Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-12
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The boating season on the Potomac river
i'm the vicinity of this city Will open
about the end of this month. and the out
lcok is for a busy season among the own
ers of power boats. At all the boat
yards and about the homes of the local
yacht clubs the owners of power Launches
and sailing craft are overhauing ana
painting their boats and are putting them
in trim for service on the river. "lthin
the next two weeks large proportion OF
the pleasure craft now hauled out will be
put overheard.
1t is stated that several new launches
will be added to the pleasure meet curing
the coming spring.
The shipping of railway ties from the
Potomac to Philadelphia and later to
markets further north, has been started
with the loading of the big two-masteo
Washington schooner John q. McGlnnls.
living in Bretons bay taking aboard sew
tral thousand ties for Philadelphia. The
schooner A. H. Quinby of the Carter meet
of this city is also Under charter to LOAD
ties on the Potomac for Philadelphia, and
she will begin taking aboard her cargo
within the next day or two. Negotiations
are pending for the charter of several
large coal barges to load ties at Alex
andria and other points for the New York
and Boston market and it is thought that
the charters will be signed during the
coming week.
The steamer Charles Manchester after a
lie-up of about three months during the
again. and is making daily trips to Mount
Vernon and Marshall Hall. The steamer
was given a general overhauling and was
cleaned and painted. The greater part OF
the repair work to the boat was done by
her crew.
Arrived: Bugeyes William Villas and
NJ T. Smith, oysters in the shell for the
local market; schooner Stephen Chase.
pine lumber from a lower Potomac point
for the local Dealers; scoW Sea King.
cord wood from Marshall Hall for the
Dealers; tug Dixie. towing four coal
laden barges from Philadelphia for
this city and Alexandria; barge John Nc
Nally from Baltimore. with coal for the
Eastern branch dealers; bugeye Eleanor
RUSSELL cord wood from a Virginia point
for this market.
Sailed-Schooner A. H. Quinby. light for
Coan river to load railway ties for Phil
adelphia: schooner Belmont, for Quantico
TO load cordwood for the dealers here;
schooner Silver Star. for lower Poto-
mac point to load back to this city,
schooner Clara Leonard, light for Nomin
err; here; tug Eugenia towing light sand
and gravel carrying scows to river
point; bugeyes Willie Clarence and Ethel
Vale, light, for river point to load oys-
ter, for this market; schooner James O.
Wright, light, for the lower Potomac, to
load.
Observation-Disclosures John McGinnis
has been chartered to load hard coal at
Philadelphia for this city; schooner j. p.
Robinson is at Alexandria loading fish
barrels and salt for packing houses along
the lower Potomac; schooner Edith Yer
rail- is under charter to load at a river
point for this city; schooner Clara Dome II
Is; at Newport News from Alexandria. to
load coal for Boston.
The steamer River Queen, belonging to
the Independent Steamboat Company of
this city, after being out of service for
more than year went into commission
a day or two ago. and is employed in
making trips between this city and Not
ley Hall with material for new amuse-
ments to be erected there. The Queen
will be employed in the coloIed excursion
business during the coming summer.
The current from the upper river which
has been bothering steamboat and tug
boatmen for the past week, is still running
with undiminished strength, and on an
cbb tide the tugs have difficulty in tow
ing sand-laden and other barges against
il to Georgetown.
The Philadelphia barges Totousxy and
William Donaldson laden with about TO-
tons OF hard coal EACH were in the feet
OF barges which arrived here yeste rda5
in tow of Southern Transportation Com
pany's tug Dixie. They were locked a,
Georgetown to unload. The barge Nanse-
mond. which loaded a part of cargo OF
sand at Alexandria, was yeste rdaS
brought TO this city and berthed at one
of the sand wharves on the Eastern
branch to complete her cargo.