Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-22

for dealers there; schooners Jacob Cold
strom and NJ. T. Venzable. light. for the
eastern shore of Chesapeake bay to load
watermelons; schooner Five Sisters. for
Aqua creek, via Alexandria, to load lum-
Der back to this city.
Memoranda.
The tug Dixie has sailed from Baltimore
for this city with the coal-laden barges
Quantico and E. r. Clinton: barge Nan
jamoy has gone to Port Tobacco creek
10 load railway ties for Philadelphia;
tug Severn has sailed. light, from Alex
andria for bay point to load; schooner
Emily Burton is at Baltimore with lum-
Der from the Rappahannock river: Con-
solidation Coal Company. barge. No
. has sailed from New England point
for this city to load coal; schooner Thorn
as H. Kirby is at Baltimore with grain
from a Potomac river point: schooner
Maine has sailed from Walkerton, Va.
for Baltimore with lumber: schooner
Isaac Solomon is at a lower river point
loading cord wood for the dealers here:
schooner Grace G. Bennett has arrived at
Norfolk en- route to North Carolina
point to load lumber back to this city;
schooner Louis Worrell is at a Potomac
point loading for the dealers here;
schooner Mary Francis Is at a lower
Potomac landing leading for this city.
The War Department has. 1t is stated.
sent to Fort Washington and other army
posts in the Department OF the East Cor
information regarding the cost of operat-
ing government steamers between nearby
cities and the forts. The cost at which
the service could be performed by COM
mercial steamboat lines Is also requested.
1t is asserted that this information is
being gathered with q view to the with
drawal from service of the government
vessels, and the transfer of the handling
of government stores to the commercial
lines wherever a saving can be made.
This move IL In line with plans for re-
War Department and can be made. 1t is
said. without any detriment to
the service. 1t 10 stated that
the steamboat lines operating on the Po-
government freight for less than a quar-
ter OF what II is costing to operate the
army tug that plies daily between this
city and Fort Washington and Fort
Hunt.
Sales Of vessel property made in the
past week were recorded in the custom
house at Baltimore as follows:
Power boat Leon, eleven tons. from
William J. Wright to the Choptank Can
merry Company. So.
Jacob Ockers to r. Duke Wathen. 81.
Schooner Ella F. Cripps. forty-seven
tons. from Zebedee Ockers and others to
William ]. Sommers and others. 50.
4 Ne-nal1 or schooner Minnie hIT-
wan. fifty-three tons, from John w. New
comb to William J. Aaron and others, s..
The big five-masted schooner Magnus
Manson Saturday afternoon completed
the discharging of over 2.4OO tons Of
Maine ice at the 9th street pier of the
morning In tow for the Lambert point piers,
where she will load soft coal for Bangor
Me. Capt. Tolloch. master of the Man
son. wanted a tug to tow his vessel
A. IL A N.,~p 1nr
enough for bay towing that are owned
here are under charter away from here
and a request was sent to towing COM
panies at Norfolk and Baltimore for
towboat, but none could he obtained until
yesterday, when Norfolk concern agreed
to send a tug to take the vessel away. 1t
is stated that there are now but few big
tugs doing general towing work on Ches-
apeake bay. In the past year or two
there has been heavy falling off in the
barges and steamers handling most Of
the coal and Ice out of Baltimore, and
there was not enough other business to
pay tugboat owners. The big boats have
work, so that at times it is difficult to OBJ
tain a tugboat large enough for a long
towing job. as occurred with the Man
son.
II wild oats and other wild grain on
which the ducks and game birds feed Is
month then there will be plenty, for the
wild oat crop has not been as abundant
in many years. The Eastern branch
marshes, those about Alexander Island
at the south end of the Highway bridge.
in Four Mile run, Great Hunting creek at
Alexandria. the fats about Shepherds
Landing and along the whole length of
the Potomac river are all covered with
wild grain In the greatest abundance.
Blackbirds have already made their APP
pearance in numbers. reed birds are also
to be seen and 1t looks now as IL the
birds would be plentiful when the hunting
season opens at the beginning of next
month. To prevent out OF season hunt
ing Lieut. Dean OF the harbor police pre-
cinct this morning started his men out in
launches and rowboats to patrol the
hunting grounds and any overzealous
hunter who tries his luck with his gun
before the legal time will be apt to land
in the Police Court For several years
past there has been absolutely no hunt
ing before September 1, and Lieut.. Dean
proposes 10 keep UP the record con-
slant patrol of the hunting grounds in the