Evening star., 1909-06-13

heard the sound of her chime whistle
blown with all it's old-time clearness.
The whistle of the old boat had been
placed upon the Colonial Beach steamer
st. Johns. It has clear notes that can be
recognized a long distance. The whistle
has been familiar on the river for many
years and Is the only chime whistle used
hereabou 1t consists of three whistles
that sound a very musical note that is
easily remembered.
A lighter, used by the Miner Engineer
ing Company in transporting pipe and
other material used by the hydraulic
dredge Gray Eagle in her work about the
harbor, is at Cumberland boathouse, foot
OF 9th street, to be rebuilt. The lighter
was hauled from the water yesterday
afternoon on an improvised railway.
Work OF tearing off the sides of the craft
were started.
The lighter is to be rebuilt from the
waters edge up. When it is completed
and ready for service it will be practically
a new boat.
Arrived-s. L. Bowen cord wood from
a river point to the dealers: schooner
j. S. Hoskins, lumber from Port Tampa,
Fla, to the dealers; tug Capt. Toby, tow
ing American Consolidation Company
lighter, with sulphuric- -acid-making mate
Hampton, light from Norfolk. after barge
for Portsmouth, Va; schooner Eleanor
Russell. lumber from river point to the
local dealers; tug Lucille, light from Pts
Getaway creek IOr sunday ldy-Up, tug
Rosalie, with tow of lighters from a
doWn-river point.
Sailed-Schooner Sarah Mcnamara,
light for river point. to load back to
this city; tug Hampton, towing barge
Shenandoah, laden with paving block for
Portsmouth, Va. pungy Emory, light for
a lower river point, to load for this city;
tug Camilla, with a tow for a down. river
point; schooner Eugie, light for down
river point. to load to this market; tug
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down-river point.
Observation-Disclosures Aletha jackson
has been taken to Georgetown to dis
charge cargo OF cord wood from a Po-
tomac point; schooner Grace G. Bennett
Is on her way to this city with lumber
from a North Carolina point; schooner
Philip Kirkwood will go to a bay point
to load lumber; schooner Mable and
Newbern. for dealers here; schooner
Edith Verrall is at river point loading
for this city.
The big seagoing barge Pacific of the
to carry railway ties from Occoquan to
New York, for Carter e. Clark of this
city. has arrived at Occoquan to begin
| loading. The barges Patuxent and Po-
tomac. which unloaded coal here. were
yesterday taken to Aqua creek by the
tug George W. Pride. and will there load
; ties for northern points.
The schooner Mary Chaplin Is lying at
| the pier of the White Oak Coal Company,
at the western end of the harbor, loading
about forty tons of soft coal for Co.
lonial Beach. The schooner c. B. Shep-
| herd is also at the White Oak pier TAX
| ing aboard about thirty tons of coal for
| a lower river point.
In order to make room at the excursion
| pier of the Norfolk and Washington
| Steamboat Company for the steamer
jamestown, which begins her excursion
| trips tomorrow. the steamer Norfolk.
! one of the reserve boats of the line,
| which has been lying In the dock used by
| the Jamestown has been shifted to the
9th street wharf of the American Ice
| Company. as a temporary stopping place.