Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT
FISHERMEN PREPARING FOR
SUMMER SEINE HAULING.
Two Revenue Cutters Here-Eoat
Yards Busy-Other Items
of News.

| Now that the season for shad and herring
| is over the fishermen are overhaulng their
| nets and boats and are about to start for
| lower river points to engage in summer
| fishing. Gill nets and traps are mainly used
| in that work and the main fish caught in
| the Potomac are perch, rock, bass, trout
| and tailors. From Chesapeake bay are
! taken spot, croakers and sea trout. All
| these fish are in demand and find ready sale
| at good prices in the markets here and at
| Philadelphia and New York. The sloop
! Ella Treadwell. with a fishing party aboard
| has already left port, and the Dan Sheetz
| Capt. Gibson and a new boat of Capt. ]. D.
| Faunce's are in port preparing for their
summer cruise.
| The fish market at the 18th street wharf
has been brisk for the past two or three
days, the receipts being quite light, but
with fair demand. Quantities of gray trout
| are being received from Norfolk and are
bringing good prices. There are but few
| changes in prices, which follows
For Spanish mackerel, 10c. per pound;
| white perch, 10 to 12c. per pound; salmon
trout, . to &c. per pound; pan rock, to l0c
per pound: boiling rock, 10 to 12c. per
pound; founders, to sc. per pound; stur-
geon 10 to lie. per pound; bluefsh, to &c.
per pound; gray trout. "a to s. per barrel;
| perch, 25c. per bunch: catfish, % to 2Jc per
! bunch; carp, u to 15c. each; eels, 3 to DC
each; hard crabs, $50 per barrel; soft
sheled crabs, 80 to Ace per Dozen and
CLANS 40 to soc. per hundred.
The United States revenue cutter fleet is
represented in the harbor by the cutters
Algonquin and VIM. Window the last
named vessel having come into port Wednes-
day evening The Window is the vessel in
regular service on this station, but is not
half as large the Algonquin, which does
duty at Charleston and in adjacent waters.
The new steam launch built by Mr.. James
Beach at Alexandria for service he
Potomac has been put overheard and is be-
Ing prepared for service. The launch is
quite roomy boat and will carry ten or
twelve people comfortably. She is fitted
with an engine and boiler of sufficient size
to give her speed of about ten miles an
hour. She will be ready for service in a
few days.
Along the Shores.
The pleasure soop Dawn is hauled out on
the marine railway at Sonny Reagan's boat
house at the foot of 1872 street southwest
for overhaulng and painting for summer
service. She will be on the railway for sew
eral days.
The Skip Jack has been taken from the
water at Townshends boat exchange and
will be given overhauling.
The hull of the new pile driver building
at Augustus Deans boat yard at -Alexar-
dria is. completed and viii be launched in a
day or two The machinery will be at once
pieSSb III ppSiilcA anu DIS SOON as the GrlNer
is completed it will be taken to the Long
bridge for service on the new work. There
are now four or five large pile drivers en-
ployed at the bridge.
The steam yacht Gretchen has been dock
ed at the Motley Hall wharf foot of n
street southwest, and is being prepared for
her northern cruise.
The steam yacht Neriad which formerly
belonged to this city. is in service at the
Thousand Island House on the St Law
renee river.
The tug Eva Belle Cain. which was re-
Gently sold to parties in Philadelphia, mas
oeen turned over to her new owners and
has left Alexandria for the north. Capt
Pitt Forest took the boat to Chesa-
peake City, where she was met by a crew
from Philadelphia, who will carry her
through the Chesapeake and Delaware ca
nal and up the Delaware river to her new
hailing port.
The three-masted schooner Oliver S. Bar
rett, laden with lumber from a southern
port, mas arrived in port for johnson &
Mimsatt. She brings about 10000 feet.
Inc tug Camilla towed her here from the
mouth Of the Potomac