Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18

masters will not give the steamboat an
inch that they can help. so that from the
beginning of each oySter-dredging season
until the dredging season opens on the
bay there is war between the dredger and
the steamboat man. The steamboat mas
tiers whose boats navigate the portion of
the river from which oysters are taken
1t is stated, are about TO combine to see
If they cannot get legal aid to force the
dredgeboat masters to anchor out of the
channels or to take the consequences if
they persist in anchoring in the way Of
the steamers.
The big hydraulic dredge Cen Macken-
Zie Is said TO be having trouble in dredging
in the vicinity of Buzzards point in order
to widen and deepen the Eastern branch
channel to the Washington navy yard
owing to the hard material she has struck
near the point. The scoop dredge Mary
land. the type of floating dredges that can
work best in hard ground. was employed
thought that she had cut away the hard
part of the bank. She was sent to
point on Chesapeake bay several weeks
ago, leaving the big dredge here to COM
plete the work on the Eastern branch.
Now that the hard material has again
been struck it is said that the managers
of the big dredge are regretting that they
sent the Maryland away. The Gen. Mac
kenZie is said to be one of the largest
boats of her class af1oat, but the construc-
that 1t can do the most effective work in
a mud or soft bottom and not in sand and
gravel, like the bar off Buzzards point.
The closing Of the tidal basin as
mooring place for small pleasure craft
during the winter months has given the
owners of the launches and sailboats a
problem to solve within the next six
weeks or two months. The basin was an
ideal berth, as 1t was sheltered from the
heavy gales Of the winter and protected
ne
craft owned at this city have in past
years been taken to the basin as soon as
the first skim of ice came. and Law there
until the winter was over. What they will
do now is a problem that the boat own
erS are working out
Arrived: Flattie Dies, oysters in the
shell. from a river point for this market:
scow Sea King, cord wood. from a river
point to the dealers; tug Carter, with a
tow, from Potomac point: tug Martin
Dallman, with tow, from Little Hunting
creek; Hattie Sella Tangier and schooners
w. S. Schley and Lottie Thomas. oysters
in the shell. from the Potomac beds; tug
Meade, with tow.
Sailed: Schooner A. II. Quinby. for
Wakefield, Va, to load cord wood bacl,
to this city; sloop Enoa. light for a
lower river point to load oysters in the
shell for this market; schooner Earl Bis
coe, for MattoX creek. to load cord wood
for the dealers here; bugeye T. H. Kirby.
back to this city; schooner scow Daniel
light, for Alexandria, to load for a down
river point; schooner Mayflower light
for river point to load cord wood for
this city.
Memoranda: Schooner Oscar is in the
st. Mary river loading for this port:
schooner Oakland is at Maryland Point
loading cord wood for the dealers here:
schooner Agnes S. CULLEN. with lumber
for this city. sailed from Newborn. N G..
18th instant: barge Wicomico is on her
way to Potomac creek to load pulp wood
for Philadelphia; schooner Levin Wool
ford is engaged in oyster dredging in the
lower part of Chesapeake bay: schooner
Five Sisters is at Virginia point on the
river loading for this port; schooner
Beulahland is at Brennans wharf. on the
Severn river. loading glassmaking sand
for Alexandria.
The tug Fortuna has sailed from Balti-
more for this city. towing the coal laden
barges Pamlico, Maggie Donaldson. Alex
ander Gibson and Thomas j. Cleaver.
These vessels have aboard about 1900
tons of hard coal in all. and will unload
at this city, Georgetown and Alexandria.
The iron tank barge No. 80, of the
Standard Oil Company fleet. used in
bringing oil in bulk from Baltimore to
this city. Norfolk and Richmond. which
has been out of service at a Baltimore
shpyard. has completed repairs and has
been put overheard. The barge will load
a cargo at once for a bay port.
The tug Columbia of Baltimore became