Evening star., 1902-09-01
ON THE River FRONT
MATTAWoMAN FLATS CHANNEL
NEARLY COMPLETED.
Filling in Arsenal IfGround-Launches
Out for pleasure Cruises
Other Nakine News

Ahe "ofh VI ueepenHg the water over the
Mattawoman shoals near Indian Head, Md.
| Is progressing rapidly. and the channel, 200
| 1eet wide and "a feet deep, will be COM
pieted in few days. The petition to have
this channel made 400 feet wide is now in
| the hands Of the War Department, and it
| is confidently expected the petition will
be granted. The tug Annie, the tender Of
| the dredge Pugh, came into port Saturday
evening to spend Sunday
The mud pumped by the dredge Gray
Eagle OF the Risley Dredging Company from
the enamel in the harbor on the low
GROUNDS ON the eastern side of the Wash
ington barracks Park has raised the ground
there several feet. The mud is pumped out
| IN liquid state, and after the water set
'les II Is run off into the James Creek canal
Ihe demand for fresh fish of all kinds
continues quite good, though the supply Is
| again quite small. Prices this morning
were as follows: For Spanish mackerel,
10 ~ cents per pound; pan rock, . to 10
cents per pound; medium rock 1O1h to II
cents per pound; boiling rock, Is to 1S cents
per pound hounders, 3 cents per pound
sturgeon. 10 to Il cents per pound; white
perch' 10 to IL cents per pound; small
white perch. to Is cents per bunch: cat
fish, 10 to 80 cents per bunch: eels. to 3
cents each; spot, s. to IS per barrel: gray
trout, $25O to S per barrel; butter fish, 81
10 20 per barrel; hard shelled crabs, 81 to
Sl5O per barrel, and CLANS So to 40 cents
per hundred
Inc warmer weather has caused a de-
claed increase in the demand for water
melons at the wharf this morning and busi-
ness Is quite brisk there Since Saturday
about COCO melons have been received at
tne "harf from off the Potomac river and
.hes are selling as follows: For culls 81
u 70 si.oo per hundred; primes, 81 to Sc per
hundred. and selected fruit at $40 to s12
per hundred. according to grade.
me power launch Alena, belonging to Mr.
Frazee, left port Saturday evening for
'lrtse The ,ald on ahe river with party aboard.
1ert, has returned from cruise of two
weeks TO points along the lower river
oolohlal beach, St. Georges and other
points were visited
Inc large launch Alert belonging to DR..
Rauterberg, is hauled out in her boat
mouse to have a new rudder shoe put on
ner. Inc action Of the salt water on the
shoe winch was taken off had eaten the
heaVy piece of iron almost through in sew
eral places.
The schooner yacht Mist left port Satur-
uav evening for short cruise on the lower
river. ~ ~ Wa
General Marine News.
capt. James Geoghehan, well known here
as master or the Sue and other Weems line
steamers, will command the ice boat La
trobe In Baltimore harbor this winter.
Mr. Charles Kerseya chief engineer of the
steamer Harry Randall, was taken Ill
ABOARD his boat yesterday and had to leave
hef at Alexandria, shis home Engineer
hersey is said to be threatened with an at
tack of pneumonia.
Mr.. James Nash. a well-known old ma
ilhe engineer, is reported quite i'll at his
nome in this city.
The pungy Ada BaIlenger lying at Alex
andrla. has been handsomely repainted and
prepared for the falf oyster running trade
on the Potomac.
The steamer Wakefield yesterday brought
up from lower river landings about $50
boxes OF tomatoes for the canning factories
at Alexandria. She also brought several
hundred bushels of grain for the Alexandria
dealers.
The tug j. S. Hoskins has arrived in port
haVlng in tow an oil barge laden with oil
Tor the Standard Oil Company here
The three -masted schooner VIM Marshall.
laden with a full cargo of laths from St
johns, n. B., came into port Saturday
evening in tow of the tug Wm H. YerkeS
Jr The vessel came in the Capes of the
Chesapeake Thursday last She is consigned
to Johnson & Wimsatt.
Inc schooner 81. Bowen has arrived
here with a fun cargo of cord wood from
the lower Potomac for Carter & Clark
The tWo-masted schooner John Maginis
having full cargo of glass making sand
from the Severn river aboard, has arrived
at Alexandria for the Old Dominion glass
works. The sand will be used in the manu-
facture Of bottles.
The schooner Hanson P. Baines laden
with shingles from North Carolina, has ar
rived at Alexandria, consigned to Smoot &
Co.
The Silver Star. with general cargo, has
sailed from Alexandria for Aqua creek.