Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-25
NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Freighting business on the Atlantic
coast has been dull for several months.
Large vessels are laid up at many points,
their owners having decided that more
profitable than to attempt to operate
them on the freights now being paid.
The big schooner Elisha Atkins this
week was chartered to carry coal from
Baltimore to Boston at 81 cents per ton.
This is an extremely low rate-the lowest
for several years The fact that the At
kins carries cargo of about 1000 tons
and is speedy vessel is the only reason
she can make the trip without loss.
The barge Patuxent. one of the big sea-
going vessels Of the Dougherty fleet, ly-
ing at Alexandria for a month or longer
waiting charter, sailed yesterday in tow
of the tug Dauntless for Baltimore. 1t
| is understood she will be laid up there
| until conditions improve.
Lumber freights from the Rappahan-
mock to this city are said TO be lower
than they have been in several years.
The hot weather is causing a big in
crease in the excursion business on the
Potomac. Yesterday all the excursion
boats from this city went loaded all day
The four-masted schooner Stella Kaplan
day with a cargo of ice from Maine. com:
pleted discharging her cargo Tuesday
Yesterday she was taken up to George.
town to load about 15O0 tons of soft
The four-masted schooner Alice Hol-
brook, lying at anchor in the stream, was
placed in the dock at the Mutual Ice
Company's pier and is discharging a
cargo Of about 100 tons of Maine ice
AS soon as she completes unloading she
will also go up to Georgetown to load
coal.
The three-masted schooner jamie Lippet,
Is lying off Alexandria waiting to dock
at Alexandria to unload her cargo of ice
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come up the Potomac this month.
Three vessels are at sea, bound here
with Ice cargoes. They will arrive be-
fore July 1.
Arrived: Schooner Five Sisters, lum-
Der from river point; barge Curtin. with
barge in tow from Philadelphia; barge
Marlin. hard coal from Philadelphia fol
Georgetown dealers; schooner Mary Anr
Shea. lumber from a down-river poin,
for the dealers; schooner A. H. Quinby
cord woou from a Virginia point for this
port: schooner Two Sisters, wood from
lower river point; tug Minerva. with a
tow of graVel-laden lighters from the dig
ging grounds down river.
Saileu: Schooner S. l.. Bowen, light
for a river point to load; tug James O.
Carter, light. for the lower river for a
tow for this city; schooner Mary Fran
els. light, for Potomac point to load
sloop Fleetwing, light, for Nomini creek
to load fish; schooner Isaac Solomon. fol
from Alexandria.
Memoranda: Schooner Maine will this
week complete her cargo of pulp wood
at Cockpit Point and will sail for Phila-
delphia; schooner Almeda Wiley has
sailed from New Brunswick for this city
with a cargo of laths; barges Good Will
and Bailey are lying light at Georgetown
waiting orders; schooner Daylight, with
ice from Bath, will be due at the capes
of the Chesapeake within the next day
| or two; schooner Green Hill is at Sails
Virginia point; tug Dixie has arrived
at Baltimore towing barges Delaware
and Brandywine from this city.
The barge Atlantic, which loaded about
1000 railway ties at Alexandria and then
went to Cherry Hill to complete her car
go of about 11,0OO ties for New York.
was taken in tow by the Dauntless on
her way down the river, and will be taken
to New York by the inside route
The barges Alexander Gibson Potomac
and Warwick are lying at wharves at
Georgetown unloading cargoes of hard
coal from Baltimore and Philadelphia
The barges arrived at Georgetown early
in the week and have aboard in all near
ly 5000 tons of the fuel.
The steamer Jane MOsely while swing
ing around at Motley Hall day or two
ago to come through the cut channel 10
the main ship channel struck her stern
against bunch of fender piles and did
damage to her joiner work The broken
woodwork is being repaired
The schooner Edith Verrall which I'M
loaded a cargo of cord wood here. has
gone out of commission at the 10th street
wharf to receive a general overhauline
and painting in preparation for her sum-
mer- work on the river