Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-14
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

A little garden truck is being received
by the dealers in this city from the big
farms in southern Virginia in the vicin-
ity of Norfolk and each morning the
Norfolk line steamers bring into port
few packages of lettuce. radishes or
strswb berries for the tables of Washing
ton householders. The vegetables and
fruit command high prices. 1t is stated
that the recent cold snap and frost had
but little effect on the growing truck in
the vicinity of Norfolk. and that the sup
ply of peas beans. cabbage. lettuce. as
paragus and other spring vegetables will
be very heavy. and that within the next
three weeks the steamers will be coming
into port each morning with hundreds
of packages of green stuff aboard. Straw
berries from the Norfolk gardens will be
on the market in quantities in very
short time and like the supply of vege
tables. it is stated. they will be unusually
plentiful Not only does the Washington
market obtain much of its vegetable sup
ply from Norfolk. but Boston, New York.
Philadelphia and Baltimore are also sup
piled.
The dredge Black Nat. belonging to
Dean & Son of Alexandria,. employed for
several days in dredging about the outlet
of the big trunk sewer between this city
oii'i aicAdiluI cOHupleteu tIc WUIh yes
terday. and divers were sent down to
work on the big sewer pipes on the bot
tom of the river thirty feet below the
surface. The dredge yesterday afternoon
was taken to Alexandria, and today she
was sent to Washington Park. old Not
ley Hall. where she will be employed in
dredging the cut through the fats into
the pier at the park. She will also
deepen the water about the pier so that
the steamers River Queen and Jane Nose
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get in and out from the dock at all
stages of the tide. The quantity of ma
terfal to be moved at Washington Park
is said to be consdera BILE, and the dredge
Will be employed there week or longer.
The Russian bark Asia. which unlOaded
a cargo of bones from the River Platte
at Alexandria about two weeks ago. is at
the lumber wharf of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Locust Point. Baltimore
to load cargo of cypress lumber for one
Of three ports in the Argentine Republic.
South America. 1t is stated that it will
be several weeks before the vessel will
complete her cargo and be ready to sail,
as the receipts of the lumber from the
said. return to Alexandria in the fall
with another cargo of bones from South
America. The Asia has not been to her
home port in Russia for more than five
years
Arrived Schooner BERTHE, cordwood
from the Coan river for the dealers: sloop
Dawson, oysters in the shell from the
Potomac beds; flattie No Name clans
from a bay point: schooner Lorena Bran
BILE. pine lumber from the Rappahannock
river for the dealers: tug Camilla with
a tow Of sand and gravel laden lighters
from a river point: schooner Ella. cord
wood from the lower Potomac for Alex
andria' dealers: schooner Lydia Vernon,
oysters in the she'll from the Potomac
beds: tug Meade, with tow from river
point
Sailed: Schooner Mayf1ower light. for
the lower river to load cordwood back to
this port; tug Rosalie. with tow for n
river point: sloop Rafting Joe. light. for
city: schooner Only Son. light. for Vir-
ginia point to load back to this city:
schooner Belmont. for Aqua creek to
load cordwood for the dealers at this
port.
Memoranda: Schooner Maria O. Teel.
to load ice for Alexandria at the Kenne-
bee 10th instant: tug Dauntless is on the
way to this city from Baltimore with
coai-laden barges in tow: barge WicomicO
Is in Nomin creek loading poplar wood
sailed from Norfolk for this city with
lumber aboard for the dealers: schooner
William Fl. Mcclure is at river point
loading for this city
Standard Oil Company tug No L.. tow
ing tank harges - and II, laden with
oil in bulk from Baltimore, arrived at
Georgetown yesterday. No. - spent a
large portion of last week on the railway
undergoing an Overha uling.
The power schooner Seabird belonging
to Capt. Faunce and others of this CITY.
is lying in port here having her sails
overiIauled and other repair work done
The Seabird was out In the heavy blow
of Saturday last and had her sails badly
torn by the strength OF the gales She
will leave today for tho nets down river
nf oil,