Evening star., 1909-06-05
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

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ing region in the vicinity of Cumberland.
| Md. will leave Georgetown within the
next few days aboard the big schooner
| barges of the Consolidation Coal Com
pany for Boston, Portland and other
ports on the New England coast. Barge
No. p has completed the loading of her
| cargo at the Georgetown pier and Is lying
at anchor there waiting orders from her
owners at Baltimore as to whether she is
| to take her cargo to Boston or some 9TH
er port. No. b. which came here in the
early part of the week with No. u. is un-
der the coal chutes and No. II is lying at
Georgetown waiting to go under the
chutes as soon as No. completes her
coast to this city from Boston with paw
ing block aboard. and she will load AT
Georgetown as soon as she reaches here
and discharges her cargo. 1t is stated
and away before No. 20 is ready to take
her cargo aboard. Many thousand tons
of soft coal will be shipped from the
Georgetown piers of the Consolidation
| Coal Company during the next six
months.
The Dougherty tug Margaret of Balti-
| more, which has been held prisoner on
the marine railway at the Alexandria
shipyard for nearly week. has been re-
| leased at last and has sailed for Balti
more to haul, clean and paint there. The
Margaret was to have had this work done
| at Alexandria, but as she was being
hauled out the mechanism operating the
cradle of the big railway at the Alexan-
dria shipyard went wrong. The cradle
with the tug on 1t stuck and could neither
be raised nor lowered. Efforts were made
by the shipyard people to release the tug,
but without success. and wrecking out
fit from Baltimore had finally to be sent
for to do the job. The wrecker~ and
their paraphernalia arrived here early in
the week. and it was not until yesterday
that the cradle was dragged down into
deep water and the imprisoned tugboat re-
stored to its proper element. The wreck
ing outfit will leave here today in tow of
the Taylor tug NJ. Mitchell Davis for Bal
timore
1t is stated that the summer schedule of
the Potomac and Chesapeake Steamboat
Company will go into effect in the latter
part of the coming week and three steam
ers will be placed in service on routes on
the Potomac. These steamers will make
twelve round trips each week. giving
practically daily service to a large por-
ton of the landing places along the river.
A number of wharves that have not been
| touched at for several years are on the
new schedule.
Arrived: Schooner Cecilia B. Shepherd.
| lumber from a lower Potomac point to
the local market; schooner Silver Star,
cord wood from Potomac point at 18th
street wharf; tug George w. Pride. with
light scow from Aqua creek: schooner
Goldie c., lumber from Mattox creek to
the local dealers; schooner Isaac Solo
Georgetown dealers; tug D. NJ. Key.
| towing a raft of piling from Occoquan,
Va: tug Capt. Toby, with a tow from
a down-river point; scow Sea King. cord
| wood from Potomac point for dealers.
Sailed Schooner Leroy. light. for a
down river point to load back to this
city; schooner Oscar, light. for the lower
| river to load back to this city: tug NJ. NJ.
no. Iii inlr 1oy-
andra for Baltimore; tug Walter F.
| Meade. with tow of lighters for the
sand-digging machines down river; tug
Pride. with a tow for down river
| point: schooner Bradshaw. light. for a
| Potomac point to load cord wood for the
dealers here: tug Camilla, with a tow
| for a river point: sloop Daisy, from AL
exandria for Pennington Md.
Memoranda: Schooner Mary Chaplin Is
| on her way to this city from river point
with cargo of lumber: schooner Isa-
belle is in Nomini creek loading cord
wood for the local dealers: schooner Cum
ningham Is at a river point loading cord
| wood for the dealers here: Standard Oil
| Company tug No. II. towing tank barges
| laden with oil in bulk. is on her way to
| this city from Baltimore; barge Donahue.
| at Somerset Beach. is rapidly complet-
| ing her cargo of railway ties for New
York: schooner Clemmie Travers has
| rived at Baltimore from the Bahamas
| with pineapples.
| ne 1nree-masled ScHooileT j. >. HOS
| kins laden with several hundred thou
| sand feet of southern pine lumber from
| Port Tampa, Fla. is due at the capes
and her consignees here are expecting
her to pass into Chesapeake bay at anv
| time Che sailed from Tampa May 81.
| ard unless she has had bad weather
| should make the trip in two weeks The
| schooner Kate B. Ogden. from Charles
ton with lumber. will arrive about the
| same time the Hoskins.
| For use in the wharf building opera
| tions about the harhor, the tug D. NJ.
| Key yesterday brought into port a raft
| of pine piling and a scow laden with
| white oak piling from Occoquan, Va.
| consigned to Carter & Clark In the raft
| was about 800 pine tree trunks varying in
| ,apUtb from forty tn Sjyty feet