Evening star., 1902-01-22
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
OCCUPANTS OF LOCAL wHARvEs IN
A QUANDARY.
Undecided as to Future Possession
and Making but Slight Re-
pairs-General Matters.


| river front, from the Long bridge to the
arsenal, are all at sea as to whether not
to rebuild and repair them. How long the
wharf holders will be able to control the
| wharves when the District takes posses
sion of them and whether they will be re-
imbursed for the money expended on the
wharves are the main factors preventing
the general repair of river-front property
number of the wharves need general
overhauling, but the holders Of the prop
erty are only putting such repairs on them
as are absolutely necessary to keep them
in condition for use.
The stock of fish on hand at the 11th
street wharf market this morning was
small, few, If any, fish having been re-
ceived from the river and the receipts Of
frozen fish being light Prices today are
about the same as yesterday, and are as
follows; For pan rock, 14c. per pound; me-
dunn rock, 16c. to 1Sc. per pound; boiling
rock, 22c to 2oc. per pound sheepshead &c.
to &c.; white perch 10c. to 13c. per pound
carp, 4c per pound; jumping mullets. &c.
to sc. per pound; pike, Sc to 10c. per pound ;
black bass, 121hc. to lie. per pound; sal
mon trout, 1Oc: per pound; catfish. 20c. to
Boo. per bunch; river mullets, 20c. per
bunch; yellow perch. 25c. to 40c. per bunch,
and winter shad, $1.75 to 81 per hundred.
The supply of oysters on hand at the
wharf is large enough to meet all demands,
Ilille NeSSe1S Win 1uiiy S,UbV DuShSiS dD0dEo
having arrived yesterday. Prices this
morning are little lower, the small oys-
ters selling at soc. per bushel and ranging
from that to $1.20 per bushel
Vessels Coming and Going.
The schooner James NJ. Hull, from the
James river with a cargo of about so, 600
feet of pine lumber, has arrived for John
son & Wimsatt.
The two-masted schooner A. H. Quinby
now in port here, has been chartered to go
to the Rappahannock river and load lum-
Der for H. L. Bscoe.
The schooner Clara Coward laden with
lumber from Nomini creek, has arrived in
port in tow of the tug VIM. H. Yerkes, jr,
for Carter & Clark.
The tug Favorite, with the Standard Oil
Company barge No. 7S, in tow sailed yes
terday from Alexandria for Baltimore.
The three-masted ram schooner Grace G.
Bennett, loaded with lumber and shingles
from Newbern, N. c., for Johnson & VIM
satt Is at Norfolk awaiting the disappear
ance of ice from the Potomac.
The schooner Sarah J. Tyler will COM
plete the loading of her cargo of fertilizer
at the 11th street wharf Of T. W. Riley,
and will sail for the Nansemond river, Va.
The schooner James Conner is loading fer
ti'izer at the same wharf for Norfolk.
The schooner S. l.. Bowen is laid up at
the 10th street wharf of the American Ice
Company for the winter.
The tug Minerva sailed yesterday with
tow of light sand scows for the sand and
gravel digging machine near Glymont.
Mr.. Jos. Punch, mate of the ferry line
steamer Columbia, was off duty yesterday
owing to sickness.
Buoy Disappears.
The officers of the Glymont mail steamer
Estelle Randall report the black buoy
marking the shoal off Holloway Point,
Fairfax county, Virginia, has disappeared.
The buoy has, it is thought, been picked up
by the drifting ice and carried down the
river. The disappearance will be reported
to the lighthouse officials
Messrs. Cumberland & Sons this morning
began at their boat yard foot of 9th street,
the construction of a large lighter for
Messrs. Johnson & Wimsatt. The new boat
will be used for the handling of lumber and
building material. She will be 80 feet long,
1G feet wide and 3l2 feet deep. 1t will be
ready for use about the middle of Feb
ruary.
Plans are being perfected for the rebuild
ing of the steamer T. V. Arrowsrnith be-
fore the opening of the next excursion sea-
SON The steamer will be modernized, and
will be put in thorough order.
Mr. Augustus Dean, the proprietor of the
new bodybuilding yard near the old canal
at the north of Alexandria, was painfully
injured a day or two ago, a piece of heavy
timber falling upon and crushing one of his
feet.
Mr.. w. H. Yerkes. manager of the Amerf-
can Ice Company here, has received a let
ter stating that the cutting of ice on the
Kennebec river, Maine, for here during
the summer months has been begun.
The large garbage reduction plant at
Cockpit Point on the Potomac, in which all
the garbage from this city is destroyed, is
running night and day. and is working a
large force of hands.
Thirteen wild turkeys, which are sup
posed to have fallen into the river and
drowned while trying to fly across It, were
seen floating between this city and Alex
andria yesterday. The fowls were all large
and fine specimens.