Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-31

closed the bars on their boats. and since
the decision regarding the bars. no eff
fort to prosecute them has been made,
and the matter seems to have been
dropped by the District authorities. This
question of bars on local steamers is an
old one. and two or three times in the
last twenty years the question has come
up, and each time the decision has been
against the District.
While no railway ties are being ship
ed off the Potomac river to the northern
markets, heavy shipments of poplar logs
for paper making continue to be made in
along the river. Since the beginning Of
the shipping season in the spring. it Is
estimated that a hundred or more vessels
carrying many thousand cords of the
wood have left the Potomac for Elkton.
Md: Philadelphia and other points where
paper-making plants are located
The big barge Potomac sailed from
Marshall Hall this week with pulp wood
aboard for Elkton. Nd. and the barge
Marlin is lying at Haliowing Point taking
cargoes of the wood aboard. The sea-
going barge Patuxent of the Southern
Transportation Company fleet is lying in
Quantico loading poplar and a schooner
left Nomini yesterday with the wood
aboard.
1t is stated that at the rate the forests
Of Virginia and Maryland are supplying
poplar logs for paper making 1t is only
a question of a few years before the pop
lar tree will be practically extinct in the
river counties Of Maryland and Virginia.
Heavy shipments Of the wood will con-
tinue to be made until winter comes.
Arrived: Schooner John Branford. cord
wood from river point for the dealers:
schooners Maggie, Pearl and NJ w. Law
renee. watermelons from river and bay
points; tug Camille, with a tow from the
lower river; schooner Silver Star. lumber
from Occoquan for this market: tug Ro-
sale. with a tow Of sand and gravel
lad y
er Bright. cord wood at Alexandria from
Aqua creek: tug Capt. Toby. with tow
of lighters from down-river point.
Sailed: Schooner Buelah Land light.
from Alexandria for the Severn river to
load glass-making sand: schooner Oscar.
light. for Nomini to load cord wood back
to this city: schooner Ellen Wright. light:
for North Carolina point to load: tug
Martin Dallman. towing light scows for
Little Hunting creek; schooner Isaac Sol
ONION, light, for Potomac point to load
cord wood back to this city,. tug Minerva
with a tow of light scows for Greenway
flats.
Memoranda: Schooner William II. Nc
CURE is in Nomni with a cargo of cans
from Baltimore; schooner Sidonia Curley
has sailed from the Rappahannock river
with a cargo Of lumber for this city;
schooner Maine is on her way to this city
with hard coal aboard from Philadelphia:
schooner Grace Bennett is under charter
to return to North Carolina for lumber
for dealers here; barges Maryland and
Totusky are at Alexandria with hard coal
aboard from Philadelphia: tug Southern
has sailed from Chesapeake City with a
tow Of coal-laden barges for the dealers
here and at Alexandria.
The d-dredging machine belonging
to Augustus Dean, which has been lying
at Alexandria for several days past un-
dergoing an overhauling. completed her
repairs and painting day or two ago
and was taken to Georgetown, where she
is employed in dredging work.
The big four-masted schooner Charles
Davenport. which unloaded a cargo of
about I. 500 tons of Maine ice at the 9th
street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany, has been taken to Georgetown to
load hard coal for a New England port
Schooner barge Ne. ID of the Console
dated Coal Company fleet. which is dis
charging ice at the 9th street wharf. will
next go to the Georgetown piers to load
coal for Boston or other eastern port.