Evening star., 1900-12-17
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER LOADING CARGO OF RAIL-
WAY TIES FOR BOSTON.
Oyster and Fish Market - Repairs to
Vessels COmpIeted-General
and Personal Matters.

The three-maSted schooner w. IL Onief,
now loading railway ties at Alexandria.
will, 1t is expected, complete her cargo IN
a day or two, and will sail for Boston. 1t
is thought she will carry about @,Ho ties.
She is being loaded by j. r. Cray of George
town. The shipping of railway ties to
northern PORTS was once one of the big
gest industries of the lower river, but as
the trees from which the ties cut be-
come scarce it was impossible for vessel
to get a cargo without moving about from
place to place This the vessel masters at
last refused to do, and this season Alex
aIdria and Georgetown have been the load
ing PORTS. The ties are brought to these
places on scows and in sailing vessels.
The new crematng plant for the lnclnera-
ton of the garbage of Washington Is now
being rapidly built at Cockpit Point. on the
Potomac, about thirty miles below TINS
city. Several loads of brick for the furnace
and buildings have been sent from this
city, and yesterday evening the tug Martin
Dalman took two scOws laden with bricks
designed to be used in the plant. 1t Is ex-
pected that the furnace will be ready for
operation in a month or six weeks. Mean
while the garbage will be taken down the
river on lighters and will be landed at
point below Alexandria to be used as fer
tilizer on the riverside farms.
The oyster market at the 1lth street
wharf today Is well supplied with bivalves
Of all grades This morning there were
at the wharf twenty-five vessels. having
aboard in all about $50 bushels. Though
the supply is large. prices remain station
ary at about the figures of last week, the
smaller grades selling at from 55 to 65
cents per bushel while the larger ones
brought as high as SO cents per bushel
Saturday night several vessels sailed for
the lower river to load and get back to
port before Thursday in time for the
Christmas market The recent arrivals
have been the Sunny South. the r. X. 5.
Dougherty, the Kathleen. Mary F.. Candy.
Kate Windsor and Fair View. They bring
about 1,5OO bushels Of Blackstone Island
and Wicumico river oysters. The steamer
Wakefield brought up about forty barrels
yesterday evening from the lower river.
The Norfolk and Washington line steamer
brought up since Saturday thirtyseven
packages of sea and bay fish from the
shores about Norfolk and from North
Carolina for the dealers at the wharf, and
seventeen barrels have been brought up
by the river boats and by rail since yester-
day. In consequence Of the scant supply
and the active demand for fish, prices are
firm and show a decided tendency to ad-
vance. Today trout sold at 5 to &c per
pound; spotted trout 8 to 1Oc. per pound;
pan rock, to 1Oc. per pound; boiling rock
2Oc. per pound; bass s to 1oc. per pound;
pike, 8 to 1Oc. per pound; sheepshead. &C.
per pound: white perch. to 12c. per pound:
southern mulets, 81 rs per box; croaker,
to &c. per pound; carp, &c. per pound;
founder, 8 to &c. per pound: catfish and
cells, 10 to 25c. per pound: mullet. 10 to 15c.
per bunch, and winter Shad, 15C. per bunch
Passing To and Fro.
The tug Juno arrived up yesterday even
ing with a tow Of five oyster-laden vessels
for this market.
The steamer Wakefield, which arrived up
from the lower river yesterday, brought up
a big cargo of poultry for the local market.
-,;+o tar n
dom has sailed for a cruise on the Potomac
river and Chesapeake bay.
The I.otte Thomas and Agnes have sailed
for the oyster beds on the lower river to
load oysters back to this city for the
Christmas market.
The schooner Carrie S., now discharging
a cargo Of lumber at the wharf of T w.
Riley, is consigned to Louis Dill & Co. Of
Baltimore.
The United States lighthouse tender Holly
has sailed for cruise among the light
houses in the district. She took with her a
freshly charged gas buoy for Point Look
out
The steamer Dennis Simmons is in port
with full cargo of pine lumber from
Edenton, N. c., for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner Grace Bennett from this
port has arrived at Norfolk en- route for
North Carolina to load hack to this port.
The pungy Jas. II. Beach has arrived at
Alexandria with a cargo of about 500
bushels of oysters from the Wicomico river.
the James river and will there load pine
lumber for this port.
floating derrick and a barge loaded
with railway ties has been taken from
Il Co. at Alexandria to load schooner for
Boston.
The Gilman Dove while on her way down
the river yesterday morning. went ashore
on the flats below Alexandria, but f1oated
at the next high tide.
The schooner Edward G. Height is in port
from Jacksonville. Fla. with a cargo of
lumber for johnson & Wimsatt. She had
tanned by northerly winds.
The United States light house tender
Maple has arrived in Baltimore from a
cruise.
from Occoeuan, where she carried a light
barge to load poplar wood. In order to
get into the creek she had to break ice two
inches thick. She will be fitted with an
Ice plow and will return to Occouuan to
bring up raft Of pilng for Carter &
Clark
The Weems line steamer Northumberland
on her last trip from this city found the
steamer Westmoreland of the same line
disabled in the bay, and towed her into
Baltimore
The three-masted schooner J. 8, TYLER.
with cargo of about 10000 feet Of pine
and oak lumber from the Rappahannock
fo- johnson & Wimsatt, has arrived in
port.
Ihe longboat OSceola Is at Alexandria
with a cargo Of railway ties from Aquia
creek for shipment by schooner w. H.
Ohler to Boston.
The schooner George H. Bunker has sailed
for the oyster beds in the lower river to
load back to this port.
General Matters.
A stone laden barge, which came into
port from Occoquan Saturday evening in
tow Of the tug George w. Pride, had her
sides quite badly. cut by being towed
through the ice in Occoquan run yesterday
morning.
The tug D. NJ. Keys, which was on the
railway at Alexandra for an oyerhauline.
has been put overheard, and has again gone
into commission.
1t Is stated that the building Of the new
wharf in front of the property of the Mu-
tual Ice Company at the foot of Cameron
street. In Alexandria, will be begun in the
early spring. 1t will be built on the site
of what is known as the Shook wharf,
and will be used as a landing for steam and
sailing vessels.
The ferry steamer Belle Haven, which
has been off the route between this city
and Alexandria for the past week receiving
a general overhauling, resumed her trips