Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-03
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMER MIDDLESEX TO BE
LAUNCHED THIS EVENING.
Bunker Coal 81 Per Ton-Survey Work
on Kettle Bottoms
Completed.


ship yard of Neafie & Levy in Philadelphia
for the Weems Steamboat Company will
be launched this evening md will be
. called the Middlesex. She is the third new
steamer the Weems line has had built in
the past two years, and is fine vessel.
She is 2T feet long, 81 feet wide, has
depth of hold of i feet, and will be fitted
out with modern equipment and with sleep
ing accommodations for 30 passengers.
While the MiddleseX is built to run on the
route between Baltimore and the Kappa
hammock river, she will make several trips
to this port soon after being launched. 1t
is expected she will be ready for service in
the early fall.
There has been no decided increase in the
receipts of fresh fish by the dealers at the
wharf. either from the fishermen on the
Potomac or from the large sea seines at
Virginia Beach and about Old Point. Good
supplies of butter fish and gray trout are
on hand, but other varieties are scarce.
Prices today are as follows: For Spanish
mackerel, 10 to 13c. per pound; salmon
trout, to &c. per pound; white perch, tc
12c. per pound; founders, to &c. per
pound; bluefish. to &C. per pound; pan
rock, 10 to 12c. per pound; boiling rock, IA
to l5c. per pound; sturgeon. 10 to lie. per
pound; black bass, 13 to l5c per pound;
small white perch, 20 to 2oc. per bunch;
catfish % to SOC. per bunch; gray trout, s.
per barrel; butter fish, $3.50 per bar
rel: cells, 3 to &c each; drum. 10 to SOC.
each: carp, IL TO 15c. each: hard crabs, Sl.J0
to 81 per barrel; soft crabs, GO to t5c. per
dozen, and CLAIMS, 40 to SOC per hundred.
The schooner Alice NJ. Colburn, now I'M
loading a cargo of ice here, is of the
biggest four-masted coasting schooners
afioat, and brings one of the largest car
goes of ice that has ever come up the Po-
tomac. She is Do feet long, 43.3 feet beam
and 20.4 feet depth of hold. She registers
1,603 tons, and was built at Bath, Me, in
1896. She brings nearly 200O tons of ice
in her present cargo.
The tug Pocahontas of Norfolk has been
undergoing an oVerhaullng at Baltimore,
and when the work on her was completed
few days ago her owners tried to buy bunk
er coal to take her to Norfolk. Seven dol
lars per ton was the price asked. Rather
than pay such price orders were tele
graphed to Norfolk for the tug +. V. Nc
Cauley, belonging to the same owners, to
come to Baltimore to tow the Pocahontas
home.
The coast survey steamer Endeavor,
which has been engaged for several weeks
past in making surveys in the Potomac
over the Kettle Bottoms, has completed her
work and returned TO Baltimore. 1t is ex-
pected a dredge viii begin work the
Kettle Bottoms in a few weeks
Captain p. A. Welker of the coast survey
steamer Bache has been granted leave OF
absence for three weeks, and will spend L
visiting in the west.
Medical officer ]. H. Clrich has been
detached from the schooner Eagle and or
dered to the coast survey steamer Blake.
Along the Wharves.
The schooner Pheneas w. Sprague has
been taken to the wharf of the National
Asphalt Brick Company, at the foot of
South Capitol street, to unload her cargo
of asphalt.
The schooners Silver Star and the Sea-
bird are in port with full cargo of cord
wood from Aqua creek for Carter & Clark
The Ada Ballnger, laden with grain
from the lower river, has arrived at
Georgetown for the mills there.
The Earl Biscoe and the H. Z. Lesbeth
have sailed light for river points, and will
load for this market.
The barges Stonngton and Jennie
Hughes. which have unloaded large car
goes of ice here sailed this morning. in tow
of the seagoing tug Triton. for Norfolk,
where they will load coal for Boston. The
tug Triton brought them here from the
Kennebec, and after they are loaded will
take them to Boston.
The sloop Rose Chiffon has loaded full
cargo Of bricks and building material. and
has sailed for a river point.
The schooner Fannie is in port with a full
cargo of sand from the lower river for the
dealers.
The schooner VIM. Young is In port with
a full cargo Of lumber from the Kappa
hammock river for Gallaher & Bro
The four masted schooner Independent,
laden with ice, has arrived from the Ken
nebec river for the American Ice Company.
The two-masted schooner Charles H.
Dagger has arrived here from the Coan
river with lumber
The schooner Peri. with a cargo of lum-
Der from Aqua creek, has arrived in port
for the dealers
The steamer Kent will make her first
trip of the season to Chapel Point, Nd,
tomorrow.