Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-17
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The big four-masted schooner. Florence
NJ. Peniey yesterday completed loading
about ! 600 tons OF soft coal at George
town. In tow OF the tug Camilla Of the
Taylor fleet she started for the mouth
of the Potomac en- route TO a New Eng
land port.
On the way down the river the Camilla
will meet the tug Yerkes coming to this
city with the ice-laden schooner ]. Man
chester Haynes in tow. The tugs will ex-
change tow. The Camilla will arrive
here today with the Haynes. The Pen
ley will be taken out by the Yerkes.
The schooner Brina p. Pendl ton which
unloaded ice at Alexandria yesterday.
was taken to Georgetown and is lying
under the coal chutes taking aboard a car
go Tor Boston, Lynn or other ports IN
the north. She will complete loading and
will sail early in the coming week.
While the charter has not been closed
1t is said that the three-masted schooner
Almeda Wiley. now unloading laths. Will
load coal for Boston and will go under
the chutes as soon as the Pendleton com.
pletes her cargo
One of the big coal-carrying barges OF
the Consolidation Coal Company is said
to be on her way to this city to load coal
during the coming week.
Ihe steamers arriving from the lower
river are bringing up crabs In large
QudHtltieS 10 the commission houses OIL
the wharfs and to dealers UP town
Reports from the lower river state that
crab were never more numerous than
this summer. The crustaceans are poor,
light and without any fat In the sh lis
Big crabs that should weigh from a
half to pound do not balance the scale
at half that weight. In barrels Of several
hundred, TAT crabs are few and far be-
tween.
This is between season with the crabs.
a q ft.<.,v - III,
picking up In weight and will become
good and solid.
While the crabs may not be all that
Is desired for the table. summer colonies
at various summer resorts are having a
good time catching them. Many hum
dreds are taken from the water daily.
In consequence of the dry summer crabs
are being caught in numbers as far I'D
the river a Liverpool and Glymont.
Whlle hard crabs are plentiful on the rIv-
err soft crabs have been scarce the en-
tire summer.
Arrived: Schooner PLUME E. Smith,
cord wood from river point for the
local dealers: tug Camilla towing an ice
laden vessel from Maine for Georgetown:
tug Eugenia with a tow Of barges from
flscataway creek; sloop Daisy, light at
Alexanoria to load a general cargo for
raa.r,mington, Md; tug Martin Da.lman
schooner Mabel at Alexandria with lum-
Der from a Virginia Tort; tug Capt. Toby
with tow of sand and gravel laden light
river.
Sailed-U. S. S. Yankee. from Alexan.
dria, on training cruise: scow Sea King.
iight. for Marshall Hall. to load cord wood
ior the dealers here; tug Meade, with q
tow OF lighters for a down-rtver point:
schooner Silver Star, light. for Pisca-
AWAY creek. to load for this city; sloop
Daisy. with general cargo for Farming
ton. Nd. from Alexandra: tug Carter.
with tow for down-rive point; power
schooner Seabird, light. for a down-river
point to load.
Memoranda - Schooner William n.
French will load cord wood on the st.
Marys river for the navy yard: schooner
Quinby will return to the Rappahannock
| river to load lumber for this city; schoon-
er William II. Mcclure is I'm Nomini creek
loading grain for this city: schooner Flea
nor Russell has gone to rver point to
load for the market here; schooner Grace
loading pine lumber for the dealers here:
schooner Clara Leonard is in Nonlini creek
loading.
The tug Camilla of the Taylor fleet, out
of service at Forsbergs wharf Having
some repair work done to her machinery.
completed repairs yesterday evening in
time to sail with the schooner Penley for
the mouth of the river.
The tug Little Angus. one Of the small
err of the Potomac fleet Of tugboats. has
gone into commission again after being
out Of service for about eighteen months
She Will be used by her owners. the Po-
tomac Dredging Company. for towing
scows of the company In and out Of Pts
Getaway creek and other shoal spots on
the river where the sand digging ma
chimes are dredging supplies of sand and
gravel for this CITY,