Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-10
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER YACHT wAYFARER
SAILS FoHoLD POINT.
Few shad and HerAlg Caught Par
hams Point Wharf Rebuilt
Other Marine Items.

The large schooner Yacht wayfarer, hail.
ing from New York. which has been lying
in port here for several days past, sailed
yesterday evening for Hampton roads,
where her owner, Mr.. Wm. NJ. WINS, and
his party, from New York, will go aboard
for a cruise. The Wayfarer is one of the
handsomest boats of her class that has ever
visited this harbor. She is a two-masted
schooner-rigged vessel of seventy-one tons
burden and has an immense spread Of sail,
but Is also equipped with a large naphtha
engine and propeller for use in calm weather
or when necessary. While lying in the
harbor the vessel attracted much attention.
The receipts of herring and shad have
become SO light at the 18th street wharf
that the packing houses are all a a stand
still, and 1t is more than probable that
the sailing of fish this season is over The
supply of other varieties of fish from the
neighborhood of Old Point and Norfolk is
good, and prices this morning were as fol-
lows: For roe shad, 80 to 35 cents each;
buck shad, II to Ii cents each; herring, 81
to IS per thousand; pan rock, to 10 cents
per pound; boiling rock, 1917 to 10 cents
per pound; founders, 3 cents per pound;
k1nghsh, J cents per pound; white percn,
to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon cents
per pound; carp, 10 to 10 cents each; small
white perch Is to 80 cents per bunch;
white catfish, 20 to 80 cents per bunch;
eels, 5 cents each, and trout, $50 to $3.50
per barrel. The receipts Of shad and her.
ring since yesterday have been about 100
shad and 5000 herring.
Small vessels, with cargoes of thirty or
forty bushels of oysters, are arriving at in
tervals at the oyster wharf, but the de-
mand for the bivalves is very light. Today
the larger and finer stock sold at Soc per
bushel, while the inferior grades could be
bought for 4Oc., and even less. per bushel.
Clans are good stock and are selling at
about the figures quoted yesterday.
Freight Vessels Come and Go.
The schooner Lily and Howard is unload
ing a cargo of railway ties on the Eastern
branch for the dealers here
The Mary A. Shea is at Alexandria load
ing a cargo of fertilizer in bags for the
lower Potomac.
The J. R. Dixon has arrived at Alexan-
dria with a cargo of salt fish in barrels
from Mundy's Point, Va.
The large barge Arasapia, loaded with
lumber from the James river, is unloading
at the wharf of T. w. Riley for Joseph l..
Crupper.
The schooner Emma Virginia has arrived
in port from the James river with load
Of lumber for Baltimore firm.
The schooner Edith Verrill, loaded with
bricks and building material, has sailed
from Alexandria for a lower river point.
The schooner Lottie Carter has arrived
in port with a full load of cord wood from
Nomini creek for Carter & Clark.
The two-masted schooner Murray Van
diver, loaded with white sand from the
lower river, has arrived I'm port.
The schooner Matilda and the pungy Hat
tie are in port with eargoes Of cord wood
from river points for the dealers.
Diversions wharf, better known as Par
hams Point, in Lower Maehodoc creek, has
been thoroughly rebuilt and heightened
twenty feet, In order to accommodate the
vessels landing there, The greater portion
of the freight and passengers from that
point come to this city oB the Re ndall line
steamers, and the trade on it during the
warm months Of the summer is quite
heavy. 80,
The weems line STEAMER Sue, which has
been running as freight boat between this
city, the lower river landings and Balti-
more, is now making two trips to this city
and will carry passengers, Under her new
schedule she arrives, here each Saturday
same day for landings as far as Miller's
wharf. She returns here Monday and sails
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock for Balti-
more and usual landings in the lower Po-
tomac.
One of the large naval gun barges, used
to transport the newly built guns and
other freight between this city and the
naval proving grounds at Indian Head, Md,
is hauled out on the railway at the navy
yard for an overhauling and repainting.
Banks large pile driver is at work on
the Motley Hall wharf, overhaulfng it and
putting 1t in order for service during the
coming excursion season. I
The Randall line steamer Kent. which ar
rived in port yesterday evening from the
lower river. brought up about twenty
hogsheads of tobacco to Alexandria, to be
reshipped by the Weems line to Baltimore.
She also had aboard a large quantity of
grain for the dealers here and at George
town.
The handsome power yacht Greyhound,
lying in the dock adjoining the Sth street
wharf, is being reprinted and put in trim
for summer trips.
The schooner Elvira J. French has been
chartered to load ice on the Kennebec river
for this port.