Evening star., 1901-02-25
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
FISH COMMISSION TO BUILD WHARF
AT BRYAN's POINT.
But q Fair Market at Fish and Oyster
Wharyes General
Matters.

Plans nave been prepared lor tHe erectlon
by the United States fish commission of
new wharf at the propagating station, Bry-
ans Point, Md, the south side Of Pis-
Getaway creek, nearly opposite Mt. Vernon.
The work on the new structure will be be-
gun very shortly and it will be ready for
use during the coming season. The wharf
at Bryans Point Is but nakeshift, and
the steamer masters have been afraid to at
tempt a landing there, except under the
most favorable circumstances. When the
rev wharf is completed 1t will be made
regular stopping point by the river lines
and the residents of that neighborhood will
be allowed to ship and receive freight
from it.
The cold weather of the past three or
four nights has made ice about three inch
es thick and very hard. While it does not
interfere greatly with steamboats,, it pre-
vents sailing vessels from moving, except
in tow of a tug. Today the ice is floating
about in the river with the tide and with
westerly wind much of it will go ashore. A
heavy snow storm just now would almost
close the river to navigation by falling on
the ice and freezing there and making it so
much thicker to make 1t difficult for
steam vessels to get through it.
The supply of oysters at the 11th street
wharf was ample this morning to meet all
demands for several days. there being
about ten vessels in port with about $500
bushels of oysters aboard. The market
this morning was fair. the attendance being
small and the purchases light. Today the
bivalves were selling at from 80 cents to
40 cents per bushel for the smaller sizes
and from that up to 50 cents for the larger
and more selected stock. With contin-
uance of the cold weather prices are eX
pected to advance to the figures of ten
days ago and oysters will be very scarce.
The recent arrivals are the Hazelene. with
300 bushels, and the Elenora Russell, with
45O bushels, from ST. Georges Island; the
Beulah and Pearl. with 500 bushels, and
Lizzie Ballard, with 45o bushels, from the
Piankatank.
Since Saturday last the Norfolk line
steamer has brought up twenty packages
of fish from the shores about Old Point and
Virginia Beach for the dealers along the
wharves and twenty-one packages have
come by express from the northern shores.
Six packages of Potomac river fish have
also been received from the nets in Occo-
duan and its neighborhood. While this
supply is not large it was ample to fill the
demand for fish this morning, the market
being but fair. The outlook for a supply of
river fish is but poor, the ice preventing
the fishermen from working their nets.
For the first time for two weeks there
were no shad for sale at the wharf today,
none having reached this market since
Saturday. There were but few varieties OF
fish in hand this morning, and prices were:
For green trout, 10 cents per pound jump
ing muIetS, q cents per
) cents per pound; black bass, liz to 1312
cents per pound; blue pike. cents per
pound: frozen trout, to 61a cents per
pound; yellow perch. cents per pound;
smelt, cents per pound, and herring, 312
cents each.
Yachts, Steamers and Tugs.
The steam yacht Giavota started out on
a trip Saturday evening. but finding the
ice on the river too hard she went but a
,Jri.
turned to port.
The steamer Wakefield resumed her trips
to the lower river this morning taking
| down a good freight that has been accu-
mulating for the past ten days.
Dougherty's tug Stella, with light oil
| barge in tow, sailed for Baltimore yester-
| day evening, but encountered heavy ice
| off Alexandria and had to anchor the
| barge. The Stella returned to this port for
! Instructions
The schooner Hulda, with a cargo of lum-
| Der from NeWberne, N. c.. for Messrs.
| Johnson & Wimsatt of this city. is expect
ed to arrive in port within the next day or
| two.
| The three-masted schooner John D..
| krantz has sailed from this port for Bal
| timore, where she will load coal Tor a
| Florida port. The krantZ is the vessel that
lost part of her sails and rigging In a gale
off Hatteras on her trip from Florida to
this port.
| The schooner EIdfla I. May. "ilci 10
| looked for at Alexandria with cargo of
| Ice sailed from Rockport, Me, on TUESDAY
last. February 49,
There were no ferry steamers on the
route between this city and Alexandra yes
| terday, the Columbia having been with
drawn for the day for repairs to her
| wheels. .,.
| port has arrived at Newport News 10 lodu
| coal for Boston.
| The f. p Evans, Maurita and George b
| Faunce have completed the unloading OF
their cargoes of oysters, and will sail fol-
| the; oyster beds In the lower river as sooI
as the ice will permit
| The tub Juno arrived in port yesterday
| with a tow Of four oyster-laden vessels
| from the lower river
The United States lighthouse engineers
| steamer Jessamine has returned to Balti-
| more from an extended cruise among the
iipht stations in the fifth lighthouse dis
| trict.
| to and from Indian Head Saturday to bring
IN the workmen employed on the naval
| proving grounds
| General News.
The boiler testing house erected on the
| wharf Of Forsberg & Murray between Stf
and 9th streets has been completed, and
| the testing of a marine boiler now in the
house will be begun very shortly.
| The little steam launch used by the of
| fcers and men between Fort Washington
| and Alexandria, which has been at Ben
| nett's boat yard for several weeks, VIII DE
| renaired and ready for service by the TIME
the spring opens.
| A number of vessels now employed IN the
| oyster traffic are preparing to withdra"
| from it to engage in running fish from the
| lower river shores to- this port
A glass-making plant is shortly to be
| erected on the river shore near the outle
lcck of the old canal just north Of Alex
| andria.
| The vessel belonging to Captain Fegan
| which was ashore on Cedar Island recently.
has been taken off and towed into Nominl
creek for repairs.
The outlook for the wheat crop in West
| mOreIand county, along the river Is said to
be very poor and corn and provender for
the stock Is scarce.
| Captain George S. Martin OF Dorchester
| county, Nd, has purchased the schooner
Cherubim from Captain H. B. Dixon and
| will continue her in the bay trade. The
| Cherubim is a two-masted schooner of 9e
tons CTS feet long, 24.7 feet beam and 7.2
feet deep She was built In Sussex
| Md. in 1873, and now halls from Beaufort
n. C. Her sailing port will, it is under
stood, be changed to Baltimore.
Mr.. D. c. Bellfeld, well-known mer-
chant of Westmoreand county, is quite i'll
| at his home