Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-18
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

timore, chartered by Carter & Clark OF
this city to load railway ties at Occoquan
for New York. arrived at Occoquan last
week to go to her loading point above the
railway bridge.
When an attempt was made to take the
barge under the bridge which carries the
tracks OF the Washington Southern rail-
way over the creek, II was found that
her masts were too tall to 60 under. IL
was proposed to fill the barge with water
to bring 1t down SO she could pass. This
idea has been abandoned and the ties
will be brought from up the creek on
lighters to the barge. as she lies near its
mouth.
The Severn will take aboard about 49,
600 ties. the largest cargo shipped or the
ments Of ties from Alexandria or from
loading points down the river wifi be
made until after the presidential election.
The bulk of orders for this fall have been
Cancelled.
The American steamship Mae is at the
dock OF the Alexandria Chemical and Fer
tilizer Company at Alexandria with a
cargo of about 1.sOo tons of phosphate
rock aboard from Port Tampa, Fla. The
unloading of this big cargo will be COM
pleted about the middle OF this week.
The ship will go to Norfolk or Newport
News for cargo of coal to an on-shore
port.
this spring and summer. Several large
steamers. which ordinarily are employed
in ocean traffic to off-shore ports. have
taken charters to bring phosphate rock
from Florida and asphalt from Trinidad
to this city or Alexandria.
The steamship Wilhelmina unloaded
rock at Alexandria about month ago.
In the past month two British steam
ships have brought asphalt here. Others
are coming. Until this year the bulk OF
the cargoes of this kind were always
handled aboard sailing vessels.
Arrived: Bugeye Ella. cord wood from
river point for the dealers: schooner
Helen Justice. locust logs. at Alexandria:
schooner Isabelle. cord wood from the
Rappahannock river for James creek;
schooner Minnie and Emma. shingles from
Norfolk for the local market; schooner
Urbanna. pine lumber from a Potomac
point for the dealers: schooner Mayhower,
cord wood from a down-river point: Unit
ed States naval lighter. to load shells for
Norfolk: tug Little Sammy. with q tow OF
timber from Freestone to Alexandria:
schooner Lottie Carter. cord wood from
Nomini creek
Sailed: Schooner John p Robinson, mer-
chapdise from Alexandra for Upper
Machodoc creek; schooner z. S. Johnson.
light. for a down-river point to load lum-
Der: schooner Oakland. for Potomac
point to load cord wood; schooner Edith
Verrall. light, for Nomini to load for this
port; schooner s. L. Bowen. light. for the
lower river to load melons: schooner
PLUME E. Smith. light. for Wades bay to
load back to this city; schooner Mary Ann
Shea. light, for river point to load lum-
Der.
Memoranda: Barge William A. Smoot is
at Fort Washington dischargfng a cargo
of coal from Philadelphia: barge Patuxent
is a. Fort Hunt unloading coal for army
use.
from a North Carolina point for this city
with cargo of lumber: schooner John
McGinnis has sailed from Baltimore with
coal for Reedville, Va; schooner Charles
arrived at Boston 13th instant: schooner
Belmont is at a river point loading cord
wood for this city.
Coal charters from Chesapeake bay
points continue low and range from 80
cents to 90 cents per ton. according to
the port to which the coal is to be carried.
The schooner Margaret Thomas, 1,l5l
tons. has been chartered to carry coal
from Georgetown to Boston at 80 cents
per ton; the schooner Horace A. Stone.
!. 237 tons. from Newport News to Bangor
at 90 cents per ton, and the schooner
Thomas S. Dennison. 1.329 tons. So cents
from Baltimore to Boston.
The Thomas and the Stone unloaded
ice here and the Dennison is here waiting
to unload.
A large fleet of vessels is at the oyster
wharf. foot of 18th street. with cargoes
of watermelons. Yesterday evening II
was estimated that there were over
90. 600 melons in port. The fruit sold this
morning at prices ranging from So to SIS
per hundred.
The old steam yacht Runaway. a year
or two ago one of the most popular of the
smaller pleasure craft for charter on the
river. is hauled out on the marine rail-
way at the Alexandria shipyard to have
her shaft removed and other parts OF
value placed ashore 1t is the intention
of the owners of the boat to place the
huu on the flats near Alexandria and to
abandon her to disintegration by tide and
weather.