Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06

down home" to relatives and friends now
making their homes in the city. and
from this city there will be a flow OF
Christmas tokens to country people from
their brothers and sisters, cousins. uncleS
and aunts
Christmas is the time at the steamboat
wharves when the day is twenty hours
long for Office forces
The United States naval smokeless pow
der plant at Indian Head Md. has a fun
supply of soft coal on hand to last it for
the next three or four months. Almost
daily shipments of the fuel from this city
TO the coal station of Mattawoman creek
are to be discontinued. The tug James q.
Carter. employed in towing coal-laden
barges from Georgetown to Mattawoman
| creek. has made her last trip to the creek
with coal bargeS in tow.
For the past four months or longer the
| contractors for supplying the fuel to the
powder plant have been sending it from
Georgetown to Mattawoman at the ra.a
OF six or more barges each week and
each barge carried nearly 200 tons Tie
storage room at the plant is filed up and
the naval authorities in charge OF the
plant have called halt on the shipment
OF the fuel until further orders. Sending
coal to Mattawoman creek will not be re-
sumed until spring.
Demand for building sand and gravel
and other. grades has been heavy i'm this
city during the past summer and is still
Keeping up. All the sand and gravel dig
ging machines owned at this city arc AT
work down the river taking material from
the bed of the stream.
The machines will be kept at work as
long as the river remains free Of ice
Usually about this time of the year the
! machines are withdrawn from service and
are prepared for lay-up of two or three
months during the winter. This year. il
| Is said. all the machines will be operated
to their capacity as long as possible
Arrived: Bugeyes Todd. Bluebell Fri
nd t-hry
the Potomac beds; tug Camilla towing \.
Z. Co. lighter with sulphur rock from
Quantico for Alexandria,: tug Fortuna.
towing barges Good Will Brandywine
Agnes McNally. Bailey and Severn from
Baltimore for this city and ,xandria
tug G. w. Pride with tow of SC, VS. from
river point; schooner Mary and + bacca
oysters in the shell from a Potoma, bed;
launch Virginia. towing a light scow / an
Occoquan.
Sailed: Schooners kimball and Martin
Wagner. light. for Potomac point la
load oysters for this city: schooner Ava
lon, light. for a Virginia point to load
lumber for this city or Baltimore: tug
Camilla. with a tow of light vessels for a
down-river point: scow Bush. light for
Marshall Hall to load cord wood back To
this port: tug d. NJ. Key. light, for Deco
guam to bring scows laden with lumber:
| schooner William F. Villas. light. for a
Potomac point to load for this port
Memoranda: Schooner A. H. Ouinbv
! has loaded a cargo of lumber on the Pa
munkey river for this port; barge Asap-
haia Is at the 18th street wharf com
pleting the discharging of a cargo Of Ium-
Der; schooner Grace G. Bennett is in tho
| lower bay with lumber from Newborn. n.
c.. for this city; schooner Samuel Wood
is on her way from Salisbury, Md. tn
Mattox creek to load wood for this city:
schooner Carl Biscoe is In Mattox creek
loading for this port: schooner Fannie II.
Stewart, for Alexandria, sailed from New
York the Sd instant
The pile-driving machine belonging 10
Capt. Buck Payne Of Somerset Beach is
being rebuilt near Somerset wharf on tho
river In preparation for repair work 10
he done to the wharves along the river
1t is expected that the driver will be
ready for service early in the spring by
| the time the ice is out of the river, if anv
| makes.
The tug William Fl. Yerkes. jr.. of the
Taylor fleet of this city. which was under
/ charter as tender to a dredging machino
working in the lower part of Chesapeake
bay has completed her charter and has
returned to general towing work on CheS-
apeake bay. in connection with the tug NJ.
Mitchell Davis, also belonging to the Tay-
lor fleet.