Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-06
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

| The steamer Wilhelmina Of New York.
| which arrived at Alexandra Sunday
last from Port Tampa, with large car.
| go of phosphate rock aboard, completed
discharging cargo yesterday and sailed
at once for Georgetown. where she will
load million or two feet of pine lumber
| for New York.
The removal of over 5000 tons of rock
from the hold of the big steamer was &C.
complished at the modernly equipped
plant of the Alexandria Chemical Com.
pany in a little over three Gays. a record
that will compare favorably with that Of
| any of the big northern ports.
The steamer was berthed at Alexandria
| late Sunday evening. Her matches were
| not opened until Monday morning. Work.
ing in the daytime the last bucketful Of
the cargo was hoisted from the hold of
the vessel and stored in the warehouse
early yesterday morning.
The Taylor tug James o. Carter, which
| carried tow of coal-laden canal barges
| to the naval powder factory pier at In
dian Head, Nd. on Mattawoman creek,
| has been caught up creek by low water.
caused by the northwest gale. and up to
| his morning was unable to come out
1t is expected the tide will run high
enough today to allow her 20 sail and
| she will arrive here this evening with
light bargeS in tow.
The northwest gale of the past forty
|
out of the river Today the tide is lower
| than it was last week, when many shoal
! docks in the harbor were bare.
| The steamers running into the creeks
| down river which on full tides have but
little more water than enough to float
| the boats were unable to make number
of landings today, as there was not
enough in the creeks to float them.
| About this city today the river flats are
all exposed
| Freights on the Potomac to and from
| this city are running quite light just
| now. By the end of the present month
| the steamboat men are looking for big
| Increase in business. which will continue
until after Christmas. when ii Will fall
| fiat again and will remain SO until in
| the spring.
| Except for fish and oysters the river
steamers bringing but little from
| downrver points to this city. The catch
of fish has been particularly good for the
| past two weeks, and the dealers here are
receiving numbers of barrels from the
Potomac nets almost daily.
The farmers down the river are holding
back their turkeys and other poultry for
the Thanksgiving market. and this class
OF freight will start running about Q
week before the holiday and will be quite
heavy.
Arrived: Bugeyes Avalon, John Bran.
ford Ethel Vale Mary Chaplin. Dawson,
William Zurich Ruth, schooners w. II.
Bixler. Fair American. G. w. Kibble. Will
liam r. Villas. Marsh, Raymond Oliver,
Willie Clarence w. S. Schley. sloops Emo
la and the Dove, oysters in the shell from
the Potomac for the local market; schoon-
er Ii. "A. Jordan. cord wood from a lower
Potomac point to the dealers: tug Walter
F. Meade. with tow of sand and gravel
laden lighters from the digging machines
down river; tug Carter, with tow from
a river point.
Sailed: Schooner a Fl. Quinby Light,
from Georgetown from a river point to
load cord wood: tug Fortuna. towing light
barge Mattapony for Baltimore; schooners
f. p. Evans ard Ada Wood. light, for a
lower river point to load oysters in the
shell for this market; power launch Stella,
on a cruise TO the lower river; bugeye
Ruth. light, for a river point to load oys-
ters for this market; schooner H. L.
James to a Virginia port to load lumber.
Memoranda: Schooner Oakland is at q
river point loading cord wood for this
city; schooner Samuel Wood has sailed
from the st. Mary river laden with cord
wood for this c ty; schooner Lula Quillan.
laden with lumber for this city, sailed
from Norfolk the Sd instant: Sc hooner Rio
schooner Lotte Carter is in Mattox creek
loading cord wood for the dealers here;
schooner Mabel and Ruth. lumber from
North Carolina, is in the river and Is due
to arrive.
The little tug Bartholdi has been placed
upon a temporary route between this city
and the steel plant pier and Alexandria
in order to accommodate the employees of
the Firth Sterling works who live in this
city and Alexandria The Bartholdi
makes her trips at hours to carry the
men to their work and to bring them
home again. and will con niue on the
route until the ferry service Is resumed