Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-25
pod supply of fuel in preparation for a

good supply OF fuel In preparation Tor
coal strike.
The tugs sailed with the light barges
Delaware. Seneca and Raymond McNally
for Baltimore. and A. W. Embry, Howard
L. Neff. Rappahannock and Curritonan
! for Chesapeake City en- route to Philadel-
phia.
The steam lighter Daniel X Jackson.
owned and commanded by Capt. Owens OF
this city. which sank In the James Creek
canal about two weeks ago. has been
raised, but has not yet returned to
service on the river.
The Jackson is the only fiat-bottom.
blunt-boW steamboat i'm service on the
river She has been employed in run
ming lumber and wood cargoes from Aqua
creek to dealers here and at Alexandria.
This fall her owner will have new
sharp-bow hull built for the boat. and will
transfer engine and house tout. The fat
bottom construction of the Jackson makes
her draft light. and allows her to 60
into shoal creeks where sailing vessels
cannot go after cargoes.
Now that the oyster season is awning
, to a close, and the fishing season will be
of only few weeks duration. the deal
ers in fish and oysters are preparing for
the watermelon season. which will not
open until i'm the fall.
The dealers in the fine fruit are sending
seeds to the growers down the river
Melons produced from these seeds will be
sent to dealers furnishing the seeds to be
sold.
Many thousand watermelons are brought
to this city each fall. A large proportion
of them are grown from seeds sent from
this city by the dealers TO the growers.
Arrived: Schooner Flora and Agnes.
pine lumber from a North Carolina point
to the dealers here: tug Defiance. towing
a barge from Norfolk for Alexandria;
steamer st. Johns, from Baltimore ship
yard, where she was overhauied: G {.
Co. barges No. and No. L.. ice from
Rockport, Me-. to the American Ice Com
pany: schooner Marianne, cord wood from
a lower Potomac point to the dealers. tug
Carter. with tow from a river point
Sailed: Bugeye Eleanor Russell. light,
Tor lower river point to load back 10
this city: schooner Earl Biscoe. light, for
Mattox creek to load lumber for dealers
here: bugeye Halle X. light. for the
Potomac oyster beds to load for this mar
ket: tug Defiance, towing schooner Gen.
Z. s. Greeley: light. for Baltimore TO load
coal: schooner Lottie Carter light. for a
down-river point to load back TO this city.
Memoranda: Schooner Lucinda Sutton
has sailed from Baltimore with coal for
Boston: schooner Mary a. Shea is bound
to this city with wood from river point:
schooner r. r. Evans Is at "A down-rivcr
point loading oysters for this market:
schooner Samuel Wood is in The 81.
Mary river loading for this city: schoon-
Ter Mayfower has sailed from river poirt
for this city with cord wood aboard:
schooner Oakland is at a river point
loading cord wood for this city.
The officers of the steamer Wakefield
report having seen quite large fock OF
wild ducks on the river in the vicinity OF
Cedar Point on their last trip to this city
from river points. Ducks have been very
scarce on the Potomac for several weeks
past, this being the only flock of any
size seen during that time.
The three-masted schooner Annie C.
Grace. which arrived here early In the
week with a cargo of hard pine lumber
aboard from Savannah. was locked yes.
terday at the 18th street wharf to unload
her cargo. The Grace has several hum
bred thousand feet of the timber aboard.
The two-masted schooner Flora ana
Agnes, with lumber aboard from New
bern, n. c.. came into port yesterday
afternoon and went to anchor i'm the har-
bor of the 18th street wharf. and will he
locked today. The schooner sailed IRON
Newborn March II, and had a slow trip
up the bay and river.