Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-14
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
PROGRESS ON TUG BEING BUILT FOR
TAYLOR BROS.
Boat to Go Into Service Next April
Fish and Oyster Market
General News.

| at Soromon's Island Md for Taylor Bros.
| of this city is being pushed ahead rapidiy'
The frame of the hull is already in position
and the planking will be begun In lie"
DAYS The work of constructing the boher
and engines for the new boat Is in progress
at the Spedden works, in Baltimore anu
will be completed by the time the hull Is
| ready to receive them. The Messrs. ray
lor expect to have the new boat in service
by April next and will use her for general
towing on the bay and Potomac river. She
will, when completed, it is claimed, be the
largest and finest boat Of her class in the
| Potomac river service.
| The supply Of fish on sale at the llth
street wharf fish market this morning was
not large. owing partly to the storm me
demand this morning was fair and prices
! were as follows: For salmon trout, to sc.
per pound: large trout, 5 to &c. per pound,
gray trout, So to 81 per box; spot, so per
box; bIuefish or tailors. 6 to &c. per pound;
pan rock, to SC. per pound; medium rock.
. to 10c per pound; boiling rock, 1219 to
Loo. per pound; white perch, to loc. per
pound; jumping mullets, 3 to 3hc per
pound; butterfish, sc. per pound; black
bass, to 12c. per pound; green pike, TO
Sc per pound; sturgeon. loo. per pound;
yellow perch. 10 to 25c. per bunch; catfish,
70 to SOC. per bunch; cells, 10 to 2oc. per
bunch; river muilets, 10 to 15c. per bunch.
and carp. 10 to 25c. each.
| The cooler weather of the past two days
|
market and today the demand has been
good. This morning the small oysters sold
| at As to 60 cents per bushel and the larger
| stock at 20 to so cents per bushel. Since
| Yesterday the Avalon, Ruth and Ella, E.
| P. Evans and Elenora Russell have come
| into port, each bringing cargo OF ABOUT
400 bushels of Potomac river oysters.
| The tug VIM. H. Yerkes, jr., belonging to
| Taylor Bros. of this city, after delivering
| a schooner at Baltimore from this city
will go to the shipyard of NJ. NJ. Davis. at
| Solomon's Island, Md, where she will be
hauled out and will have her hull sheathed
| with metal in preparation for running in
the ice during the coming winter. 1t Is
| expected she will be out of service about
two weeks
| A number of the wharves along the river
are to be rebuilt this fall The work on
| Stewards wharf will it is stated. be be-
gun In d few days, and Edgewater wharf,
| in Lower Machodoc creek, will also be given
| thorough Overhauling soon.
In and Out of Port.
The schooner Charles V. Dagger has ar
rived In port with a cargo of cord wood
from Occoquan for Carter & Clark.
The schooner William Mcdaniel has
turned to the lower river and will load for
this market.
The steamer Lily and Howard. having
taken on cargo of general supplies at
Alexandria, has sailed for Occoquan.
| The Cora Mckinney, with a cargo OF
Potomac oysters. has arrived at Alexan-
dria for the dealers there.
| The Kate Muller unloaded her cargo here
and sailed yesterday for a lower river
point.
The Cara Coward has unloaded her
cargo and sailed yesterday evening for a
| river point to reload.
| The Peri has gone to the Aqua creek
neighborhood for cargo of Virginia pine
lumber for the dealers here.
| The schooner Miami is at Alexandria dis
charging a cargo OF cord wood at the wharf
of DWilton Aitcheson, foot Of Duke street.
| The barge Wooster, now in Piscataway
creek, where she loaded ninety cords of
poplar wood, will be brought to Marshall
Hall to complete her cargo for Philadelphia
| The schooner Hattie <. Giles has sailed
| from Baltimore with cargo of hard coal
for Alexandria. r..rf
The sloop Lady Bug Is lying at Alexan-
dria, and will load cargo of general
stores for river point.
| OF General Interest.
During the heavy northwest gale Of
Tuesday night large scow. owned by Car
ter & Clark of this city. and used to lighter
railway ties and poplar wood from the
| shore to vessels in the stream, broke from
her moorings near the Marshall Hall wharf
| and was carried high and dry ashore by
| the force of the gale. The scow Is not
| thought to be greatly damaged
| By recent order issued by the steam
| boat inspection service all makers of the
safety fusible plugs for boilers will be re-
quired to stamp their names on the plugs
|
| boat inspectors a certificate showing that
| the plugs comply with fixed standard
| The United States army engineers snae-
pulling craft was lying in Gunston bay yes
| terday in shelter from the westerly gale
As soon as the wind abates she will con-
tinue on her way down the river
| The lightship stationed on the dangerous
| Diamond shoals, off Cape Hatteras NJ C..
| Is to be supplied with two searchlights In
place of her present masthead lights The
| searchlights will be SO arranged as to throw
their rays directly upward. 1t is claimed
| that these rays can be seen thirty-five to
| forty miles at sea. and that the rocking
| motion >of the ship. causing the rays to
move about. will attract additional atten-
ton, and will warn mariners the sooner of
their danger. The present masthead lights
| can be seen but thirteen miles,
/ The naval battalion steam yacht Oneida
has been berthed alongside the u s. s.
Fern, at the wharf foot Of o street south
| west.
The soldiers stationed at Fort Hunt are
building boardwalk about two miles long
| from the fort to Snowden's station on tho
| Washington, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon
1 railway. for convenience In getting to and
/ from the trains. The money to pay for
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