Evening star., 1901-11-12
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
TUG CAPTAINS ALLEGE TROUBLE AT
LONG BRIDGE DRAW.
Quotations mt Fish and Oyster Wharf
The Freight Handkerchief
eraI Port News.

| Complaint is made by tugboat captains
and owners that on several occasions late
ly. the draw on the Long bridge has been
closed while the tugs with heavy tows be-
| hind them were headed for the drawer
| channel, and only short distance away
from the bridge. They say that 1t has only
been by skillful handling of the boats that
| collisions with the bridge have been avoid
| ed, and had the wind been blowing toward
| the bridge the tugs would have been unable
to check the headway of their tows. The
! matter will be brought to the attention
of the Pennsylvania railway authorities.
AS a -one-horse wagon belonging to Ju-
lius Drifuse & Co. of Alexandria, loaded
with scrap brass and copper, was being
! loaded on the Alexandria and Washington
| ferry line steamer Belle Haven yesterday
| evening the wagon broke loose from the
ropes that We're holding 1t. while 1t was
| being backed down an incline from the
| wharf and running across the deck OF the
| steamer broke the rail on the outer side
| and dropped overheard in about twenty
feet of water. Graphing irons We're pro-
cured and the wagon was raised yesterday
evening and the greater part OF Its con-
| tents was recovered today. The morse
which drew the wagon had been unhitched
| from it before the wagon was started on
| the boat
The supply of fresh and salt water fish
on hand at the 18th street wharf market
| this morning was not large, and the de-
mand was fair. Prices We're as follows:
| For bluefish or tailors, to SC. per pound;
| salmon trout, to &C. per pound; large
trout, So to Sc per box; small trout, 50 to 81
per box; pan rock, to Sc. per pound; me-
| dium rock, to 10c. per pound; boiling rock
1212 to 1Jc. per pound; white perch, to 12c.
per pound; jumping muliets, to 312c. per
| pound; butterfsh, &c. per pound; black
| bass 8 to 12c per pound; green pike, 5 to
| nOllnd-
| yellow perch, 10 to 2oc. per bunch; catfish.
% to 5Oc per bunch; eels, 10 to 29c per
! bunch; river mulletS. 10 to 13c. per bunch,
and carp, 10 to 25c each.
The demand for oysters at the 11th street
wharf market continues good and the sup
ply on hand is not large. Small oysters
per bushel, while the larger ones brought
| from 10 to soc. per bushel. The arrivals
| in the past twenty-four hours have been
| the Lottie Thomas, Mary and Rebecca,
Minnie Windsor, NJ j. Stephenson, Ray
mond Olivia and R. H. Stewart.
The Passing Craft.
The schooner Irene, with a cargo of cord
wood from Nomini creek, has arrived in
port for Carter & Clark.
The Fannie Shepherd has sailed light for
| the lower Potomac and will load a cargo
for the dealers here.
| The tug Spray, with two stone-laden
barges in tow, has arrived in port from the
! quarrleS at OccOquan, va.
| The schooner James B. Anderson has sail
ed from Clarmont, Va, with a cargo OF
| about 125000 feet of lumber for this city.
The longboat Silver Star is at Marshall
| Hail for cargo of cord wood for Carter
| & Clark.
| The three-masted schooner Sarah S. Ty-
| ler. laden with a full cargo of pine lumber,
| came into port yesterday evening for Thos.
r. Riley. She is discharging her cargo at
the wharf foot of o street southwest.
| The barges George B. Roberts and Kate
| Latta have finished unloading their car
| goes of coal at the wharf of Stephenson Il
Bro, and are now awaiting orders
The pungy Ella Hill, laden with a cargo
| of oysters from the Blackstone Island
neighborhood, has arrived at Alexandria
for the dealers there.
The sailing barge Daniel has gone to a
river point and will take on a cargo OF
cord wood for this market.
The two-masted schooner Sidonia Curley,
laden with about 100000 feet of Virginia
kplne lumber from the Rappahannock river,
has arrived in port for H. L. Bscoe.
The Cora McKenney has gone to the
lower river and will load a cargo for the
Alexandria market.
The James Beach, having unloaded a
part of her cargo of oysters at Alexandria,
came up to this city to complete unloading.
The large barge Villanora is at the wharf
of johnson Bros, foot of 18th street south
west, unloading a cargo of about 400 tons
of hard coal from Perryville, Md.
The handsome little steam launch Au-
gusta, belonging to Captain August Gaines,
Sprang aleak while lying at her mooringS
near the Old Dominion Boat Club house,
at Alexandria, few nights ago and sank
in about five feet of water. She was raised
next day and was found unharmed. What
caused her to sink is not known, as she
had been out with a hunting party aboard
the day before and had shown no leak.
T'he wheel OF the steam launch James S.
Douglass while coming into her dock at
Alexandria from fishing trip recently, was
broken by striking a submerged log or
stone. One flange of the wheel was broken
and the yacht will be supplied with a new
wheel as soon possible
The schooner Orlando Wootten, which is
in port unloading cargo of ice, is the last
of the Ice fleet to come to this city until
next spring. There is now stored in the ice
houses of the American Company enough
ice to supply the demands of this city
throughout the winter.
The bell which was used as fog signal
at the Cove Point light station on Chesa-
peake bay has been discontinued and a Da-
Dol Doll trumpet has been substituted for it.
The trumpet, it is stated, can be heard
much farther in fog than could the bell
and it will sound blasts of eight seconds
duration at intervals of seven seconds
The naval tug Triton brought a six-ipch
gum which had been tested at Indian
Head, to the navy yard yesterday on the
ordnance foundry barge.
small white schooner, name unknown,
is lying on the Virginia side of the river q
short distance below Mr.. Vann's with one
of her maStS broken.
A large sand barge is hauled out on the
marine railway at Alexandria for caulking
and general repairs.
The United States revenue cutter Win
dom is to be hauled out on a marine rail-
way at Baltimore for general repairs.
Mr.. John d. Hart, mate of the steamer
Harry Randall. who has been away on
leave, returned to duty yesterday.
Mr.. Chap Sly, who has been acting as
second officer Of the steamer Randall, has
returned to his home In St. Mary's county,
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