Evening star., 1901-08-02
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL BANK AT
COLONIAL BEACH.
Satisfactory Depth i'm GeOrgetOw n
Channel-Brisk Fish Narket-Gen-
eral Port Intelligence.

chants and business men of Colonial Beach
to have a national bank established there
with capital stock of $4,000, and as two
thirds of that sum has already been sub
scribed, it looks as If the enterprise is as
sured This would be a great convenience
TO the business men of that section OF Nir-
ginfa 1t is believed the bank will be in
operation at the Beach by the end Of the
summer season.
The harbor dredge at work in the George
town channel above the Long bridge, has
been excavating for the past two weeks at
points about a hundred yards from the
bridge Large quantities of mud have been
pumped upon the Potomac park just east
of the railway causeway, raising the ground
about three feet. The channel above the
bridge is now deep enough, it is stated, to
allow any vessel that can come up the Pc.
tcmac to go to Georgetown without danger of
grounding. The dredge has been working
night and day for the past month.
The demand for fish at the 11th street
wharf market was quite brisk this morning
but the supply of bay and sea fish from the
fisheries about Norfolk was small Prices
are showing slight advance this morn
ing. small gray trout selling at from -
to "a per barrel; butter fish, 81 to 81 per
barrel; croakers, 81 per barrel large trout.
50 to So per BARREL spot, $50 to 50 % per
barrel; bluefish, 4c. per pound; rock, pan,
to &c. per pound; rock, boiling, 10 to
122c. per pound mackerel, I to SC. per
pound: sea bass, 3 to 4c. per pound; white
perch = to 10c. per pound; sturgeon, TO
Zoe. per pound; catfish, IS to 25c. per
bunch; cells and yellow perch, Is to 20c. per
bunch; porgies, 1Jc. each; drum, Zoe each;
carp o., to 35c. each; hard crabs more
in demand and are selling at 81 per barrel.
The Freighters.
The schooner Saml. Woods, recently pur-
chased at Atlantic City by Mr.. Harry Car
ter. has arrived here, and has been sent to
Colonial Beach to load gravel. Capt. A.
W. KintZ is in command of the schooner.
The steamer Lily and Howard is at the
Alexandria shipyard with a cargo of rail-
way ties from Upper Machodoc creek for
Richmond parties. They are to be shipped
by vessel to northern ports.
The schooner Belmont has sailed for the
lower river and will load cord wood for
Carter & Clark.
The Father and Son has arrived in port
with cargo of cedar posts for Johnson &
Wimsatt and cord wood for the local deal
ers.
The schooner William Donnelly anchor
ed off Alexandria last night with cargo of
about $4,000 feet of Virginia pine lumber.
The steamer E. James Tull arrived at
Johnson & Wimsatts wharf this morning
with cargo of pine lumber.
The sailing barge Daniel has arrived in
port with q full cargo of cord wood for
Carter & Clark.
The tug Spray, with light barge In tow.
sailed for Occoquan yesterday to load
broken stone TO this port.
The tWo-masted schooner Simmons, haV-
ing completed the unloading of her cargo
of lumber. has sailed for the lower river.
The sloop Belvedere, having unloaded a
cargo at river point, has returned to
Alexandria light.
The lOngboat Peri is at Fort Washington
dscharging a cargo of lumber for the
building under erection there.
The Mary Francis Mary Ann Shea ana
Rose Beatrice will load cord wood at
river point for Carter & Clark.
The Baltimore tug Sandow, with tow
of four light barges, sailed yesterday even
ing for Philadelphia, via Chesapeake City.
The schooner Regulator, with a cargo of
bricks and lumber has sailed from AleXan-
dria for the COan river.
The schooner G. n. Simmons with ,l50
tons of ice for the American Ice Company,
Is due at the capes.
The longboat Peri is at VIM. A Smoot's
wharf, Alexandria, loading a general cargo
for a river point.
The barges Chesapeake and Laurie Groves
have sailed in tow Of tug for Perryville,
The sloop Gertrude, with a cargo of
about $4,000 feet of pine lumber from CO.
lonial Beach, Is in port for Johnson &
Wimsatt.
OF General Interest.
Two vessels laden with 4,5OO watermelons
for Richardson & Co. have arrived in port
from North Carolina. Melons this morning
sold at So to SO per hundred.
The rebuilding of the cradle on the ma
rine railway of the American shipyard is
being pushed, and 1t Is expected 1t viii be
completed and ready for service in about
ten days. A number of vessels are waiting
to be hauled out as soon as the railway is
ready for service.
small pungy, said to be named the
Oneida, was reported hard and fast
aground on the flats near Fort Foote yes
terday afternoon. She is loaded with lum-
a Virginia
to the local dealers. She was foated at
high water last night.
The steamer Northumberland loaded at
Alexandria yesterday two car loads of ak
handles and wheel spokes from the Carson
works at New Alexandria for Baltimore.
There they will be transferred to ship
bound to Liverpool.
The pungy Ida May has returned from
the lower river. While away she was
given thorough overhauling and was re-
painted.
The schooners William Chester, Tanner
and the o. D Wetherell, now in port here,
have been chartered to load coal at Balti-
more for New England ports.
Lightship No ~ will relieve lightship
No. 10 on the Cape Charles station Mon
day next. Lightship No. ~ has just been
rebuilt at Norfolk. She is painted solid
red, and has her number in white on bow
end quarter In fogs her whistle will sound
a blast OF five seconds In every minute.
The schooner Independent, now in port
here with ice, has been bringing ice to this
port from the Maine ice fields for several
years past but this is her first voyage here
consigned TO the Purity Ice Company.
Heretofore she has always brought her
cargoes TO the American Ice Company
It's predecessor, the old Independence Ice
Company. Inability to secure a charter
quickly is said to have caused the change
in consignees.
The little schooner Benjamin Franklin
which sank while at anchor in the harbor
early Friday morning last, has been raised,
pumped out and is again in service. The
vessel was found TO be unharmed.
The schooner Cooper, belonging to Mr..
Wiley kintZ OF this city. has been reduced
to the dimensions OF a small barge. Her
masts and rigging have been removed. and
she will be used for general freighting busi-
ness on the Potomac
Clay to be used in the making of bricks
is still being brought here from the vi
cinity OF Broad creek. Yesterday evening
the tug Maryland, with barge laden with
clay, came into port.
The schooner Helen H. Benedict has been
chartered by the Purity Ice Company of
this city to load ice at Rockport, Me-, for
this city.
The summer boarding houses at points
along the lower river are rapidly filling
with guests from this city, and the steam
ers on every trip take from 80 to 100 pas