Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-09
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The grounding OF the schooner Clara
Donnell in the Georgetown channel last
week and her remaining aground for over
forty-eight hours is pointed to by the
river men as showing the imperative need
for dredging work now going on I'm the
vicinity and the need Of repeating the
work every few years
The Donnell was loaded with coal at
Georgetown and drew but a little over
nineteen feet 1t was good high water
when the tug started with her from
Georgetown. According to all calculations
she should have been able to pass down
the Georgetown channel to the main chan
mel of the river with a foot or more OF
water to spare under her keel.
In midchannel and hundred or more
yards above the bridge the vessel takes
up on a shoal lump. Four tugs worked
two days before they succeeded in getting
the vessel over the spot.
The present dredging plans call for
deepening the channel TO depth OF
twenty-five feet from the bridge TO
Georgetown. The work will not be COM
pleted for two or three months. II the
new channel fills as fast as II did since
it was last dredged the dredging work
will have TO be repeated in about three
or four years.
Vegetables and berries of all kinds are
brought to this city daily from the big
truck farms in the country along the
James river and In the vicinity of Nor
folk aboard the steamers or the Norfoik
and Washington line.
Peas. beans, cucumbers. pota toes. straw
berries, blackberries and other material
for the tables of the Washington house.
holders are picked one afternoon from the
vines on which they grow and next morn
ing are sale in the various markets
about the city.
gathered from Old Point or Norfolk on
the steamers Next morning they are in
this city carly enough 10 be taken 10
market before the average housekecPer
gets there 10 make her purchases for
table use.
The vegetable season Is now opening
we'll and will continue for several weeks
A Chesapeake bay canoe, too small 10
come under the regulation requiring all
| vessels over a certain tonnage to register
at a custom house and to have a name.
arrived here yesterday from the eastern
shore of Virginia with about 1900 CLAIMS
aboard for this market. The little craft
hardly big enough to carry the clans ana
two men to navigate her. sailed over 200
miles TO reach the market here to dispose
of her cargo.
This is the only vessel at the 11th street
wharf with shell fish aboard. No oyster
laden vessels have been in port here for
about two weeks.
CIam-laden boats from the eastern shore
Of Virginia and from the lower part OF
here throughout the entire summer. The
demand for CLAIMS is fairly good.
Arrived: Schooner j. p. Robinson, grain
from Upper Machodoc creek for dealers:
schooner Nettie Nay. cord wood from
down-river point; Schooner Peri. pine lun-
Der. from Aqua creek for the dealers:
schooner S. c. Kimble. hickory wood
from a Virginia point for Georgetown:
tug William Ii. Yerkes, with a tow from
a down-river point: barge c. c. Co, No. ..
light, from Boston for Georgetown to load
soft coal for New England point:
schooner Vennetta Anne. cord wood from
a Potomac point for dealers; schooner 8.
L. Bowen, lumber from a Virginia port:
tug w. F. Meade. with a tow from a river
point.
Sailed: Tug s. o. Co.. No. H. towing
barge No. "a, sailed from Georgetown for
Baltimore to load for a bay point: schooner
j. p Robinson. light, from Alexandra for
a river point to load on return: tug Ca
miIla. with tow for a down-river point;
schooner Clara Leonard, for Nomini creek
to load back TO this city; schooner VIII
liam Henry. light for a down-rfver point
to load back to this city.
Memoranda: Schooner \. ii. Quinby.
with lumber from the Rappahannock
river. is i'm the lower river bound 10 this
city: schooner Mabel and Ruth is AT a
port in North Carolina loading for this
city: barge Atlantic will this week COM
plete taking aboard her cargo of RAILWAY
ties al Cherry Hill and will sail for New
York: buGeye Eleanor Russell is ct q river
point loading for this port