Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SAILORS FROM THE ROGERS
SAVE DRIFTING BOAT.
Lumber-Laden Scow Sinks-Pungy
Loses Her Sails-Other
Harbor News.

During the heaviest part of the blow yes
terday evening handsome clinker-
built yawIboat, said to belong to
the yacht Seabelle, at anchor in
the stream, broke loose and was
drifting rapidly down the harbor, and would
have been dashed against the stone wall
of the Potomac Park had not two of the
sailors from the torpedo boat Rogers Sc
cured it. They brought It to the Sth street
wharf, and it will be turned over to it's
owner today. Several of the smaller pleas
ure craft in the harbor dragged their an
chors i'll the gale yesterday and fouled each
other, but beyond breaking few stays no
damage was done.
The cooler weather has made the demand
for fresh fish a the 18th street wharf quite
brisk this morning, and the market was
quite busy place for several hours. The
supply of fish on hand fairly large,
and prices show a slight inclination to adj
vance. Today Spanish mackerel are selling
at lie. to 15c. per pound; bluetish, &c. per
pound white perch. Toe. to 12c. per pound;
pan rock, &c. to 1sc per pound; medium
rock 1012c. to 12c per pound; boiling rock,
15c. to 1sc. per pound; founders, &c. per
pound: sturgeon, 10c. to 12c. per pound
small catfish, 10c to 15c. per bunch: large
catfish, zoe. to soc. per bunch; small white
perch, &C. TO DC. per bunch cells, Sc. to &c
each; gray trout, 50 to s. per barrel: but
barrel; hard crabs, 81 to 81 per barrel and
clans, 4Oc. per hundred.
The supply of watermeons a the wharf
is becoming smaller only Loo being on
hand now, and no vessels laden with the
fruit have arrived since yesterday In spite
of the cooler weather the demand continues
fair, and this morning large selects were
selling at SIS per hundred smaller selects
ST. per hundred; prime, 81 to $6 per hun
dred. and culls, s. per hundred. The water
melon season will close in the next week.
Two vessels laden with about SEQ bushels
of oysters have arrived at the wharf since
yesterday, and the cooler weather has made
the demand today somewhat better than it
has been. Prices are firm the bivalves SELL
ing at from 40c. to SOC. per bushel.
a soow laden with lumber from Johnson
& Wimsatt, while on its way to Alexandria
yesterday in tow of the tug ID. NJ. Key,
sprang a leak, and to keep it from sinking
in the channel it was beached on point of
sand near the United States naval maya
zine. 1t will be pumped out and raised at
low water today and will be taken 10 Alex
andria.
The pungy Annie Crosswell, Capt. Sol
Russell came into port this morning with
her big mainsail blown into rags and her
other sails considerably damaged. The YES
sci was on her way up the river yesterday
evening, with cargo of oysters, when she
was struck by heavy flaw of wind, which
blew her away down on one side, when the
sail split and in minute was torn to rib
bons. While here the Crossweil Will reflt.
Of General Interest.
Mr.. B. F. Grimes has succeeded Mr. P
II. Pemberton in charge of the wharf at
Matthias Point, Md. Mr.. Pemberton, it is
understood, will make his home in this
city.
Mr.. r. H. Stuart, treasurer of West
moreland county, Va, is reported to be
very Ill at his home in that county.
The pungy Cora Mckenney is hauled out
on the small railway at the Alexandria
shipyard and IS being rebuilt preparatory
TO engaging in the oyster-carrying trade
during the winter months.
The schooner Charles V. Dagger has been
chartered by H. L. Biscoe to load lumber
in the Rappahannock river for this city.
The work of rebuilding the coal wharf
at the Alexandria ferry wharf is being
pushed and will be completed this week.
The three-masted ram schooner Mabel
and Ruth, laden with a cargo of about
100000 feet of North Carolina pine lum-
Der, came into port from Newbern yes
terday. She is consigned to T. r. Riley
and is unloading at the wharf foot of 9th
street.
The schooner Amanda F. Lewis, laden
with oysters from a lower Potomac point,
came into port yesterday and is at the 18th
street wharf.
The steamer E. James Tull is at the
wharf of VIM. a. Smoot & Co. at Alex
andria and will take on a cargo of coal
and general stores for Aqua creek and
other river points.
The schooner John Diverty, having
aboard a cargo of laths from a North
Carolina port, has arrived here for john
son & Wimsatt.
The Mary Ann Shea has loaded a gen
eral cargo at Alexandria and will sail to-
day for Aqua creek.
a two-masted schooner is lying at T.
w. Riley's wharf loading a cargo of build
ing brick for lower Maryland