Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-11
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The companies engaged in the excursion
! busines s on the Potomac during the sum-
| mer months are having their steamers
| overhauled and put in order. For the
| last few days wOrkmen have been aboard
| the River View line steamer Queen Anne,
working her boiler and engine and
making such other repairs as may be
neCe ssary. The boiler and machinery OF
the steamer Charles Manchester have
| been overhauled and her crew is now
| working on the interior of the boat. Civ
| ing 1t general cleaning up in prepare
| ton for resuming trips to Mount Vernon
| and Marshall Hall early in the spring
The steamers Jane Mosely. az Baltimore.
and the River Queen, here, are being
| owe rhauled. AS soon as the we ather will
permit these boats will be reprinted and
| decorated.
The Taylor tug Camilla. which was
| fitted with her ce-breaking pillow seve raj
days ago. is still at the 10th street wharf
| make no attempt to go down the river
| until the ice sOftenS up, that small
| oyster and woOd-iaden vessels may be
towed through it without danger of dam
| age There now in port here wait
| ing an opportunity to go down the
| river ten or fifteen oyster runners. which
will join the first tow leaving here for
the oyster beds down the river Except
| boats has left the wharves for sew
eral days. and the draw tenders of the
Potomac bridges are now having but little
| work to do for passing craft.
| The tugs Fortuna and Dixie of the
Southern Transportation Company feet
started up the river last week with two
| barges laden with hard coal for George
| town. but after getting above Cobb point
they found the ice SO hard that they had
| to give up the trip and return to the
Wicomico river. where the oarges were
anchored to await more favorable con-
ditions for coming up the river. The
| tugs returned to general towing work on
Chesapeake bay.
lantic and Worcester of the Dougherty
| fleet. laid up at Baltimore on account
of ice in the bay have been temporarily
| converted into grain storehouses The y
have been chartered by the Northern Cen
| trail railway to take care of the grain
| that cannot be stored in the big elevator
| for want of room.
The two-masted schooner Bill Nye load
ell lumber at a North Carolina port and
| sailed for this city January II Since
leaving the loading point nothing has
| been heard from the vessel. and it is
| thought she has gone in haIlbor to await
| an opportunity to come to this city with
her cargo. The schooner Sidonia Curley.
hammock river with a cargo of lumber
for this city. She will also remain in
harbor until conditions will allow her
| to come up the river without danger.
Several persons in this city and Alex
andria are reported to have had an in
terest in the schooner Mary l.. Newhall,
| which was lost at sea last week off the
coast of Bermuda while bound to Balti-
| more with a cargo of phosphate rock
from Port Tampa. Whether the local in
| terests were prote cted by marine insur-
ance on the vessel is not known.
The steam barge Daniel X. Jackson is
| lying in Aqua creek. in the ice. and as
soon as the conditions will allow she
will take aboard a cargo of wood far
| this port. II is stated that the ice on
Acute and other creeks along the Potomac
| is from six to eight inches thick and
| that the farmers down the river are cut
tag fine ice and storing it for use during
| the coming summer.
The schooner Amanda +. Lewis is re-
ported in the Wicomico river with a
cargo Of ice aboard. waiting oppor-
| tunity to come up to this market. The
! bugeye Mary and Rebecca is at Colton's.
| with oysters for this market and a num-
| her of other oyster-laden vessels are at
river points, waiting to come here.