Evening star., 1901-03-18
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
GOOD WORK DONE BY DREDGE IN
POTOMAC CHANNEL.
Business Brisk at Fish and Oyster
Wharves-The Passing Craft
General and Personal.

now working upon the harbor improve
ments reports the work done to be excel
lent, and the quantity of mud excavated
| in twenty-four hours is largely in excess
of what was expected. The dredge Is
now nearly at the end of the first cut to
be made in the lower channel, and, it Is
expected she will finish 1t by the middle
of this week. n
Business was brisk at the fish wharf
this morning, and the bidding for fish at
the auctions was spirited. The supply,
while not over large, was ample, and the
varieties, were more numerous than they
have been for several days. Prices this
morning were: For roe Shad 40 to 40 cents
each; buck shad, % to 80 cents each; pan
rock, to 10 cents per pound; boiling rock,
10 cents per pound; white perch, TO
cents per pound; jumping mullets and
croaker, cents per pound; founder, .
cents per pound; yellow perch, . to- ~
cents per pound; river ,mullets, 10 cents
per bunch; catfish, to 15 cents per bunch;
herring, 81. so to $1.75 per hundred.
The supply of oysters at the wharf this
morning was quite small, though the market
looked brisk and a number OF wagons were
loading for the uptown dealers. Prices to-
day are ranging in price from 40 cents to
80 cents per bushel for the smaller oysters
up to 80 cents for the finer stock.
The schooner A. H. Quinby, with cargo
of Virginia pine lumber from the Coan river,
for l.. H. Biscoe, Is in port.
The schooner James A. Garfield has sailed
from port to load a cargo of cord wood
The E. r. S. Dougherty has sailed for the
lower river to load oysters back to this port
The schooner Alexena has gone to Alex
andria to discharge her cargo of Virginia
TT The Isaac Solomon and John P Robinson
have arrived in port with cargoes OF cord
wood for Messrs. Carter & Clark.
The schooner Nettie is discharging her
cargo of lumber at Thos. R. Riley's wharf
foot of n street southwest.
The schooners Leroy ana j. II. DIXON
having completed the unloading of their
cargoes of cord wood at Carter & Clark
have sailed for the lower river to reload.
The Kathleen has sailed for the neighbor-
hood of Blackistone's Island and will load
oysters back to this market.
The longboat Five Sisters has arrived In
the James creek canal with a cargo of cord
wood
The steamer Dennis Simmons having
completed the unloading of her cargo of
lumber has sailed for Edenton, N. C., TO
load lumber for this port or Baltimore
The schooner E. P. Evans having dis
charged her cargo of oysters has gone to
the BlackiStone'S Island nelghborhood TO
reload back to this port.
The steamer Lilly and Howard is in port
with a cargo of Virginia pine lumber from
Auuia creek for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner John Francis is in Ches-
apeake bay bound to Colonial Beach to dis
charge a cargo of ice.
| stream off Alexandria and will shortly
leave for Norfolk.
The tug Stella, from this port, has ar
rived at Baltimore with light oil barge
in tow.
The large steam launch Diana, lying at
the old wharf of the steamer Mattano, Is
being overhauled preparatory to being re-
painted and fitted for summer cruising Inc
Diana is one of the largest vessels OF her
class in port.
The Daniel Sheets arrived at Alexandria
Yesterday with ten or twelve barrels OF fSh
| from the seines for Theo. Ballenger. The
| fish We're shipped to the New York mar
The large covered barge of the Alexan-
| dria sulphuric acid plant brought up a
| large cargo of sulphur rock from the mines
near Dumfreis. Va, yesterday.
The tug d. NJ Key of Taylor Bros fleet
| is on the marine railway at Benefits boat
| yard for overhaulng.
The Gilman Dove is being oyerhauled and
| is having new hatchways put in at the
wharf of Carter & Clark.
Six new batteauX for service in the river
| during the summer are being built in one
| of the boat houses at the foot of 7th
street.
The repairs to the tug Eugenia having
| been completed, she has been put over
| board at Benefits boat yard and will at
| once go into service again.
The rebuilding of the hull of the River
| View excursion steamer Samuel J. PentZ,
| at WoodalIs shipyard at Baltimore, will
| be completed in about two weeks, and
| the steamer will return home about April 1.
| Louis Smoots new sand digger, recently
| built here, will be ready for service in a
| few days.
| Engineer S. NJ. Rock of the revenue cut
| ter service has been detached from the
| cutter Window and ordered to the cutter
| Boutwell, at NeWbern, n. c.
| Lieut. VIM. E. Atlee has been assigned
| to duty on the Window. He comes from
| the cutter Mccullough on the Pacific sta
| ton.
| Lieut.. f. w. z. Hall has been detached
| from the Window and ordered to the Nor
| rel on the great lakes, April 1.