Evening star., 1901-05-21
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
FISH COMMISSION TAKES CHARGE OF
YACHT PHILAROPE.
To BE Used in Making Investigations
The Passing Crnft-The
HarbOr DredSe.


The yacht is now berthed at the Motley
Hall wharf. The Philarope is a hand
some little steamer, So feet long. 16 feet
wide and I feet inches deep. She regis
ters 80 tons gross and was built in East
Boston, Mass. in 1881. She formerly bore
the name of the Adelita. crew from the
force of Captain Heron at Bryan's Point
Is in charge of the boat. which will be
used in the Investigations of the fish COM
mission on the river and bay.
The bad weather has prevented the few
gillers still drifting nets in the river from
working their nets. and since yesterday no
shad or herring have been received at the
fish wharf from boats. The down river
steamers brought up a small number. and
few barrels of bunch fish were received
from Norfolk. The market this morning
was but fair. and prices were: For trout,
SIS to $3.50 per barrel: carp, 10 cents
each; roe shad SIS to $40 per hundred
buck shad. 81 to $40 per hundred; herring.
81 per thousand; rock, 10 to Is cents per
pound; white perch. to II cents per bunch;
founders, cents per pound: butterfish, 3
to , cents per pound: bluefish. 8 to 10
cents per pound: sturgeon, I cents per
pound. and eels, catfish and yellow perch,
10 to IL cents per bunch.
There were sale at the oyster wharf,
foot of 1lth street, this morning less than
fifty bushels of oysters in one small YES
sell The demand for them was light and
the few sold brought from 10 to 30 cents
per bushel. The oyster wharf is now
covered with lumber, and is not the busy
place it was a few days ago.
Movement Of Vessels.
The schooner Mary is reported in the
river bound to this port with a cargo Of
lumber for Ryland & Brooks
The schooner E. V. Scribner has been
chartered by johnson & Wimsatt to load
The steamer r. Jos. Tull arrived yeSter-
day with large cargo of railway ties for
the dealers of this city. The Tull also
brought to Alexandria two barges laden
with ties from Chickamuxen creek for the
Pennsylvania Railway Company.
The schooner Fox is at the wharf of H.
X. Field. Alexandria. loading a general car
go. In trying to get into the wharf the
Fox ran aground and remained ashore sew
eral hours.
The schooner Horace w. Macomber. now
lying at Alexandria, will complete unload
ing today and will sail for Baltimore.
The schooner Holland is In port with a
full cargo of wood for Carter & Clark.
The tug j. S. HoSkips has arrived in
port with a tow of four barges laden with
hard coal. one for Alexandria and the
others for this port.
The Peri has sailed for river point and
win load a full cargo of Cordwood back to
this port.
The schooner Curlew, with a cargo of
lumber. is in port. from a Virginia lumber
point. for Johnson Wimsatt.
The Matte A. WalstOn has unl0aded her
cargo of foundry iron at Alexandria, and
has sailed for Colonial Beach.
The steamer SAe will make her last trip
from this port this evening. Her place on
the Baltimore route will be taken by the
Potomac.
The schooner Sidona Curley has arrived
in port, with cargo of about 10000 feet
of pine boards from Petersburg, Va, for
II. l.. Biscoe.
The three-masted schooner Mary Sanford
having completed the unloading of her car
go of lumber, has sailed, in tow of a tug,
for Baltimore.
The bugeye Ada Ballenger is laid up at
Alexandria for an OVerhauling preparatory
to the opening of the watermelon season.
The bugeye George B. Faunce is in port
with a cargo of cordwood from the Gly-
mont neighborhood for Carter & Clark.
Items of General Interest.
pungy whose name cannot be ascer-
tanned ran ashore on the mud flats on Per-
simmon Point. near Cedar Point, about
week ago, and after unavailing efforts
were made to float her she was yesterday
stripped Of her sails and furniture and Is
now being torn to pieces
The crew of the harbor dredge are busjly
engaged in running line of pipe on
row of piles with It's shore end under the
Long bridge. Through this line of pipe
the liquid mud will be pumped into the
ponds to the eastward of the bridge The
digging out of the Georgetown channel Is
progressing rapidly.
The bringing of ice from the Maine ice
fields to this city in barges is something
new here, and the barge No. TO- now dis
charging, is the first one to come to this
port She was brought the entire distance
by tugs, and when unloaded will go to Bal
timore or Norfolk for cargo Of coal bound
north.
The shipping of oyster shells from this
city to points the lower river where
they planted In the oyster grounds for
the oysters to grow on, is a new thing.
The bugeye Merle has loaded and the /.
x l.. and the Marion are loading cargoes
OF shells at the 11th street wharf and will
sail with them today. Oystermen say that
shells are scarce and hard to get on the
lower river and are being brought from
Baltimore
The new smoke stack Of the steamer
Charles Manchester has been painted a
silver white. 1t Is the only stack so COL
ored on the river.
The work on the steam yacht Diana at
the Alexandria shipyard is progressing
rapidly and the yacht will be launched In a
few days.
The work Of overha uling the steamer T.
V. Arrowsmth is being pushed in order to
get her ready for a trip to Colonial Beach
on Decoration day.
Two large bargeS laden with lumber for
the new buildings at Fort Washingt on
have been sent from Alexandria to the
fort in the last three days.
The yacht Greyhound is hauled out at
the Randall line wharf, being painted and
decorated for the summer season. 1t is
understood she will be one of the contest
ants In the Decoration day races of the
Capital Yacht Club
Capt, James McCracken will be first Of
ficer and Mr.. Jack White engineer Of the
steamer River Queen during the summer
Miss Josie Brent. owner of Brents wharf
in Port Tobacco creek, came up on the
steamer Harry Randall yesterday evening
on visit to friends in this city
Mr.. Ernest German. chief engineer of the
steamer Arrowsmith, is in charge of the
engine and boiler work being done to his
boat.