Evening star., 1901-09-04
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONERS LOADING COAL FOR NEW
ENGLAND PORTS.
Libel Filled by Capita Jones of Schooner
Hattie HI Gfles-General
Port News.

The schooners Malcdlm B. Seavey, Agnes
Folwell and Henry, L. Peckham are at
Georgetown, and wills all load Cumberland
coal there for Boston and other New Eng
land ports The flour vessels will take
away fully 1900 tons of coal. Shipments
OF the fuel from Georgetown have been
quite heavy this summer, about twenty
vessels having loaded there.
A libel was filed in the United States dis
trict court at Baltimore yesterday by Capt.
John II. Jones, master of the schooner Hat
tie f. Giles, now lying at Georgetown,
against the Armour fertilizer works for
SSS.6o for balance alleged to be due him on
freight from Baltimore to Georgetown, and
for $45 for three days demurrage. Capt.
Jones claims in his petit On that his con-
tract allowed him So. 10 per day for any
delay through fault of the defendant, and
that he was detained three days.
MI Bernard Hicks and party Of three
other young men started from the boat
house of Edw Whyte, at the foot Of 1th
street, yesterday evening in the newly
built Nsloop Constitution. They had been
out but very few. minutes when the boat
was caught by flaw and turned over on
her side, throwing the young men into the
water. Ihey were all swimmers, however,
and Kept af1oat until one of the boats that
went to their aid reached them and took
in tow back to the boat house, where 1t
was righted.
The supply Of fish on sale at the 18th
street wharf fish market this morning was
erel. 10c. to 121ac. per pound; pan rock,
&c. to &c. per pound; black bass, 1Oc. per
pound; boiling rock. 1212c. to 15c. per
pound white perch, &c. to 15c per pound;
large trout. &c. to 4c. per pound; croaker,
&c. per pound; bluefish, 4c.- per pound;
founders, 4c. per pound; gray trout, $3.50
to 80 per barrel; spot, s4 per barrel; crabs
81 to 81 per barrel; butter fish, S. per bar
rel or Sc. to 4c per pound; porgies. 15c. to
2lc. each; carp, zoe. each; drum, 2oc. to
SOC. each, and catfish and eels, 20c. to 3Oc.
per bunch.
The supply of watermelons at the 18th
street oyster wharf this morning was
smaller than it has been for several days.
The market is but fair, and prices are
about the same as they were yesterday.
Selects, SO to $12; primes 81 to So, and
culls, 81 to 81 per hundred
Passing In and Out.
The two-masted schooner James B. An
derson, with large cargo Of laths from
Norfolk, is at the wharf of Henry X.
Field & Co at Alexandria. She will un-
load a part of her cargo there. and will
come on to this port to complete unloading
for Major H. L. Biscoe.
The schooner Zephyr, which brought the
first cargo Of oysters of the season to
has sailed for the lower river oyster beds.
The bugeye Northumberland and the
sloop Belvedere are at the Alexandria fish
wharf unloading, carsoes.
The steamer Mort hamberland sailed yes
terday evening with a large cargo for
points on the lower Potomac.
The schooners Bertha Dean and Francis
NJ came into port this morning with car
goes of ice for the American Ice Com
pany. The frst-named vessel had aboard
1,172 tons and the latter 1866 tons.
The flattie Lola having completed the un-
loading of her cargo. has sailed for river
port and will load.
The tug Stella, with a light barge Of the
Standard Oil Company In tow, sailed yes
terday evening for Baltimore.
The tug Maryland. having in tow two
scows laden with brdckmaking clay from
Broad creek. came into port yesterday.
The sailing barge Daniel, with small
cargo of cord wood. arrived in port this
morning. for Carter q Clark.
The steamer Lilly and Howard, with a
general cargo from Alexandria, sailed yes
terday evening foF, Aauia creek.
The sloop Eva Gibson is at King street
wharf, Alexandria, and will load a miscel-
laneous cargo for river point.
The schooner Annie E. Price has gone
to Port Tobacco creek, Md, and will load
Del.
The barge George B. Roberts has been
taken to AQUA creek a and will be loaded
The sloop Dart, with Mr.. Ed. Clary, her
owner, aboard. sailed yesterday evening
for short cruise on the river.
The pleasure yacht Grace, belonging to
Rubesam & Braitmeyer, came into port
yesterday evening from a cruise on the
lower river.
The longboat Five Sisters is hauled out
on the marine railway at Alexandria for
general repairs.
The schooner yacht Cinconia, belonging
to Mr.. c. c. Wilkinson. returned to port
yesterday after cruise of several days
&l,1 lrynr S1n hos
club boats at the foot of 10th street.
General Port News.
The employees of the Randall line steamers
are arranging pleasant two weeks trip
on the Potomac on the steamer Kent. The
party will number about thirty, and all the
creeks and harbors along the river will be
visited and hunting and fishing will be in
dulged in. Stops will also be made at
Chapel Point and Colonial Beach. where
hops will be given. The party will be made
UP of the officers of the steamers Pentz,
Randall and Kent and one or two of their
friends. They will leave here September 10.
Mr. Lewellyn Balhnger, second engineer
Of the harbor police boat Vigilant, has gone
to Rock Point, Md, for stay Of ten days.
The large four-masted schooner James w.
Ellwell, with cargo of about 1900 tons Of
soft coal, left Georgetown early this morn
ing, bound for Boston On her way down
the Georgetown channel she grounded about
a hundred yards above the Long bridge and
remained there despite the efforts of the
tug to get her off.
United States coast survey launch No.
25, which is to assist Mr.. McGrath of tho
coast survey in his work of surveying the
lower Potomac about the Kettle bottoms,
left Baltimore yesterday.
Five large reels Of wire cable were
brought up from Fort Washington yester-
day by the steamer Harry Randall which
made special trip to the fort for that pur-
pose The cables are all over a mile in
length and weigh from three to four tons
each This is the last of the cables used
in placing torpedoes in the river during the
Spanish-American war. They are to be
shipped to Major William Black at Willets
Point, N. Y.
The body of Mr.. w. G. Bowman, the chief
machinist of the naval proving grounds at
Indian Head, Md, who died there Monday
of Bright's disease, was brought to this city
yesterday on the launch Santa Barbara and
sent to his former home at Annapolis Md.
for burial.
Alleged Unreasonable Bill
William Duffy of 113O North Capitol
street has written the Commissioners, COM