Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-22
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

AS yet the local travel by steamer be-
tween this city and the jamestown EXPOSE
tion has been very light but it Is expected
that it will now begin to increase, and dur
ing the latter part of August and in Sep
TENDER and October many thousand persons
from this city will visit the big show on
Hampton roads. Visitors to the exposition
last week state that it is now practically
complete, and the finishing up work re-
ma lining to be done vel be completed by
the middle Of the coming month. While
the local travel to the exposition has been
very light the many hundred persons from
the west and north. who have visited the
exposition have passed through this city
going or returning from Norfolk. and the
steamers of the Norfolk and Washington
Line, particularly on the night trips. have
been taxed to their capacity to handle the
crowds Travel has also been heavy on the
day line steamers
The two-masted bay schooner Rover. a
frequent visitor to this port with lumber
cargoes, last week made a record run from
Norfolk to Baltimore laden with pine ium-
Der. From the time she cast off her lines
at Norfolk to the time she tied up at the
unloading pier at Baltimore twenty-three
and three-quarter hours elapsed, fast
run for a vessel of her size. The Rover has
been twenty-five years in service on CheSa-
peake bay but this Is the fastest run she
H.
and it has but seldom been exceeded by a
vessel OF the Rover's class. The trip was
made with strong south winds, and Capt
Frank Seward the master of the Rover,
kept full press of sails on her.
Arrived: Schooner Winchester. granite.
from the Penobscot river to the District;
schooner Nellie Reed, pine lumber, from a
Potomac point to dealers; schooner n.
Lewis, cOrdwood. from a down-river point
for the dealers; tug Princess, towing coal
laden barges from Baltimore for George
town; barge Norfolk. from Occoquaf 10
Alexandria, to load railway ties; tug MI
nerva, towing five sand and graVei iauel
barges from the digging machines uo"h
river -. 5,,..o
town light for Baltimore, to load coal; tug
Fortuna with a tow. or llsht Darges TOT
PbiIadeIphia; barge Atlantic, ties from
Aiaxandria for New York: tug Princess,
tnwinp tw0 light barges for Baltimore; bug
ave BERTHA May light from Alexandria for
a river point to load: bugeye Annie Mills.
light for the lower river to load railway
ties.
Memoranda: Barge Arundel for Alexan-
firia to load railway ties for New York at
Norfolk Doth: schooner Jennie Lippett,
sailed from 81. Johns. New Brunswick for
Chatham, Nova Scotia. 18th instant to
load for this city; schooner Lula NJ. Quill
Ian is under charter to load sand on the
Severn river for the Alexandria glass
works; schooner Robin Hood Is loading
lumber on the Rappahannock river for this
city.
longing to Georgetown firm is hauled out
on the marine railway at Alexandria to
have some repair work done to her hull,
and to be painted and caulked. She will
be ready to return to service this week.
The schooner J. H Nelson, a British
sell has completed the loading of a cargo
of ship timber at Somerset Beach, on the
Potomac. and has sailed with it for Am