Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-01
LADIES' GOODS.
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
THE STEAM YACHT GRETCHEN TO
BE LENGTHENED.
Increase in the Fish md Oyster Sup
ply-The Passing Craft
General Items.

General Items.
The boiler engine and all the interior
fittings Of the handsome little steam yacht
Gretchen, belonging to ex-Representative
Reyburn of this city, are being removed at
the old wharf of the Glymont line, prepara-
tory to taking the boat to Alexandria,
where she will be cut in half and be made
twelve feet longer. The work will be done
at the Alexandria marine railway yard, I'M
der the supervision of the New York firm
that built the Gretchen. When completed
the boat will be the largest steam yacht
owned on the Potomac river, being eighty
seven feet long and fourteen feet beam.
She will be ready for service by the middle
of May or 1st of June.
Twelve or fourteen vessels were lying at
the oyster wharf this morning with car
goes of oysters on board, aggregating in
all about 5000 bushels, supply ample
enough to last several days. The near ap-
proach of the inauguration has forced up
the price of oysters. the smaller and inferior
grades selling at from 20 to 75c. per BUSH
Ell and the better grades bringing as high
as 81 % per bushel. The market this morn
ing was fairly brisk, wagons loading from
many of the vessels The recent arrivals
are the bugeye Agnes the schooner w. II.
H. Bixler, the sloop Lena, the Joseph
Cleveland, Zephyr, Geo. H. Bunker, Edith
Muir Centennial and s. S. Smith, all from
river points and the Hall, Gen. Jos. Seth
and the John Smith. from the Rappanock.
The river steamers and the Norfolk line
steamers brought up a large number of
oysters in barrels for the local dealers.
There was more ample supply of fish
at the 18th street wharf market this morn
ing the river steamers bringing up about
four barrels of fish from the lower river.
the Norfolk line steamers having on board
twenty-five packages from the shores about
Norfolk and three boxes of frozen fish
coming from the shores on the Jersey coast
and about New York.
The market was fairly well attended and
sales were quite brisk, prices being about
the same as the early part of the week
with few exceptions. Shad and bunch fsh
were offered for sale today for the first
time this week. Prices this morning were:
For yellow perch, - to 20 cents per bunch;
white perch, 10 to 30 cents per bunch, or
49, cents per pound; catfish, 20 to % cents
per bunch; carp, cents per pound; pike,
10 cents per pound: rock, 10 to 20 cents
per pound haddock, cents per pound
Jumping mulets, cents per pound; blue
pike, cents per pound; frozen trout, 61a
cents per pound; salmon trout, 10 cents per
pound; roe shad, 81 each: buck shad, 90
cents each. and herring. cents each.
Plying the Waters.
The work Of overhauling the boiler of the
steamer Lily and Howard has been COM
pleted, and she has sailed with cargo of
grain and miscellaneous supplies for Deco
guam.
The tug Camilla has gone to the lower
Potomac with a tow of light oyster boats.
The schooner John F. Krantz. from this
port has arrived at Baltimore to load coal
for southern port.
The tug NJ NJ Davis has arrived in port,
81, 10
derson, with cargo of lumber for johnson
& WimSatt
The E. p Evans Winnie Windsor, Lottie
Thomas, ]. ]. Underhill and Addie have
gone to the oyster beds on the lower river
to load back to this port.
Steam has been gotten In the boilers
Of the steamer Sam'l J. Pentz, preparatory
for service during the Inauguration week.
The barges Jos. Cleaver, Chesapeake and
r. T. Mclean have sailed for Norfolk for
q cargo.
The three-masted schooner Jennie c.
May, with a cargo of about 900 tons of ice
from the Maine Ice fields for the Home Ice
Company of Alexandria, has arrived at
that port.
The steamer Estelle Randall is taking to
Fort Washington large quantity of lum-
Der for use in the new building operations
there.
The pungy James Beach has completed
the discharging of her cargo of oysters at
Alexandria, and will sail for the lower
The schooner Dexter has arrived with a
cargo Of lumber from the lower river. She
was locked at Smiths lumber yard In the
Eastern branch.
The bugeye Agnes sailed into port We'd
nesday evening with a cargo Of oysters:
She Is the only vessel to arrive under sail
for several weeks past
The pungy Ella Hill has arrived at Alex
andria from the oyster grounds In the
Blackistone's Island neighborhood with a
cargo Of tie bivalves for the dealers there
The Baltimore tug Peerless, with the
light coal barges Columbia and Carolina IN
tow, has sailed for Philadelphia, where the
barges will reload.
The schooner Sidonia Curley is in port
with cargo of about 10000 feet or Vlr-
ginia pine lumber from Wakefield for Major
H. L. Biscoe. She Is discharging cargo In
the Eastern branch. She arrived In tow OF
the tug Juno.
The revenue cutter Window has-returned
to Baltimore from cruise in the bay.
During one of the recent heavy gales the
Window discovered the schooner Chesa-
peake. with her manmast gone and sails
blown away, drifting helplessly about near
the mouth Of the Piankitank river. She
was towed to a safe harbor
The schooner Flying Scud has sailed from
Baltimore with a cargo OF lumber lot tne
naval proving grounds at Indian head. Mo Mo
The schooner L. E. Williams has sailed
from Baltimore for the Coan river to load
lumber.
General Matters.
So large will be the throng coming from
the neighborhood OF Norfolk and Old Point
to see the inaugural ceremonies that all
the state rooms of the Norfolk and Wash
ington line steamers have been engaged for
several days before the 4th. 1t Is stated
that large party from that neighborhood
have also chartered special steamer to
bring them here. The managers of the
river line steamers are also anticipating
a very large, crowd on the trips Saturday
and Sunday next, and are making special
preparations for handling them.
The large seine boat which Edward
Deane Is building at Alexandria for Capt.
Waller of the. Wide Water fishing shore in
Stafford county, Va, lis now nearly IT ady
for delivery. ~. III
The Potomac Is again practically free
from Ice, though the eastern side of the
river is still filled with broken cakes. which
have been blown in ard. packed there. The
river Staa DRrS SeYaral inches of