Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-05
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

At the cord wood storage piers along
| the river front the stock of wood in
tended for consumption in Washington
during the next three months is being
accumulated by dealers in preparation
! for the winter lay-up of the wood run
ming boats.
Every year about week before
Christmas practically every boat en-
gagged in the freighting of cord wood
| from points down the river to this
| city goes out of service while its crew
takes a long holiday ashore. This is
done, no matter how fair the weather
| may be.
| BY the time the holiday is over the river
| Is covered with ice and the vessels cannot
| run. So that dealers calculate on te-up
| of from a month to six weeks and longer
| from just before Christmas.
With good weather the receipts during
| the next two weeks will be good Boat
men are striving to make trip or two
| before they lay up, i'm order to have some
| money to spend at Christmas.
The tearing down of the old icehouse
of the Home Ice Company at the foot
of 14tli street southwest has been COM
pleted and the workmen are now cleaning
UP the ground and storing the material
from the old house preparatory to haul
ing it away. The new connecting street
will pass through what was once the
yards of the Home Ice Company. and it
is stated the wharf portion of the prop
erty will be used by coal company that
has planned extensive improvements.
The schooner Henry L. Peckham, which
is lying at the pier of Littlefield & AL
word at Georgetown is discharging a
cargo OF granite paving block from quar-
ries in Massachusetts, in the vicinity of
Boston. The stone. 1t is stated is to
he used In IN ic
city. The vessel has aboard over a thou
sand tons Of the material and is the
second vessel to arrive here this fall
with 1t aboard. The schooner Elvira
Ball unloaded cargo several weeks
ago. The Peckham is an old trader to
this port with ice. but this is the first
trip she has made here with paving block
aboard
Advertisements Kimball, the Dove
Edith C.. and Avalon. oysters in the
she'll from river point to the dealers
here: scow Sea King. cord wood from
Marshall Hall to the dealers; schooner
Advocate. pine lumber from Virginia
point to the dealers here; schooner S. L.
Bowen. cord wood from Nomni for the
local market: schooner Avalon, lumber
from a Chesapeake bay point for the
dealers; schooner c. c. Wheeler. wood
from river point for the local market;
tug D. NJ. Key. with tow from a river
point
Sailed-Schooners Matte Bland and
Rafting Joe. light. for the Potomac oys-
ter beds to lead back to this city: bug
eye Grape Shot. light. to Alexandria to
load for a down-rver point; schooner
Annie Purnell Beswick. light. for bay
point to load for Baltimore; schooner
William II. McGinnis. light. for Po-
tonlac point to load back to this city:
tug Meade, with a tow of sand and gravel
carrying lighters for Greenway and other
points: tug Resale, with tow for
doWn-river point.
emoranda-Schooners Mabel and Ruth
and Lula Quillan. from this city. have
arrived at Norfolk en- route to North Car
DINA to load back to this city: schooner
Eleanor Russell is at a Potomac point
loading for this city: schooner Peri is at
a point on the Virginia side of the Po-
tomac loading lumber for the dealers
here: schooner Belmont is in Aqua creek
loading wood for the dealers here: schoon-
point loading oysters in the shell for this
market.
The little tug POwhatan, which has been
lying out Of service at this city for sew
eral weeks past. went into commission
yesterday under charter to the Potomac
Dredging Company of this city. The little
craft will be used to tow sand and grave
laden lighters of the Potomac Dredging
Company In and out of Piscataway creek
where the dredges are at work. to the
larger tug. George w. Pride. which will
bring them to this city. The Powhatan's
charter will last several weeks.
Shipments of corn. both shucked and
on the cob, from river points to the deal
ers here are quite heavy just at this time
The steamer Harry Randall. which
rived here yesterday from landings near
the mouth of the river. brought up sew
eral hundred sacks of the grain consigned
to the dealers here and at Alexandria.