Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-22
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

Washing ton-owned steamers. 1t is ex-
planned. will play an important part in the
problem of transporting visitors to and
from the jamestown exposition grounds,
and will do much toward preventing the
realization of the fear that the transporta-
ton lineS will not be able to handle the
throngs that will want to visit the EXPOSE
ton. The steamer Queen Anne, owned by
the Washington and Potomac Steamboat
Company of this city, will run on a route
between Old Point and the exposition in
connection with the Newport News and Old
Point Railway Company. AS has been
stated the big ferry steamers Woodbury.
and Callahan. belonging to the Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company, will also
Re used in the ferry service, one steamer
running in connection with the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway from Newport News to
the exposition. and the other in connection
with the Old Dominion Steamship Company
from Norfolk.
The barge katherine McIlvaine which
has been lying at Alexandra for the past
two weeks. completed loading Saturday
evening, and was taken out or the dock and
anchored in the channel to await tug to
take her away. The barge will carry her
cargo of about 1O,UOJ ties to Philadelphia.
The schooner Goodman was bCrthed in the
dock vacated by the McIvaine to load ties
for New York 1t is stated that one com ON.
G0o00 tics to send north within the next
month. This quantity of ties will furnish
cargoes for six large schoOners and vessels
are wanted to carry them away.
Arrived: Steam barge Dennis Simmons.
lumber and shingles from a North Carolina
port: schooner Isabelle, cord wood from
Nomini creek for the Eastern branch; w.
E. Parks, oysters from the Potomac beds:
L. s. lighthouse tender Holly, from Ports
mouth, Va: yacht Roxana, from New
York: yacht Calumet, from New York, TO b"
delivered to Washington owners; schooner
r. Mason cord wood from downriver
point: fattie Minnie Lee, junk from the
lower Potomac, at Alexandria
Sailed: Schooner e. w. keeble, light for
a river point to load: bugeye Silver Spray,
light for the lower Potomac; steam barge
e James Tu.l, for Philadelphia: schooner
LEROY for a river point TO load railway ties
for Alexandria, tug Fortuna. with tow for
the lower river; schooner William ii. Nc
CURE light, for river point. to load back
to this city; tug Carter, with a tow for a
river point
Memoranda: Barge c. c. Co. No. 8,
loaded with ice from Maine, for Alexandria.
passed Fire Island Saturday; barge Howard
is at Baltimore with a cargo of fertilizer
Wheeler Is reported coming frem the Rap
pa hammock river to this city with ID cargo
Of pine lumber: schooner Goidie Z. VIII go
to the lower river for cargo OF. lumber
for dealer here.
The -four riasted barkentine Josephine.
one of the feet of Brazilian coffee clippers
owned in Baltimore, has been chartered to
bring a cargo of asphalt from the Island
of Trinidad to this port. he vessel left
Rio Janeiro April s for Barbados. and Will
be ordered TO Trinidad on her arrival there.
The speed launch belonging to the L. >. s.
Oneida. the small training vessel Of the
Naval Battalion, N. G. d. c., which was at
Bennett's boatyard for several months past.
has gore into service and was out on the
river yesterday with a party aboard. -.