Evening star., 1908-01-25
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The new shaft for the side wheel
steamer Jane Moseley of this city has ar
| rived ut the shipyard at Baltimore. where
The Moseley has been lying for several
weeks, and the work of installing it will
be commenced at once and pushed to
completion The steamer broke her shaft
on the closing day Of the excursion sea-
son last year while between this city and
Alexandria, when she had crowd of sew
eral hundred colored excursionists aboard
going to a river resort. She was taken
to Baltimore soon after the excursion sea-
son closed. and is having extensive re-
pair work done to her boiler and machin-
cry. so that when she returns to this city
in the spring she will be ready for active
service and will be used in the colored
excursion trade. The pier at the foot of
N street southwest was recently rebuilt
for this business, and the dock in which
the Moseley will lay is being dredged to a
depth of about fifteen feet. The Moseley
about fifteen years ago was employed on
the route between this city and Nor
folk.
The dredge Gray Eagle of Baltimore,
| which completed the filling in of the low
grounds on the south end of the WASH
ington Barracks Park about ten days
ago, sailed Thursday for other points
tracts. The pontoons and pipes which
the dredge used in pumping the mate
rial ashore were loaded on barges and
taken away in tow with the dredge.
1t is stated that if no ice forms the
machine will stop in Occoquan creek to
complete the deepening of the channel of
that waterway to a depth of seven feet at
low water. Since starting work on the
Eastern branch the dredge has raised the
level of the lower end of the old arsenal
grounds, in the vicinity of the Army War
College, several feet. and has filed in the
cellars of the old before the war time
buildings that were torn down. The grad
ing of this raised ground and the laying
It off with walks and improvements are
now in progress.
Arrived-Schooner Blanche Hayward,
oysters in the shell from the Potomac
beds: A. c. c.. scow. sulphur ore from
plant; tug James o. Carter. with tow
from the lower Potomac; bugeye Lola
Taylor. oysters for this market: S. o.
Company tug No. Il. towing tank barges
~ and -. oil In bulk. from Baltimore:
flattic Nicholas. oysters In the shell from,
the Potomac.
Sailed-Schooner Amanda Lewis and
bugeyes Winnie Windsor Halle X. and
Horatio Seymour. light. for the Potomac
oyster beds to load for this city: bugeye
c. r. Lewis, light. for river point to load
back to this port: schooner Mary Chaplin.
light. for a Chesapeake bay point to load
oysters for this city; tug Camilla, with a
tow of light river craft for lower Poto-
mac points: tug Eugenia, towing light
scows for dredging machines at Monkeys
Point. schooner Lottie Gutter. light. for
Nomni. to load cord wood for this city.
observation-disclosures John McC;innis
has sailed from Baltimore for West Point,
Va to load lumber: schooner James II.
Hargraves. from this city. has arrived at
Sharptown. Md; schooner William II. Blk
ler is at a river point loading for this
city: schooner w. II. Bailey Brown is in
Coan river loading cord wood for the deal
ers here; steam barge Daniel X. Jackson
is in Aqua creek loading lumber for this
city
Two large logs which We're brought down
from the upper river by the current of
last week have grounded in the ShOal
water n short distance below the steel
plant wharf One Of the logs is the trunk
Of an old tree with several limbs on it,.
1t is said that an effort Is to be made to
get the log ashore SO that it can be cut
up into firewood.
The United States Army engineers tug
Gen Warren. has been fitted with her ice
breaking plow, that she can be- kept in
service should ice form on the river dur
ing the coming month. The Warren is
used by the engineer officers for inspec-
ton trips to the army posts on the Poto-
mac where, improvements are being made
and to inspect the improvement work
going on along the river.