Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-10
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The old scow which has INSTRUCTED
the channel above the new Highway
bridge for several days past is now out
of the way, it having been dragged out
of the channel to the shore on the Vir-,
ginia side, where it is now lying a dis
organized mass of timbers. The scow
was of no value. it has laid or the
bottom Of the tidal basin for several
years unclaimed Last week in getting
the basin clear of all distractions on
the bottom to give the dredging ma
chine engaged in deepening the water
In the basin an opportunity to work
without delay. the old scow was raised
by pile driving machine. Slung to
the machine by a heavy hawser, an at
tempt was made to take it across the
river to the vessel boneyard on the Vir-
glnla side. In midchannel the line part
ed and the water-soaked scow went %
the bottom like a stone, partially OBJ
structing the channel. Its location was
marked by a flag, so that vessels going
in and out from Georgetown were able
to avoid the obstruction, and 1T caused
but little trouble.
While the oyster season is rapidly
drawing to a close, that for CLANS is
the eastern shore of Virginia about
Tangier and Pocomoke sounds are com
ing into port almost daily with the
Shellf1sh aboard Some Of the vessels
that bring the CLAIMS to this market are
small canoes, and do not look large
enough to weather the heavy gales thew
encounter in Chesapeake bay. but they
are stanch seaboats and make the trip
IN almost any kind of weather The
boat owners dig the CLANS themselvs
n kaf htf flaxy
get all the profit there is in The bust
ness. Lying at the oyster wharf are
four small vessels with the clans and
II Is estimated they have in all about
ing at from 60 cents to 20 cents per
hundred with excellent demand.
The American steamship Wilhelmina
laden with about 1900 tons Of phos-
Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemi Il
Company. sailed from her loading port
last Mondays and is expected to arrive
here this evening or tomorrow. The big
vessel is paying her second trip to
Alexandria with phosphate rock nav
ing unlOaded cargo there last fall On
that trip record time was made in un-
loading the steamer at the A1eXandria
pier and when the vessel starts to un-
load this time an effort will be made to
get her cargo out of her quicker than
1t was done before
Arrived: Bugeye j. #. Parks oysters
from the Potomac beds; schooner Lee
roy. cordwoOd from Mattawoman creek:
schooner Mary Chaplin. lumber from a
Virginia port for dealers; tug James O.
Carter with tow of lumber and wood
laden vessels from down river: canoe
RATHER. clans from the eastern shore
of Virginia: tug Resale. towing n fleet
of sand and gravel laden lighters.
schooner Belmont, cordwood from a
river point.
Sailed: Sloop Volunteer, light. for a
down-rlver point. to load back to this
city; tug Carter. light. for .Quantico
after lumber laden scow; schooner
Earl Biscoe, building material for
down-river point; bugeye Halle H.
light, for the Potomac oyster beds to
load back to this city; tug Key with a
tow for a river point; bugeyes Kirby
and Ethel Vail, light. for the Wicomico
river to load; sloop Daisy, from Alex
andria for PiScataway creek.
Memoranda: Schooner Maine is load
ing corn for Richmond and will then
load lumber on the James lor this
port; schooner A. H. Quinby is in Bre-
tons bay loading for dealers here:
schooner Sidonia Curley has sailed from
| the RappahannOck river for this city
with a cargo of lumber: tug Southern is
on her way to this city with a tow of
| four coal-laden bargeS from Chesapeak e
City: schooner Many Ann Shea is load
| ing in Aqua creek for this port.
The hull of the rebuilt schooner OSce-
| ola which is the railway at Ben
nett's boatyard has been planked and
| caulkers are now busy closing up the