Evening star., 1901-08-08
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
ORPHAN CHILDREN GIVEN AN OUT
ING AT RIvTF VIEW.
Sand Diegers at work Above Long
Bridge-Ffsh Market QuOtations-
The Freight Handlers.


According to their annual custom. the
managers Of the River View excursions
will this year give the various orphan
asylums of the District an outing there
during the month ofr>AugAst. Yesterday
about fifty of the girls ffoM the st. Rose
Industrial School, in charge of the sisters,
made the trip to the View on the steamer
Pentz. They spent the day on the grounds,
riding the chute, taking trips on the Little
River and enjoying themselves otherwise.
They returned home on the o'clock boat.
During the next three weeks the children
from the other asylums IN the city are ex-
pected to be the guests OF the company.
One of the large sand diggers of the CO.
lumbia Sand Dredging Company, which has
been operating between Motley Hall and
Fort Foote for several weeks, was yester-
day brought up by the tug J. I. Seiectman
and taken to point above the Long bridge
for work. The quality of sand being taken
from the river above the bridge is said to
be excellent and several machines are at
work there. These machines are so con-
structed that the sand ana gravel are sep
arated by the use of large sieves and go
into separate receptactes. The sand dig
ging industry gives employment TO Seyeru
hundred men.
The fish market at the 11th street
wharves this morning was fairly well sup
piled with salt water fish from the fisheries
the stock Of river fish was small. The mar
ket was well attended and the demand was
good Prices this morning We're: For trout,
S. to So per barrel; butter fish. s. to $6 per
barrel; bluefish, &c. per pound; rock, pan.
6 to 1Oc. per pound; rock. boiling, 10 to
121kc per pound; white perch, 5 to 15c. per
pound; sturgeon. to 1Oc. per pound; sea
bass, to &c. per pound; cathsn' ~ TO 5Oc
per bunch; eels, 25 to SOC. per bunch; por-
giles, Is to Csc. each; drum, 2o to 30c. each;
and carp 15 to 25c. each. Hard crabs find
ready sale, and are selling today at 81 to
$3.50 per barrel, according to size and
quality.
Watermelons are still plentiful at the
oyster wharf, and the demand for them
continues to grow larger each day. In
week or ten days, when the homegrown
melons are plentiful. the market will be in
full tide. This morning selected melons
were selling at $16 to $50 per hundred; |;
primes, IS to $12 per hundred, and culls, s.
to IS. There were at the Wharf this morn
ing about 10000 melons In six vessels.
The Passing Vessels.
The big schooners Independent and
Charles Noble Simmons sailed today for
Baltimore and will load soft coal for east
ern ports.
The large four-masted schooner R. and
T. Stargraves which was one Of the first
ice-laden vessels to arrive in port during
the recent scarcity of ice, sailed yesterday
from Georgetown with a. cargo OF nearly
1900 tons Of Cumberland coal for an east
ern port.
The barge York which arrived at Alex
andria yesterday, brought a cargo of about
400 tons Of fertilizing material to the Alex
andria Chemical and Ferthizing Company.
The tugs NJ. M. Davis and VIM. H.
Yerkes, jr., of this city are both at the
capes, on the lookout for Ice and asphalt
laden vessels bound here. 4"
The schooner Daylight has sailed for
Newport News, and will there load soft
fnr nd
The twO-masted schooner Thomas c.
Eaton has arrived at the wharf foot Of o
street southwest, with pa cargo Of plaster
for the Keystone Plaster Company.
The Charles F. Rohelt has, left this port
for Norfolk, and will load lumber for the
dealers here.
The schooner ]. B. Anderson has COM
pleted the unloading of her cargo of plas-
The Westmoreland aT3 Nayahoe, having
finished discharging their cargoes of water
melons. have sailed foro the, eastern Shore
and will load back to this port.
The schooner Sidonia Curley has come up
from Alexandria to finish discharging her
cargo of shingles and laths for H. L. Bis
coe. "
The schooner John r. Reese came into
port last night with a cargo of Virginia
pine lumber for the dealers here.
The bugeye Seabright will soon sail for
lower river point, and will load a cargo OF
lumber for this market.
The schooner Mary A. Shea, with q small
cargo Of general stores from this city, has
sailed for lower river point.
The little schooner w. H. H. Bixler
which Is now owned here, sailed yesterday
evening for point on the lower river
The two-maSted schooner William Dom
nelly has sailed for Norfolk, and will load
lumber for this port.
General Matters.
The old steamer Mary Washington. one
Of the pioneer excursion boats on the Po-
tomac river. has found resting place in
Four Mile run. not far from the Washing
ton. Alexandria and Mount Vernon railway
power house. The machinery. has been
taken from the hull and she Is slowly be-
Ing broken up by the wind and tides and
by human agency well. In hSr day the
Mary Washington was the most popular ex-
cursion boat on the river. and thousands
have spent pleasant days on her decks.
The harbor dredge has shifted its base Of
operations to point about 200 yards to the
west of the Long BRIDGE and is pumping
mud from the river bottom upon the re-
claimed flats west of the bridge.
The twenty-fOurth annual session Of the
Marvin Grove camp meeting is now going
on In WestmoreSand county, Va. and is be-
ing attended by a number of persons from
this city and Alexandria.
Nearly all the delegates from the coun-
ties in the eighth district Of Virginia to the
democratic state convention at Norfolk on
Monday next viii go to that city on the
leaving here Saturday and Sunday nights.
The delegation will number over 100 per-
sons.
The tugs Juno and Eva Belle Cain are
still laid up at the Alexandria ship yard
and, 1t is stated, Will be out Of commission
until the fishing season opens in the early
spring.
The schooner Alice j. French, with a
cargo of Ice for this port, is expected to
arrive at the capes Of the Chesapeake with
in the next day or two.
A number Of vessels are under charter to
load phosphate rock at a Florida port for
the fertilizer manufacturing companies Of
Alexandria. The large four-masted schoon-
er Malcolm B. Seavey, with cargo OF
about 1.SOO tons of this rock, Is now at sea
bound for the Potomac. Her cargo is con-
signed to the Alexandria Chemical and Fer
tilizer Company.
The large floating derrick of Littlef1eld,
Alvord & Co. has been taken to Alexandria
and will there be used to unload several
barges laden with coal and other products.
The schooner Kate &sHHl}er has been
hauled out on the maj 3H way at Ben
nett's boat yard and with ALPHABETICALLY re-
built before being put OVERHEARD.
The schooners Estelle PhfnEey and Jessie
Burt. from this port, ha&e arrived at New
port News, under charter tosload coal for a
New England port. 7S
Large quantities of wheat are being