Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-21
ICE BOAT BREAKS
CHANNEL IN RARDOR
But Relief Is Only Temporary
After Last Nights Freeze
OYSTER LADEN VESSEL FREED
The Willie F. Thomas With 500 Bush
els Vas Locked 10 The Ice at
White HalI Creek
OYSTER LADEN VESSEL FREED

As q result Of the work done by the
iceboat Latrobe Saturday and Sunday
when she crushed wide paths through
the ice-locked harbor of Annapolis
aud released several vessels that had
been imprisoned for weeks, there was
little movement OF shipping. Con-
ditions generally have not improved
to any marked extent since the ice is
too heavy for oyster dredging schoon-
ers and other bay freighters to battle
with, and score or more Of these
vessels still are hemmed in by the
ice.
The bugeye Willie f. Thomas. with
900 bushels Of oysters, was conveyed
into port here Saturday night Nearly
three weeks ago she attempted TO
reach the local habor; only to find the
ice too heavy and after drifting
around with the change of the winds,
she finally became locked in the ice
gorge in White Hall creek. Her car
go of oysters found ready sale at rs
cents per bushel
The Latrobe left the harbor yester-
day morning, and the tugs Howard
Reeder and William F Riehl, which
put in here Saturday night. availed
themselves Of her. assistance. These
tugs are conveying barges for the
Davidson Chemical Company Works
at Curtis Bay The lighthouse tender
Maple which had started out on a
buoy repairing campaign in the waters
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which had been icebound here for
more than two weeks, also ventured
out in the wake of the Latrobe No
attempt was made by the British
steamship Nemesis to get away, al
though the Latrobe was dispatched to
Annapolis chiefly TO render assistance
to her. The Nemesis is at anchor of
what IS known as Skull Hall fats.
Just inside the mouth of the river.
1t took the Latrobe several hours to
complete the jaunt to this city and she
encountered ice ranging in thickness
from 10 inches TO two feet
The Latrobe found it hard ploughing
and several times became stalled and
was forced to back off and get a fresh
start. Shortly after her arrival, which
was at $50 in the afternoon, the La
trobe went to White Hall creek, a few
miles north of the city. where she re-
leased an oyster bugeye Thomas.
In the wake OF the ice crusher there
came into the harbor the tugs How
ard Reeder, Capt. Robert Freeburger,
and w. II Reihl, Capt William
Gregory. Captain Freeburger reports
the tugs Corinthia, Carolina and
Southern Of the Southern Transpor-
tation Company standing by inside the
mouth OF Patuxent river with their
convoy of six coal-laden barges des-
tined for the Maryland Steel Com
panys works at Sparrows Point
An abandoned bugeye Is also report
ed hemmed in by the ice off James
Point, four miles this side of Cove
Point Lighthouse, at the entrance to
Patuxent river
With the coming Of the fresh. sharp,
cold spell last night, however, and
another consequent heavy freeze, the
local harbor is again heavily locked
by ice Although yesterday was a
fairly mild day as compared to the
continued frigid spell Of the last sew
eral weeks, the mercury began TO de-
scend along about midnight, and it
dropped steadily until the early morn
ing hours when it registered as low
as the 6-degree mark in some places,
and from T to 10 degrees in others