Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-16
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
LARGE CARGoFOEsICE ABOARD THE
SCHOOMEHs COWARD.
The Fish Market ,auotatfons-Comins
and Going on yesseIs-Gen-
eralrNe ws.

The four-masted schooner L. H. Coward
which came into port yesterday with a
cargo of nearly.a SEQ tons of ice for the
American Ice Company, is one of the larg-
est and handsomeaks vessels that comes
up the Potomac She is fitted out with all
the modern labor-saying appliances, steam
wincnes, capstan annd pumps. Her after
cabin is beautifully fitted and forward are
the mems quarters. galley and engine
room, all light, airy and comfortable. The
Coward was built in 1895 at Bath, Me-,
and at that port she is owned She Is 20515
feet long and draws nearly twenty-five
feet of water.
A new visitor to this port is the large
bugeye Margaret Travers, which brought
large load of vatermelons from the east
ern snore OF Maryland She is new boat,
having been built ut Salisbury, Md, this
summer, and is the largest vessel OF her
, Ktna on the Chesapeake bay or ITS IT'D
utar1es. She will carry about 1000 bushels
OF oysters She is owned by Capt Wm
Travers. her commander. This class OF
vessel the bugeye. is rapidly replacing the
old-time square-san schooner in the bay
and river traffic.
The supply of salt water fish from the
nsherfes about Norfolk was not large this
morning, the dealers at the, 11th street
Wharf hsh market having received about
The demand was good and prices We're:
Gray trout, 81 to So per barrel; butter fish,
% to - per barrel; croaker, So per barrel;
spot, 80 to SO per barrel; blue fish, 3 IL to
&c. per pound; mackerel, IL to lac. per
pound; sea bass. &C. per pound; rock. boil
ing. 10 to IL 1-2c. per pound; rock, pan, )
to &C. per pound; white perch. to 12c. per
pound; sturgeon, to 1Oc. per pound; cat
nsh, 70 to Doc. per- bunch; cells; 25 to Soc.
per bunch; porgies. Is to zoe. each; drum,
70 to soc. each, and carp, 10 to 25c each.
Hard crabs are selling at 81 to $1.25 per
barrel, according to SIZE
The demand for watermelOns at the OyS-
ter wharf this morning was quite heavy,
but the supply in hand is ample to meet
all demands. Prices this morning were:
Selects $13 to SIS; primes, So to So, and
cuils, So to 81 per hundred.
OF General Interest.
The schooner Magnolia has sailed from
Baltimore for this port via Norfolk.
The two-masted schooner William Dan
iels yesterday loaded a cargo Of lumber
and building material at H. X. Field 8
wharf at Alexandria for Matthias Point.
In coming out from the wharf she ran
aground on bar near the entrance to the
dock and lay there for several hours.
The hull of the schooner Kate Muller,
now on the railway at Benefits boat yard,
is being thoroughly rebuilt. All the I'M
sound planking is being removed and re-
placed with new wood, and she will be
caulked from stem to stern.
The schooner Edward E. Briery has been
chartered to lead ice on the kennebec for
this port for the American Ice Company.
She is now at Boston.
The tug Mitchell M. Davis will go by the
all-sea route to, Portsmouth, N. H., the
original program having been changed.
There are now in Aqua creek and Deco
guam bay, Virginia. two OF three large
scows loading railway ties and poplar wood
for the Philadelphia market.
n Il
the Smiths Point shoals, where she will
engage in work for,the United States engl-
neers connected with the deepening of the
water over the bars off Somerset Beach.
The tug Mohler Of Georgetown is hauled
out on the marine railway at the Alexan-
dria shipyard for repair work to her hull.
HandIerssrof Freight.
The schooner Malcolm B. Seavey, with
a cargo Of phosphate rock from Florida,
arrived at Alexandria this morning in tow
of the tug Camilla
The schooner Young Brothers, which I'M
loaded cargo of ice here. has gone to Bal
tinlore. and win load soft coal there for a
New England port saz
The two-masted. schooner Isabelle A.
Moore has arrived in port with a cargo Of
Virginia pine lumber from the Rappahan-
mock for T. r. Riley.
The three-masted schooner Lavinia
Campbell, with cargo of about 200 tons
of soft coal from the WtnShip- Meredith
piers at Georgetown, sailed yesterday in
tow of the tug VIM H. Yerkes, jr., en-
route to Boston.
The schooner Nelly BLY, sailed yesterday
evening for the Rappahannock river.
The schooner Agnes E. Manson, having
completed the unloading of her cargo of
ice has sailed for Newport News, and will
there load a cargo of soft coal for New
England port
The bugeye Silver Spray. laden with
wheat from Alexandria, arrived at George
town last night for the mills there.
The barge Jackson has been taken to
Aqua creek and will load cordwood back
to this market for the dealers.
The schooner Fannie has sailed light
from Georgetown for a river point and will
load white sand back to this port
The tug Spray, with a scow laden with
bricks in tow, came into port yesterday
evening.
The schooner Dagger, with a full cargo
Of sand, is lying IN the channel off Alex
andria for orders.
The steamer Lily and Howard was at
Alexandria yesterday evening loading a
cargo of general stores for Aqua creek
points.
The barge Meyers, having unloaded her
cargo of coal, has sailed in tow of a tug