Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-29
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The pungy Cadet which unloaded a cargo
of pine lumber here, started down the
river yesterday afternoon bound for a river
point to load lumber for one of the dealers
here. The breeze blowing was very light,
but on one tack the vessel had way enough
on her to go ashore on the flats on the west
side of the river a short distance below the
new steel plant pier, and she stuck In the
mud so hard that her crew, heaving on an
anchor run out to deep water was not able
to haul her off until Capt. Milburn, in the
ferry steamer Woodbury., noticing the pre-
dicament of the vessel, ran his steamer
close to the channel bank so that her
swells lifted the Cadet from the mud as
they rolled by and allowed the men
aboard her to work her into deep water.
The schooner was ashore for about two
hours, but was not injured.
The big four-masted schooner John y.
Delvin is lying at the pier of the Alexan-
dria Chemical Company unloading cargo
of about 1,4O0 tons of phosphate rock from
Punta Gorda, Fla, and the big barge Balti-
to unload as soon as the Delvin completes
discharging her cargo. The material
aboard the vessels will be used in the
manufacture of fertilizer. The DeVlin
sailed from Punta Gorda March ana was
twenty days on the trip up the coast.
Arrived-Schooner Isaac Solomon, cord
schooner iU A. #. ouinby, lumber and cord
wood from Nomini creek; tug Dixie. towing
two coal-laden barges from Baltimore;
schooners Bessie Ford and Edna and Nellie,
fish from the nets in the lower river;
schooner Leroy, cord wood from Plscata-
way creek for the local market; steam
barge Daniel X. Jackson, light, from Aqua
creek: tug ]. T. Selectman, towing SIX
sand and gravel laden scows from P!scat-
away creek; barges Kathlyne McIlvaine
and p r. r. 101, coal from Philadelphia for
Georgetown; bugeye Goldie c.. lumber from
river point.
Sailed-Schooner Lorena Bramble. lumber
for a fishing shore near Reedville, Va; tug
Dauntless, light seeking tow for Balti-
more; steam barge E. James Tull, light and
towing light barges bound to Occoquan to
load lumber; schooner Lydia Vernon, shells
for the Yeocomico river; schooners Bertha
May and Elenora Russell, light, for Malta
woman creek to load cargoes of cord wood
for Alexandria.
Schooner Thomas Moore has
been chartered to load lumber at Walker
ton, Va, for this city; schooner Edith
Verrall has sailed from a river point FOR
this city; schooners S. l.. Boawen and Sid
ney Jones have gone to river point to load
for this city; schooner Walter p. Snow is
loading lumber on the Mattaponi river for
this city; schooner Sidonia Curley is re
ported in the river laden with lumber and
will arrive today; schooners Mary A Shea
and Five Sisters have, sailed from river
point for this city with cargoes of cord
wood for local dealers.
The tug Dixie arrived with the barges
Reliance and Roanoke laden with hard coal
from Philadelphia. The Roanoke was car
ried to Georgetown and the Reliance left at
Alexandria. The Dixie sailed with the
barge York laden with broken stone, and
the barge Penobscot, light, for Norfolk.
The schooner Peri has gone to Alexandra
to haul out on the marine railway, there to
be fitted with new stem and for other re-
pair work While in harbor here she was
supplied with q new mainsau and had~work
done on her to fit here for the summer
trade on the river.