Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-22
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
L0NGBOAT OUT OF DATE As
FREIGHT CARRIER.
Business Dull at the Oyster Wharf,
Coming aud eoihs Of Freight
ers Personal.

The use Of the longboat FOR the carry
! ing of wood and like 'cargoes on the Poto-
| mac is rapidly becoming thing of the past.
But one boat Of this type has been built in
the past four or five years, and she was
! so changed as to be more like schooner
| than like one of the old open-hold longboats.
1t is believed to be only a question of
few years when they will disappear en-
| tirely. There are now in use on the river
but eleven Of this class of sow-sailing
craft. The Five Sisters, built in 1872, is the
Oldest; then come the Mary A. Shea, built
In '73; the Silver Star, in "a; the Ur1ah
| Horner, in 70; the Peri, Earl Biscoe, Osce-
ola, Mayf1ower, Gilman Dove, Harry and
Charley, Mary Frances and the recent addi-
| ton to the fleet, the Belmont
| When the dredges were digging out the
| channel In the harbor eight or ten years
ago a buoy marked a shoal spot on the
western side Of the channel about abreast
OF the north end Of the arsenal grounds.
Instead of taking up this buoy and giving
| the same depth of water over the entire
harbor it was allowed to remain and the
| dredSeS dug around it, leaving a Shoat spot
ABOUT twenty feet across and six or eight
feet higher than the surrounding bottom.
| This lump, as the steamboat men call it,
mas always proved to be a trouble to veS-
| sells coming into the harbor, the steamboats,
| sheering away from it and making it at
tmes dl1ncult to keep them on their course.
BUSINESS was extremely dull at the oyster
"nar1 thls morning, the supply Of the BIZ
valves on hand being far in excess of the
demand, and prices are still low. Since
yesterday but one vessel, the pungy Dough-
| erty, with 400 bushels of Lower Machodoc
| oysters on board, has arrived at the wharf
There are now lying there about eighteen
| vessels, having on board in all about 1900
ever, and good oysters can be bought as
| low as 30 cents per- bushel, while the
| highest price brought is 80 cents per bushel.
| me Norfolk line steamer also brought up
| twenty-five barrels of Norfolk oysters and
| the steamer Harry Randall brought thirty
| four barrels from the lower river.
| The supply of fish at the wharf this morn
| ing was but light the Norfolk and Wash
ington line steamer bringing up but nineteen
barrels from Old Point and Norfolk for
the dealers here, and the steamer Harry
Randall but eleven barrels from the nets
| in the lower river. Though the supply was
| light it was more than equal to the de-
mand purchasers for fish being very few.
Prices in consequence are still very low and
| will remain until the market becomes
better. Trout this morning sold at s. to Sc
per barrel; boiling rock, 10 to Is cents
| per pound; pan rock, to cents per pound;
black bass to cents per pound; white
perch 3 to cents per pound; spot, 5
cents per pound pike. 3 to cents per
pound; carp, 3 cents per pound bluefsh
and tailors. cents per pound; winter shad,
| 10 cents per bunch; eelS, 10 to 20 cents per
| bunch; catfish, ) to 20 cents per bunch, and
river mullet. 5 to cents per bunch.
The Freight Carriers.
The tug Camilla arrived light yesterday
evening to take away a light vessel from
Georgetown. 70
The schooner Annie Martz, having fin
| ished dischargng her cargo at the James
creek landings, sailed yesterday evening for
the lower river to reload.
| The pungy Ella Hill, now at Alexandra,
will complete the unloading of her cargo
| of oysters this afternoon or tomorrow, and
will sail for the lower river to reload.
The steamer Harry Randall, which ar
| rived from the lower river last night,
| brought large quantity of live and dressed
| turkeys and poultry for the Thanksgiving
market
The steamer Lily and Howard and the
! Occoquar are at Johnsons wharf In
| Georgetown to discharge their cargoes OF
| cord wood.
| The tug James /. Brady arrived in port
yesterday evening with two coal-laden
barges from Philadelphia. She sailed again
| with light Standard Oil Company barge
| in tow for Baltimore.
The United States light house engineers
| steamer Jessamine, having completed the
work of changing the Jones Point light.
| has sailed for Baltimore.
| The Weems line steamer Potomac ar
rived in port early this morning from Bal
tstimore and the lower river landings with a
heavy cargo of oysters stock and country
| produce.
The schooner Sedonia Curley, Capt. Cur
ley is in port with cargo of about 10000
| feet of Virginia pine lumber from Norfolk
The schooner Belmont sailed yesterday
for the lower river to load back to this
| port.
The schooner Henry R. Travers is at T.
w H}iley's wharf loading fertiliZing ma
| teral TO- Cortes Neck
The Mary Travers and the J. P. Robin
son are in port with full cargoes of cord
wood for the loca dealers.
The schooner Grace q. Bennett has ar
rived at Newbern, N. c., to load lumber for
| this port.
The longboat Five Sisters has sailed for
river landing to take on cargo of cord
wood for this port.
The schooner Davenport, bound to this
port with cargo of ice, which is long over
| due, is reported to have passed Sandy Hook
| early this week.
The b&rge H. L. Nef is in port with a
cargo Of 600 tons Of hard coal from Phila-
| dephia for Stephenson & Bro.
The American Patriot and the Sidney
| Jones both arrived in port yesterday with
| full cargoeS of cord wood
The Fair American and the Ruth and
! Ella have both sailed for the lower river
to load oysters back to this port
The schooner R. & S. Corson has been
taken to the wharf of Thos. r. Riley to
complete the dischargng of her cargo OF
! lumber.
The steamer E. James Tun arrived IN
port yesterday evening with cargo of
! cord wood for Carter & Clark.
Inc schooner DeIUlS came up
| from Alexandria yesterday and went 10
| Llbbey's wharf in Georgetown to complete
| discharging.
General and Personal Notes.
The last shrimp of the season, shipment
of 300 gallons, were received yesterday by
| Messrs. r. A. Golden & Co., at the fish
| wharf
| The schooner Peri on her way down the
| river yesterday ran ashore on the flats at
the mouth OF Four-mile Run She Law
there for several hours, but was finally
hauled off, only to be blown by the heavy
northwest wind across the river and ashore
on the flats near the naval magazine
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com;
pany has large force of, surveyors out
running new lines for a railway between
the landing at Shepherds and this CITY,
| The barkentne Arlington, Capt Griggs is
yard a Of the CRAWFORD Paving. COMPANY. ' he