Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-25
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STRANDED VESSEL FLOATS
AFTER LONG DELAY.
Tender Maple to Be Repainted-News
From the Wharves-General
River News.

The two-masted schooner VIM. Mcdaniel,
laden with pine wood from the lower river
for Carter & Clark, ran aground in the mud
bank off Fort Foote. Md, Monday after
noon, and in spite of all the efforts to float
her remained stuck in the mud until yes
terday afternoon, when an unusually high
tide foated her and she resumed her trip
up the river, reaching here yesterday even
Ing. No serious harm was done the
schooner in going ashore on the mud bank.
The lighthouse tender Maple, which has
been buoying the new channel through the
Mattawoman shoals. has completed her
work and will return to Baltimore at once
and will go into dry dock there to have
the bottom of her hull scraped and painted
with a copper paint.
The demand for all varieties of fresh fish
continues excellent at the 18th street oyster
wharf. Prices this morning were firm and
were as follows: For black bass, II to 1Sc.
per pound; sturgeon, 10 to 12c. per pound;
panrock, to SC. per pound; medium rock.
Zoe. per pound; boiling rock, Is to 1sc. per
pound; bluefish or tailors, to &c. per
pound; founders, 2 to Sc. per pound; Span
ish mackerel, Is to 1Sc. per pound; white
perch, large. 8 to 10c. per pound white
perch, small 10 to 15c. per bunch; catfish,
large, % to 40c. per bunch; catfish, small,
10 to 25c. per bunch; cells, to SC. each;
carp, 10 to 4Oc each: gray trout, $3.50 to S6
per barrel and butterfish, $ per barrel.
Hard crabs are on the market and are
selling at BIC. per dozen.
The oyster market at the 11th street
wharf continues quite dull. The bivalves
are selling at 40, As and SOC. per bushel, ac-
cording to grade.
The watermelon season is practically at
an end. only one vessel at the wharf this
morning having melons aboard and only
about 300 of them. They are selling at from
35c. to s. per hundred. Buyers are very
few and sales are small.
The longboat Five Sisters is hauled out on
the large railway at the Alexandria ship
yard for Overhauling of hull, replacing all
unsound wood and for caulkng. She will
be out of the water for several days.
The tug James o. Carter, which has been
hauled out at Alexandria for repair work,
has been completed and put overheard and
will at once return to service rowing on the
river and in the harbor.
The coast survey schooner MatchleSS,
which has been making surveys in Chesa-
peake bay, near Deals Island has been
locked at Booze Bros shpyard at Balti-
more and an examination showed extensive
repairs were needed to hull and metal.
Work on the schooner will be begun at
once.
Along the Wharves.
The large power launch Aquanata, be-
longing to Mr.. II. c. Campbell which has
been on a short cruise to the lower river,
the harbor with the yacht club fleet.
The pungy James H. Beach, lying at Alex
andra, is being handsomely repainted and
refitted for service.
The small dredging machine Gray Eagle,
belonging to the Risley Dredging Company,
the contractors for the filling in of the low
grounds at the Washington barracks, has
been out of service for week with a broken
shaft to cutter and other damaged ma
chinery.
Mr.. Thos Garrett, purser of the steamer
Harry Randall. who has been spending a
vacation in New York and at Atlantic City,
has returned home and is again duty.
Mr.. George j. Stafford, who has been acting
as purSer of the Harry Randall during Mr.
Garnetts absence, has returned to duty on
the Glymont mail route steamer
Mr.. d. l.. Payne, who has been in this
city for several days on business, returned
home to Colonial Beach yesterday evening
on the Randall line steamer
The sloop Daisy, laden with groceries and
general supplies, has sailed from Alexandria
for Pennington, Md.
The schooner Nellie is in port with a full
load of pine lumber from a Virginia lumber
port for Church & Stephenson.
The schooner Flora and Agnes with a
cargo of boards from the Rappahannock
river, has arrived for H. L. Biscoe.
The r. H. Stuart is at the 18th street
wharf unloading canned goods from the
The longboat Mary y. Shea came into
port yesterday evening with cargo of lum-
Der and cord wood.
The schooner Alice Carlisle is in port with
a load of cord wood from Nomini for Robert
Murphy & Co.