Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-28
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Oysters and watermelons are both on
sale aboard vessels lying at the oyster
wharf. foot OF 11th street. Warm weather
OF the last week has induced a grower
of melons In Charles county, Md, to load
a small vessel with the fruit and send her
to this city
For a week or ten days previous to last
Saturday there were no arrivals Of water
melon boats. General opinion about the
wharf was that the season was over and
no more vessels would arrive. This was
rather outof the usual order. for In past
years melons were on sale at the wharf
market until frost came late in October.
Saturday the schooner Norwalk, which,
made several trips here with melons
aboard during the season. came into port
from Mattawoman creek with 600 OF the
fruit aboard. This morning she still had
portion Of her cargo aboard.
The demand for melons Is light, but
they are selling at prices ranging at from
81 to s. per hundred.
1t is thought probable that several
other watermelon-laden boats will arrive
here this week. and that the season will
not end until the middle Of the coming
month or later
During the past summer, which was
dull for sailing vessels on the Potomac.
several of the fleet OF wood and lumber
carrying vessels were rebuilt, their own
ers taking advantage of the idle time to
put their craft in good order for service
when business on the river picks up.
The schooner Osceola was made practf-
cally q new vessel early in the summer,
and is in service with the wood and lum-
Der carrying fleet under the name Of the
Oscar The schooner Earl Biscoe. one OF
the Carter fleet, which was on the railway
at Benefits boatyard for fully two
months. completed repair work last week
and has gone into service.
She is now at down-river point loading
wood for this city. The schooner Belmont
was overhauled at a river point during the
past two weeks and came into port a day
or two ago looking like a new craft. The
Peri, Five Sisters, NJ. A. Shea and Sill
yer Star have also been given q thor
ough overhauling recently. and the Father
and Son and Leroy are reported at river
point overhaullng.
The disappearance of the foggy condi-
ton that had prevailed on the Potomac
for the past week was the cause yester-
day of considerable rejoicing among the
steamboat men, who have been given much
extra work and anxiety while operating
their steamers with thick blanket OF
mist hiding all objects from them. Sat
urday night steamboat masters whose
boats are on night routes We're able TO
get several hours of unbroken rest for
the first time since the foggy weather be-
gan. 1t is stated that the foggy spell
just over is one of the most continuous
that has occurred on the Potomac in sew
eral years.
Arrived-Schooner Mary, cord wood
from a river point for the dealers; tug
DauntlesS, towing barge PatuXent from
Baltimore. at Alexandria: schooner Irene.
watermelons from river point, at Alex
andra; schooner Waters. lumber from a
Virginia port to dealers: schooner Sallie
White, oysters in the shell from the Poto-
mac beds, at Alexandria,: schooner Annie
Mills, pine lumber from a lower Potomac
point tug Carter, with a tow from a
down-river point: tug Meade, With tow
Of sand-laden lighters.
Sailed-Schooner Beulah Land. light. for
the Severn river to load glass-making
sand for Alexandria: schooner Lottie
Thomas light, for the Wicomico river
with building material from Alexandria:
tug Dauntess. light. for bay point:
scow Daniel. light. for lower-Potomac
point to load cord wood for this market:
schooner Isaac Solomon, light, for Mattox
creek TO load cord wood: tug Rosalie.
with tow of light scows for Piscata-
way creek; schooner Julia Parks. light,
from Alexandria, for a river point to
load.
Observation-Disclosures Sidonia Curley
is on her way from the Rappahannock
river to this city with cargo OF lum-
Der: schooner Bertha May is at Guam
tico loading lumber for this city;
schooner PLUME Smith is in Aqua
creek loading cord wood for this port;
schooner Grace q. Bennett has arrived
at Newbern. \. c.. to load for dealers
here: schooner Oakland is at Blue Bank.
Va, loading cord WOOD lor the market
here.
Power boats and sailing craft owners
took advantage of the pretty weather To
take a cruise on the river aboard their
boats. and fully half of the big fleet OF
pleasure craft owned here were i'm serv-
ice yesterday. BY actual count yester-
day evening there were forty-seven pow
er boats of all size on the river between
this city and Alexandria. and further
down the river they We're as thick as
bees in a clover field. The owners or
several Of the larger launches left here
Saturday night on over Sunday trips to
points along the river.
The steamer Westmoreland, which
formerly ran between this city and Bal
timore. while going out of the Patapsco
river Friday on her way to the Patux-
ent broke her rudder. and had to he
towed back to Baltimore. The West
moreland now belongs to the fleet of the
Maryland. Delaware and Virginia Rail-
way Company.
The tug Fortuna. belonging to the
Southern Transportation Company serv-
ice is hauled out on a marine railway
at Baltimore for minor machinery re-
pairs and examination of hull. She was
formerly the tug Edward z. Gummeli
of this city. and is employed in barge
towing from bay points to this port.
Arthur Johnson. colored thirty-one
years OF age. accidentally fell from a Sec