Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-08
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Il
Yerkes. jr. of this city, injured by strik-
ing the wreck OF the old bay schooner
f. G. Irwin, off Point Lookout. last week.
and which sank near the government
wharf at Point Lookout as she was being
beached will make an effort 10 have the
wreck blown up as menace TO navisa-
| ton.
The wreck is TO be located Its proN-
! unity To the path of sailing vessels ana
tugs and the danger from it are tn be
urged upon the United States Army enSi-
neers office in charge of the navigable
waters Of Chesapeake hay. While ths
| Yerkes is the first vessel 70 strike the
| wreck there is danger al all times or
| other vessels doing SO. Vessel masters
| are anxious that the submerged wreck
should be out of the way.
| The f. G. Irwin was a two-maStcd bay
| schooner Last December, on her way
| to Norfolk from Baltimore, in collision
| with the tug Dauntless she was so badly
| injured that she went to the bottom rha
hulk has changed its position and is now
hundred yards from where 1t went
down.
| Watermelons are still plentiful Hardly
| a day passes that vessels with the fruit
| aboard do not arrive at the llth street
| wharf market with large supplies aboard
| from along the Potomac river and CheS-
| apeake bay. The season is on the wind
up. however and the buM of the business
| is over.
Yesterday the demand for the fruit
| light Good melons could be bought at
| 81 per hundred. Big selected melons
were selling at $40 per hundred. In many
| instances they brought considerably less.
| Melons will be on sale at the wharf for
| three or four weeks longer. If weather
continues warm the demand will continue
| fair. Several vessels in the past day or
two have left port with portions of their
cargoes aboard and have thrown the
melons overheard down the river.
Reports from the lower Potomac state
| the second crop of tomatoes will he small.
| and that housekeepers who did not take
| advantage of the low prices of about two
weeks ago will have but little opportunity
| this fall Of buying the vegetable cheap
| enough to can.
The big canning plants at Curriomen
| Nomini and on the Coan and Yeocomico
| rivers. Va, and along the Maryland side
of the river. will take practically the en-
| tire crop. There will be few 10 ship to
| this city.
Quite large quantity of tomatoes from
| farms along the Potomac come TO this
market when the crops are large. In
short years the farmers have a market at
| home in the canning factories within
| few miles of them. At the beginning Of
| the season it looked as IL the crop would
| be large
Arrived: Schooner Clemmie Travers
| pine lumber from tive RappahanDock
| river for dealers: schooner Susie Travers,
watermelons from bay point: schooner
| Whiting. securing sand from the eastern
| shore OF Chesapeake bay; schooner Twi-
light, cord wood from the lower Potomac
for the Eastern branch; tug James o.
Carter towing 4. G.. Co lighter with sui
phur rock aboard from Quantico for the
Alexandria Chemical Company; tug
Meade. with a tow of lighters laden with
sand from the digging machines working
on the river sand bars.
Sailed: Schooner Peri. light for coles
Landing to load cord wood for this city:
schooner Isabelle, for Nomini creek to
load back TO .this city; schooner MAY
flower, light. for Aqua creek To load;
tug Carter. with two coal-laden lighters
for government powder factory on Mat
tawoman creek; bugeye Halle X. light.
for Potomac point to load oysters.
Memoranda: Schooner A. H. Quinby has
been chartered to go to a river point TO
load lumber for this city: schooner Pen
dleton Sisters. with ice for this city. is
looked for at the capes of the Chesapeake
before the end of this week: schooneE
Grace G.. Bennett Is at North Carolina
point loading lumber for this city;
schooner William II. Mcclure is in Nom
ini creek loading canned goods for this
city
The tug Walter F. Meade viii sail with
| in the next day or two with tow OF
| lighters laden with stone from the quar-
| ries above Georgetown for Nomini creek.
where the stone will be used in the work
| of repairing the dyke protecting the
dredged channel through Nomini bar
| from the drifting sands that would soon
| fill 1t up.
Labor day was more generally observed
along the river this year than ever be-
| fore. and the lumber and wood handling
piers had Il Sunday aspect The offices
were closed all day and no work was done
except at the steamboat piers, where the
steamers going and coming kept full
force of hands at work.
The four-masted schooner Brina Pen
dleton, the only big schooner in port, has
been lying light at the 9th street wharf
of the American Ice Company for sew
eral days past. waiting orders from her
agents as to where she is to load her next
cargo.