Evening star., 1901-07-19
ALONG THE RrtER FRONT
NEW PLEASURE BoNr SOON TO BE
LAUNCHED.
Camp Meeting Association Purchases
Ground at Somerset Beach-The
Summer Fishing Season.

pleasure sailing craft in the harbor by the
launching of fine deadrise, which is now
in course of construction in the boat build
ing house of Edward Whyte, at the foot
of 1th street southwest, for Mr.. Edward
Hicks of this city. The new craft is to
De twenty feet long, seven feet wide and
will be of very light draft
She is being built for speed, and II the
calculations of the designer and builder
are not wrong In the size of the sails she
will carry she will be formidable rival
in the contest for the championship flag
of the harbor. Mr.. Hicks has not yet Sc
lected name for the boat. 1t is expected
she will be launched about the 1st of next
month.
Summer fishing in the Potomac will be-
clears up it is not thought the catch will
De large Yesterday evening the Cum
berland brothers sailed in the sloop Skip
Jack for Occoquan bay and its neighbor-
fish.
II the present plans Of the promoters of
the enterprise do not fall through. Sumer-
set Beach, on the Potomac, in King George
county, Va, Is to have one of the largest
camp meeting grounds in the vicinity of
w washington. Yesterday Mr.. Chester A.
Howe, secretary of the Somerset Beach
Company, sold to the Inskep National
through Rev. Joseph 8. Dempster, its pres
ldent, and VIM. C. Peake, its secretary, a
large tract OF land at the resort on which
1t Is proposed to erect a tabernacle large
enough to seat several thousand people,
Cottages will be built for the clergy and
land reserved on which tents can be erect
ed. 1t is the purpose Of the camp meeting
association to have annual religious meet
ings at the beach. at which all the promi-
nent divines in this section of the coun-
try will be asked to conduct the services.
Eventually It Is proposed to have summer
religious educational meetings there, which
VIII riva! the large Chautauqua assem-
blies in the north.
The receipts of fish by the dealers at
the 11th street wharf are steadily growing
larger each day and the demand for all
varieties continues to be excellent. Prices
continue at the high figures of the early
part of the week. and just now there Is no
indication of a drop.
Prices this morning were for gray trout,
% to per barrel; snap tailors, 50 per
barrel; butterf1sh, IS to SO per barrel
rock, pan. s to IL cents per pound; rock,
boiling, 15 to 20 cents per pound: white
perch. 10 to Is cents per pound; sturgeon,
cents per pound; catfish. 25 to 85 cents
per bunch; eels and yellow perch, 20 to Is
cents per bunch; porgies, 20 cents each;
drum. % to 30 cents each: carp, Is to 20
cents each. Hard crabs find a ready mar
ket and are selling at from $1.25 to 50 per
barrel. according to size.
Ihe moving Graft.
The large four-masted schooner Francis
NJ. with cargo Of about 1.5OO tons of soft
coal from the Winship- Meredith Company
Of Georgetown for Boston, sailed in tow
yesterday for the capes OF Virginia.
The schooner Salisbury came into port
yesterday evening with cargo Of fruit
baskets on deck.
The schooner w. H. H. Bixler has gone to
the lower river and will load lumber back
to this port.
The Schooner Fannie has discharged her
cargo of white sand at Georgetown for the
dealers there.
The steamer Northumberland took a
large number of passengers to lower river
points yesterday evening.
The barge s. II. Provost has been taken
to a river port to load railway ties for a
northern port.
The barge Daniel arrived in port yester-
day evening with a large cargo of cord
wood from Aqua creek for Carter & Clark.
The schooner Mary Jane, with cargo
of lumber and building material from H.
K. Field & Company, has sailed from Alex
andr1a for the Coan river.
The big schooner Edward e Briery, now
unloading cargo Of Ice at the 9th street
wharf. will complete unloading about Sat-
urday evening.
The barge Centtpede, with a cargo Of Ice
from New York for the American Ice Com
pany is expected to arrive in port tomor-
row.
The schooner NJ A. Randall from this
port for Boston, with cargo of soft coal,
The pungy Saml Washington came into
port yesterday evening with a cargo Of
cord wood for Carter & Clark.
The schooner VIM. Donnelly sailed. light.
lumber for Johnson & Wimsatt Of this
city.
The steamer E. Jos. Tull sailed yesterday
evening for Occoquan with tow of light
coal bargeS. They Will load railway ties
for Philadelphia.
The schooner Federal Hill has completed
the unloading of her cargo OF plaster and
has gone to VIM. A. Stuart & Co.'S to load
The bark Roylstone, laden with q cargo
of asphalt from the Island of Trinidad for
this port, passed in at the capes yesterday
morning She should arrive here today.
OF General Interest.
1t ts stated that much Of the wheat now
coming to this market from the lower river
is put up in bags for shipment while damp,
and in this condition 1T mildews and rusts.
and does not bring the price in the market
that it otherwise would. The trouble is
caused by the wet weather OF the past ten
days.
The schooner Rebecca Taulane, while dis
charging her cargo at Alexandria, is hav-
ing her hull scraped and painted while
lying in dock
The United States revenue cutter Window
left port yesterday evening for cruise on
Chesapeake bay.
The house being built on the hull of the
burned Arcadia for Mr. ]. T. Rawlings Is
nearly completed. The boat was taken to
Georgetown yesterday evening in tow of
the tug Jennie Irene.
The new thirty-foot steam launch built
for Mr.. Charles Smithson in a yard on H
street between Az and 9th streets south
west was Yesterday taken to the boat
house foot Of 10th street, where her boiler
and engine will be put In place and she will
be prepared for service.
The work Of placing the engine in the
barge James Jackson at Forsburg & Muir
rays wharf is being pushed. It Is stated
the boiler will be put In place shortly.
BOyd's and Vicinity.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
BOYD'S. Nd. July Is, 1901.
Randolph Leaman, young merchant at
Park Mills, Frederick. county, near Hyatts-
town, this county, while driving out on