Evening star., 1901-10-29
ALoNG31THE RIVER FRONT
HANDSOME, SAILING CUTTER BEING
BUILT ron POTOMAC SERVICE.
scbooner Loses Mast In a Ga1e-Fish
and Oyster Markef-Generai
Items.

Mr.. Lewis Hewin is having handsome
sailing cutter built for service on the 70
tomac river5 and 1T lis expected the ne"
craft will be completed and put INTO the
water early next month. The werk OF con-
structing the boat is being, done at 2lS y
street southeast,s under the supervision OF
Mr.. Edward Dean, the well-knoWn boat
builder OF Alexandria, and is large and
roomy craft, It is to be forty feet long,
eleven feet wide and will have about four
feet depth of hold. "A large cabin. with ac-
contradictions for threes or four persons,
will cover about half the boat and VIII De
comfortably fitted out. When launched the
new boat will ;be taken to Alexandria to re-
ceive her spars and sails.
The two-masted schooner Minerva Ia L.
Wedmore, while on her way up the bay
from Cambridge Nd. for Baltimore a DAY
or two ago, was struck, off Sharp's Island,
by fiuke in the wind and had her main
mast twisted off by the violence of the
gale. In falling the broken mast came
within foot of striking Captain Hill, who
was at the wheel. It was broken into sew
eral pieces. The schooner made her way
into Baltimore under foresail and JibS and
will go to shipyard for repairs. Inc
Wedmore is we'll known at this port. where
she is frequent visitor, bringing cargoes
of lumber and canned goods from ports In
Virginia and Maryland.
Prices
wharf. are ,-as follows: For black bass, q
to 70 cents per pound; sea bass, cents per
pound; croakerS, cents per pound; stur-
geon 10 cents per pound; salmon trout, o
cents per pound; large trout, to cents
per pound; bluefish, or tailors, to cents
per pound; pan rock, to cents per pound;
medium rock, cents per pound; boiling
rock 1215 cents per pound; Sheepshead, to
10 cents per pound; white perch, to 12h
cents per pound or p to 80 cents per bunch;
spot So per barrel; gray trout, $3.50 to 81
per barrel: carp, 10 to % cents each; yellow
perch, 5 to Is cents per bunch; catfish, to
35 cents per bunch; eels, 10 to % cents per
bunch, and nlullets, 10 to 10 cents per
bunch.
The sales made of oysters today were
small Prices were about the same as they
were yesterday, the small oysters selling at
40 to % cents per bushel and the larger
ones at IS to so cents per bushel. The ar
rivals since yesterday are the Fannie Shep-
herd, VIM. Turner and the Stewart.
Passing To and Fro.
The schooner Goodman, with a cargo of
shingles for the dealers here, Is expected
to arrive here today from Newbern, N. c.
The schooner Ida G. Farren, having un-
loaded her cargo OF shingles. has sailed for
Norfolk, en- route to North Carolina, to re-
load.
The schooner Henrietta Kemp is living in
Port Tobacco creek, near the Chapel Point
wharf unloading cargo Of shingles
The schooner Leroy is unloading a cargo
OF cord wood at the wharf at Fort Wash
ington, Md.
The steamer Dennis Simmons, having dis
charged a portion of hers cargo of shingles
at AlexandriS, has come on to this port to
complete unloading. -
The The large bsssys s.. Winnie u a' Windsor has HI
for the eystaf rocks In the lower river and
will load fent tnarket
The Five Sisters Is in port unloading a
cargo of s9Ea %a9a 2a,n from the Aauia creek
The tug ssfell2s with three coal-laden
barges from Pefcyville, Md, in tow, has
arrived in pSrtskpr the local dealers.
The barge n rassPrady is in Aqua creek,
paper mills near Philadelphia.
The schoofef Bagie laden with pine lum-
ber from Virginia lumber port. is expected
to reach here shiss evening or tomorrow. She
General Port News.
The rig Off thst handsome sloop yacht st.
Charles. belApgtnR to Mr.. J. W. Jones. will.
it is stated, be changed during the winter
from sloop to yawl. This rig is becoming
very popular with Potomac yachtsmen.
The houseboat Arcadia, belonging to Mr..
J. F. RAWLINGS which has been on the big
marsh near the mouth Of Occoquan bay for
ten days, with hunting party aboard, is
The large barge James T. Easton Is at
the wharf Of Johnson Bros, at the foot of
18th street southwest. with full load of
about 500 tons of hard coal from Perryville,
Md.
The United States light house engineers
steamer Jessamine, which looks after the
repair work on the light houses In the Po-
tomac river, is In the dry dock at Baltimore
for an overhauling.
A flock Of over 1000 wild geese were seen
by the crew Of the steamer Harry Randall
Off Liverpool Point on the last trip OF that
boat up the river. Large fiocks of mallard
ducks are reported in the creeks In the
lower Potomac.