Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

All the vessels under charter by the
American Ice Company to bring cargoes
OF Ice from the Maine ice fields have ar
rived here and three of them are now
lying In port waiting to unload their car
goes This supply, it Is stated, will be
ample, with the output of the ice-making
plants Of the city, to meet all demands
for the next month, and if the weather is
cool 1t will last considerably longer. 1t
Is probable that during the month of Sep
TENDER several more cargoes of natural ice
will be brought here. but 1t will be three
weeks or a month before other large ice
laden vessels come into port here for the
American Ice Company. Lying at the 10th
street wharf is the schooner Henry L..
Peckham. which is unloading. and. along
side her is the schooner Sullivan Sawin,
which will discharge after the Peckham.
The schooner Crescent is at the 9th street
wharf and will begin the unloading of her
cargo tomorrow.
The two-masted river schooner Nettie,
Capt. Bill Finn, which is owned at Alex
andria, has been f1oated from the mud
bank on which she ran at the mouth of
Monroe creek week ago and is lying in
the creek taking aboard cargo of pine
lumber for this city. The schooner was
caught in a heavy squall while at anchor
in the creek and dragging her anchor went
ashore and stuck hard and fast until the
easterly winds caused unusually high tides
and she fioated. 1t is stated that the ves-
sci escaped injury, as the bank on which
she was lying was soft mud.
Arrived-Schooner A. II. Quinby, cord
wood from Nomini for Georgetown;
schooner Annie Benny, watermelons from
a bay point for the local market; schooner
Levin Woolford, cord wood from a Po-
tomac point for the dealers; bugeye Kath-
leen. pine boards from Occoquan; schooner
N
bay; tug Minerva, towing a fleet of sand
and gravel laden barges; tug James o..
Carter, with a tow from a river point.
Saied-Schooner Elisha Adkins. light, for
Baltimore to load coal for Boston; schooner
Farmers Friend. light. for a river point
* to load back TO this city; schooner Cum
bingham, light, for a down-river point to
load cord wood for dealers here; tug
Cameron, towing six light scows to the
digging machines in Piscataway creek.
emoranda-Schooner Five Sisters is at
a river point loading for this city; schooner
Lizzie William has sailed from North
Carolina port loaded with lumber for this
city; schooner Charles II. Dagger has been
chartered to load lumber at river point
for this city; schooner Mabel and Ruth
has sailed from Newborn. N. c., laden
with lumber and shingles for the dealers
here
The heavy northeast winds of the past
three days caused unusually high tides in
the river yesterday morning, the water
being about three feet above its ordinary
high tide level, and reaching the top of
the sea wall about the Potomac Park. All
the lowlands on the Virginia side OF the
river were under water but the northwest
winds which began to blow yesterday soon
caused the water to fall rapidly.
The steamer Estelle Randall of the
Washington and Potomac Steamboat Com
pany Glymont route was out of service
yesterday to clean boilers and for minor
repair work. The steamer Wakefield was
on the route In her place.