Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-03
ALONG THE | RIVER FRONT
RATES ON COAL 70 NORTHERN AND
EAsTERNt PORTS.
Advance Made tor the Carrying Yes.
sels-Receiptss and Prices Mt
Fish Whaa1s-PersOnal.


and eastern ports continue to advance
Until about a wesk@go they were 80 cents
a ton to Boston. Then a dollar was Offer
ed. and now vessel owners are demanding
and getting $1.15 per ton to Maine ports
and lilo to Boston. The foreign rates from
Georgetown, in consequence of the quick
er dispatch. are about 5 cents less on the
ton. AS fully nine-tenths of the vessels
coming to this port return north with car
goes Of GOAL this advance in the freight
rate means money for them.
Information has just been received here
of the killing near Stiff's wharf, in King
George county, Va, of a white man named
Jack Fennis on Thursday last by an angry
bull. Fennis, 1t is said, was leading the
animal to the wharf to ship 1t to this city
on the steamer Harry Randall. when II
broke away and turned upon and gored
him. The horns penetrated his heart and
when help reached him he was dead. The
bull ran raging through the county, but
was finally captured and penned up Fennls
is survived by his wife and several small
children.
The fish dealers at the wharf today re-
ceived from the Norfolk boats forty barrels
OF salt water fish from the shores on the
Atlantic coast and in the bay about Nor
folk. This morning trout sold at $3.50 to
$3.50 per barrel. bluefish and tailors cents
per pound. butterfish AZ cents per pound
pound. Four came up on the steamers ar
irving last night from the lower river, and
rock fish sold at Z cents to 10 cents per
pound. perch 10 cents per pound.
About twenty barrels of crabs were re-
ceived. but no changes in prices are to be
noted.
Bass and rockfish are being caught In
great numbers with hook and line from the
wharves and on the bars near where the
Georgetown and Washington channels meet,
opposite Giesboro' Point. 1t is commended
that under the law no one is allowed to
catch and bring home rock or bass under
certain size. The law says that 1t shall be
unlawful for any person to expose for sale
in the District of Columbia at any time any
than nine inches A decision on this point
is awaited with interest by the fishermen.
General and Personal.
Messrs. Uhler & Co. have just completed
a new yawl boat for the steam yacht Gray
ling, owned by Mr.. H X. Bliss of this city.
The yawl Is about twelve feet long, and is
beautifully finished.
The outside sheathing is now being placed
on the addition to the sloop yacht Seabelle,
which has just had twelve feet added to her
length at Benefits boat yard, foot of 18th
street, and II is expected the vessel will be
ready for service in about sixty days.
When completed little but the name will be
left of the original Seabelle.
Capt. James Barker. the veteran COM
mander of the steamer Harry Randall, Is
of the best known steamboat men
the Potomac. He has been following 1.-The
water since his early youth, and since the
civil war has commanded steamers in
Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river
For number of years he was on the Balti-
more-WaShingtOn line and then in the old
Seaboard line. For the past six years he
has had charge of the steamer Harry Ran
dali, on the river route.
The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Dredging
Company Of New York, the new contractors
for completing the work of dredging the
river above and below the Long bridge will
be ready to begin operations about the 18th
of this month. Messrs. Chler & Co., the
agents of the dredging firm, today received
a very large centrifugal pump. and will
place it in the large hydraulic dredge to be
used in the work. The pump weighs over
five tons and was large as to. require an
entire car for its transportation The
dredging company will have its headquar-
tiers at the office of Uhler & Co., eth and K
streets southwest
Mr.. G.. B. Saunders, watchman at the
steamer PentZ wharf was overcome by the
heat while on his way to the wharf yester-
day and is now in serious condition.
The Passing Craft.
The schooner John r. Martin, with a
cargo Of lumber from Norfolk for this port,
is expected here this afternoon or tonight.
The United States coast survey steamer
Blake is in port. She anchored in the
stream off the foot of 18th street
Inc schooner Alice CdrIlSle mas sailed
light for Norfolk to load lumber.
The Washington and Norfolk line steamers
on the Saturday night and the day trip yes
terday morning had full complement Of
passengers, every state room on both boats
being sold.
The sloop Dart arrived in port Saturday
evening, preparatory to a cruise on the bay
and river.
The steamers Harry Randall and EstelIe
Randall made their last trips yesterday to
Chapel Point and Colonial Beach, respect
lively.
The steamer T. V. Arrowsmith carried
about 600 passengers nearly her full COM
plement. to Colonial Beach on Saturday
evening last.
The steamer Magnolia has arrived with
cargo of lumber for Louis Dill and johnson
& Wimsatt.
The schooner Sunny South, Capt. John
Joe Gibson, has arrived at the oyster wharf
with a cargo of 22O bushels of oysters This
is the second cargo to arrive since the sea-
son opened.
The schooner o. D. whitehall, from the
Kennebec for this port, sailed from Bass
river on the 31st ultiIno with a cargo of ice
The longboat Peri, with cargo of lumber
for johnson & Wimsatt, is in port
The schooner Louie s. Love- having COM
pleted the discharging of her cargo. has
cleared light for the lower rjyar to ralnoa