Evening star., 1902-01-01
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
sNAG BOAT SINKS IN ABOUT FIVE
FEET OF WATER.
Demand for Fish. Oysters mud Game
The Freight Handier~-Gen-
eral Port News.

The snag-pulling boat of the United
States army engineers used in making
soundings in the river and for the removal
of distractions, has been for several weeks
anchored in the harbor. not far from the
Long bridge. When the ice drifted out OF
the harbor Thursday and Friday last IL
evidently opened a seam in the hull OF the
boat. She filled with water and sank In
about five feet of water. II is stated that
the army authorities will in a day or two
take steps to raise the boat, and will have
| her hauled out at Alexandria for caulking
| and repairing.
The supply of bass and other Potomac
river fish has been larger at the l1th street
wharf market during the past two days
| than IL has been for several days past.
and the demand for these and for the salt
water fish is excellent. Prices this morn
| ing are changed somewhat and are as fol-
lows For boiling rock. 2Ic. per pound; pan
rock. l3c. to 1ic. per pound; medium rock,
10 TO lsc. per pound; bass. &C. TO l2c. per
| pound; green pike, SC. to 1oc. per pound;
| white perch, &c. to 13c per pound: jumping
mullets, &c to &c. per pound; drum, 4c. to
| DC. per pound; carp, &c. per pound; river
mullets. 10c. to 29c. per bunch catfish. 15c.
to 33c. per bunch; eels, 20c TO SOC. per
bunch; yellow perch, 1oc. to 4oc. per bunch,
| and winter shad, So TO So per hundred.
Shad are on sale this morning and are SELL
| ing at 4Oc. to 81 each.
There were but one or two boats laden
|
| the demand was quite fair, the oysters
| bringing high prices but not as high as in
| the latter part of last week AS soon as
| the dredgers return to work after the New
| Year the supply will again be large, as
| there are number of boats In the lower
| river waiting to take on .cargoes for this
city. They should be here during the lat
| ter part of this week. Prices this morn
| ing ranged from Csc. to zoe per bushel for
| the small oysters, up to S1.l5 per bushel for
the larger ones. The arrivals were the
l nn1f ord H. iii
| The demand for ducks and wild game was
| somewhat better this morning at the I1th
| street wharf market than il has been for
| several days past. Prices were as follows:
| For whitebacks, So to $3.50 per pair; red
| heads 81 to $40 per pair; mallard. 81 per
| pair; blackheads, 80 cents per pair: shuf-
hers. 30 cents per pair; dippers 40 to -
| cents per pair; wild turkeys, = to L. cents
per pound; wild geese, 80 to 10 cents each;
swans. 81 to S1.50 each, and quail. 81 TO
| $3.50 per dozen.
| The Passing Craft.
The pungy James Beach VIII sail today
for the oyster beds in the lower river and
will load for this market
The z. p. Vans and George b. Faunce
| have gone to a lower river point for car
| goes.
| The tug Favorite, with the Standard Oil
barge No. as in tow, has sailed from Balti-
| more for this port.
| The steamer E. James Tull has arrived
| In port with a cargo of cord wood from
| Nomini for Carter & Clark
| The barge Caspar Helen is lying at the
| wharf of John r. Zimmerman a. Co, at
Alexandria, unloading cargo Of hard coal.
The Fannie Shepherd. having completed
| the discharging of her cargo of oysters, has
| sailed for the lower river.
| The unloading of the cargo of lumber
from the schooner Sidonia Curley at the
10th street wharf of the American Ice Com
| pany is being pushed and she will be able
| to sail within the next day two
| The steamer 7. V. Arrowsmith has been
| changed from her berth at the River View
| wharf to the 9th street wharf of the Amer
| lean Ice Company.
The schooner Beulah Land, now unload
| ing glassmaking sand at Alexandria, will
complete the discharging of her cargo to-
| morrow and will sail
| The schooner James b. Anderson has
sailed for Virginia lumber port and will
| load a cargo for the market here.
| The Mary Ann Shea is unloading her
| cargo of wood at the wharf of Carter q
| Clark.
The Lottie Thomas has gone to the lower
| Potomac and Will load a cargo for this
| market.
The Edith verrill has gone to the neigh
| borhood of the White House and Will load
| wood back to this city.
The barge Daniel is to go to the Mt.
Vernon neighborhood to load oak wood for
| the dealers here
| The barge Lotta, with cargo of about
| 800 tons of hard coal, is lying at the
| Washington Barracks wharf and will un-
load there
The three-masted schooner VIM Mar
shall completed the dischargng Of her cargo
| of laths last evening.
The schooner J. H. Hargrave is in port
with a cargo of lumber and shingles for
Johnson & Wimsatt
The steamer Dennis Simmons having un-
! loaded her cargo of shingles and lumber at
Alexandria, has sailed for a North Carolina
port to load
The E. L. Bowen having completed the
unloading ha
lower river to reload.
OF General Interest.
The ice drifting up and down the river
with the tides last week cut every trace
of paint from the buoys marking the
river channel, and on a dull cloudy day II
is almost impossible to make them out at
any distance away. The lighthouse serv-
ice will not. repair these buoys until after
the winter is over.
The repairs to Stuarts wharf in King
George county, Va, on the Potomac river,
are completed and the wharf is in thor
| ough order. Nothing has vet been done
in regard to the rebuilding of St..Is wharf
which was destroyed by the ice last week
The water-logged hull of the barge Jose
phine formerly the steamer George Leary
Of this city, is reported to be still afioat and
was seen at sea Saturday about nineteen
miles northeast of Winter Quarter light
ship.
The lighthouse engineers steamer Jas
in the District, making necessary repairs
to them.
The house boat Arcadia is laid up for the
winter at the boat house foot of l312 street
southwest.
The work of rebuilding the steam launch
Arcadia has been completed and the boat
is again in service on the river. She Will
engage in towing during the winter
The effect of the recent rains along the
upper river is felt here in the extremely
heavy current. Under the Long bridge the
muddy water is running in great whirls
and eddies and is flowing at a speed or
about six miles an hour. Since yesterday
morning there has been no flood tide OF
consequence. The water in the river keeps
high. though by no means dangerously so.
Vessels bound down the river are carried
in the current very rapidly. but those COM
ing up make but slow time against IL.
The tug Emma. which left here a day or
two ago with tow of barges for the Rap
pahannock to load poplar wood for Phil
adelphia, is held up below FREDERICKSBURG
the current in the river being SO strong
that the tug can make no headway against