Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-28
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The managers of the sand and gravel
digging companies of this city are making
preparations to send the digging machines
down the river and to begin operations
as soon as all danger of ice forming is
over and the machines can be moved
down stream without risk of damage. 1t
is thought that before the middle of the
coming month the dredges will be at work
and scows laden with sand and gravel will
be arriving here daily. The digging
grounds In Piscataway creek, at Monkeys
point, on Greenway flats and further
| down the river will be the working
grounds of the seven or eight big digging
machines owned at this city. The ma
chimes have been lying here or at. Alex
andra since early in the winter. and adj
vantage was taken of their idleness to
give them general overhauling, that
when they go into service again they will
be in thorough order for efficient work.
The sand-t0wfnS tugs have also received
an overhauling while the machines were
out of service. The tug Marion Cameron.
which last season towed for the Potomac
Dredging Company, was sold during the
winter, and she will be replaced by a
smaller boat
The large fleet of wood and lumber car
rying vessels which have been laid up in
creeks and bays along the river since the
first of the cold weather early in the WIN
lCAs diO III" UCihS Icduy. anu
within the next two weeks will go into
service. The owners and masters of the
vessels are overhauling and painting them
in order to have them ready for efficient
service on the river when they do start on
their spring work. Just now the fleet of
woOd-carrylng vessels in service on the
Potomac is small, less than a half dozen
boats being employed in the work. By
the middle of March there will be three
times that number in service. and hardly
a dav will that two three laden
boats do not come into port here
The shipment of railway ties by barges
to Philadelphia and the north will also
start about the middle of March, and the
dealers in ties here are now arranging to
charter vessels for the work. In conse-
quence of the shutting down of railway
work throughout the north it is probable
that the ties shipped from the Potomac to
New York. Boston and other New Eng
land ports will be fewer this year than for
d number of years past.
Arrived: Steam zach: Giavota. Capt.
Davis, from Il cruise to the Yeocomico
river. schooner Amanda Lewis and bug
eyes j. w. Kirby and Nj. j. Stephenson.
oysters in the shell from Potomac points:
tug Fortuna. after a tow of light barges
from Georgetown for Baltimore: sloop
Volunteer. oysters in the shell from the
lower Potomac beds; tug Carter from
a river point; schooner J. NJ. Stubhs. cord
wood from a river point for the dealers:
schooner Mabel, oysters in the shell from
TIL. Rappahannock river for this market:
tug Camilla, with tow from down
river point.
Sailed: Power barge Louisa. to Alex
andria to load "a general cargo for a
lower Potomac point: schooner Winnie
Windsor, light. for the Potomac oyster
beds to load back I" this city; schooner
Grape Shot from Alexandria, for a river
point to load for this city; bugeye NJ. f.
Smith. light. for lower river point to
load back to this city: tug Camilla for
a down-rver point: schooner William III.
French, light. from Fort Hunt for the
barge Mildred McNally. light. from
Georgetown for Baltimores to load;
schooner Lottie Carter, light, for river
point to load
French is charte red to load pulp wood
Oh the Rappahannock river for Balti-
more; bugeye Goidie c. has gone to a
river point and will load lumber back to
this city; schooner Clara Leonard has
gon,. to Nomini under charter TO load
cord wood for the dealers here; schooner
Clara A. Donnell is at sea, bound to
Ale xandria with "A cargo of ice from
Maine; schooner /. *. Stetson. Capt.
Han ilton, has arrived at Portsmouth n.
H.. with coal from Baltimore; tug Davis
is at the capes looking for the bark Asia
from the River Platte to Alexandria with
GlieG bones.
The tug Walter F. Meade. which has
con pleted repairs at the Alexandria ship
yard Will join the sandtoWing fleet on
the Potomac during the coming spring and
summer. Since the Meade was brought
here from New York about three years
ago she has been engaged in towing
stone laden lighters from the quarries
above Georgetown. During the season
about to open she will take the place
of the Selectman in the sand fleet. and
the Selectman will tow from the quarries
Colonial Secretary Dernbarg, discuss
ing colonial reforms at Berlin said that
one of the first necessities in the admin
list ra ton of German East Africa was the
prote ction of native labor from planters
cruelties and expressions. who in many
instances almost paralleled the slave
hunting methods i'm vogue i'm the Congo