased this year. and it is estimated
that over third of the boats that will
he employed in oyster dredging during
tho coming season will Ice equipped with
power h"i~ts To aid in the work of raising
and lowering the oyster drcdge This
work was formerly done by hand power
and wIudI1ss but the rigid laws against
shan Lhaiug and the difficulty the dredge
boat masters have experienced in getting
Tvs have caused the adoption of power
Engines to do the heavy work on the oys-
i'r dredging vessels The power hoist
aboard the oyster boats has become as
much part of the equipment as the
dr"dE" itself and its use is increasing so
rapidly that ii is only question of a
year ,r two before practically every dredge
boat IN Chesapeake bay and its tributaries
viii have an ouEiTc aboard.
Inc shipments o. new wheat from the
wharves down the river continue quite
heavy. and the river steamers on each
trip to this city and Alexandria bring
up the grain in large Quantities consigned
20 tn" Hour mills and to the commission
dtaIcrS- ON the last trip of the steamer
/. V ArrowSmith from the lower river
she brought, up several hundred bags of
grain consigned to Alexandria dealers and
Jay AT htr wharf there for over an hour
unloading II. Some little tobacco in hogs
y
and from there reshipped to Baltimore
where it Is manufactured into smoking and
chewing tobacco. or Is shipped abroad to
foreign countries. which take a consider
abl" quantity of Maryland grown tobacco
Arrtved-Tug Dixie. with a tow of five
cva!-laden bargcs. from Philadelphia for
TINS city and Alexandria; sailing barge
Daniel, cord wood, from Monroe creek for
N" dealers. schooner Ada Wood. oysters
IN the shell, from the Potomac beds:
$" l""ner Jennie. watermelOns from a river
point Tor dealers; tug Rosalie, with a tow
~ sand-laden lighters. from a river point;
tuE Marion Cameron. with a tow
SilItd-SChuOner Norwalk, with a gen.
efaI cargo, from Alexandra for a river
point; schooner ]. T. Parks, for Wades
bay to load pine lumber for this CITY;
schooner Ann Bentley, light for the Rap
pahanHock. to load watermelons; schooner
A. y. stevenson. for a Virginia port 10
load, schooner Levin WOolfOrd for a point
on the lower Potomac to load lumber for
dealers here: tug Marion Cameron towing
a lIShttr OF coal for the dredging machines
AT work down the river; schooner Bartie
Bennett light, for the Rappahannock river:
land.
Observation-Disclosures Maiden has sailed
from Charleston for this city with a cargo
OF lumber; barge B. s. Donaldson has COM
p!eted unloading a cargo of coal at George
town ana is waiting a tug 10 tow her away:
barge AppomattoX has completed the un-
loadlng OF cargo of fertilizer at Alexan-
urla and VIII lead ties at a Potomac point;
schooner Osceola has gone to Wades bay
10 load cord wood for this CITY
me tWu-maSted river schooner Ruth
ana EIIa arrived light at Deans boatyard
az Alexandria yesterday. and will be
hauled out at the yard for n general over
hauling of her hull under water The
vessel will be ready for service again in
few days.