Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-20
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
OWNERS FINED 800 FOR OVER
LOADING EXCURSION BOAT.
FOur-Masted Schooner Laden With
Asphalt Goes AErOund-The
Fish Market-Briefs.

control the enforcing Of the navigation
laws Of the country is placed, is very yigi-
liant in seeing that the regulations govern
ing steam and sailing vessels are obeyed
to the letter, and when an infraction Is
made known the seyerest penalties are en-
forced. Recently the steamer Thomas L..
Worthley, which runs excursions from Bal
timore to Rock creek, was reported to the
inspectors for carrying ninety passengers
in excess of 600, the number she was al
lowed. The charge was investigated and
found to be true, and the owners Of the
steamer had to pay fine of 500 before
the boat could make trip.
The -masted schooner Edith G.. Fol-
well, which arrived in port yesterday.
brings a cargo of asphalt from the Port Of
Spain for the Barber Asphalt Company Of
Georgetown. In consequence of having
sailed on one course in a hot climate for d
long time, the asphalt softened and ran to
one side, and the schooner came into port
with a heavy list. Yesterday the Balti-
more utg Sarah started up to Georgetown
with the schooner, but about two hundred
yards above Long bridge, after passing
through the draw, she ran aground and
was still there this morning. 1t is thought
a part Of her cargo will have to be re-
moved before she can go up to the wharf
at Georgetown.
The demand for fish at the nth street
wharf market this morning was not heavy,
and the supply received by the dealers
from the fishermen in the lower Chesapeake
was fair. the Norfolk line steamer this
morning having brought up seventy pack
ages The supply from the nets in the
river was small. Prices this morning We're:
For gray trout. $3.50 to So per barrel; but
ter fish. 81 to $3.50 per barrel; croakers. &c.
per pound; rock, pan, &c. to &c. per pound;
rock boiling, 10c to 121ac per pound; white
perch. &c. to 12c. per pound; sturgeon, sc.
to 10c per pound; sea bass Sc. to &c. per
pound catfish, Dc. to 30c. per bunch; eels,
25c. to 30c. per bunch; porgies, 15c. to 2jc
each; drum. 25c. to Soc. each; carp. 15c. to
25c. each. and hard crabs. 81 to $3.50 per
barrel. according to size and quality.
There is very full supply of water
melons from Maryland and Virginia points
at the 18th street wharf today. about lOO.-
600 being on hand. The market is poor
and the demand Is very light, and in con-
sequence prices have dropped about 81 per
hundred. This morning selected melons
sold at $13 to SIS; prime at 81 to IS, and
culis at 81 to So per hundred.
The tug Rosalie. belonging to Mr. Lewis
Smoot, is again In service. the repairs to
her having been completed. She is en-
gagged in towing sand and gravel laden
scows between the diggers and this port.
The tug Eva Belle Cain is employed tow
ing stone laden scows between the Virginia
quarries and Georgetown. while the tug
Mohier is on the railway for an overhaul
ing.
OF General Intereat.
The lighthouse engineers steamer Jessa-
mine. under the command Of Capt Kruk,
is cruising among the light stations in the
bay. doing repair work. She will in a few
days visit the Potomac for the same pur-
pose.
The four masted schooner Bayard Barnes
with a cargo Of 1854 tons of ice for the
American Ice Company arrived In port
yesterday evening in tow of the tug VIM
H. Yerkes, jr. The Barnes sailed from
Bath, Me-, August and had a fairly good
passage down the coast. 1t was she not
the Joseph w. Ellwell that was reported
in the river bound for this port Sunday.
The United States coast survey schooner
Matchless has gone to Tangter Sound, on
to do survey work there. Deals Island will
be the headquarters Of the vessel 1t Is ex-
pected IL. will take the entire summer to
complete the survey work.
A large barge load of plaster was re-
moved from the cargo of the schooner NAL
colin B. Seayey. and an effort was made to
put her into the dock at VIM. A. Smoot &
Co.'S wharf at Alexandria yesterday, but
her bow took the mud just at the entrance
to the dock and she stuck fast. She will
have TO be further iightened before she can
be moved.
The tug J. T. Selectman. with three
scows and digger No. 3 of the National
tow. left port yesterday evening for point
on the Maryland side OF the river near
Fort Foote, where sand and gravel will be
gotten from the river for this market.
The schooner John Il Butterick has been
chartered to load ice on the Kennebec river