Evening star., 1901-05-25
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
LIGHT HOUSE TENDER ARMENIA
ANCHORED OFF ALEXANDRIA,.
The Largest Vessel In That Service
Small Supply of Fish in
Market.

The United States light house tender Ar
meria, the largest vessel in the light house
establishment. anchored in the river OFF
| Alexandria yesterday evening. The Arme-
| ria has been making an inspection tour Of
| the light stations on the Atlantic coast, in
| cluding those in Chesapeake bay and the
| Potomac river. Yesterday the station at
| Jones' Point was visited and inspected.
| The ship visits this port about once in
| every three years. She was built at Cam
| den, N. j.. in 1890, and is 203 feet long,
| thirtyfour feet seven inches beam. sixteen
feet two inches depth of hold and Is driven
| oy LOO horsepower engine. She regis
ters 1052 tons burden. nearly twice the
| tonnage Of any other of the vessels in the
| light house service.
1t is understood the statement that there
We're several piles left at the mouth of the
Eastern branch hidden under the water. is
to be investigated, and If the piles are
located the matter will be brought to the
attention of the United States engineer in
Charge Of the harbor work and the nils q
will be pulled up.
The supply of fish Of all varieties at the
fish market at the 18th street wharf this
morning was small. but about thirty nine
packages having been brought up on the
Norfolk boat from the fisheries about Vir-
ginia Beach and Old Point and twenty-five
coming up on the river boats. No herring
and only about 100 shad have been received
this morning was brisk and prices were:
Roe shad. s2o to $50 per hundred; speckled
trout, cents per pound; rock 10 to 15
cents per pound; white perch. to 10 cents
per pound founders, to cents DER
pound; butterfish, 3 to 6 cents per
pound: blue fish, to 10 cents per pound:
sturgeon. Z cents per pound: gray trout, 81
to ~ per barrel: carp, 10 cents each: eels
and catfish 10 to Is cents per bunch: yellow
perch 10 cents per bunch.
Moyemeufs nf vasso,~
The schooner Annie T. Bailey, now at this
port, has been chartered to load coal at
Baltimore for Savannah
The tug Emma. with two coal-laden
barges for this port. sailed from Chesa-
peake City yesterday.
Barge No. 10 was this morning taken
around to Georgetown to load coal at the
Winship- Meredith piers for New England
port.
| The schooner Henry L. Peckham, now
discharging a cargo of ice at the 10th street
| wharf of the American Ice Company has
| been chartered to load coal at GEORGETOWN
| for Boston.
The tug Eugenia Is at Alexandria having
some minor repair work done to her ma
| chinery.
| The schooner Maggie and Elizabeth is
| laid up at Benefits boat yard for an over
| hauling.
| The bugeye George B. Faunce. with 4
| cargo Of cordwood Is anchored off the foot
| of 9th street. r
On her last trip from this port the steam
| er Northumberland was detained for sew
| eral hours at Alexandria by derangement
/ Of some of her machinery.
The schooner Chas. H. Gibson has sailed
| for the James river for this port with a
| cargo Of lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt
The schooner Cunningham has arrived in
| port with the cargo Of lumber from the
| wrecked longboat Five Sisters, for Johnson
Il WimSatt
The schooner Clara J,aonard hoe nam,
| pleted unloading her cargo Of wood and
| has sailed for the lower river to reload
The steam yacht Giavota returned from
q cruise on the river yesterday afternoon.
The steamer Dennis Simmons having
completed the unloading of her cago of
North Carolina lumber. has sailed for Eden
| ton to reload. ~-
The schooner Earl Biscoe arrived in port
| yesterday afternoon with a full cargo Of
cordwood for the local dealers.
The four-masted schooner Lydia NJ. Deer
! ing sailed from the kennebec for this port
May p. with cargo of 1.547 tons Of ice for
| the American Ice Company.
| The Lotte Carter, Addie, Silver Star, G.
| j. Thompson are in the river bound to
| this port with cordwood for Carter & Clark
The schooner Fannie is in port with a
| cargo of white sand for Frank Evans She
| will unload at the wharf. foot of 11th street
The steamer Harry Randall last night
| brought up from the lower river landings
| about thirty hogsheads of tobacco Cor ship
ment to the tobacco houses in BALTIMORE
Matters of General Interest
| The longboat Five Sisters was gotten off
| the piles above Alexandria yesterday even
ing and was towed by the tug George W.
| Pride to the Alexandria marine railway to
i be hauled out A hurried examination made
! of her yesterday afternoon shows that the
| damage done her is not as great as was
| first supposed. and her owner, Capt Wesley
| Davis may have her rebuilt.
The little schooner W. II. H. Bixler. COM
| ing up the river in the fog early yesterday
| morning with a cargo of lumber for this
! city, went ashore the flats near the
naval magazine and remained aground for
several hours. The rising tide fioated her
about 1 o'clock, and she came up to this
| city.
| The bay schooner Maid-of-the- Mist has
been sold by George Matthews to Struyen
u Walker Of Baltimore. The schooner is
| about sixty tons burden and Is well known
at this port. Her new owners will con-
tfnue her in the bay and river trade.
completed and will shortly sail for New
London. Conn.,, where she will summer.
The current is still running in the river
| and Is causing sail vessels considerable
trouble In making headway against 1t. 1t
| Is feared the volume of muddy water now
coming down will drive away the few
shad remaining in the upper river The
current had extended as far down as
Indian Head yesterday afternoon.
The observatory station at Cape Henry
Chesapeake bay, Is to be enlarged and i'm
proved.
MIR. James Nash, one Of the best-known
steamboat engineers on the Potomac left
today for New Mexico for the benefit Of
BOyd'x and Vicinity.
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