Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-12
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

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melon crop of this summer will be large
and the fruit fine is the way dealer
in melons at the 18th street wharf mar
ket summed up conditions when ques-
| toned about the outlook.
The melon season opens in the latter
part of next month. Weather conditions.
1t is said, have been exactly right this
spring and summer. There have been
plenty of warm rains and hot sunshine
to develop the melons. Dealers look for
unusually early ripening.
About the last week in July melons
| usually begin to arrive In vessels from
| North Carolina and Chesapeake bay
points. Melons are now on sale in up
| town markets. but they are brought by
rail from Florida and other southern
states.
BY the first week in August II h ex-
pected that melons from the farms along
the river will be coming to market Thou
sands will be brought to the HIN street
wharf almost daily.
The three-masted schooner Mary Daven-
port. which arrived at Alexandra several
ing at the Bryant Fertilizer Companys
piec to unload.
The tides have been making low during
the past week. The water in the dock was
| unusually shallow.
The Davenport is an old-fashioned
schooner. While not carrying a large
rgo. She is deep down in water. and
when loaded draws over eighteen feet.
| Eddies caused by the submerged wreck
of barge lying at the north end of
Alexandria harbor has caused the sedi-
ment brought down from the upper river
by freshetS 10 settle at the Alexandra
| docks. I mis- has caused rapid Shoalfng i'm
recent years.
The little tug Dixie, hailing from Fred
ericksburg Va. which was at the Alex
andria marine railway for a general over
| hauling, was LAUGHED a day or two ago.
and has sailed for the Rappahannock
river, where she is employed in towing
| lighters laden with railway ties from the
| loading points ashore TO the barges an
chored and loading In the deep water OF
the river.
While the railway at the Virginia
city the tug was fitted with a new pro-
peler and had other repair work done.
Her hull under water was also scraped
and painted. She is in trim for efficient
service as a towboat.
| Arrived: Schooner John W. Bell. lumber
| froin the Rappahannock river for the
\ dealers: bugeye Eleanor Russell. humber
from river point for this market: tug
Camilla with tow from the mouth OF
the Potomac: bugeye Silver Star. cord
wood from Wades bay: schooner PLUME
Smith. wood from lower Potomac point;
schooner Charles kirkwood. laths from
Norfolk schooner William Layton. lum-
Der from a Virginia point for this city;
tug Resale with a tow of lighters from
| PiScataWay; schooner CHllOe harofu.
phosphate rock from Port Tampa for
| Alexandria: schooner William Layton.
pine lumber from a Virginia point for
dealers.
| Sailed: Schooner Carrie Wright. light,
| for a down-river point to load back To
this city: scow Roam for Broad creek
with street sweepings: schooner s. G, KIN
| BILE light for Potomac creek to load back
! to this port; schooner A. H. Quinby, light,
for a river point to load; schooner Fair
| American. for the St. Mary river with
bricks and building material aboard; bug
eve Goldie c.. for MattoX creek 10 load
lumber for this port.
| Memoranda: Schooner Alice Holbrook is
on her way to this port from the Kenne-
Sidonia Curley has been chartered to LOAD
bottles at Alexandria for Norfolk, and
lumber on the Rappahannock river for
! this port: tug Fortuna has sailed from
| Baltimore for this city with a tow or
barses: schooner Five Sisters is I'm Aqua
creek loading cord wood for the market
here.
| The Southern Transportation Company
tug Dixie with the barges Albemarle aud
Glenwood in tow, has arrived at George
town. The barges have aboard each
| about 500 tons of hard coal consigned TO
dealers The Glenwood brings her cargo
from Philadelphia. and the Albematle
! from Baltimore.
Sand from the beds i'm Piscataway creek
and from other points along the Potomac
| is shipped in large quantities over the
Baltimore and Ohio to the north from
Shepherds landing. opposite Alexandra.
The material is brought TO Shepherds in
the big lighters OF the Smoot Sand COM
pany and is loaded on the cars BY "a
steam holster. Many thousand cubic yards.
OF the material have been sent away
during the past month.