Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-09
ON THE RIVER FRONT
COAL SHIPMENTS FROM GEORGE
TOWN IN BARGES.
Fishing Ark Burned-Large Fleet Of
Schooners in Port-General
Port News.

The large tug Savage of the Consolidation
Coal Company, with barges No. and 70,
has sailed for Boston. The barges are
laden with Cumberland coal from George
town, and altogether they take near
ly $500 tons. This is the first shipment of
coal from this city north in barges, and the
tug will take them by the outside route, up
the Atlantic coast to their destination.
Barges No. 8 and q are now at the George
town coal piers loading, and they will also
carry about $500 tons to Boston or other
New England ports. AS soon as they are
loaded tug Of the Consolidation Coal
Company will be sent to take them in tow
to Boston. Other light barges are to come
here for cargoes Of coal.
The demand for fresh fish, in spite of the
warm weather, was very good this morning
and most of the stock received by the dealers
at the wharf market was quickly disposed Of
but at low figures. The supply is not large,
though it Is increasing slightly. Prices this
morning were as follows: For Spanish
mackerel 10 to II cents per pound; white
perch, 10 cents per pound; founders, cents
per pound; boiling rock, u to 10 cents per
pound; pan rock 9 to 10 cents per pound;
salmon trout to cents per pound; blue
fish, cents per pound; drum, % to 80 cents
each; carp, 10 to 20 cents each; cells, TO
cents EACH small white perch, 3 to 10 cents
per bunch; catfish, 10 to 80 cents per bunch;
gray trout, 81 per barrel, and butterfish, So
to 81 per barrel. Crabs and CLAIMS are in
demand, but are quite scarce. Hard crabs
are selling at 81 to 50 per barrel, soft crabs
so cents per dozen and clans 30 cents per
hundred.
A small fishing ark, which had been laid
up on the river shore, north of Alexandria.
for the summer, caught fire about o'clock
Sunday evening and was totally destroyed,
there being no one near to save it. In the
ark was stored quantity of well-tarred
O apd oil 1ec ed No
er of the burned boat is not known The
loss will amount to several hundred dol
lars
The new experimental boiler which is to
test the use of oil as a steam-producing
fuel for the information of the naval Off
Gals has been placed in position on the
wharf of Forsberg & Murray, at the foot
of Sth street southwest, and as soon as
the furnaces are arranged the experiments
viii begin. This boiler is the type used in
the naval vessels.
Along the Wharves.
There are in port here either unloading
or about to unload sixteen schooners of
large size. OF these six are four masters,
five three masters and five two masters.
They are mostly laden with ice and lumber.
They represent in the aggregate about o.
600 tons.
Messrs Cumberland & Son, boat builders
have the steam launch, cutter and light
yawl of the War Departments steam
yacht Kanawha In their boat house for
overhauling and repainting for service with
the yacht during the summer. The Kama
street southwest.
Rayner's boat house at the foot of 9th
street southwest, which was among the
buildings burned along the river front in
the big fire of about three months ago, is
being rebuilt and enlarged, and will be
used for boat building purposes.
A pile driver is engaged in tearing up
and removing the piles of the old wharf of
the Washington barracks on the Eastern
branch side, and new wharf, it is under
stood, will be built on the harbor side of the
grounds when the new bulkhead is COM
pleted.
The work Of preparing the steam barge
Lily and Howard for service on the river
is rapidly approaching completion, and it is
expected she will go into service within the
next week.
The new tug NJ. NJ. Davis belonging to
Taylor Bros. of this city, had her dock
trial at Baltimore yesterday. She is ex-
pected here within the next week or ten
days.
The schooner Mary Francis has arrived
in port with a full cargo of cordwood from
the Aqua creek neighborhood for Messrs
Carter & Clark.
The schooner Carrie has been taken to
the wharf of Thos. r. Riley, foot Of 9th
street, to unload her cargo of pine lumber
The schooner Ella HILL with fishing para
phernalia aboard has sailed for the mouth
of the river to engage in summer seine
hauling.
The Isaac Solomon is at the wharf of
VIM. A. Smoot & Co. at Alexandria and
will load a miscellaneous cargo for river
points.
The schooner Eddie and Maud. with a full
load of pine lumber from North Carolina
has arrived here from Newbern for H. l..
Bscoe.
The steamer f. James Tull has sailed for
the Coan and Yeocomico rivers and will
load for this city.
The three-masted schooner VIM. Mar
shall has completed the unloading of her
cargo of lumber and has sailed in tow of
the tug Carter for lower river point
The schooner VIM. Mcdaniel laden with
sand, has arrived here from the lower river
The schooner w. p. Snow is in port with
a cargo of lumber from Coan river for H.
l.. Biscoe.
The schooner Chas. w. Church. with ice
for the American Ice Company, arrived this
morning.