Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-02
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

There Is to be no shortage in the supply
Of the ice needed to fill the demands OF
the Washington householders during the
present summer, II the summer winds at
sea will be good and will bring the vessels
down the coast to the capes Of the
Chesapeake, where tugs can get hold
Of them and bring them UP the bay
and river to this city. In addition to the
fleet Of vessels before reported as coming
here with ice aboard, charters have been
reported in the past two days with the
schooners Henry L. Peckham and Elisha
Adkins. both of which are now at points
cargoes, and should arrive here within the
next two weeks. The Peckham, which
will bring about 400 tons in her cargo,
is making her second trip to this city this
first visit the schooner Adkins has made to
this port. She will bring about 1000 tons
Of ice in her cargo, and will come here
under command of Capt. Elisha Adkins,
after whom she Is named.
The three-masted schooner Winchester,
which brought cargo Of granite curbing
to this city from point in Maine, went
up to Georgetown Wednesday to load
for northern port. Yesterday she COM
pleted the loading Of her cargo and sailed
in tow of the tug Camilla for the mouth
Of the river, from which point she will
continue 0er journey uHuer Sail 10 FOrt-
land, Me-, where she is consigned. 1t is
expected that the three-masted schooner
Daylight, now unloading ice at Alexandria,
will follow the Winchester under the chutes
at the Georgetown coal piers within the
next day or two.
Arrived: Schooner Grace @. Bennett,
lumber and shingles from Edenton, N. c.,
to dealers here: bugeye Ella, cord wood
from lower Potomac point: bugeye Levin
Woolford, pine lumber from Virginia
point; bugeye Eleanor Russell cord wood
from the lower river for Washington deal
ers; 2arges S. NJ. Provost, Edward Fay and
Warwick, coal from Baltimore for George
town; barge Potomac, coal from Philadel-
phia for Alexandria,; tug Bohemia, with tow
Of barges from bay points.
Sailed: Power barge Louisa, light, for
Nomini creek, Va, to load; schooner Jo-
seph G. Hamblin, light. for Norfolk, to
load lumber; schooner Sidonia CurleS,
household goods to Portsmouth. Va;
schooner Isabelle, light. for Nomini to load
lumber back to this city; tug Margaret,
towing barge Norfolk laden with railway
ties for New York from Alexandria,; schoon-
er Oakland, light. for Wades bay to load
for this city; tug Dixie. with a tow of light
barges for bay points to load: longboat Os-
ceola. light for a river point to load cord
wood: sloop Daisy. from Alexandria for
Pennington. Md, with a general cargo.
Memoranda: Schooners ]. r. Dixon and
J. A. Holland are at river points loading
cargoes of pine lumber for this city; schoon-
err E. c. Benedict, laden with ice for this
city. is due at the capes Of the Chesapeake;
schooner Earl Biscoe Is on her way to this
city with a cargo Of cord wood; schooner
Strawbridge has been chartered to load soft
coal at Newport News for Charleston, s. c.,
and lumber back to a northern point.
The two-masted bay schooner Clara NJ.
Leonard, a regular trader to this port, with
cargoes of wood and lumber aboard, is at
a Baltimore shpyard to be fitted with two
masts to replace her old ones which show
signs of weakness. The Leonard will be out
of commission at Baltimore for two or
three weeks.
The four-masted schooner Louis H. Coward
was today taken from this city to Alexan-
dria to complete the unloading of a cargo
of ice before going up to Georgetown to
load coal. The ice from between decks was
removed from the schooner at the 10th
street wharf of the American Ice Company