Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-31
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The big four-masted schooner Edwin R.
Hunt, which unloaded a cargo of ice hero
for the American Ice Company yesterday
recently completed the loading of a cargo
of about LOO tons of Cumberland coal at
the Consolidation Coal Company piers at
Georgetown and sailed in tow OF the tug
Camilla for the mouth of the river, from
which point she will proceed under sail to
Boston. to which port her cargo Is consign-
ed. The four-masted schooner Henry l.
Pecknam. which has completed discharging
ice at the 10th street ice wharf has gone to
the Georgetown coal piers and she will take
aboard about 1900 tons of the fuel for
Boston or Portland. She will be followed
under the coal piers by the schooner Sulli-
schooner Crescent, which is lying here with
ice aboard. may also load coal at George
town for Boston.
The receipt of hard crabs from down
river points continues very heavy and on
each trip of the river steamers from the
landings in the lower Potomac an average
of over a hundred barrels of the crustas
ceans are brought to port consigned TO
dealers here. The Potomac has been para
ticularly full of crabs this year and the
catch has been unusually heavy In the
height OF the season crabbers In the VII
comico river would ship 300 and 400 barrels
of the shell fish from Rock Point to this
city, and the Wicomico crabs have been, 1t
is said especially large and fat. The crabs
are selling at from SIS to 81 per barrel,
and the demand for them is said to be
good.
Arrived: Schooner Thomas ]. Parks, can
ned goods from Kinsale to wholesale deal
ers; schooner Julia Hopkins, laths from
Norfolk at Alexandria; schooner Mary Ann
schooner w. H. French. cord wood from
a Potomac point for Fort Myer; scow
Bush, ties from Marshall Hall: schooner
Highland Light, pine lumber from Vir-
tt, Law ,drfn gahn
Dixon canned goods from Nomni creek
for dealers here; tug J. T. Selectman. with
a tow Of six sand and gravel laden light
ers from river point.
Sailed: Schooner Samuel Wood. light for
river point; schooner Isaac Solomon,
light. for Wades bay to load cord wood
for this city; schooner Nettie, for Nomini
to load wood for dealers here; tug Minerva.
to st. Mary's river. after coal-laden
barge; schooner Widgeon. light. for lumber
ports to load back to this city; schooner
NJ A Kirwan, light for a Rappahannock
river point to load watermelons.
Memoranda: Barge Tatousky has been
taken to Port Tobacco creek to load ties
for Philadelphia: barge Alexander Gibson
is on her way to this city from Baltimore
with a cargo of coal aboard; schooner y.
II. Quinby has been chartered to load lum-
Der at Nomini for this port; schooner
Lewis II. Coward, from Georgetown with
coal arrived at Boston 9th instant;
schooner Belmont Is at river point Iodu-
ing for this city.
one OF the pocket scows owned by the
John Miller company and used in dredging
operations about the harbor is hauled out
on the marine railway at Benefits boat
ward to replace a plank in her hull and
for caulking and painting. The barge VIII
be ready for service again during the COM
ing week.
Barges S. NJ. Provost, Edward Fay, WI
com!co, John w. Davidson, b. w. Donald
son are at Georgetown wharves unloading
cargoes OF hard coal from Baltimore for
the dealers here, who are laying in their
fan stock of fuel.