Evening star., 1909-04-25
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The army tug Lieut.. Alonzo Gushing,
which has been out on the marine rail-
way at the Alexandria shipyard for the
past week, is being put in thorough order
and will be ready to be launched In the
latter part of this week.
The Cushing according to reports. has
been relieved from duty as tender to
the army posts on the Potomac. That
work in the future will be performed
by the army steamer Col. Robert Swart-
won't, which came here from a post on
the north Atlantic coast about six weeks
ago.
AS soon as the Cushing is re-
paired she will go to Baltimore as
tender to forts below that city, relieving
the tug Sprig Carroll, which will then
be overhauled. On the return OF the
sprig Carroll to service. the Gushing
will go to Fort Scriven, Ga, where she
is assigned duty.
The big dredging machine Gen. Nc
Kenzie and the long string OF pipe floats
and other paraphernalia belonging to the
dredging plant which left here about the
middle of last week for Port Royal, on
the Rappahannock river. in tow Of the
tug Nj. NJ Davis Of this city, has ar
rived at its destination and is being made
ready for starting work upon contract
for deepening the channel to Fredericks-
burg.
The dredge was delayed on its trip to
the Rappahannock by bad weather in
the bay. Capt Crowder of the tug Davis
taking his tow into harbor and remaining
fox a day or two.
The Mckenzie was last fall employed
in dredging the channels about this city.
On the completion of work it went into
winter quarters here. While laid up 1t
was given a thorough overhauling.
Dealers al the nth street wharf fish
market state that more sturgeon have
been caught in the nets about Old Point
in the past week or ten days than have
been caught In period twice as long at
this season in former years. Twenty or
twenty-five big fish have been shipped to
this city by the bay fishermen and on
the market have sold at from 10 cents to
IL cents per pound.
Arrived-Bugeyes Kirby, Lily Smith,
Jacob Go,dstrom and fiatties Owens and
Herbert, oysters in the she'll from river
and bay points: schooner John McGinnis,
hard coal from Philadelphia to dealers
from a down river point: schooner Ce-
celia B. Shepherd. pine lumber from a
Virginia port; bugeye Levin ]. Wool
ford lumber from a Potomac point to
scrap iron at Alexandria, from q down
river point: tug Peerless. light, after
barge Arundel for Norfolk: tug Camilla,
with a tow from a down river point
Sai'ed-Flattie Bradshaw, light, for a
Potomac point to load back to this city
canal boat C. r. G. No. 1S, lumber for a
canal point; schooner Lottie Carter, Light.
for a down-river point. to load back to
this city; tug Fortuna, with a tow OF
light barges for bay points: Schooner
Samuel Dutton. light, for Q river points
to load cord wood back to this city; tug
Rosalie, with a tow of lighters for Pis-
Getaway creek; sloop Daisy. from Alex
andria for Pennington. Nd, with a
general cargo.
Memoranda-Schooner J. d. Bell is at
Tyiers, Va. loading lumber for this
city: barge Corrotomen is loading paving
block on the Eastern branch for Rich
mond; schooner r. r. s. Dougherty is at
a down-river point loading back to this
city: schooner Sidonia Curley is at
Kappa hammock river point. loading lum-
ber for this city: steamer Dennis SIM
mons is at a North Carolina point, load
ing lumber for this port
The barges MattapOnf, Mobjack, Bailey
and James McNally, which brought car
goes Of hard coal to this city from Phil
adelphia, have sailed in tow of the tug
Fortuna for the ST. Mary's river and
Baltimore.
The big seagoing barge Atlantic, which
loaded railway ties at Alexandria for
New York, has arrived at Norfolk and
will ioin tow of barges going up the
coast The barge Arundel has completed
her cargo Of ties and will leave tho Po-
tomac in tow of the tug Peerless for
Norfolk, where she will be turned over
to the tug Margaret to be taken to New
York.