Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-01
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Winter schedules of steamers on the
Potomac river are in effect from today.
| The steamer Estelle Randall of the
Washington and Potomac Steamboat
Company fleet was withdrawn from serv-
ice on her arrival here yesterday even
ing from Grinders and Glymont Steam
ers Of the Maryland, Delaware and Vir-
| ginia line will leave here every Monday
| evening for lower river landings and
Baltimore, and will leave Baltimore every
Saturday evening for this city. making
one round trip each week, instead of three
as under the old schedule
| The Washington and Potomac Steam
boat Company has withdrawn all steam
ers except the Harry Randall, which Will
make three trips week, leaving here
| Monday morning at O'clock for all
! landings as far as Nomini; Wednesday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock, for landings as
far as Lower Machodoc creek, and on
Saturday mornings at o'clock, for
points between thfs city and Mattox creek.
Return trips will be made on alternate
days.
| No change has been made in the trips
| of the little steamer Trenton.
| These winter schedules will probably
| remain in force until about the first or
| middle part Of March.
| he IOuT-fndSleQ schooner Elisha
Atkins, Capt Atkins, which arrived at
Baltimore day or two ago with cargo
of phosphate rock from Port Tampa,
made a record round trip and added to
the laurels she has already won as Il
| speedy sailing craft.
She sailed from Baltimore November
Is. with cargo of soft coal for Mayport,
| Fla Discharging there. she went to Port
! Tampa where she loaded phosphate rock
! for Baltimore.
| On the trip up the coast strong west and
southwest winds prevailed to the capes OF
| the Chesap eake. Capt. Atkins, taking ad-
| vantage of the breezes, carried all sail &c
shove his big ship through the water at a
rapid rate.
| Monday afternoon the vessel tied up at
the wharf of her consiSneeS in Baltimore
having made the round trip in forty-tve
days.
| The schooner Atkins and her master are
| both we'll known at this port. The vess
| was here last summer with a cargo of ice
| from the Maine ice fields for the American
Ice Company.
! The demand for oysters in the shell at
the 18th street wharf market is light
Bivalves offered for sale are excellent.
Prices are low.
estimated yesterday that there were less
| than 800 bushels aboard all the vessels
lying at the wharf. Daily receipts have
been light for the past week
| This morning good oysters could be
| bought as low as 40 cents per bushel and
! from this price they sold up to 81 pei
/ busfel for bay stock.
| Should freeze come, and it now looks
as II it might happen. with only few
vessels with oysters aboard at the wharf
prices will go up a-jumping, and the oys.
tiers that now can be bought at 10 cents
per bushel will sell for 10 cents and &C
cents per bushel. and they may even 20
| higher if the supply Is very small.
| Arriyed-Barge Nnnsemond from Nor
| folk for dealers here: tug James O. Car
| ter towing S O. Co. tank barge No. ~
oil in bulk from Baltimore: tug Southern
| towing two Goa laden barges from Phil
adelphia for Georgetown: schooner David
| SON stone from Boston for Georgetown:
! schooner spray oysters in the shell from