Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-03
ALONG TIE RIVER FRONT
CHANGE IN BUOYS AT POINTS IN
CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Supply of Oysters and Fish-The Tug
Camilla Loses a Rudder
Personal.

ing the main ship channel off Holland
Point, Horseshoe Point, Thomas Point,
folly Point, Hackett Point, Lower Thirteen
foot Lump and Bodkin Point, respectively,
have all been changed during the past ten
days to spar bGoys. The Elizabeth river
entrance bell buoy, which was dragged out
of position the Eight of November Is, was
replaced the 23d ultimo.
Mountaineer bar buoy and Persmmon
Point shoal buoy, in the Magothy river.
Nd, have been changed from nun buoys
to spar buoys for the winter. A large
number of other can buoys marking shoals
in the bay have also been changed to spar
buoys
fleet was off Alexandria Friday evening
with the schooner Davenport, preparing to
start to Baltimore, her rudder, by some
MEANS broke off short, fell into the river,
leaving the tug totally disabled. Efforts
have been made to find the rudder but so
far they have been unsuccessful. The Ca
milla is now at Alexandria and will have
to be hauled over and laid off until new
rudder is built The accident is most
curious one and the tugbOat men are specu-
laling as to how it occurred. The Camilla
had but a few hours before returned from
a long cruise on the bay, bringing up the
schooner Ohler.
The supply of oysters at the wharf con-
tinues large. and, while the market is but
fairly brisk. prices keep up, and an advance
is looked for as the Christmas holidays
draw near. This morning there were in
port twelve or fourteen vessels having on
board in all about = 800 bushels of oysters.
The grade Of the bivalve being brought to
this market this season is superior in
size and flavor to those Of several years
past. This morning the smaller oysters
were selling at from so to 65 cents per
high as IS cents. Since Saturday the ar
rivals have been the Ada Balenger, with
400 bushels, and the Cushion, with 100
bushels.
The Norfolk and Washington line steam
ers th.s morning and yesterday brought up
thirty packages Of fish for the dealers at
the wharf from the fisheries about Norfolk
and Old Point, and the steamer Wakefield
brought up ten barrels from the nets in the
lower river. The market this morning was
only fair, and prices remain about the same
as last week. This morning trout sold for
~ to $40 per barrel; pan rock, to 10 cents
per pound; boiling rock, Is cents per pound;
bass, I to 10 cents per pound; pike, to 8
cents per pound; bluefsh and tailors
cents per pound; spotted trout, cents per
pound; southern mullet, cents per pound;
white perch to 10 cents per pound; Sleeps
head, cents per pound; croaker 4 cents
per pound; carp, cents per pound; f1oun-
der, cents per pound; catfish and cells, 90
to % cents per bunch: winter shad 10 to
Is cents per bunch and river mullet Is to
20 cents per bunch
The Carriers of Freight.
The schooner VIM. s. Kirby has arrived
in port with a full cargo Of shingles for
johnson & Wimsatt.
The steamer Wakefield. which arrived
from the lower river yesterday, brought up
cargo Of poultry and country produce for
the local dealers.
The schooner Lewis H. Coward will COM
plete the discharging Of her cargo of ice
this afternoon tomorrow, and will sail
for Baltimore to load coal for New Eng
land port.
The schooner Charles Davenport has ar
rived in Baltimore and will load coal for
Boston.
The coast survey steamer Blake will
shortly leave for the Tortugas in the Gulf
of Mexico, to make surveys there for the
navy.
The John Cunningham, B. H. Lambert,
Ruth and Ella, Martin Wagner, Flora, M.
j. Stevenson and Maggie l.. have all sailed
for the lower river to load oysters back
to this port.
The schooner Henry S. Pitts has arrived
in port with cargo of lumber for dealers
here.
The American Patriot is in port with a
cargo Of cord wood for Carter & Clark.
The schooner Belmont, the Lottie Carter
and the Earl Biscoe have sailed for river
points to load cord wood back to this port
for Carter & Clark.
The schooner Edward G. Hight has sailed
from Jacksonville, Fla. with cargo of
900 feet of Georgia pine lumber for
Johnson & Wimsatt
The United States engineers steamer Jas
samne has returned to her station In Balti-
more. after cruise among the light houses
in the fifth district making the necessary
repairs.
The pungy Ella Hill has sailed from AL
exandria for the oyster beds in the lower
river to load
The steamer Dennis Simmons, having
completed the discharging Of her cargo Of
lumber here and in Alexandria, has sailed
for Edenton, N. c., for another cargo.
General and Personal.
The little sailing sloop Nam owned by Mr.
John Aman of this city, is hauled out at
Cumberland's boat house at the foot Of 9th
street for general overhauling and caulk-
ing
The tug Selectman is hauled out on the
marine railway at Alexandria for examina-
tipn and repairs.
MIR. Robert Murphy has over 800 cords of
cut wood near Wirt's wharf, in Mattox
creek, for shipment to this city.
Corn is reported very scarce in Westmore-
land county, on the lower Potomac, this
fall, and the merchants there are sending to
this city to buy it.
new sta * Is being built for the Alex
andria and Washington ferry steamer Belle
Haven by Boswell & Co.
The crew of the United States dispatch
boat Dolphin is engaged in making a sur
vey and running lines along the channel OF
the Eastern branch. 1t is stated that an
effort will be made before Congress to>have
the channel Strengthened. AS it is now 1t
is very winding and narrow, and unless the
pilot is well posted he is very apt to put
his vessel ashore before the navy yard is
reached
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com
pany has large force of hands at work
near the Buena Vista wharf. cutting and
grading the hills below st. EliZabeth's Asy-
lum for the proposed new railway between
Shepherds landing, opposite Alexandra,
and this city.
The men preparing the flats opposite the
arsenal for the reception Of the mud and
earth from the river bottom, which Is to
raise it several feet, have gotten the sluice
in position to run off the water that is
pumped on the flats with the mud.
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