Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-16
ON THE RIVER FRONT
BUILDING NEW BOAT FOR
SPRING SEINE HAULING.
Steamer Sue Disabled-Steamer Ran.
dali Preparing for Winter Storms
General Harbor News.

Cumberland & Son have laid the keel at
their boat building yard at the foot Of 9th
street of a large seine boat for Capt. VIM.
Neitzey Of this city. The boat which is to
be sixty-five feet in length and about fif-
teen feet wide. will be an able craft and will
be used to work big seine from during
the coming fishing season. 1t will be ready
to be put overheard in the next four or six
weeks. Capt. Neitzey has recently leased
the Fair landing fishing shore on the river
and is now having it put in order for fish
Ing next spring. At the Stoney Point shore
Capt. Neitzy used a seine over six miles
long. The seine he will use during the COM
Ing fishing season will be even larger.
Rlver-caught black bass were on sale at
the 18th street wharf market this morning
Tor the first time for several weeks and
rock, perch, catfish and cells are also COM
ing from the river nets in large quantities.
The supply of fish on hand this morning
was large enough to meet a good demand
and prices were as follows: For black bass,
10 to 1Sc. per pound; Spanish mackerel, 121a
to 15c- per pound; salmon trout, 5R to &C.
per pound; pan rock, to Sc. per pound;
medium rock, to 10c per pound; boiling
rock. 10 to 15c. per pound; founders, &C. per
pound; green pike, to &c. per pound; blue
fish. or tailors, to &c. per pound white
perch, large. 8 to 10c. per pound; white
perch. small, 10 to 15c. per bunch; catfish
large, 20 to 35c. per bunch; catfish small,
10 TO zoe. per bunch; cells, &c. each; carp, 10
to Doc each; butterfish. 81 per barrel, and
gray trout, 81 to So per barrel
The cooler weather of the past two DAYS
has caused a decided increase in the de-
mand for oysters in the shell at the 18th
street wharf and the wharf today has been
quite busy place. The supply on hand
will amount to about 400 or 800 bushels in
two or three boats. Prices remain quite low
for the season, the oysters selling at from
45c per bushel for the smaller, up to 30 and
Goc per bushel for the better stock
The SldeWheel steamer Sue of the Weems
line, which came into port Monday with
heavy cargo of freight, picked up disa-
pled thursday morning in Chesapeake bay,
OH Sharps Island, by the steamer North
cumberland of the same line and taken to
Baltimore. Repairs will be made at once
to the steamer.
The steamer Harry Randall of the Ran
dall Line, running to river landings as far
down as Nomini and Lower Machodoc has
had her lower deck forward closed in as a
protection against the cold and storms of
the coming winter. While she Is used for
excursion purposes during the summer the
panels which form the forward part of her
house are removed leaving the main deck
forward open.
During the heavy northwest blow of Tues
day evening last the handsome little yawl
attached to Dr. Schaferts pleasure Yacht
the Teddy. broke adrift from its moorings
and was drifting down the river when re-
covered by the officers of the harbor police
boat V1giant and returned to its owner
The new steam launch built at Alexandria
for Judge J. D. Yoeman has been named she
Dalls. Her engine and other machinery
will be placed in position early next week.
One of the large sand scows of Mr.. John
Miller Is undergoing repairs at Rennett's
boat yard. and the scows of Mr.. Louis e.
Smoot are being repaired at the Alexandria
shipyard.
Mr.. Michael Dugan, engineer of the War
Department launch Mercedes, has gone to
lD1 r1n nod hI-t l,a -
his SON.
Mr.. Charley Marmaduke has been made
second mate of the Norfolk and Washing
ton Line steamer Norfolk.
Mr.. Luckie Adams, mate of the ferry
line steamer Belle Haven, has resigned
the winter.
Capt. Jerry Gibson. well known and
popular river man, is reported seriously
i'll at his home in lower Maryland.
The work Of overhauling the steam
dredge Gray Eagle, employed in the work
of improving the grounds of the Washing
ton barracks, is being pushed, and it is
expected the dredge will be ready for ser
vice in a short time. The dredge Alice
Vivian is in operation night and day on
the barracks work.
The schooner Mary A. Shea. laden with
lumber, has arrived in port with a full
cargo of oak wood for the dealers.
The Lottie Thomas laden with oysters,
came into port with a small cargo for this
market.
The steamer f. James Tull. laden with
lumber for Fort Hunt and fertilizer for
the lower river, sailed yesterday.
The Mayfower, Oakland and Osceola,
which are to load wood, and the NJ ]. Ste
phenson, George B. Tanner and Ada Bal
lenger, for oysters, sailed yesterday for
lower river points.
The steamer Wakefield, which came into
port this morning from the lower Potomac.
brought a large cargo of stock, fruit and
poultry and oysters for the dealers here.
The tug NJ. NJ. Davis of this city is cruis-
Ing on Chesapeake bay on the lookout for
vessels bound here.