Evening star., 1908-05-06
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The tug NJ. Mitchell Davis of the Taylor
fleet of this city. which for the past three
years was under charter as a tender to a
dredging plant employed during the time
the ice was out of the river in deepening
the water OF the Delaware below Philadel-
phia. has completed her charter and last
week returned to service on Chesapeake
bay and It's tributaries. The dredging
work on the Delaware is completed for
the present. it is said. and the plant. which
Is owned by the Sanford & Brooks
Dredging Company of Baltimore was ta-
ken back to that city and will. it is be-
lieved, be employed on the government
work in that neighborhood Her owners
here expect that she will soon take up a
charter on dredging work about Balti-
more. but until that time she will be
employed in general towing work on
Chesapeake bay.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
nany has force Of hands at work on
repairing the trestle on which coal-laden
cars are run SO that their loads may be
transferred to barges to be brought to
this city. Since the abandonment Of Shep-
herds as a terminal for the car ferry
from Alexandria the wharf has been al
lowed to get considerably out of repair
1t is said to be the intention Of the rail-
way officials to put the pier in good order
SO that it will be ready for use should 1t
be wanted. For the past three weeks
quantities of broken stone. sand and
gravel have been transferred from barges
to cars for shipment, and the old landing
has been a busy place.
The schooner Oscar. recently rebuilt at
Benefits bOatyard, Is at the boatyard be-
ing fitted with new spars and to have her
rigging set up and sails bent in readiness
for service on the river. 1t will require
about two weeks to complete the work on
the Oscar before she can join the feet of
wood and lumber freighters operated by
Carter & Clark. her owners. The Oscar
was formerly the old schooner Osceola,
but is now practically new vessel. as
but little Of the old schooner remains eX-
cept her shape. When the boat was
launched from the railway last week she
was named in honor Of a son of one OF
her owners.
Arrived: Schooner Silver Star. poplar
logs at Alexandra for shipment to West
Virginia; sloop Marcus, barreled fish from
WilkersOns wharf for dealers: schooner
Hattie Dayton. cord wood from a Vir-
ginia point for the dealers; tug Prudence
of Philadelphia for tow Of light barges;
schooner William H. French. at Fort
Hunt to unload cord wood; tug Eugene.
with tow of sand and gravel laden
lighters from a river point.
Sailed: United States naval tug Rocket
Fgh. shells from the Firth-Sterling steel
works for the Norfolk navy yard; schoon-
CT y. =. Cunningham, Hgnt. Tor river
point to load for this city; schooner Will
liam F. Rich. light. for a bay point to
load schooners Edith Muir and Blue
Belle. light. for the lower river to load !;
tug Camilla, towing schooner Davenport,
light. for river point en- route to Bal
timore: schooner Nett'e. for the Kappa
hammock river via Alexandria. to load
lumber for this city.
Memoranda: Schooner Five Sisters is
in Aqua creek. loading for this port:
wharf Nd. with merchandise from Alex
andria; schooner Earl Biscoe has gone to
Mattox creek to load back to this city;
schooner Maria Teel. light. from Alex
andria has arrived at Baltimore to load
Goa, for New England point; barge
Mary McNally light. from this city TO
Baltimore to load coal: schooner John Nc
Ginnis Is reported in the river bound to
this city with cargo of lumber from the
Rappahannock river: schooner Edna A.
POgue is under charter to load lumber on
the Pamunkey river. Virginia. for this
port: barge Nansemond. with hard coal
aboard from Philadelphia. is anchored of
Alexandria.
The big dredging machine of the Po-
tomac Dredging Company, which has been
digging sand and gravel at Monkeys
Point. Md. was last week shifted from
that point TO the shoals off the mouth
of Mattawoman creek and will work there
fo- several weeks. Dredge No. of the
Z. L. SOutpduy 10 lying AZ dncnOr In the
harbor here. where 1t has been since last
fall
c. c. Company barge No. II yesterday
completed the loading of a cargo of soft
coal at Georgetown and will today sail
in tow of a tug for the mouth of the
river to join tow going up the coast
for a New England point: barge No. ~
is at the Georgetown coal piers loading
for New England. and No. 10 is on her
way down the coast for this city to load
coal at the Georgetown piers. No. IA
has aboard about 400 tons of the fuel.
The Philadelphia barge Howard L. Nef
was taken from this city to Quantico to
take aboard about 1000 railway ties for
the Philadelphia market. The barge will
be aboucten days loading her cargo.