Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-04
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT

Work on the new tug building at Solo
mons Island. Md, for tho John Miller
Company of this city is progressing rap
idly, it is stated, and within the next few
weeks the boat will be ready to come 10
this city to take up towing work on the
river. The hull of the tug is one that
was built for the Potomac Dredging Com
pany, but before it was completed il was
purchased by Capt. Jack TAYLOR OF this
city. Early last fall Capt. Taylor sold
the boat TO the Miller Company and it is
now being equipped with the boiler and
machinery from the tug Martin Dallman.
1t is said that the hull of the Dallman
will be rebuilt and that an engine and
boiler will be placed in it so that it can
be used in the vicinity of this city "A
tender to dredging machines. The big
tug which is building at the Davis boat
yard at Solomons Island for \. j.
Taylor & Brother. tugboat owners of this
city, is also about completed, but as her
services are not needed this winter she
will be left on the stocks to be launched
in the early spring. The new tug will
be used for outside towing, well
work on Chesapeake bay.
The dealers in railway ties in this city,
who ship many thousands of them TO Bos
ton. New York. Philadelphia and other
ports in the north from the Potomac each
season. are now making their contracts
for the coming spring and summer and II
looks as if the shipments would be very
heavy during the coming season. Besides
making their contracts with the purchas-
ing agents of the railroads in the north
the handlers of ties arranging with
the cutters in the woods of Maryland and
Virginia for the stocks they Will ship
north. While some of the shipments
will be made from points along the river.
Alexandria will be the main loading point.
The ties will be brought to Alexandria by
rail and vessel and deposited oil the load
ing wharves. ready to be transferred 10
the holds and decks of the schooners and
barges that will take them away. Two
or three firms will engage in the shipping
of ties during the coming season. and
Alexandria will be made their headquar-
tiers. The schooner Susan Davidson, now
in port here, will go TO Alexandria the
latter part of this week to load cargo Of
the ties for a New England port
The few ducks and geese seen on tie
river in the vicinity Of this city have al
most entirely disappeared, and for two
weeks or longer only few struggling
birds have been seen. Ducks are said TO
he plentiful in the vicinity of Gunston
and about High Point and in the vicinity
of Lower Cedar Point wild geese and
swan are numerous. The birds have been
hunted SO persstently that they are very
shy. and ii is almost impossible to get
close enough to them, even with a boat
well concealed To gel a shot at them.
Arrived: Tug Bohemia. with a tow If
coal-laden barses from Philadelphia for
this city and Alexandria; schooner Lottie
Thomas oysters in the shell from a river
point for the loca! market; schooner Will
liam F. Villas from the lower river; tug
Camilla. with tow from "A river point;
bugeye Halle X. oysters in the shell for
the dealers here: punsy Cora Mckenney.
oysters in the shell at Alexandria.
Sailed: Bugeye John Banford. light. for
n, ha pL N ,.itt
bugeye Tropic. light, for the Potomac
oyster beds to load for dealers here: tug
Bohemia with a Tow Of light barges for
bay points; scow Fannie, light. for a
river point to load back to this city: tug
Minerva. with tow OF light scows for
the digging machines down river.
Memoranda: Standard Oil tank barge
a has arrived at Baltimore, light, from
this city; schooner Rover Wi go to Vir-
einia port to load lumber; schooner ST.
donna Curley has arrived. light at Rap
pahannock river point to load lumber back
to this city: bugeye Grape Shot is at a
lower river point loading for this city: tug
William H. Yerkes jr.. is at Baltimore
with a tow from the capes.
The receipts of I. esh fish by the deal
ers here from the nets in tie Potomac
continue very light. and yesterday only
few perch. carp and bass were Brought
TO this city by the steamers arriving from
river points. The demand for fish is but
fair and the bulk OF the supply on sal,. is
coming from the nets on the Jersey and
Virginia coasts
The hull o. the old schoon r Charles H.
Dagger which was damaged a ear ago
in a collision on the river bet ween this
CITY and Alexandria with the ferry boat
Iackawanna, Is lying on the mud in the
cove a short distance north OF the Alex
andria sulphuric acid plant. The bow Of
the Dagger was crushed in when the ferry
struck her and 10 repair the damage
would have cost more than the HUT was
worth, so she has baen placed in the mud
in the cove to spend the remainder VI