Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-28
NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Now that the spring fisheries for shad
and herring are practically over. and
after June 10 the sale of those fish in this
city viii be illegal, fishermen turn their
attention to summer fishing for bunch
fish.
Within the next ten days or two weeks
several vessels from this city will be at
points along the river working summer
seines for perch. bass, rock, catfish, carp.
cells, tailors and other varieties of the
f1nny tribe that are caught in the river
after the water has been warmed by the
summer sun.
The fattie Emma r. Faunce, employed
about the trap nets in the lower river
during the winter fisheries. returned yes
terday. and will at once fit out for sum-
mer fishing service. The Lily r. Evans
and the Seabrd owned in Washington
will also be employed in summer nshlns
Fish captured in the nets operated from
these vessels will be sent to this market
These are busy days along the river
front-in preparation for steamer excur-
sions on the Potomac tomorrow night ana
Saturday next. Decoration day Is the
beginning of the summer excursion sea-
son on the river and the resorts at
Colonial Beach. Marshall Hall and klver
View. for white excursionists. and Wash
ington Park and Glymont. for the col
ored, will open on that day.
Friday night the Norfolk and Wash
ington Steamboat Company will send one
of IFS steamers out with special ex-
cursion aboard to Old Point and Norfolk,
and excursions will be run FRIDAY ana
Saturday to Norfolk in addition. The
steamer ST. Johns will make trips TO
Colonial Beach Friday afternoon ana
Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the
regular trips of the Manchester to Mar
shall Hall and Queen Anne 10 RlVer We"
will also be made.
The steamboat men are calculating,
with good weather. to handle more people
this Decora ton day than ever before.
A new lighter built at the boatyard OF
Charles Speiss, at Alexandria. which was
launched last week for the l.. A. Smoot
Sand Company, will be ready tor service
in a short time. The lighter is eighty
one feet long, has a beam OF twenty-five
feet. and will carry several hundred cubic
feet of sand and gravel. he bottom tim
bers for another lighter will be placed IN
position at once
The big sea-going barge No. IA of the
Consolidation Coal Company was brought
up the river yesterday from Point Look
out by the tug Camilla, to load SOFT coal
at the GEORGETOWN piers for New Eng
land port Barge ~ of the Consolidation
Coal Company's fleet is lying at George
town taking aboard a cargo of coal she
will complete loading by the end of the
week and will be taken to the mouth or
the river by one of the Taylor tugs TO
join tow going up the coast.
Arrived: Barge Atlantic, light. at Alex
andria, to load railway ties for New
York; schooner William Lishear. at
Alexandria. with canned goods from Cape
Charles: schooner Charles Richardson
pine lumber from a Virginia point for the
dealers; bugeye Margaret A. TraNers,
lumber from the Rappahonnock river;
Standard Oil Company tug No. L. tow
ing barges Nos. - and -, laden with oil
in bulk from Baltimore; schooner Mary
Francis. railway ties and cord wood from
a river point: scow Sea King wood from
a river point; schooner Peri. lumber from
a river point. bugeye Ethel Vale. cord
wood from the lower Potomac; schooners
Mary Ann Shea and Five Sisters lumber
from Aqua creek: schooner Silver Star.
cord wood from Quantico for this market
Sailed: Bugeye William F. Villas. light.
for a lower Pot omac point. to load for this
~i,v. schooner Tropic. for Machedoc creek.
to load: bugeye John Bradford, light, for
Virginia point. to load: schooners Lena
Mills and Fleetwins. light. for lower Po-
fomac points, to load, schooner Carrie.
light. for the Rappahannock river ia load
sack TO this city: tug Minerva. with
tow of lighters for the digging machines
down the river. sloop Ethel C., light. for
a haN pOlnt 10 lOdQ CLAIMS. Hattie
Ely. light, for a river point to load oys-
tiers.
Memoranda: Schooner Sidonia Curley
is on the Rappahannock river loading
lumber for the dealers here; schooner
Grace G. Bennett has sailed for New
bern. n G. to load for dealers here:
schooner Walter has sailed from Pratts.
Va. for this city with lumber aboard.
schooner Mabel and Ruth has arrived al
Norfolk from this city. en- route to
North Carolina point 10 load; schooner
Belmont is al Potomac point loading
cord wood for the dealersehere.
The bugeye BERTHE May has completed
the loading Of cargo of several hundred
bushels of oyster smells al the 18th street
wharf and she sailed for the lower river.
where the shells she has aboard will he
used upon depleted oyster beds. to make
them productive again.
A large scou belonging 10 the John MIL
Ter COMPANY. which was hauled out on the
marine railway AZ Bennett boatyard for
nau,Line has been launched. ready for
service. and another Miller lighter is on
the railway for repairs