Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-09
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
HARBOR DREDGE At WORK ABOVE
LONG BRIDGE.
Channel to Be Deepened to Float the
Largest Boats on River
General News.

General News.
The big harbor dredge which is deepen
Ing the water in the river channels about
Washington is now at work in the George
town channel, above the Long bridge Two
long double rows of piling about 300 Yards
apart have been driven and on these rest
the shore end sections of the large dis
charge pipes through which the liquid mud
sucked up from the river bottom is forced
upon the part of the Potomac Park be-
tween the river and the bathing beach
basin. The land will be raised about seven
feet. and the water in the channel from the
bridge to Georgetown will be made deep
enough to float any vessel that can come
up the Potomac river
The receipts of herring at the fish wharf
were large again this morning, but the
catches of shad continue light and but
comparatively few of them will be packed
this season for winter use. Since yesterday
about 100000 herring and 800 shad have
been received by the dealers at the wharf
from the seine hauling shores in the river.
The market this morning was brisk and
prices were: For roe shad SlS to $50 per
hundred buck shad 50 to $40 per hundred;
herring, $15O to s.. 80 per thousand: boil
Ing rock. 121a to Is cents per pound; pan
rock 8 to 10 cents per pound white perch,
to 10 cents per pound; carp, cents
per pound; founder, cents per pound ;
sturgeon, cents per pound: Spanish mack
erel to 10 cents per pound; croaker, 81
per barrel; trout. 81 to s.. 80 per barrel and
catfish, cells. yellow perch and null cts from
10 to ~ cents per bunch.
oysters were selling at the 18th street
wharf this morning at from 40 to % cents
per bushel for the small stock and from
that up to 10 and 50 cents per bushel for
the larger oysters. The supply at the
wharf for sale was very small the three
in hnr uyvfn 1oSS ~ N
$50 bushels on hand. Since yesterday the
Madcap has arrived with 10000 clans from
the eastern shore.
Movements of the Craft.
The four-masted schooner Horace W.
Macomber has arrived at Alexandria from
Port Tampa with a cargo of about 1000
tons Of phosphate rock for the Alexandria
Chemical Company.
The bugeye Thompson is in port, laden
with cord wood for Carter & Clark
The steamer Charles Manchester made
special trip to Mount Vernon yesterday
evening to take down the board of regents,
who begin their annual session today.
The schooner Buelah Land has completed
the discharging of her cargo Of lumber at
H. K. Fields, Alexandria.
The bugeye Ella Lee has arrived at
Alexandria with a cargo of foundry iron
for Henry Bladder.
The schooner Fox is at Reardon's wharf,
Alexandria. loading general cargo for
river points
The schooner E. P Evans has sailed for
the lower river and will load back to this
port.
The four masted schooner Henry S. Lit
tie, with a cargo of about 1,4OO tons of Ice
from the Kennebec for the American Ice
Company, has arrived in port in tow Of
the tug Mitchell NJ. Davis. She has been
berthed at the 9th street ice wharf to dis
charge her cargo.
The two-masted schooner Charles Rohle
has discharged her cargo of lumber and has
sailed for Norfolk
The schooner BERTHE is in port with a
cargo of 10000 feet of Virginia pine lum-
Der from the Rappahannock for h. l.. Bis
The steamer northumberland. from Bal
timore and river landings. arrived in port
this morning with q heavy cargo.
The schooner Pansy, loaded with lumber
and building material has sailed from
Alexandria for Riverside Park Va, where
a number of new buildings are to be
erected.
The schooner r. n. Blundon has COM
pleted the unloading of cargo of lumber
and has sailed for the lower river to re-
load.
The schooner Sidney Jones is in port with
a full cargo of cord wood from a river
landing for Carter & Clark.
The Baltimore tug Favorite, with a load
ed barge in tow, went up to Georgetown
yesterday evening.
Matters of General Interest.
The pungy Willie Thomas, laden with
cord wood from the river, came into port
yesterday evening" and in trying to sail
into the James creek ran hard aground
upon the mud flats abreast of Buzzard
Point. AS it was about high water when
she struck, she remained aground several
hours before she was gotten off.
The work of building the Golfer dam
about the mouth of the, new sewer empty
ing into the Eastern branch is being push
ed. Already much Of the piling is in
position and the pumping out of the dam
will be begun shortly. The pipes at the
mouth of the sewer will be laid deep in the
bed of the branch.
The trials of the newly erected expert
mental boiler on the wharf of Forsburg Il
Murray near the foot of Sth street south
west, now going on and the roar of the
escaping steam from the safety valve can
be heard for squares around.
Several large batteaus, for fishing and
rowing parties. are being built at the boat
house at the foot of 7th street southwest.
The steamer Harry Randall, which went
into commission again this morning, has
her old crew aboard Capt. Jas. Barker is
In command, Capt. Theodore Heene, pilot;
Mr.. Charles kersey, engineer; Mr.. George
w. Guest, purser and Capt. Pink Hart,
mate.
The United States engineers steamer Jes-
samine arrived in port yesterday. After
inspecting the light house at Jones' Point
below Alexandria the steamer left on an
inspection tour among the light houses on
the Potomac river.
The Randall line steamer Wakefield has
been withdrawn from the lower river route
and has been laid up in the repair dock
for an overhauling. She will be off her
route for about ten days or two weeks,
during which time she will be painted and
decorated inside and outside, and will have
her boilers and machinery overhauled. The
steamer Randall is now on the route last
run by the Wakefield. When she goes into
commission again she will relieve the
steamer Arrowsmith.
The tug Martin Dalman Is employed In
towing clay-laden scows from the neigh
borhood of Broad creek to the brick-mak-
ing plants on the Eastern branch.
The new pile driver of Rogers Sons,
which has been employed on work in the
Eastern branch, was yesterday taken down
to Alexandria by the tug George W. Pride.
The tug ]. T. Selectman underwent her
annual inspection by the United States
steamboat inspectors yesterday. The ex-