Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-17
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The planting OF the oyster beds of the
lower river with shells will be in order in
short time and vessels will leave this
city almost daily for a month or more in
the early summer with cargoes of shells
aboard, to be carried to some formerly
productive oyster bottoms in the lower
river, which has been overwoTked and are
not now producing good stock. There is OF
the 18th street oyster wharf a pile of
oyster shells fifteen feet high and measur-
ing about $50 at the base one way and half
as much the other. The pile represents
many thousand bushels of oysters that
have been shucked at the oyster wharf
the past two months and the shells VIII
be again made useful. They will be taken
to the depleted beds, spread about two feet
thick over the bottom and in two or three
years will be brought back to this market
with numbers of fine Potomac oysters
clinging to them.
The big warehouse on the pier of the
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Com
pany at the foot of 9TH street is being re-
built and put in order for the heavy traffic
during the jamestown exposition. One
half the building on the front of the wharf
has been removed and the framework for
the new building to take its place has been
erected. All of the structure along the
front of the pier will be rebuilt. The work
of laying the asphalt block paving into the
yard at the pier delayed by the bad wealth
er, is now being pushed along and VIII De
completed as rapidly the men working
night and day can do it. The n. and w.
pier is also to be rebuilt as soon as the
big oak piles ordered from the lower river
are brought here.
| Arrived: Schooner Estelle Phnney, ice
from Boothbay. Me, to Alexandria,; schoon-
er Lottie Carter, cord wood from a river
point; tug Sandow with tow OF co1l-laden
| Da1+ hlr ron Nnp
from Baltimore, at Alexandria; barge Mag
noia, coal from Baltimoge, at Georgetown:
tug Marion Cameron with a tow of sand
and gravel-laden scoWs from Plscataway
creek.
Sailed: Schooners Winnie Windsor, NJ. ].
Stevenson and Escort for the lower river
to load oysters back to this city; steam
yacht Gretchen on a cruise TO North Caro-
lima waters; schooner A. II. Quinby, for
| lower Machodoc creek to load a cargo of
| lumber back to this city; tug Camilla, for
| the mouth of the river, towing schooner
| S. B. Hubbard, laden with railway ties for
| New York.
Memoranda: Barge Daniel is under char
| ter to load oak piles in Upper Machodoc
| creek for this city; bugeye Levin Wool
| ford is loading lumber in Maddox creek for
| Washington dealers; schooner Maud s. Is
| in the Coan river loading lumber for this
| port; bugeye Col. S. A. Graham is loading
| shells at the oyster wharf for Little river.
A large steamship laden with about 1000
| tons of crude asphalt from Trinidad is re-
ported on her way to this city, her cargo
being consigned to one of the paving firms
here This will be the second cargo of
asphalt to be brought here by steamer in
| the past four years, the bulk of the ma
| terial coming aboard big schooners.
| Deans dredging machine has been at the
sewer outlet site for several days doing
| what excavating remains to be done before
the sewer piping laid in the bed of the
river will be ready to be connected with
the shore end now being built through the
country south of the Eastern branch.