Evening star., 1900-10-05
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
NEW STEAMER TO DIsPLACE BACHE
IN COAST SURVEY WORK.
Application of "Jfm Crow Law" to
RappahannOck River Steamer
-General Notes.

the Bache which has seen It's best days
and will be condemned very shortly. The
| Bache is Nbw lying at Reeder's wharves, In
| Baltimore, for the inspection of those who
wish to bid for the contract to build the
| new vessel, which is to be about the size of
! the Bache. The boiler and engine now in
| the Bache will be used in the new vessel.
| The captains of the Weems line steamers
Ida and Essex of the Rappahannock route
have been indicted by the grand jury of
| Lancaster county, Va, for failure to OBJ
| serve the Jim Crow law requiring sep
arate accommodations for white and colored
passengers The result of the case is await
| ed with much interest for should a con-
| viction be secured it is stated, the cap
| tains of the steamers Harry Randall and
| Wakefield, running from this city to points
/ on the lower Potomac in Virginia will also
| be proceeded against. Compliance with the
! law on the part of the steamboat owners,
] 1t is stated, will be almost impossible with
out the steamers being remodeled at a
| great expense.
| About $3.50 bushels of oysters are now at
| the wharf, but the market is flat and sales
! have been very slow today. Since yester-
/ day morning fourteen vessels having nearly
200 bushels on board have arrived. The
| Bejamin Franklin brings 80 bushels and
! the W. H. Brown 150 bushels from Lower
! Machodoc; the Mary and Rebecca, 200
| DuSHelS, the Mary Il. candy, DuSnelS, the
| Leroy, Is bushels; the NJ. j. Stevenson. 100
| bushels, and the Flora $50 bushels, from
| Blackistone's Island; the Fair American
| 2o0 bushels; the Nettie May, $50 bushels,
| and S. s. Smith, 100 bushels. from the Wi
| comico river; the Sea Gull, 20 bushels;
| Laura j. Bland, 100 bushels, and HaZelene,
| 100 bushels, from ST. Georges Island. and
| the r. H. Stuart, 90 bushels, from Currio-
ma. Oysters are selling today at 80 to 60
! cents per bushels.
Fifty barrels of fish for the dealers at
/ the wharf were brought UP this morning
| by the Norfolk and Washington line steam
/ er from the shores about Norfolk, and the
| steamer Wakefield also brought up about
fifteen barrels of river fish. Prices this
! morning are about the same as yesterday,
| trout selling at 81 to 81 per barrel; mack
erel. 121a to IL cents per pound; porgies. 3
| cents per pound: sheepshead, to cents
per pound bluefish and tailors, cents per
| pound rock, 8 to cents per pound spot
| 3 cents per pound; founders, cents per
pound: perch, 3 TO cents per pound; south
! ern mullets, cents per pound; carp, cents
| per pound; catfish, - to 25 cents per bunch
| Is TO 30 cents per bunch The demand for
| fish this morning was good, and the market
was quite brisk.
The Moving Vessels.
| The schooner Frank Vanderhucher will
! load coal from Baltimore to Boston, at 80
| cents per ton.
| The schooner Grace Bennett has COM
pleted the discharging of her cargo Of lum-
Der and will sail for Newbern, n. c., for
| another cargo.
! The schooner Jas. r. Ecol is in port with
/ cargo of ]. $50 cases of canned goods from
/ Cambridge, Nd, for various wholesale deal
/ ers.
/ The E. 2. Evans, Ellenora Russell and
| Addie sailed today for Blackistones Island
/ ana other river points to LOAD oysters Ddch
| to this port.
! The Harry and Charley and the Ida May
/ have arrived with wood for Carter & Clark
The revenue cutter Window is on cruise
/ on her station In the bay and its tributaries
The tug Emma, which sailed from TINS
| port Yesterday with tow OF two HSnt
! barges, will take them to the ST. Mary S
| river for a cargo.
! The light house repair steamer Jessamne,
under the command of Mate Lennox, has
! sailed on a cruise among the light houses
/ on her station.
! A large scowload of railway ties from
/ Fairfax county, Va, arrived in the Eastern
| branch yesterday for Carter & Clark
Nearly a hundred vessels are reported
stormbound in Hampton Roads, waiting an
! opportunity to go to sea. The slsht IN the
! Roads is said to be q very pretty one.
/ The schooner VIM. E. James will complete
| the discharging of her cargo or canned
goods today.
| The steamer E. James Tull yesterday
| evening brought up raft of 800 piles Tor
| the navy yard and a cargo OF about 6o,oOo
| feet of lumber for Johnson Wimsatt.
| schooner
| from Alexandria last night with cargo OF
| fertilizer for river point.
| The sloop Prohibition sailed for the lower
river yesterday evening for a cargo of
! oysters.
| The tug Emma sailed from Aqua creek
| today, having in tow five barges, laden
with railway ties, for Chesapeake City, en-
route to Philadelphia.
! The schooner George F. Wright has re-
/ turned from Sheridan's Point for another
! cargo of lumber TO Ft. Hunt
/ The schooner Haratio L. Baker. from
! this port, sailed from Baltimore for Bos-
/ ton with cargo of coal yesterday.
The schooner r. and 8. CroSon sailed
yesterday from Norfolk for Alexandria
/ with a cargo of lumber.
! The schooner John s. Beacham, from this
/ port has sailed from Richmond for New
| Haven.
| General and Personal.
! The longboat Five Sisters is being rebuilt
| by her owners in Chickamuxen creek. She
will be ready for service in a few weeks.
| Townshend has just completed the build
! ing Of a ffteen-foot batteau for shop use.
The thrty-foot yard arm for the flag pole
| at Fort Myer, near Arlington Va, has just
| been completed at Townshends boat yard.
| 1t is stated that the portion of the sui
phuric acid factory on the river just north
/ of Alexandria which was destroyed by fire
| several weeks ago IS to be rebuilt at once.
/ The debris from the burned portion OF the
/ The report that the Norfolk and Wash
/ ington Steamboat Company is having plans
/ prepared for new steamer for the line is
denied in the offices of the company here,
| and probably grew out Of the fact that the
| boats will shortly be taken to Baltimore
| for extensive alterations and improvements.
| The schooner Pearl, owned by Captain
| Clarence Redman of Maryland. has been
| sold by him to Captain Charles Frazier,
| formerly Of the schooner Carrie. The Pearl
| is bay schooner, so feet inches long, ~
| feet inches wide and has feet depth of
| hold. She registers 76 tons gross and Y
| tons net, and built In Dorchester
county, Md, in 1858. Captain Frazier will
/ continue her in the Chesapeake bay trade.
| Large quantities of fertilizer are now be-
| ing shipped from Alexandria to points on
| the river. On her last trip the steamer
| Harry Randall took down 800 bags for Will
| kersons wharf alone
! The can buoy off Taneier bar, In the bay
| has been run into by some vessel and is re-
! ported about two-thirds sunk only about
| two feet showing above the surface. 1t
| will be raised at once
| large warehouse and waiting room is
| being built at McGuire's new wharf on
! NOHfni creek for the convenience of the
| patrons of that wharf
| Captain Wyatt, the well-known COM
| mander Of the light house engineers steam
er Jassamine. Is at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
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