Evening star., 1901-10-15
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
sUNKEN SCHOONER TO BE SOLD AND
WRECKED.
Contract Placed for Construction of
Steam Pile Driver-General
Port News.

Port News.
| The two-masted schooner Anna Marts,
| which lies sunken in Nomini creek near
the ferry wharf, is being stripped Of her
sails and other movable articles and will,
it is understood, be sold where she lies, to
be wrecked She is owned by parties In
Baltimore and was a frequent visitor to
this port with cargoes of lumber and cord
wood from river points The Marts regis
ters forty-eight gross and thirty-one net
tons and is 76 feet long. 20 feet wide and
SO feet deep. She was built at Milivale.
N. j., In 1874, but has been in the Potomac
and Chesapeake bay trade for several years.
The schooner had gone into Nomini creek
to load cord wood for this port and the
night of September she sprang aieak and
sank at her moorings in about twelve feet
of water.
Messrs Carter & Clark of this city have
placed a contract with Mr.. Edward Dean
of Alexandria for the building of hull and
house for steam pile driver, to pc USED
about the wharves and docks of the city
and on the river. The new driver will be
fitted with the boiler and machinery now
in pile driver purchased by Messrs. Car
ter & Clark from the estate of the late
W. H Winston of Alexandria and which is
lying at the shipyard in Alexandria Ma
terial for the new machine is now being
made ready ana Work Will De oeSun III
about two weeks
Prices at the fish wharf market this
morning ranged as follows: For large trout,
Sc. per pound; bluefish or tailorS, ) to &c.
per pound; black bass, SC. per pound; me-
dium rock, 8 to 10c. per pound; pan rock.
5 to &c. per pound; boiling rock 121ac per
pound; croakers, &c. per pound; sturgeon,
Sc. per pound; white perch, to 1Oc. per
pound, or 10 to 25c. per bunch; eels, 10 to
25 cents per bunch; catfish. 10 to CSC. per
bunch; carp, 21ac. per pound, or 25c. each;
gray trout, 50. 80 to So per barrel, and but
terfish, So to "a per barrel.
A fleet of oySter-laden craft has arrived
at the oyster wharf, foot of 11th street,
from the Potomac oyster beds, and the sup
ply Is again large. Prices this morning
were about usual, the small oysters sell
ing at 10 to Doc per bushel and the large
ones at 60 to 75c. per bushel.
The Passing Craft.
The steamer E. James Tull arrived here
Saturday with a cargo Of $4,000 feet of
| pine lumber from Aqua creek, Va, for
Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner c. C. Wheeler, with a cargo
of 6,OOO feet of lumber from the Kappa
hammock, has arrived in port for Johnson
! &. Wimsatt.
The barge ]. A. O'Brien has arrived at
| Alexandria, with cargo of fertilizer from
Norfolk for Herbert Bryant.
The Lucille Western has loaded cargo
of store supplies at Alexandria and has
| sailed
The schooner Oakland is in port with a
| full cargo Of cord wood for the local deal
ers.
The Sidney Jones has sailed for river
port and will, 1t is stated load pine lum-
Der for the dealers here.
The schooner Mary Francis, with a cargo
of lumber from J. r. Smoot & Co., at Alex
andria has sailed for Coles point, in Lower
Machodoc creek.
The barge Bradley T. Johnson with a
cargo of building material, has sailed from
Alexandria for points on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal
The schooner Leroy is at the wharf at
Fort Washington unloading cargo of cord
wood for Carter & Clark.
The Lily May has sailed for the lower
river with lumber from this city and
general cargo from Alexandria.
The schooner ]. P. Robinson is at the
wharf of VIM. A. Smoot & Co. at AleXan-
dia loading a miscellaneous cargo for Up
per Machodoc creek.
The schooner Isaac Solomon, loaded with
| fertilizer from Alexandra. sailed today for
| tn. vicinity of Gymont Md a.
| The Shining Light has arrived at Alex
apdria with a cargo Of oysters for the deal
| ers there.
| The schooner A. s. Woolley Is Il the
| dria, with cargo of boxes OF canned to-
| matoes from the eastern shore for the
| dealers.
| the large ram schooner Grace G. Ben
! nett, laden with about 10000 feet Of North
| Carolina pine lumber, has arrived in port
! from Newbern for johnson & Wimsatt. She
| Is at the wharf, foot of 18th street south
| west.
The little two-masted schooner Eugie has
arrived in port with full cargo of Vir-
| ginia pine lumber.
| The schooner Clara ]. Coward Is in port
! with full cargo of cord wood from the
lower Potomac for Carter & Clark.
The schooner Cherubim Is at the wharf
| of T. R. Riley foot of o street southwest
/ fo lota he nf of
| North Carolina lumber.
The longboat Mary A. Shea has arrived in
| port with a large cargo of cord wood for
| Carter & Clark.
| General Port News.
Capt Gibson of the schooner Dave
Sheetz who is fishing in Occoquan bay,
came to Alexandria Saturday with eighteen
| punches of fine rock fish and bass which
he had taken in his nets during the pre-
| vious night.
The steamer E. James Tull, after dis
| charging her cargo Of pine lumber here,
loaded a general cargo at Alexandria and
| sailed.
| The schooner c. c. Wheeler is unloading
a cargo of pine lumber at the wharf of 7.
r. Riley, foot of street southwest
The barge John 1. Brady has been taken
| to Piscataway creek and will load poplar
| logs for Philadelphia.
The tWo-maSted schooner Ella Hill has
| unloaded a cargo of lumber and has sailed
for Virginia lumber port to reload.
The schooner Cherubim has sailed for
Farnhams creek. Virginia, and will load a
full cargo Of railway ties. for Queenstown.
The tug Camilla, with a barge laden
with coal for the dredge Pugh in tow, sailed
Saturday night for the Maryland Point
| shoals.
The steam launch Bartholdi, with a
pleasure party aboard, made trip on the
| river to Gunston and Glymont Saturday.
| The southerly winds of Saturday and
| Sunday brought large fleet of oyster
| laden craft into port, the arrivals being the
| r. H. Stuart Mary and Rebecca, w H.
| Bixler. Shining Light, E. P. Evans, Elenora
| Russell and Fair American.
The rebuilding of the wharf at Liverpool
Point has been completed and the landing
is now in good order for boats in all con-
ditions Of the weather. The work was
done by one Of Banks pile drivers from
this city.
The large pile-driver of Mr. VIM. Banks
| is being used to rebuild the wharf in
| Georgetown. near the Aqueduct bridge,
| known as the gas house wharf
The schooner James Bryce, laden with
/ railway ties from Alexandria for Boston.