Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-17
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Heavy shipments Of pulp " God, poplar
logs. to be converted into paper at the
mills at Philadelphia. Wilmington and
vicinity. are being made from points
along the Potomac to the north. Ship
ments will continue throughout the sum-
mer.
The three-masted schooner w. c. Good
win is lying at Somerset Beach taking
logs aboard for Philadelphia. A barge or
two are loading at points farther down
the river.
Within the past few days the schooners
Emma Temple and Mary Chaplin, each
laden with over a hundred cords, COM
pie ted taking aboard their cargoes at
Potomac points and are on their way to
the north to unload. A big two-masted
bay vessel showing no name is also load
ing on the river and is moving about from
point to point to complete her cargo.
1t Is stated that many thousands or
cords of the wood will be sent from the
forests of Virginia along the Potomac to
points in the north during this summer
to be ground up and converted into paper
of various kinds.
Coal used by the naval smokeless pow
der plant at Indian Head. Nd. is sup
piled from Georgetown in place OF Balti-
more. as heretofore. The tug Camilla
left here early this morning towing tH o
coal barges laden with about 300 tons of
fuel mined in the region about Cumber-
land, Md.
For several years past the coal used at
the plant has been brought to it in big
600 and 100 ton barges from Norfolk or
Baltimore. At times of low water ii was
often impossible to get the barges up
| MattawOman creek to the powder factory
pier. where they unloaded. On one oc-
casion a loaded barge was forced to lie
in the mouth of the creek for several
| DAYS waiting a tide high enough to allow
| her to go up the creek.
BY using the lighter-draft barges that
| bring coal from Cumberland to George
town the contractors will be able to put
| coal on the powder factory pier at al
most any tide. The fuel. 1t is stated, is
| brought down the canal and transferred
| to Indian Head aboard the boats that
| brought it down the canal The trouble
| of handling the coal at Georgetown Is
| obviated.
Arrived: Standard Oil tug No. IL. tow
ing barge No. II. old in bulk from Balti-
| more to Georgetown; sloop Enola. cord
wood from river point for the dealers;
tug James o. Carter. with a tow Of sand
| and gravel laden lighters from down.
| river point to this city: sloop Daisy. from
Pennington. Nd. at Alexandra to load
| a general cargo for Piscataway creek;
schooner Virginia at Alexandria with
tug Rosalie. with tow from down.
river landing.
Sailed: Schooner ]. w. Bell. for the
York river to load lumber back to this
city: Hattie Rosie. light. for the eastern
shore to load CLAIMS for this market :
Standard OIL tug No. l.. towing tank
barge No a. light. for Baltimore to load
oil in bulk for this city: barges Susque-
| hanna and WicOmico. light. for the St
| Mary river to load; Consolidation Coal
Company barge No. %. from George
| town to Alexandria to await orders; tug
| Minerva with a tow of light scows for
the sand-digging machines down river.
| Memoranda: Schooner A. HI. Quinby Is
in Nomini creek loading cord wood for
this city; bugeye Kathleen is at down.
| river point to load cord wood for this
| city; schooner Grace G. Bennett is at a
North Carolina point waiting to load
| lumber for the dealers here; schooner j.
P Robinson Is in Upper Machodoc creek
Five Sisters is at Wades bay loading
| cord wood for the dealers here; schoon-
| er Maine has been chartered to LOAD
pulp wood on the Potomac for Whining
| ton. Del
The high tides of Sunday and Monday
mornings were followed yesterday by
low water All river flats about this
| city were almost bare. In the Eastern
branch about the bridges the river bed
was bare except in the channel. 1t is
stated that the tides we're about two feet
| below the average low tide.
During a heavy blow from the north
west recently two old coal barges. lying
| at anchor at the mouth of the Jane!
creek canal for several years past. broke
loose from their mornings and drifteC
ashore on the edge Of the reclaimed lanc
near the mouth of the Anacostia river
The barges are still lying where they went
| aground Authorities are looking FOL
| their owners.
The bottom timbers for a large sane
and gravel carrying lighter have been laid
at Speeks' shipyard at Alexandria fol
| one of the local sand handling and dig
cling firms The lighter. 1t is said. viii
| he ready to be nut overheard early in the