Evening star., 1901-08-13
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
NAVAL BUOY RAFT IN COURSE
OF SMALL VESSELS.
Fish and Watermelon Markets - Ar
rival of Ice-Laden BOats-Gen-
eFal Port News.

eral Port News.
The United States naval authorities have
| anchored q large buoy raft on the edge OF
| the channel bank in front of the naval
| magazine wharf between this city and
| Alexandria The wharf at the magazine
ends in shoal water so that the naval tugs
cannot get into 1t to land coal-Iaden barges
and the like. The raft has been found
| necessary in order to work the barges to
and from the wharf. 1t is made of several
heavy logs bolted together, and lies almost
level with the surface of the water. While
it is out of the way Of the larger boats
that keep in the channel. it is in the course
of light draft vessels, which often sail over
the spot on which it is located. 1t is the
general opinion that mark to stand high
er out of the water should be erected on
the raft.
DR.. Arthur L. Rauterberg is having an
extended cruise on Chesapeake bay and Its
tributaries in his sail and naphtha power
yacht Greyhound. Since leaving hare
about ten days ago he has visited Norfolk
and points about Fort Monroe, and was
about to start up the James river Satur-
day Jamestown, Upper and Lower Bran
don, and all the other historic points In
Virginia will be visited, and stop may be
made at Richmond. He will also take a
made at Yorktown and West Point. DR..
Rauterberg and party will be gone month
or six weeks on the trip.
Limited Supply of Fish.
The supply of fish on hand at the 18th
street wharf market this morning was not
large, about eighty packages having been
brought up on the Norfolk line steamer
from the shores about Virginia Beach and
in Hampton Roads. The demand, however,
was fair and prices were: For trout, 81 to
50 per barrel; butter fish, 81 to s. per bar
rel; croaker. So per barrel; spot So to $6
per barrel; bluefsh, &c. per pound; mack
erel 1Oc. to 12c. per pound; rock, boiling,
10c. to 121ac. per pound; rock, pan, &C. to
&c. per pound; white perch. &c. to 12c. per
pound; sturgeon, &C. to 10c. per pound;
sea bass, &c. per pound; catfish 2Oc to SOC
per bunch; eels, 25c. to soc. per bunch;
porg1es, 1Oc to 25c each; drum, 25c. to
3Oc. each, and carp, 15c. to 25c. each. Hard
crabs are still in demand and are selling at
81 to $1.5O per barrel.
There have Eeen but few arrivals of
Watermelon-laden boats at the oyster wharf
since yesterday. There is still an ample
supply on hand to meet all demands, how
ever, there being about 80 900 melons at the
wharf In fifteen vessels. The market was
somewhat duller this morning than yester-
day, but the outlook for busy season is
good. The reports from Maryland and Vir-
ginia indicate a shortage in the CROP This
morning selects sold at s12 to ST. primes,
So to So and culls, 81 to s. per hundred
The little steam launch Allie Moore, re-
Gently purchased by the Columbia Boat
Club of Georgetown has been sold to par
ties in Cumberland, Md, and has been
taken there by the canal.
The steam barge Jackson, belonging to
Mr. Albert Owens of this city, has returned
from Georgetown, where she went to have
her boiler taken out, and is at Forsberg &
Murray's wharf. The boiler was ordered
from Baltimore firm and was to have
been of hundred horse power. After it
was received here and placed in the barge
1t was discovered that it was of less than
half the power wanted. 1t has been taken
out and will be sent to Baltimore and the
proper boiler will be put in
sixty Years a Sailor.
Capt Richard Johnson, whose death at
Alexandria has been mentioned, was one
of the best-known and oldest river men on
the Potomac For nearly sixty years he
had followed the water, and there is not a
harbor on Potomac river, Chesapeake bay
or any of it's tributaries where he was not
known. His last command was the sloop
Relvedere, and in her he was making trips
on the river until his last illness.
The two large sand ,scows recently built
at the Alexandria shipyard for Mr.. Louis
Smoot of this city have been completed and
will go into service at once. They will be
used to carry sand and gravel from the
dredges to this city. Another large scow
Will be built at once at Alexandria for Mr..
Snoot.
The lighthouse BOARD has given notice
that on or about August 30 the color of
the Sewall Point spit beacon light in lower
Chesapeake bay will be changed from red
to white. The light is located on the north
erly end of sand spit making out about
two miles to the north northeast of Sew
ellis Point in Hampton Roads.
Many of the delegates from the counties
in the eighth congressional district of Vir-
cripi tn he at
left Alexandria for that city last night on
the Norfolk line steamer The delegates
from the down river counties of Virginia
will go to Norfolk by sailing vessel.
Ice in Abundance.
Five large vessels laden with 6,S36 tons
Of ice are at the 9th and 10th street
wharves Of the American Ice Company dis
charging cargoes
The little schooner W. II. H. Bixler,
while on her way down the river yester-
day, ran hard aground upon the mud flats
just above Shepherds wharf There she
remained several hours, until the rising tide
fioated her off and she continued her trip
to Coan river.
The four-masted schooner Alice Holbrook,
laden with ice for the American Ice Com
pany, came into port yesterday evening in
tow Of the tug Mitchell M. Davis. She
sailed from the Kennebec August 1, and
brings 1.O41 tons. She will unload at
IeOTSelOWH-
The schooner Mayf1ower was yesterday
taken by the tug D. M. Key to the Eastern
branch to unload her cargo.
The schooner Rebecca Smith left yester-
day for Alexandria with a large cargo Of
watermelons for the dealers there.
The George H. Bunker, having unloaded
her cargo of lumber. has sailed for lower
river point.
The schooner Mount Hope has loaded
cargo of about 1900 tons of soft coal at
the Winship- Meredith piers. Georgetown,
and sailed yesterday evening, in tow Of
the tug VIM. H. Yerkes, jr., for Boston.
The barge York has left Alexandria for
a lower river point to load poplar wood for
Philadelphia.
The schooner Daylight has arrived at
Newport News and will there load coal
for an eastern port.
The longboat Silver Star arrived this
morning with a cargo Of cord wood for
Carter & Clark.
The steamer Occoquan. with a large raft
of pine piling in tow from Occoquan, ar
rived today. The piles are consigned to
Carter & Clark and will be used at the
new pumping station on the Eastern
branch.
The schooner Zaccheus Sherman, which
Alo1 D,,~f rov-