Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-29
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
FALL AND WINTER SCHEDULE OF
STEAMER AARRr RANDALL.
Receipts of Fiiho and Melons-Launch
Purchased BY Coast Survey
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Purchased BY Coast Survey
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The fall and winter schedule of the
Steamer Harry Randall will go into effect
Tuesday next, and the up schedule. as
published, is as follows. She will leave
Nomini Sundays at 8 pm. for Mt. Holly,
Deep Point, McGuire's. Thompson's Beales
and Hendersons, reaching Curriomen at 8
pm. The boat will leave for Colton's at
once, where she will lie until 4 am Mon
day. Her schedule then will be: Wirt's,
am; Colonial Beach, $3.50 am; Wilker-
sons. am; Brick House, am: Fer
ref's, S:15 am: DiHs. am; Chapel
Point, 10 am, and Brent's, 1915 am, and
all the other river landings, reaching Wash
| ington about $50 pm.
| Inc Tuesday schedule will be the same,
| except the vessel goes into Lower Ma
chodoc creek after leaving Nomini, before
going into Colton's. On the Friday trip
| the boat will leave Colten's at 3 am, and
| all the other landings except Brick House
and Ferrelrs an hour earlier than given
above, and will reach this city about 3
pm, stopping at Grinders wharf on her
The down schedule has not yet been pro-
mugated. s-.
| route to Wirt's wharf, will be withdrawn
from the route when this new schedule
| goes into effect.
| The receipts Of salt water fish by the
dealers at the wharf from the fisheries
| about Norfolk were forty-two barrels,
which arrived on the Norfolk line steam
| er this morning
The river boats in the past twenty-four
hours have brought up but one barrel from
the nets In the Potomac
Mackerel this morning sold at 15c. per
| pound, blue fish and tailors. &c. per pound:
sea trout, 81 to $3.50 per barrel, and rock
fish and white perch brought 1Oc.. 121ac.
and loc. per pound, according to size.
| Eighteen barrels of crabs have been
brought up on the river boats. and prices
were slightly higher this morning, they
bringing from $50 to 81 per barrel.
| Melons are much scarcer at the wharf
| today than they have been at any time
since the season opened. Only about 1900
OF all grades are in the vessels now here.
The demand for them Is active and prices
as consequence are higher, selects this
morning selling at $12 to SIS per hundred
primes at IS to IS per hundred. and culls
put two vessels with melons have arrived
In port. the schooner John Bright with
| 4.oOO from the Rappahannock and the
sloop Ethel M. with 1900 from the east
| ern shore.
General and PERSONAL.
Ihe handsome new naphtha launch Rudy
| has been purchased by the officials of the
| coast survey service and will be used for
surveys in Chesapeake bay and tributaries
The Rudy is about thirty feet long, eight
| feet wide and of very light draft, and can
carry ten or twelve people very comfort
ably She hasAjust been fitted up at Ben
| netts ship yard, and yesterday evening
| left, under the command of Captain Fro
! ney, for Cambridge on the Little Choptank
| river, Maryland, bat had only gone as far
as River View when leak was discovered
| II her Oil feed pipe and she returned here
| for repairs. f.
number of the oyster runners
| nave already gone to the fields in the lower
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| taking on cargoes of oysters when the sea-
! son opens Saturday and rushing them to
| this market at Once.- The dealers here look
Tor oyster-laden boats about Tuesday or
| Wednesday of next week. Several of the
runners it Is. said, have been buying oys-
tiers all the summer and planting them.
| ready for their dredges when the season
| opens. 81
Capt. Dunn. who has been an acting in
| spector of hulls in rthe Office OF the United
States steamboat inspectors, has passed his
examination and his appointment as assist
ant inspector has been confirmed. The ap-
| pointment will give pleasure to many of
Capt. Dunns friends along the river front
| Capt. A. j. Fair of Alexandria, one Of
the Oldest and best known steamboat men
on the Potomac river, now commanding the
Baltimore and Ohio railway car ferry be-
| tween Alexandra and Shepherds Landing.
on the District side of the river is quite i'll
at his home.
Passing To and Fro.
Inc Scnooners Raymond and j. E. Bell
| completed the discharging of their cargoes
yesterday evening and sailed for the lower
river to reload.
The loading of the four-masted schooner
Henry A. Little with about 1000 tons of
coal, was completed yesterday evening, and
she sailed for Boston. The tug Camilla
will tow her to the mouth of the river
The steamers Wakefield and T. " Arrow
smith both brought up good carEoes of
country produce and large passenger list
from the lower river yesterday and last
night.
The schooners Woodward Abrahams from
Alexandria and the Phineas w SpraRue
from this city, have both arrived at Balti-
more to load coal.
The schooner George c. A. Travers, Capt.
Vane, sailed from Alexandria Yesterday for
Cape Charles, Va, to load fish scrap for
Richmond, Va.
The sloop yacht Marion owned by Can't.
Bryant, returned yesterday from a six
| weeks cruise to Newport.
The freight rate on coal from Baltimore
to Boston has advanced from 9Oc to 81
per ton. The schooner Gen. S. E. Merwin
now in port here, was the first vessel to
charter under the advance.
The Navy Department launch Santa Bar
bara, from the naval ordnance proving sta
ton at Indian Head, Md, arrived in port
this morning.
The schooners Andrew ]. Bradshaw and
the Flying Arrow. both light, cleared this
morning for the lower river to load water
melons back to this port
The longboat Osceola, with cargo of
pine wood for johnson & Wimsatt ar
rived in port this morning
The schooner Amelia Hearn has sailed
from Norfolk for this port. with a cargo Of
lumber.
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