Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-12-09
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
WHITE CLOUD ONE OF THE OLDEST
SCHOONERs AFLoAT.
Vessel Was Built in 1853 and Once in
Service on the Lakes
General News.

The three-masted schooner White Cloud,
which unloaded a cargo Of lumber here,
and which is now at T. w. Rileys wharf
loading fertilizer for Norfolk, IS one of the
oldest vessels afloat in active service. Ac-
cording to the blue book" the govern
ment register Of vessels, she was built at
Clayton. N. Y, on the great lakes. in 1853.
and was for a number of years in the
freight-carrying business on the lakes. She
was then transferred to the Atlantic sea-
board and has since been engaged in the
coasting trade. Though nearly a half CEN
fury in active service, the White Cloud is
still stanch and seaworthy and looks as
if she may be afloat when 1853 comes. She
is now owned in New York, from which
port her papers are issued.
AS the freighter Lily and Howard was on
her way from this city to Aqua creek FRI
day her machinery got out of order, and
she had to go into Gunston wharf, where
the broken machinery repaired. The boiler
then had to be refilled by hand with water
taken from the river, and 1t was not until
nearly night that the steamer was able to
continue on her way.
The demand for fresh fish at the 18th
street wharf continues good, but the sup
ply is small Prices remain firm, and to-
day they are follows: For bluefish, to
pound: medium rock, 12h to 15c. per pound;
boiling rock, IL to zoe per pound; black
bass, to 10c. per pound; green pike, 8 to
SC. per pound; jumping mullets, 4c. per
pound; carp to &c per pound; Spanish
mackerel, 121ac. per pound; gray trout, sc.
per pound; salmon trout, to &c. per pound:
river mullets, 10 to 35c. per bunch; cells, 10
to 25c per bunch: catfish, Is to soc per
bunch. and yellow perch, 10 to 4Oc per
bunch.
The demand for oysters today is fair and
prices range from 40 to soc. per bushel for
the small oysters up to zoe per bushel for
h. I,,,- W. l.
light. A. +. Lewis, Kathleen, Martin wag-
ner, Ruth & Ella, B. II. Lambert Elenora
Russell. Seabird and Hiawatha.
The Baltimore barkentine Davis has been
chartered to go to Port Tampa, Fla, to load
a cargo of phosphate rock for the city
The steamer Harry Randall on her last
trip from the lower Potomac wharyes
brought about 1900 bushels of grain and a
hundred OF more barrels of oysters to AL
eXandria.
All the sand digging machines which have
been operating on Greenway flats, near the
Maryland shore, have been brought to this
city, their owners fearing sudden cold
snap might make the ice so hard that they
could not be moved.
The schooner Lottie Carter, which had
her foremost broken In a blow about ten
days ago, Is at the wharf OF Stephenson &
Bro, where derrick will be used to place
a new mast in position. The Carter will be
ready for service again about the middle of
this week.
The owners of the small schooner Thomas
K. Carroll, which lies sunken on Craney Is
land bar, to the east of the island, have
determined to make no effort to raise her
and she will be abandoned where she lies.
Her masts. sails and rigging have been re-
moved and she will be stripped of all her
movable effects.
The ]. P. Robinson brought up a load of
grain from Lower Machodoc for the mills
in Georgetown.
The Mary Ann Shea brought into mort m
her last run a cargo of pine lumber from
AQUA creek for Carter & Clark
The schooner Five Sisters arrived In port
Saturday with full cargo Of pine wood
for Carter & Clark.
The tug Camilla sailed Saturday for the
lower river with a tow of nine light oyster
boats.
The E. r. s. Dougherty Is at Alexandria
loading a cargo of lumber and building ma