Evening star., 1901-07-20
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER SUNK, OWING TO CARE
LEssNEss OF CREW.
CarGOes of Ice Arriving and AAoat-
Condition Of Fish Market
General News.

| General News.
| Capt. T. J. Headley. master and owner Of
| the schooner John A. H. Dixon, which lies
| Sunken in the dock at Johnson & VIM
| salts wharf has arrived, and will at once
| take the necessary means to have his boat
| raised. AS one of his children was ill Of
! typhoid fever, Capt. Headley trusted his
vessel on her last trip to his crew to bring
her to port. and by their carelessness she
was allowed to fill and sink on Saturday
night when one was aboard Of her. The
crew then left the vessel lying on the bot
tom of the dock and without reporting to
Capt. Headiey returned to their homes In
Virginia Capt. Headley through friends,
learned Of the condition of his vessel. and
he had to leave his sick childs bedside to
come to this city to have 1t raised.
The large bark Boylstone with load of
asphaltum from Port Spain, Island of
Trinidad. came into port yesterday even
ing in tow of the Baltimore tug Emum.
She Is consigned to the Barber Asphalt
Company and was taken to Georgetown to
unload cargo. Coming from a foreign and
southern port, she stopped off Alexandria
yesterday and was boarded by the United
States marine hospital surgean. DR.. Arthur
Snowden, who examined her, and finding
| no sickness aboard allowed her to come
TO this port to unload her cargo. Two or
three other large vessels are expected to
| arrive within short time with asphalt
from Trinidad.
Light Receipts of Fish.
The receipts of fish by the dealers at the
wharf from the fisheries about Virginia
Beach and Norfolk and from the nets in
the river were quite light this morning.
The demand, however. was good and
prices are keeping up the figures Of the
early part of the week
fl ,ir,rr 4 - 80
per barrel; butter fish, $3.50 to SO per bar
rel: bluefish, g to 8 cents per pound; weak
nsn, 4 cents per pound; pan rock. to IL
cents per pound; boiling rock, 10 to 20
cents per pound; white perch. to II cents
per pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per pound;
catfish. % to 35 cents per bunch; yellow
perch and eels 20 to % cents per bunch;
porgies, 20 cents each; drum 25 to 80 cents
each, and carp, 10 to 20 cents each. Hard
crabs have advanced in price and are SELL
ing at 81 to So per barrel.
No Danger of Ice Scarcity.
About 5000 tons of Ice Is at sea in seven
We esseis bound to this port. for the Ameri-
can Ice Company, from the Maine ice fields.
About 1000 tons should arrive here within
the next twenty-four hours.
The long wharf at the Alexandria ship
yard, which was badly damaged by the re-
cent high tides is being rebuilt by VIM
Rogers.
The schooner c. r. Flint, light from this
port. has arrived at Baltimore to load.
The schooner Katerne D. Perry. from
this port. where she unloaded ice, has
sailed for Bangor. from Norfolk, with a
cargo of coal.
The four-masted schooner, Edward e.
Brery, has completed the unloading of her
cargo Of ice and has sailed in tow Of the
tug Yerkes for Baltimore, and will load
about 1.JOO tons of coal for a New England
port.
The schooner Mary A. Randall. from
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has arrived at Boston, her port Of destin-
alton.
The American Patriot is in port with q
full cargo Of cord wood from the lower
river for Carter & Clark.
The schooner Federal Hill. with car
go of coal screenings from VIM. A. Smoot
& Co.. sailed from Alexandria yesterday
for Baltimore.
The schooner Sherman Is at Rockport.
Me-. loading a cargo of ice for the Purity
Ice Company Of this city.
The schooner VIM. Donnell has been
transferred from Reardon's to Bryant's
wharf at Alexandria, to complete the
loading of her cargo Of Nova Scotia plaster.
The schooner Walter E. Snow is unload
ing a cargo Of lumber at the wharf of
Forsburg & Murray near the foot of Sth
street southwest.
The schooner Chas. n. Simmons has ar
rived at the Kennebec river to load a full
cargo Of ice for the American Ice Com
pany of this city.
The schooner Smith K. Martin, with q
cargo of fish scrap, is at Alexandria for the
Chemical and Fertilizing Company of that
place.
The schooner A. H. Travers Is at the
wharf Of Johnson & Wimsatt loading a
cargo of 10000 shingles for Havre de
Grace, Nd.
The steamer Dennis Simmons Is in port
from Edenton. n. c.. with cargo of
shingles and lumber for Frank Libbey & Co.
The schooner J. Manchester Haynes, la
den with LOSS tons of ice for this port
passed in the capes of Virginia yesterday
evening and is now on her way up the river
in tow of the tug NJ. M. Davis.
The schooner Francis M. with a cargo Of
soft coal sailed from Georgetown for Bos-
ton today.
The steamer Occoquan arrived in port
yesterday morning with a raft of pine pill
ing in tow and a deck load Of railway ties,
consigned to Carter & Clark. The railway
ties were discharged on the James Creek
canal.
The schooner Estelle Phnney has sailed
from Rockport, Me-. with a large cargo
of ice for the Mutual Ice Company of
Alexandria.
The schooner Samuel smoot is reported
in the river with a cargo Of coal or fertil-
izing material for Alexandria.
The three-masted schooner William Mar
shall has been taken from the wharf Of
Johnson & WimSatt to that Of T. r. Riley
foot Of N street, to finish unloading her
cargo of laths.
General News.
The rebuilding Of the cradle Of the ma
rine railway at Alexandria Is being pushed
as rapidly as possible but, as 1t was dam
aged much more than was at first sup
posed, the railway will not be ready for
service for three weeks or month.
The Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company will bring the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues from Old Point to this
city during the latter part of next week,
en- route to the Buffalo exposition. Early
n ha al apir INF ~
unteer Infantry, will also be brought by
the Norfolk line to this city on their way
to the exposition. Tonight they take the
Alexandria Light Infantry from that city
to Norfolk en- route to Ocean View.
The steamer Kent brought up twenty
hogsheads of tobacco and about 100 sacks