Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-11
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The rebuilding of the pier at the foot
of N street southwest, which will be
used by the steamers Jane Moseley and
River Queen during the summer as the
starting point for excursions of colored
persons to river points, is rapidly ap-
preaching completion, and within the next
week or ten days it will be ready for use.
The pier Is built with two angles, 50
that both steamers may De locked at it
at one time. A dolphin of heavy piles will
be driven between the new wharf and
that of the steamer Queen Anne. to the
north, in order to keep the two steamers
apart. The steamer Moseley Is at Balti-
more having a new shaft installed and
other work done that will keep her away
from this city practically all the winter
The steamer River Queen will be berthed
at the new pier as soon as it is COM
pleted.
The replanking of the pier on which
the District morgue building stands is
now practically completed and it Is now
In good order again and may be used by
the vehicles visiting tie morgue to re-
move bodies prior to burial While the
morgue Is modern in its equipment N
most respects, proper faculties for taking
bodies Of drowned persons from the boats
of the harbor precinct are badly needed
those now in use being crude in the
extreme. When a body is recovered from
the water and taken to the morgue in a
boat an ordinary block and fall Is used
to haul the body up an incline to the
pier platform. The pier is too high above
the water to handle body in any other
manner. and the operation is exposed to
the view Of passengers on the steamers
In the vicinity of the morgue. The, Of
ncals desire an elevator provided at the
wharf.
Arriveu-Schooners Lottie Thomas, Vol
unteer. Fannie Shepherd, Dove and C. H
Pryor. oysters In the shell from Potomac
beds for the dealers; schooner Cunning
ham. railway ties from q Potomac point,
at Alexandria: tug Minerva, with a tow
Of four loaded scows from the sand-dig
glng machines on Greenway flats; sehoon-
er Lily Taylor. oysters from Chesapeake
bay bed for this market; scow I5ush, pine
wood from lower river point; schooner
Charles II. Dagger. at Alexandria, lumber
from Machodoc creek for the dealers.
Sailed-Schooner Silver Star. light for q
creek landing; schooner Lottie Carter
light, for Occoquan to load cord wood for
this city; schooners Amanda Lewis, Lydia
Vernon and Halle K. light for q river
tug Dixie. towing barges Kathleen Nc
Ilvaine. Mary s. Brady and Roanoke.
light for Baltimore to load hard coal
schooner Oakland. light for Wades bay
TO load cord wood for this port; barEe
Ellie S. Jennings, light for Boyds Hole
to load railway ties for Philadelphia;
tug Eugenia, with tow of light sand
and gravel carrying scows for the dig
ging machines at work at Bryan's Point,
Md
Memoranda-Standard Oh Company's
barge No. II. laden with oil in bulk. is
due here from st. Marys river in tow Of
the tug ]. o. carter; schooner John Nc
Ginnis has sailed from the Rappahan-
mock river with a cargo of lumber for
the dealers here; schooner Belmont is at
g. river point loading cord wood for the
dealers here: schooner Maine is loading
at Bayport, Va. for this city: barge Over
brook has completed unloading a cargo
Of coal at Washington barracks. and is
waiting a tug to tow her to Baltimore to
load; tug Defiance is on the way from
Baltimore with the barge Saugerties. coal
laden for the United States naval powder
making plant at Indian Head, Mr..
The pile-driving machine owned In Alex
andria. which was employed in lifting a
car of the Washington, Alexandria and
Mt. Vernon railway out Of Hunting creek
into which 1t jumped several days ago
completed that work YESTERDAY and was
taken to Fort Hunt to drive piles in con-
nection with the wharf work In progress
at that point.
The Miller dredging machine which is
being overhauied on the marine railway
at the Alexandria shipyard, will be taken
to Annapolis, Md, on the completion of
the work aboard her. and will. it is stated.
be used in,tfIe digging of sand and gravel
from the Severn river. One of the tugs
of the Taylor feet of this city will take
the machine to the MARYLAND caDitaI citv