Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT


has been discharged here by tho four
masted schooner Pendleton Sisters. The
thousand or more tons she brought here
have been deposited in the big ice storage
house of the American Ice Company on
the 9th street wharf.
The vessel sailed i'm the latter part of
last week for Baltimore, and is loading
coal for either Boston or Portland. at the
option of the master Of the schooner.
Since the early part Of June over lO.Oo
tons of ice from the Maine ice fields have
been brought to this city by big coasting
schooners. At one time during the sum-
mer eight vessels with ice aboard were
in port here at one time. and two or
three weeks were required to unload
these vessels. The local ice storage plants
are well filled with ice for consumption
this fall and winter. and there is abso
lutely no danger of any shortage in the
ice supply for several months to come.
At the ice-unloading piers of the Amer
lean Ice Company the machinery used in
the unloading Of vessels is being put in
shape for several months of idleness and
betting and the easily detachable parts
of the machinery are being removed and
stored until next summer when they
will again be wanted.
The bugeye Levin Woolford, Capt. Jen-
kins. which has been running to this city
from points along the river with cargoes
Of cord wood and lumber aboard for sew
eral months past. is at the upper end of
Mattox creek discharging a cargo of
oyster shells from this city.
The vessel has made her last visit to
this city until next spring, and during
this fall and winter will be employed in
oyster dredging work. The mainmast of
8i,A sal xv-l,s to
being strengthened and other work is
being done to the vessel TO prepare her
for dredging work
Arrived: Schooner Isaac Solomon, cord
wood from river point for the dealers;
schooner 8. Bowen, lumber from a Po-
tomac point: scor Farmers Friend. pop
lar logs to Alexandria for shipment to
northern point: schooner T. l.. Dawson.
oysters in the shell from the lower Po-
tomac beds; schooner Silver Star. cord
wood from river point; sloop Volunteer
oysters from the Wicomico river; tug
Meade with a tow of sand and gravel
laden lighters from Potomac points:
schooner s. l.. Bowen, cord wood from
dOwn-rver point.
Sailed: Sloop Lily F.. Owens, light. for
the lower Potomac on a fishing trip: tug
James o. Carter, with a tow of soft-coal-
laden lighters for Indian Head; schooner
Hanson P. Barnes. light. for Potomac
point to load: tug Rosalie. with a tow of
lighters f1ScdtdWaN creek, schooner
Grace G. Bennett, light for Newborn.
n. c.. to load lumber for this city; tug
Fortuna, with a tow of light Darges;
bargest Vincent McNally and Severn,
light. for the Rappahannock river to load
for Philadelphia or New York.
Memoranda: Schooner Beulah Land,
from the Severn river for Alexandria with
glass-making sand aboard. is in the river
below Alexandria,: schooner Bessie Reed
is bound to this city with canned goods
aboard: schooner Mabel and Ruth, with
lumber for this city. sailed from New
bern, n. c.. the 18th instant: schooner
Salisbury laden with lumber. sailed from
Jacksonville, Fla. the 10Th instant; tug
NJ NJ. Davis has arrived at Baltimore
with the schooner PendIeton Sisters. light,
from this city.
The Southern Transportation Company
tug Southern will arrive here today tow
ing the coal-laden barges Nansemond
and William Donaldson from Baltimore
and the barge Susquehanna from Phila-
delphia The barges have aboard about
100 tons of hard coal each.
The four-masted schooner Salisbury.
which Ia coming here with a cargo of
southern pine. was loaded and ready to
sail from Jacksonville in the middle of
last week, but in consequence of heavy
northeastern. which had been blowing on
the coast for several days. she was UNI
able to get away from the southern port
until Saturday last.
For several days a heavy pail of smoke
has overhung the Potomac from this city
to its mouth. While it has not been heavy
enough to give the steamboat men and
sailing vessel masters any serious trouble.
it has kept them anxious for fear that 1t
would shut in thick. Yesterday the smoke
pail was heavier than it has been any
day yet, and with it was combined con-
siderable fog. The combination was
thick enough to cut off all view OF the
river banks but the pilots were able TO
see a hundred or more feet ahead on
the water. so that there was no necessity
for the slowing down Of the steamers.
and they were able to move on their reg
ular schedules. Fog time, 1t is stated. is
At hand on rhe Potomac. and should a
spell OF foggy weather come while the
smoke is here the steamboat men fear
that the combination is one that would
force the tying up Of the steamers at the
wharves until conditions improved. II is
stated that the smoke pail covers not
only the Potomac, but Chesapeake bay
and its many navigable tributaries as