Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-27

the month before hauling nets is started
Windmill point shore. f1shed by Neitzy
q Faunce Of this city. has been in opera
ton for about two weeks. and a few
days ago Capt Polly Gibson. operating
the Whitewater shore. in Stafford county
Va. began hauling seine for winter Ash
The Windmill and Whitewater nets Will
be operated through the spring fishing
season.
The clam-digging machines belonging t.
the John Miller Company of this city
located at the mouth Of Little Hunting
creek. Va, short distance above Noun,
vernon, are again in opera ton and guam
titles OF the clay are being brought tt
this city daily to be manufactured into
bricks at the brickmaking plants on the
Eastern branch
The clay digging machines have beer
out of service for about two months and
general overhauing and put in good or
der for the seasons work. The clay
taken out Of the banks at Riverside Park
Va. is loaded on lighters and lowed tc
this city for use of the brickmakinG
plants, and several large scows loaded
with the stuff are towed up the ri-er
each day
The shipment of asphalt paving block
from the plant on the Eastern branch to
Richmond. Norfolk and other bay points
has been started for the season, and dur
Ing the summer months OF 1908 many
thousands of the blocks were sent to Nor
folk. and the big barge Appomattox is
now lying at the wharf foot of South
Capitol street loading a full cargo of the
paving material for the same city
Arrived: Tug Camilla with a tow Of
oyster and wood laden boats from the
lower river; bugeye Martin Wagner
oysters in the she'll from the Potomac
beds for the local market: tug Eugenia
with tow OF lighters from Piscatawa,
creek: bugeye John Branford. lumbe,
from a Potomac point to the dealers
tug D. NJ Key, with a tow of clay-lader
scows from Little Hunting creek.
Sailed: Bugeye Willie Clarence, light, fol
a down-river point to load back to this
port; tug Mead, with a tow Of light scows
for Greenway; schooner J. P. Robinson
from Alexandria for Upper Machodo.
creek with a general cargo; schooner
kibble light, for the Potomac oyster beds
to load back to this city; sloop Arnold, fol
Fort Washington with a general cargo
Memoranda: Bugeye Majestoc is at a
river point loading for this city: schoone,
Bennett has sailed from Norfolk, enroute
from NeWbern, n. c., to this CITY with
lumber; schooner Sidonia Curles has
sailed from the Rappahannock river with
lumber for dealers here; schooner Alethea
is chartered to load lumber on the Rap
pahannock for bay port; schooner a. H
Quinby has sailed from the Rappahannoch
for this city with lumber aboard; schooner
Maine has arrived at West Point, Va.
to load lumber for this city.
The big four-masted schooner Independ-
ent. an old trader to this port from the
Maine Ice fields, is due at Alexandria
within the next week with a cargo OF
about 100 tons OF the refrigerating ma
terial. The schooner completed her cargo
day or two ago and is already at sea
on her way to the capes of the Chesa-
peake. and by the time the Crosby now
unloading at Alexandria, discharges her
cargo the Independent will be coming up
the Potomac.
One of the large clay and brick carrying
lighters belonging to the John Miller Com
pany Of this city is at BENEFITS boat
yard to be raised. hauled out and repair
ed. The lighter is leaking so badly, it is
stated. that hand pumps will not keep 1t
free, and it's owners are awaiting the
arrival of the new tug belonging to the
company to pump 1t out preparatory to
hauling.
The tug William H. Yerkes jr one of
the bay toWboats of the Taylor fleet of
this city, which arrived here Wednesday
with the schooner Alicia Crosby in tow,
has been placed out of commission and is
receiving its annual spring overhauiing
of boiler and machinery. The tug will
be ready to return to service within the
next week or ten days. This is the first
visit the Yerkes has made to this city In
several months.