Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
REPAIRS TO COAST SURVEY
SCHOONER COMPLETED.
Dredge Gray Eagle Sails - Game
Plentiful on Lower River
General Port News.

The repairs to the coast survey schooner
Matchless at Spedders shipyard at
Baltimore are rapidly approaching COM
pletion and the vessel will be ready to re-
sumo work in the bay early next week.
Since being laid up the Matchless has been
fitted with a new main mast and has been
recaulked and thoroughly overhauled. The
Matchless is commanded by Capt. Fowler
and is to be employed in making surveys
in the upper waters of Chesapeake bay.
The little hydraulic dredge Gray Eagle,
which was built for the work of improving
the Washington barracks park but which
proved too small for the work and larger
dredge had to be employed, left port yes
terday in tow of the tug Camilla, it is I'M
derstood for Norfolk. where she will be put
in order and prepared for light work.
The demand for fish at the fish houses
along the 18th street wharves was quite
heavy today, and there was a good stock
and all varieties on hand. Prices were
about the same yesterday, and were as
follows: For Spanish mackerel, 12l4c. to
15c per pound; pan rock, &c. to Sc. per
pound; medium rock, Toe. to 12c. per pound;
boiling rock, 12&c. to 15c. per pound Poto-
mac black bass, Toe. to 12c per pound;
North Carolina black bass. &c. to 10c. per
pound; sturgeon, 10c. to 12c. per pound;
II,
to Sc. per pound; green pike, &c. to Sc. per
pound; white perch, Zoe. per pound; white
perch, small, 10c. to 15c. per bunch: null
lets, sc. to- 25c. per bunch; catfish, large
20c to 35c. per bunch; catfish, small, Zoe
to 15c. per bunch; winter shad &c. to loo
per bunch; carp, Zoe. to 25c. each; cells, &c.
to sc. each: gray trout So to 50 per barrel
and butterfish, s. TO SIS per barrel
The supply of oysters at the 18th street
wharf was greatly augmented yesterday by
the arrival of twelve or fourteen boats, all
laden with Potomac river stock. The total
number of bushels on hand this morning
was about 1000. While the demand con-
tinues good prices are somewhat lower, the
oysters selling from 80 to Coo. per bushel
according to size and quality.
Reports from the lower river state that
rabbits, birds and other game are very
plentiful this year and the gunners from
this city who have made trips to the Nom
I'M and Blackistone's Island neighborhood
had fine sport AS yet ducks of the larger
varieties are still quite scarce on the river,
but with cold weather they will be plentiful.
The long pier a Shepherds landing of
the Baltimore and Ohio railway, opposite
Alexandria, the transfer point of the Bal
timore and Ohio to the Southern railway,
is being rebuilt. A pile driver has been at
work for the past day or two driving new
piling and putting the wharf in condition
to stand the rough weather and ice during
the winter months.
Along the Wharves.
Inc punSy James H. Beach IS lying at
| Alexandria, and is being prepared for the
bending of an entire new suit of sails upon
her. The Beach will, be employed in the
oyster running business during the winter
The schooner C. C. Wheeler is lying at Mil
tons wharf, on the Little Choptank river,
loading a cargo Of canned toma toes for the
dealers of this city.
The Ella Treadwell, Henry H. Travers
| Lizzie Burt, Daniel Miami, Sarah S. Tyler
| and ]. D. Bell finished unloading cargoes
here yesterday, and sailed light for lower
river points.
The schooner Mary Ann Shea. loaded with
a miscellaneous cargo, consigned to mer-
| chants, has sailed for Aqua creek and
| other river points.
The large schooner John Roes laden with
| about 100000 feet of Georgia pine lumber,
| from Brunswick. Ga, is at sea bound to
| this city, and her arrival at the capes of
| the Chesapeake is looked for at any time
| The Roes is one of the largest vessels that
| has come here with lumber cargoes for sew
| eral years. She is consigned to Johnson &
| Wimsatt. and will unload at the wharf foot
| of 18th street northwest.
| The tug Camilla, with a tow of light YES
| sells, left here yesterday afternoon, bound
| for the lower river.
| The barge Marjorie, with a cargo of about