Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-18
ON THE RIVER FRONT
REBUILDING MARINE RAILWAY
AT ALEXANDRIA.
Last Potomac-Built Schooner Lost.
Belle Isle Farm Sold
River News.

Work Is being pushed on the cradles Of
the big marine railway at Alexandria. ana
before the end of the winter 1t will be in
thorough order and ready to haul out for
repair work any steamer on the river ex.
cept the large vessels Of the Norfolk and
washington line. The railway is to be
rebuilt from end to end. As things are now
large vessel belonging here has to 20 to
baltimore to be hauled out even for minor
repair work, and the rebuilding Of the ran.
way VIII be a great convenience to vessel
owners. The work on the new railway to
De built by Messrs. Augustus Dean & Son
will start in a short time.
Inc fish market at the 18th street wharf
was fairly well supplied with fish both
from the nets In the river and from the
nsneries In Chesapeake bay and on the At
Iantic coast. The demand was fair and
prices show but few changes. Potomac
PACK bass selling at to 1Oc. per pound;
North Caroline black bass to DC. per
pound; gray trout. Sc. per pound; sheeps-
mead, to &C. per pound; bluefish and
taiiors, to 10c. per pound; Spanish mack
enei' ~ 70 l2c per pound; pan rock, 9 to
loc. per pound; medium rock IL to l4c per
pound boiling rock, 10 to 1Sc. per pound:
nouhoers, to &C. per pound; green pike
: TO DC. per pound; white perch. 10 to 12c
per pound; white perch, small 10 to lJc
per bunch catfish. large, 20 to BIC. per
punch' catnsh small, 10 to 15c per bunch;
yellow perch, 10 to 40c. per bunch; cells, SC.
each. and carp. Is to 35c each.
Nearly the entire fleet of oyster running
boats are now down the river. taking
ABOARD cargoes of oysters for the Christmas
market, and the advance guard of the feet
VIII reach here tomorrow night There
was fair supply of oysters on hand this
morning and the demand was fair. Prices
ranged from 80 to Go cents per busheI
Ducks and other game are on the market
In small quantities and are selling at prices
G RI ,.,s-
yet few, if any. canvas-back ducks have
been killed on the river
General and Personal.
Mr.. Harry Carter has recovered from an
attack of typhoid fever and is again on
duty.
Large quantities of dressed hogs are be-
ing brought from lower river points by the
steamers on every trip, consigned to the
commission merchants. g-killng time is
now in full swing all along the river the
warm weather OF November having delayed
ii until this time
With the sinking of the large four-masted
schooner Isleboro', it is stated the last Of
the seven schooners built at Alexandria in
the eighties has been lost. The Robert
Portner the Ellwood Harlow the Cover
nor Ames and others have disappeared. one
by one, until only the Isleboro' or James
Bryce, jr., as she was first named, was
left. Tbs last-named vessel is believed to
The Belle Isle farm, one of the Oldest and
best-lInown pieces of property on Upper
Machodoc creek, in Prince Georges county,
Nd has been sold by it's owners to Mr.
Chapman Price, who will make II his home
The steamer Wakefield. which came into
port last night, brought up a quantity OF
grain in sacks from the lower river for the
mills at Georgetown. She also brought up
a large quantity of turkeys. dressed chick
ems and produce from the river.
The work on the eastern section of the
nn COO h.a aChf fexfa Do
racks Park is going ahead quite rapidly.
With good weather it should be completed
in two three weeks
The schooner Mayflower, loaded with cord
wood, came into port yesterday evening for
Carter & Clark
The Ella Hill, Marie and Fannie Shep-
herd are in port with full loads of Potomac
oysters for the dealers.
The Leroy and Father and Son have ar
rived with cargoes of cord wood from the
lower Potomac
The steamer Dennis Simmons is in port
with large cargo of pine lumber from
North Carolina for the dealers here and at
Alexandria.