Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-06-15
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
LARGE SHIPMENTS OF SOFT COAL TO
NEW ENGLAND.
Fish Market Quotations Today - The
Passing Vessels-General and
Personal Matters.

/ f0SS1HS tGoSeIS-(GcucfAk ana
Personal Matters.
| Soft coal from the Cumberland mines is
once more being shipped from Georgetown
in something like the large quantities that
formerly went from there. Within the past
| two months several large vessels have load
| ed there with coal and have gone to Bos-
/ ton, Portland or other New England
| ports. The three-masted schooner o. d.
Witherell left the piers Of the Winship Mer-
| edith Company in tow Of the tug Davis
| yesterday for Boston, and the schooner
John ]. Hanson was taken to Georgetown
| also yesterday to load. 1t Is expected that
| from now until the end of summer several
| vessels carrying ice to this port will each
week be able to obtain return cargoes of
coal at Georgetown for Boston and New
England points.
The fish market at the 18th street wharf
this morning was but fairly well supplied
Prices ranged as follows: For Spanish
| mackerel to 10 cents per pound; salmon
trout, 6 cents per pound; founder. cents
per pound; sturgeon, cents per pound; ;
spot, cents per pound: white perch, 5 to
10 cents per pound; boiling rock. 12h cents
per pound; pan rock, to 10 cents per
pound; bluefish. Z cents per pound; croaker,
So per barrel; trout. $3.50 to $3.50 per bar
rel; butterfish, $3 to 81 per barrel: porgie,
IN to cents each; drum. 10 to % cents
each: carp. to 10 cents each; catfish. 10
to 20 cents per bunch; cells and yellow
perch, 10 to 10 cents each The supply of
crabs was small, and soft shells sold at 30
to 40 cents per dozen and hard shells at
$1.50 to 81 per barrel.
The steam yacht CygnuS, which has
been at the boat yard of Cumberland &
Son, foot of 10th street southwest, for the
past three weeks having new hull built,
is SO far completed that it is expected she
will he launched late this afternoon. Her
engine is already in position, and as soon
as she is overheard her boiler will be placed.
The Cygnus is owned by Mr. Gus Forsberg
of this city.
The new tug, VIM. H. Yerkes jr now in
Baltimore, had a dock trial Of her engine
and machinery Thursday, and everything
worked perfectly. Messrs. Taylor Bros. of
this city, her owners. expected to bring the
tug to this city this week, but in order to
have her painted she will not leave Balti-
more until early next week.
Passing In and Out.
The large three-masted schooner Alice
Holbrook arrived in port Thursday night
with cargo of 1.O63 tons of ice from
Bangor, Me, for the Purity Ice Company.
The Holbrook sailed from the Maine port
May 20 and came in the capes June II.
She is dischargins her cargo at the wharf,
foot of 18th street.
The c. r. Lewis is at the wharf of Thos.
r. Riley, unloading a cargo of pine lum-
Der.
The American Patriot and the Belmont
have arrived in port with cargoes of pine
wood for Carter & Clark
The schooner Ida Crockett has sailed
light for a Virginia lumber port and will
load.
arrived in port with a full cargo Of pine
lumber for the local dealers.
The Carrie c. Pinto came into port light
Yesterday evening from cruise on the
river
The schooner John A. Stevens has COM
pleted the unloading of her load of lumber
and has sailed.
The Harry and Charley has arrived in
port with cargo of railing ties from Oc
coquan for Carter & Clark.
The Isaac Solomon, r. H Stuart, Mary
Francis and Mayf1ower have all arrived
in port with full cargoes of cordwood
The c. P. HOFFMAN, having finished the
unloading Of her cargo of lumber on the
Eastern branch, has sailed for the lower
river and Will reload lumber.
The Five Sisters, Oakland and Mary Ann
Shea were yesterday towed in James Creek
canal by the tug d. NJ. Key to unload their
cargoeS of cordwood-
The Winnie Windsor is at the wharf of
Atcheson Bro, Alexandria, to load a gen.
eral cargo for lower river point
The Chillon is unloading lumber on the
Eastern branch for T. w. Smith
The schooner A H. Quinby from Phila-
delphia, has unloaded a cargo of hard coal
on the James creek canal for Mrs. B. I'm
derWOod.
The schooner w. H. H. Bixler. having
completed the discharging of her cargo,
sailed yesterday under her new owner and
will load back to this port.
The schooner Estelle Phinney sailed yes
terday in tow of the tug NJ. Mitchell Davis
for Newport News, where she will load coal
for New England port. She will return
with ice from the Kennebec
The schooner John A. II. Dixon has I'M
loaded a cargo Of pine lumber at one of the
he E,aS tArn hru oh
The steamer Occoquan came into port
Thursday evening with a load of railway
ties and having in tow raft Of pine piling
used in the foundation for the new sewer
pumping station On the Eastern branch
The Baltimore tug Stella. with seven
light barges in tow, has sailed for Baiti-
more and Philadelphia. Five of the barges
were taken from Georgetown and this city.
and two from Alexandria. These barges
will load hard coal at Philadelphia for
Chesapeake bay ports.
The tug Spray is in port with a raft Of
piles in tow for Carter & Clark
The bugeye c. ]. Thompson is loading a
cargo of building material at Alexandria
for lower river point.
The schooner Lizzie Burt has finished
unloading and sailed yesterday morning for
the lower river.
General and Personal.
The sloop Annie Gertrude ran aground
Thursday evening upon the mud flats about
half way between this city and Alexandria,
and remained there for several hours
The sailing sloop Ethel May. owned by
Messrs. Taylor and Fowler, the winner OF
the Decoration day races Of the Capital
Yacht Club, now carries a broom at her
gaff's end. She returned to port from
sail yesterday evening.
Banks pile driver is at Alexandria, re-
building the wharf Of VIM. M. Reardon,
where the Weems and Randall line boats
and the excursion steamers land.
The United States dispatch boat Dolphin
arrived at the navy yard yesterday even
ing from q cruise.
Captain Aleck Curley has exchanged the
schooner ]. J. Underhill with parties re-
siding on the eastern shore Of Virginia for
two small f1atties and $500 in cash. The
Underhiu IS a schooner of thirty-five tons
and was built In 1892. She will be con-
tinued In the bay and river trade.
The steamer Lily and Howard is at
Moore's machine shop wharf, Alexandria,
having some repair work done preparatory
to undergoing her annual inspection.
The steamers of the Norfolk and Wash