Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-30
ON THE RIVER FRONT
Preparing to Gut 46eePungy Zephyr
Changes ownersAGeneral and
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Personal Matters.

The supply Of flesh Ssh at the 18th street
wharf continues to be quite small. while the
demand is fair. But few fish are being
caught in the river and the shipments from
Old Point and the south are light. Prices
are about the Same as last week and are
as follows: For pan rock. &c. to 1Oc. per
pound; medium rock, 12c. to 14c. per pound;
boiling rock. 1Sc to zoe. per pound; Poto-
mac and North Carolina black bass, 12c.
per pound; -bluefish and tailors, &c. to 1Oc.
per pound; founders Be-, to &c. per pound;
salmon trout, SC. TO &c. per pound; green
pike, 7c. to 10c. per pound: sheepshead, Sc.
to 10c. per pound; white perch, 1Oc. to 12c
per pound; Spanish smackerel. lie. to 12c.
per pound: gray trout. &c to &c. per pound:
white perch, small. 1Oc. to 15c. per bunch;
catfish, large. zoe. to 35c per bunch; cat
fish, small 12c. tos25c. per bunch; yellow
perch. 1Oc. to 40c. per bunch; carp. 15c. to
4Oc. each, and eels, &c. to DC. each Ihree
vessels, laden with about 100 bushels OF
Potomac river oysters, have arrived in port
since yesterday but the market is not
overstocked. The small oysters sold today
grades at 75c to Soc per bushel and the
selected stock from 81 to 81 % per bushel.
The supply Of game is scarce with good
demand. After January l it will be un-
lawful to kill squirrels and rabbits In VIZ
ginia and Maryland. 3;
The steam barge, Daniel K. jackson is
lying at the machine shop wharf OF Will
lam A. Moore's Sons. at Alexandria. to
have some minor repair work done to her
machinery before sailing for Norfolk, where
she has been chartered to work. ..s.{...
The steam yacht Giavota Is at Lyncn's
Point. on the Coan river. with q party
ginia home OF Mr.. John r. Dos Passos of
New York. 1t is understood she will re-
main down the river until after the hoii-
days. - -.
American Ice Company here. has received
information from the ice fields In Maine
that the outlook for bOuntiful crop of Ice
this year is excellent The cutting of ice
viii begin in a few. days. The Ice supply
of this city comes largely from the Maine
fields.
OF General Interest.
Cant. Joseph Shivels, it is stated at the
fish wharf has sold his handsome pungy,
the Zephyr. to parties here and will pur-
chase another boat. The new owners OF
the Zephyr will continue, 1t Is stated, in the
oyster and wood carrying business on the
river. The Zephyr is q thirty-ton vessel
and was built at Solomon's, Md. in 1871.
The Baltimore tug Volunteer came into
port yesterday evening with small hy-
draulic dredge in tow, from Baltimore. The
dredge it Is understood, will be used in the
improvements to be made on the Washing
ton barracks front. .
The naval oil testing Eplant at the foot OF
9Th street, which has been shut down for
the past week or ten days, resumed opera
lions yesterday morning, and daily tests
of new oil burning devices will be made.
Mr.. George J. Stafford is acting as purser
of the Randall line steamer Harry Randall
until the steamer Wakefield lays up. when
Mr.. George Guest will take the purser's
Office in charge and Mr.. Stafford will return
to the steamer Estelle Randall
Mr.. Ef1ie Sandferd, Of Nominf has sue
ceeded' Mr.. Charley EuN as deck mate OF
the steamer Randall. ssy~1a. ,,...:.,.. = :, 81
In consequence Of the bad weather, work
has been muchl delayed on. the big seine
boat building at, ,Gunberland's boat house.
at the foot Of 9th street, for Captain VIM.
put overheard until early next spring.
Messrs. Augustus Dean & Son have
power launch onuthe stocks at their boat
house at Alexandra. Ito be completed and
made ready for service next season. She Is
owned by parties here.
The schooner Alice Carlisle has arrived in
port with a full cargo of pine lumber from
a river point for the dealers here.
The schooner A. H. Quinby Is at the
wharf foot of 18th street unloading a cargo
Of lumber. ,-,,.,,-s =,
The Winnie Windsor, Ruth and Ella. and
the Emmett Arthur have arrived here with
full cargoes of Potomac river oysters for
the dealers.
A lighter loaded with shingles was taken
from this city to Alexandria Saturday by
the tug Carter.
The barge Daniel yesterday completed
the unloading of a cargo of cord wood at
Georgetown for the dealers there.