Evening star., 1900-09-19
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
TREASURY DEPARTMENT REDUCES
FINE IMPOSED ON CAPT. C0LCORD.
Changes I'm Flash Lights at oliver
Reef-Oysters . Ready Sale .
Personal Mention.


have his inspection certificate renewed. to
so, and 1t is expected the same reduction
will be made in the cases Of the other mas
ters who were yesterday fined for the same
offense.
The light house board has given notice
that on or about October 8. 190O the inter-
val between the flashes of light at the sta
ton on the northwest end of Oliver Reef,
Hatteras inlet. will be changed from thirty
to twenty seconds. The flash Is a red one.
Oliver Reef is on the southerly side Of PIN
lico sound, about four miles from the en-
trance to Hatteras inlet.
The four vessels which arrived with car
goes of oysters since yesterday are selling
out rapidly, and will be able to sail this
evening for the lower river for fresh loads.
The schooner E. p. Evans, which arrived
yesterday evening from the Wicomico river,
brought up 200 bushels; the Amanda Lewis,
also from the Wicomico, had on 225 BUSH
els; the Avalon. from Blackistone's Island,
200 bushels. and the j. ]. Underhill, from
St. Clements bay, 800 bushels. Oysters this
morning sold at from 80 cents to 60 cents
per buShel.
There is but little sale for watermelons
and they are bringing from 81 to SO per
hundred
Since yesterday twenty three barrels Of
salt water fish have been received by the
dealers along the wharf from the Norfolk
and Washington line steamer, and six bar
ers Prices are still advancing slightly, and
the dealers anticipate an advance during
the continuance Of cold weather.
This morning trout sold at $5 to $3.50 per
barrel; mackerel, 1917 cents per pound;
b!uefish and tailors. cents per spound;
white perch, 10 cents per pound; rockhsh.
from Z to 10 cents per pound, and catfish,
20 to 80 cents per bunch. Hard crabs are
still arriving, and prices are unchanged.
The contractors for the improvement Of
the fats have a force of forty hands at
Ill ~, h. ,I@- n,,1
throwing up an ehmbankment along the
sea wall, opposite the arsenal and the
Georgetown channel, preparatory to addi-
tional filling up in order to raise the level
of the flats several feet.
Messrs. T. r. Riley & Co. have delivered
to the United States navy yard authorities
900 pine piles, to be used in the improve
ments at the yard. Knox & Co. have the
contract for getting the piles from the wa
ter.
The new stable erected at Fort Hunt by
Meades & Reynolds of this city is now com
pleted, and three other buildings will be
ready to turn over to the officials in few
weeks.
The United States ship Fern. the practice
vessel of the Naval Battalion, District of
Columbia National Guard, which has been
lying at the lighthouse service wharf. has
been taken to the navy yard and berthed
there.
The steamer Estelle Randall made a spe-
cial trip to Sheridan Point yesterday even
ing to carry 400 bags adamant, consigned
to c. w. Cooksey The adamant will be
used in the construction of the new build
lngs now going up at Fort Hunt.
Moving To and Fro.
The schooner Kate Muller is discharging
a cargo of lumber at the 11th street wharf
for Church & Stephenson
The schooner Childe Harold, with a cargo
of coal from Winship & Co., Georgetown,
cleared today for Boston.
The schooner Kate Mcnamara has been
chartered to load cement at Philadelphia
for this city at 81 per ton.
The schooner Grace G. Bennett sailed
yesterday from Newbern, N. c., with
cargo of shingles and lumber for this port.
The schooner Edith Olcott completed the
discharging of her cargo of ice yesterday
evening and sailed in tow of the tug Ca
milla for Baltimore to load coal to an east
ern port.
The schooner Murray vandyver has
sailed for the Rappahannock to reload lum-
ber to this port
The tug Peerless arrived in port yester-
day evening with tow of four coal-laden
barges from Philadelphia. Three of them
were taken to Georgetown and the other
was brought here.
The schooner Quinby sailed yesterday
evening for Norfolk with a cargo of fer
tiliZing materials.
The schooner VIM. E. Jones is at Alexan-
dria diScharging a cargo of $50 boxes of
canned goods from Cambridge, Md, for A.
d. BrOckett & Co.
The schooner Kate, with a cargo of about
10000 feet of pine lumber from Walkerton,
Va. for Louis Dill & Co., is anchored off
Alexandra, but will come up to this city
today.
The Baltimore tug Emma brought three
barges loaded with coal into Georgetown
yesterday evening. They were from Back
River, Md.
The schooner Madaline Cooney discharged
her between-deck cargo of ice at Alexan-
dria and was yesterday taken to George
Ix,t ha f,,cr Tn
deliveries.
The Standard OIL Co. barge No II, laden
with OIL arrived in port last night in tow
of the tug Stella.
General and Personal.
Mr.. G. P. Johanson, agent of the Wash
ington Steamboat Company, has returned
from trip through New York and Canada
which occupied several weeks
Capt. Thomas Todd has gone to Norfolk
to see his wife, who is Ill there.
Mr.. John Perry of the harbor police force
is still confined to his home by illness.
Capt. Theodore keene is acting as second
officer of the steamer Estelle Randall dur
ing the absence of Mr.. Todd.
Mr.. Richard E. Tull has been appointed
second mate of the lighthouse tender Holly,
now at Baltimore
1t is reported that number of Alexan-
dria tugboat owners and builders have COM
bined to build a large tug for general tow
ing business on the river. The boat Is to be
built in Alexandria in the spring.
The he alth record of the United States
coast survey steamer Bache for the past
quarter, which has just been presented by
it's medical officer, DR.. Shepherd, is re-
markable one Although the crew of the
Bache number over fifty men. not one case
of sickness occurred among them in the
three months. The health of the crew is
all the more noteworthy when 1t is known
that throughout the entire hot spell the men
were st work ashore and on the waters Of
Chesapeake bay, at duties which required
them 10 be constantly exposed to the sun.
The United States naval tug Triton is be-
ing thoroughly overhauled at the navy yard
and when she is put overheard will be al
most new vessel. The naval tug Tecum-
sch will then be hauled out and will also
be given a thorough overhauling.
The tug Eva Belle Cain, which has been
laid up at the Alexandria ship yard since
last June for repairs, has again gone into
commission, and was on the river yester-
day.
The decks Of the steamer Samuel J. Pentz
are being caulked and painted. preparatory
to laying her up for the winter.
BRYAN SPEAKS IN KANSAS.