Evening star., 1901-09-25
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
FOUR-MAsTED SCHOONER YERKES
ON HER FIRST VOYAGE.
One of the Largest Craft of Her Kind
Ever mt This Port
General News.

VIM. H Yerkes jr.. yesterday evening on
her maiden voyage. She brings cargo OF
about 500 tons of ice from Bath for the
American Ice Company. The new schooner
IS named for Mr.. VIM H ferkes of TINS
city and it was In compliment TO him she
was sent here on her first voyage she
was launched from the ways at Thomas
ton, Me. shipyard about a month ago.
She is one of the largest schooners that
has ever been in this port, and will carry
about . 300 tons of coal. She Is fitted out
with all modern steam labor-saving de-
vices and has splendidly appointed cabins
for her officers and her forward house, In
which Is the crews quarters, and her en-
gine room is large and airy
The tug which brought the Terkes into
port is named after the son of Mr. VIM
H Yerkes, for whom the vessel Is named
The schooner came into port yesterday
evening with all her colors flying and at
tracted much attention.
The United States engineers boring plant
IS now at the Mattawoman shoals. making
soundings to determine the nature OF the
hard bottom in the river at this point
When the dredges were at work on these
shoals they found beds of hard material
crossing the channel that coulG hot oe
removed by the cutters of the dredge SO
as to comply with the contract In all par
ticulars When the nature of TINS nara
material. whether rock or clay, Is ascer-
tanned il will be removed Dy DldSllus VI
otherwise SOundings recently taken on
the Smiths Point shoals, of Somerset
Beach. show a similar hard formation there
buried under feet of soft mud and clay
The fish market at the 11th street Wnart
was fairly well supplied with salt water
fish from the shores about Norfolk, anu d
number of river fish were also brought up
from the nets in the Potomac. Prices Were
as follows: For gray trout, S. to 81 per
barrel; porgies. 81 80 per barrel; croakers'
81 per barrel; founders. &c. per pound;
black bass, 10 TO 12c per pound; bluefsh,
TO &C. per pound; large trout to &C per
pound; white perch 10 TO 15c. per pound;
pan rock, to 1Oc. per pound; spanish
medium rock, s TO 12c. per pouLu'
mackerel. 15c. per pound; carp. 20 to 3Oc;
each; catfish. 10 to 35c. per bunch, ana
eels. ~ to 3Oc. per bunch
The warm weather of yesterday caused
a slight falling off in the demand for
oysters. but the return OF cool weather 10
day had a revivifyng effect on the mar
ket, and the demand today Is strong.
Prices show a tendency to advance, and
are co to 65c. per bushel for the small
oysters up to SOC and 81 per busheI Tor
the larger stock.
Movements of Freighters.
1he schooner Daniel Sheets is at Alex
andria loading a cargo Of brick and build
ing material for lower river point.
The Mary and Rebecca, Zephyr, Avalon
and Ada Ballenger have sailed for the
lower river oyster beds and will load for
this market
The Carrie C. Pinto is at the wharf Of
Thomas r. Riley unloading full cargo of
pine lumber from river port.
The barge Fredericksburg laden with
hard coal, Is consigned to Messrs. Stephen
son & Bro, at the foot of Tth street
The schooner EUti. with load of fertil-
izer, has sailed from Alexandria for
Nomini.
The Iongboat Mayhower is in port with
a load of pine wood for Carter & Clark.
ayr1 ard . b6
wharf of VIM. A. Smoot K Co., at Alex
andria. and will load a general cargo tor
Aqua creek.
The Maggie and Elizabeth and Winnie
Windsor have arrived in port with car
goes of oysters for the local market.
The steamer Potomac, which sailed for
the lower river and Baltimore yesterday,
took a large cargo and good passenger
list.
The schooner Edwin C. Height. with
cargo of lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt, is
at bound for this port.
The steamer r. James Tull is at the
wharf IF Thomas II. Riley, foot of o street,
unloading a cargo of about 10000 feet of
Virginia pine lumber from Aquia creek
The schooner Emily E Burton has come
to this city from Alexandria to compete
the unloading of large cargo of canned
goods
The Emmett Arthur and E. p Evans lave
completed unloading and sailed yesterday
for a lower river point
General News of the Port.
The three masted British schooner
Avonia. laden with a cargo of laths from
Chatham. New Brunswick. came into port
this morning in tow of the tug Camilla. AS
she came from a foreign port, she had to
anchor off Alexandria yesterday evening,
where DIR. Arthur Snowden, the United
States marine hospital surgeon, boarded
her and gave her clean bill of health.
The Avonia Is the first vessel flying the
n
here in several years.
The United States steamboat inspectors.
Messrs. Wright and Staunton. were in the
city this morning and made an eXamina-
tion of the new crown sheet which Is to be
placed In the boiler of the steamer Estelle
Randall.
The steamer Wakefield will. it is stated.
this week take her place upon the river
route TO Wlrt's wharf. relieving the steam
er Harry Randall, which will in turn re-
Heve the steamer T. " Arrowsmith on the
Nomini and lower Machodoc route. The
Arrowsmith will be laid up at the Alexan-
dria ferry line wharf for the winter. The
Wakefield has been overhauled and put in
thorough order for her winters work
The schooner Lavinia Campbell, well
known at this port, which was run into
and capsized in Delaware bay last week,
has been abandoned and her owners will,
II Is stated. sell her where she lies for the
metal that Is in her. The Campbell has
been bringing ice to this port for several
years.
The loading of the three-nnasted schooner
Annie Ainsley at the AleXa ndr.a shipyard,
with railway ties for the Philadelphia and
Boston markets. IS progressing rapidly
The vessel II Is understood, Is being loaded
by J. W. Gregg OF Georgetown.
Ten or twelve cars, carrying soft coal
from the Cumberland mines were unload
ed into barges at Shepherds landing of the
Baltimore and Ohio railway yesterday for
shipment to this city
The dock at the foot of King street at
Alexandria is to be cleaned out and a new
stone bulkhead IS to be built across IT.
Nlr. Thornton Smoot, formerly purser OF
the steamer Kent. has gone TO his home
In Charles county, Md, to spend several
weeks.
Purser T. Z. Garnett of the steamer Ar.
rowsmith Will leave today for New York
10 witness the international yacht races.
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