Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

mac IS rapidly drawing 10 CIoSS, diu
from now on until cold weather comes
the receipts will be very light, although
it is expected that the fruit will be on
sale for several weeks longer. In the
middle of last week there were a dozen
vessels at the 18th street wharf market
with melons aboard. Yesterday but one
vessel was at the wharf with the fruit
aboard and she had less than 5000 left
of her cargo.
During the past week the demand for
the melons was light and several vessels
left here with parts of their cargoes, be-
ing unable to sell them. The vessels
after sailing down the river to a point
below Alexandria threw the melons over
board and left them to drift ashore. The
demand for watermelonS has been eX-
cellent this season and the fruit has
been very fine The supply has been
large enough to keep the price down
and for the greater part of the season
the melons have sold at less than $40
per hundred for fine fruit, and the small
and inferior fruit could be bought
low as $3.50 per hundred. 1t is stated
that the melons are still plentiful, but
the falling off in the demand is bringing
the season to close.
The fourmaSte ted schooner Brina F.
Pendleton has gone to Baltimore to load
coal for Maine port, after lying idle
here for two weeks or longer while her
owners were seeking business for her.
month ago. from the Kennebec river, and
within a week after reaching here her
cargo was unloaded. At that time. as
during the greater part of the summer,
the demand for sailing vessels was light,
and though the agents of the vessel made
every effort to secure charter for her
it was not until the middle of this week
that the charter was made for the vessel
to load soft coal at Baltimore for Maine.
This lack of freight to and from points
on the Atlantic coast has been very
marked this summer, and many vessel
owners have laid their boats up until
business conditions improve, which they
hope will be this fall. The Brina Pendle-
ton was the last of the fleet of big coast
ing schooners to reach here and her sail
ing leaves no vessels of this class in port.
Hard coal shipments from Philadelphia
to this city, which have been light for the
past two or three weeks, are being re-
Sumed and Friday fleet of four coal
laden vessels was brought into port by
Southern Transportation Company tug.
In the fleet were the big barges Vincent
McNally and Mildred McNally, both new
vessels. and the Warwick and Severn. The
four bargeS have aboard over 1000 tons
of fuel which they will unload here for
fall orders. In addition to this fleet the
barge Isabelle is lying at Alexandria
with coal aboard.
Arrived: Schooner Mayflower, wood from
a Potomac point; bugeye Majestic, lumber
from the lower Potomac; schooner Z. P
ENHUS, oysters III the Smell from the WI
comico river; schooner c. III. Shepherd,
securing sand from a bay point; schooner
Mayfower. cord wood from Aqua creek:
schooner Mary Ann Shea, lumber from
Quantico; schooners S. L. Bowen wood
from Machodoc; Lottie Carter, wood from
Nomini; Belmont, wood from Pohick;
schooner c. A. White melons from the
eastern shore; schooner Ruth and Ella,
oysters in the shell from a Potomac
point; schooner Bertha May. cord wood
from MattoX creek.
Sailed: Schooner Samuel Wood, light.
for a Virginia port to load lumber for
this city; bugeye J. c. Bailey Brown, light.
for river point to load cord wood back
to this port; schooner A, H. Quinby, light,
for the ST. Mary river to load; schooner
Isaac Solomon, light, for Wades bay to
load cord wood; schooner Sarah Macna
mara, light, for Potomac river point; tug
Camilla, light. for Quantico to bring back
A c. Co. scow, laden with sulphur rock:
schooner Ida Vernon, light, for the lower
river to load oysters in the shell for this
market.
Memoranda: Schooner Mary Chaplin has
completed the loading of pulp wood at
Somerset Beach and has sailed for Phil
adelphia; schooner Majestic is on her way
to this city with cargo of lumber
from a river point; schooner Z. P. Evans
will arrive here today with oysters from
the Wicomico river: schooner Lottie
Thomas is at Alexandria loading building
material for a river point: schooner Bel
mont is in the river below Alexandria
with lumber for this city.
The steamer Wakefield of the fleet Of the
Washington and Potomac Steamboat Com
pany fleet yesterday relieved the steamer
Estelle Randall on the route to Glymont
while the latter steamer received her
monthly cleaning of boiler and overhaul
ing of her machinery. The Estelle Ran
dali resumes her place upon her route
this morning
The tug William II. Yerkes. Jr, which
has been lying at the 10th street wharf
for several days past having her engine
oyerhauled was completed yesterday even
ing, and she will sail tomorrow for the
mouth of the Potomac or Chesapeake bay
on the lookout for vessels bound to this
city.