Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-01

| exandria. Capt. Wright is an old steam
| boat man. and for the past five six
years was Capt Cooper's chief assistant.
To him was assigned majority of the in
spectons at this port. His appointment
| gives universal satisfa ction to the steam
| boat men of Washington. The appointment
| of Capt. Wrights assistant has not vet been
made.
| Drawing to n Close.
| The fishing season is now rapidly drawing
| to close, and the dealers calculate that
! in another week or ten days it will be
| over.
| The receipts of shad and herring at the
| wharf have fallen off greatly, and the sea-
son, altogether, has been a disappointment
| to the fishermen. The receipts in the past
twcnty-four hours have been 10000 herring
and 1000 shad. Herring sold at s175 to
s. per thousand roe shad at s14 to SIS per
hundred, and buck shad at 81 to S. per
hundred
At the Alexandria fish wharf the receipts
were 10000 herring and 100 shad. Prices
| there were the same as at this market
Salt water trout and crokers are coming to
| this market in large quantities.
The schooner Grace NJ. Bennett, with a
cargo of $4,000 shingles for johnson &
Wimsatt, has arrived from Newborn, N C.
The big dredge Pugh, which is deepening
the water across the Mattawoman shoals
| near Indian Head, broke down yesterday
and operations are temporarily suspended.
Ihe tug Reliance, the tender Of the
dredge. is in port to have the broken ma
chinery repaired.
The PUNCHES Isaac Solomon Capt. Ken
drick: American Patriot Capt. Wright,
and the longboat Dove, Capt. Grayson, have
all arrived in port since yesterday with
cordwood for Carter & Clark.
The schooners Flora Temple and James
S. Smith arrived in port this morning with
cargoes of lumber from the Rappahannock
river for Johnson & Wimsatt
johnson & Bros. are loading a scow with
Gal hn1 t-.I
improvements on the Mattawoman flats 1t
will be taken there today by the tug Re
lance.
The sloop Cecilia arrived at the wharf to-
ters.
The tug Sandow, with a tow of four
barges loaded with hard coal from Phila-
delphia for Georgetown parties, arrived up
yesterday.
The steamer James E. Tull, with a miscel-
laneous cargo for Occoquan and river
points, cleared from Alexandria yesterday
evening.
The big Ewing seine at Marlborough
Point. and the fishing shore at Windmill
Point and Passapatanzy have cut out, the
catch of shad and herring having fallen off
so greatly.
The steam launch Garvota owned by Mr.
j. r. Dos Passos OF New York, is lying
in the mouth of Coan river, where her
owner has his country home.
Hiawatha Again ut Wharf
The bugeye Hiawatha which sank in the
river off Sheridan's Point wharf Friday
last. whereby Robert Rustin, colored, was
drowned. was raised Saturday evening last
by Sonny Simmons of Alexandria, with the
use of lighters. and after being pumped out
was towed to the fish wharf here by the
tug Minerva. The vessel was not dam
aged.
The schooner Hattie Barber sailed from
Pensacola, Fla, on the 18th instant, with u
cargo of lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The two-masted schooner Murray Vandi-
Yer, Capt. Pratt. with d cargo of 100 900 feet
of pine lumber for Johnson 6. Wmsatt,
arrived in port Sunday night from the Rap
pahannock river.
The schooner Ostrich, with 10000 feet of
lumber, and the schooner Alice Carlyle
Capt. Selden, with 5000 laths from the
Rappahannock, have also arrived for John
son & Wimsatt.
Three lumber-laden vessels have arrived
in port since Saturday for P. H Biscoe-the
schooner Maid of Erin, Capt. Brooks with
$1,000 feet. and the schooner Daisie. Capt
Wyatt. with $1,000 feet, both from the Rap
pahannock, and the bugeye ]. A. Holland,
Capt Huntington, with 5000 feet, from
Coan river
Rebuilding and Repair Work.
The tug Eugenia, belonging to Mr.. VIM
Richards, which was burned in the Eastern
branch several weeks ago, is being rebuilt
at the wharf. foot OF South Capitol street
The new Eugenia will be about the same
size as was the old one.
The harbor police boat Vigilant will be
hauled out today at Benefits yard for
a new rudder and to scrape and paint her
bottom. AS yet no boat has been secured
to take her place while on the railway.
The naphtha launches Alert and Wan
derer, belonging to DR.. Rauterberg are be-
Ing repainted and fitted out at the boat
house on the National Capital ice wharf
me steam launch Joe Blackburn for
merry the harbor police boat, but now the
property of Messrs Fosberg & Murray, is
being htted with smokestack, and is be-
ing orerhauled
The sailing yacht of Dr. Tindall. the sec
rotary to the District Commissioners has
been taken to Townshends boat house to
De hauied out and have her bottom scraped
and painted.
Workmen are engaged in finishing In the
| balloon platform of the large houseboat
built for Professor S. P. Langiey's expert
\ ment with the flying machine The boat il
| now lying In the dock foot of 9th street
| but will shortly be taken to Chopawumsic
creek, Virginia, where Professor Langley
| Is making his experimental trips in the air
| The work Of replanking the sides and bot
snag-puller, at the marine railway in
Alexandria. has been completed, and the
| boat has been put overheard scow
which belongs to the corps has also been
repaired. The snag-puller is used by the
government officials to remove DISTRACTIONS
from the channel Of the river
| Inc repainting OF the big seagoinK tug
M M. Davis has been completed and She
| will go into commission again In a day M
two. VI
The longboat Charley and Harry. from
Nemini, with cord wood for this city. pass
| ed the quarantine station at Alexandria
| Sunday without being examined At the
| request of DIR. Snowden. the marine hos
| pital surgeon, she was stopped at the forks
| Of the channel and sent back to Alexandra
General and Personal.
| Co. VIM A. Jones. in charge Of the light
| houses in this district has returned to the
steamer Jessamine from a visit to New
York.
Mr.. Guy Carpenter. son Of Mr.. q. O.
Carpenter, general agent of the Randall
| line. has returned much improved in health
after stay Of several months in North
! Carolina.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com
pany is having its transfer barge slips at
| Alexandria and Shepherds landing, on the
| District OF Columbia side of the river.
| dredgsd out 1t had been found that they