Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-04
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

The big seagoing Barges Worcester and
Arundel of the Dougherty fleet OF Baiti-
more sailed yesterday evening from river
points in tow of the tug Defiance. Capt
Scott, for Norfolk. where they will join
lows of barGes going up the coast to
New York.
The barges have aboard about 1000 ties
consigned to a northern railway com
pany Their cargoes are a portion OF a
large order for ties that Carter and Clark
of this city have the contract to fill.
The ties aboard the Worcester and
Arundel were cut In the woods of Mary
land and Virginia along the Potomac.
Neither barge had to come TO Alexandria
10 complete her cargo.
The barge Atlantic, which loaded ties
at Alexandria about a month ago and
carried them 10 New York, has re-
turned to the Potomac and is in Aqua
creek TO start taking aboard another cargo
of about 1900 ties for the New York
order.
AS yet but one firm is engaged in the
tie-Shippng business from the Potomac
There will shortly be a general resumption
of the business TO the extent ii was car
ried on two years ago.
The barge of the Consolidation Coal
Company now unloading ice at the 10th
street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany will be the last vessel to bring ice
10 this city until the latter part of May
or early in June and even later should
warm weather not come.
Within the past three weeks about 5000
tons of refrigerating material from the
Maine fields have been unloaded here from
vessels. This. with the output of the ice
making plants of the city, will supply the
demand until warm weather.
The blocks of natural ice being unloaded
here are about sixteen inches thick and
are hard and white. They come from the
ice cut during the first freeze of the win
TO hnr iC 10 or I,n
cakes. A vessel or two of ice for Alex
andria may come between this and June,
but this is not certain.
The officers of the p. and G. line steamer
Wakefield report more wild ducks and
geese on their last trip from the lower
river to this city than at any time dur
ing the duck hunting season. Fine birds
were seen by the. thousands. Birds are
particularly thick in Currioman bay and
in the mouth of Mattox creek. Scatter
ing focks were also to be seen at other
points below Lower Cedar point.
Arrived-Schooner PLUME Smith. cord
dealers: fatties Maggie c. and Rafting
Joe. oysters in the shell from a bay
point; tug Fortuna towing coal-laden
barges Warwick, John Mentally, Totuskey
and Mattapon from Baltimore and Phila-
delphia; tug Carter. with tow from a
down river point.
Sailed-Schooner c. c. Wheeler, for
Virginia port to load lumber. schooner
cord wood for this city; tug Defiance
light. for Quantico after a tow for New
York via Norfolk; barge Roanoke, in tow
of tug Fortuna. gravel. for Norfolk;
buseye Grape Shot. from Alexandria for
river point to load: tug Captain Toby.
with tow of lighters for a down river
point; schooner Kibble. for river point
after fish for this market.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS John McGinnis
has been chartered to load coal at Phil
adelphia for this city; schooner William
Hood, on her way to this city from
Boston with paving stone aboard is
due to arrive early in the week. schooner
Oakland will go to river point to load
cord wood back to this city; schooner
'Curley is at a Rappahannock river point
loading lumber for the dealers here
The work of overhauling the pier at
Marshall Hall, Md, by the wharf build
ing machines OF Carter & Clark of this
city has been completed, and the floating
plant was moved up the river to River
view. where 1t will overhaul the landing
place. Completing this work the machines
will come up to this city to take I'D
work here.
The barge Roanoke, which left here
yesterday in tow of the tug Fortuna
en- route to Norfolk. will be turned over
10 the tug Southern at Point Lookout
10 be taken TO its destination. The
Fortuna will proceed to Baltimore with
ether vessels in tow