Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-14
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY LOADS OF FERTILIZERS
FOR RIVER POINTS.
Sloop Woolford Now a Schooner
overhauling Excursion Steamers
Other River News.

Freights from Baltimore to this city and
for shipment to river points have become
so very heavy that the Weems Steamboat
Company has been forced to put an extra
steamer on the line to handle the business.
Yesterday the steamer Sue came into port
laden largely with fertilizer for transship-
ment via the Randall Line to down river
wharves. The steamer Estelle Randall yes
terday took sixty-five bags Of fertilizer to
Marshall Hall, and last night the steamer
Harry Randall loaded several hundred bags
of the same material for the wharves in
Curriomen, Nomini and in Lower Machodoc
These heavy fertilizer shipments will con-
tinue for several weeks.
Fish are in demand at the wharf market
today, and in the early hours Of this morn
ing the fish houses were busy places. Win
ter shad have made their appearance on
the market, and catfish from the nets in the
river below the city and Glymont are COM
ing in good quantities. Prices this morning
were as follows: For black bass, 16 to 1Sc.
per pound; pan rock, to 1Oc. per pound;
medium rock. 10 to 12c. per pound; boiling
rock, - to 15c. per pound; Spanish mack
erel, 10 to lie. per pound; founders. 3 to &C.
per pound; bluefish or tailors, to &c. per
pound white perch, large, to 1Oc. per
pound; white perch, small, 10 to 15c. per
bunch; catfish large, 25c. to 40c. per bunch !;
catfish, small, 10 to zoe. per bunch; cells, &C.
each; carp, 10 to 40c. each; butterfish, 81
per barrel, and gray trout, $3.50 to "a per
barrel.
The demand for oysters in the shell at
the 18th street oystr wharf Is still very
light, though somewhat better today than
yesterday. Ten or twelve boats are lying at
the wharf, but the stock in them is quite
small, amounting in all to about 900
bushels. Prices range this morning from
45c. for the smaller grades up to DOC. per
rI1lf Co. IN low a,,1 Hn{ta ctr
The sloop Levin Woolford, which has
been employed in the wood lumber and
oyster-carrying business on the Potomac
has been rerigged and changed into a hand
some little schooner The change in the
rig and the increased sail area given the
vessel has made her much better sailing
craft
General News Of the Port.
The large schooner yacht Ciconia, be-
longing to Mr.. C. C. Wilkison, which was
damaged by fire last week while lying at
anchor in the harbor, is to be rebuilt, and
her interior arrangements will be modified
and improved. So far as has been ascer
tanned the flames have done the hull of the
boat little harm, as the fire was confined
to her cabin.
The River View excursion steamer Saml.
J. Pentz will be taken to Baltimore within
the next day or TWO for her annual over
hauling. Before returning to this city she
will be put in thorough order at one of the
Baltimore boat yards.
The steamer Jane Moseley, which ran ex-
cursions to Glymont, Cedar Point and other
river resorts during the summer, has been
taken to the wharf of the American Ice
Company, on the Eastern branch, and laid
up for the winter.
The Colonial Beach excursion steamer T.
V. Arrowsmith has completed all her ex-
cursion work, and is laid up at the wharf
foot of 7th street. During the winter many
improvements will be made to fit her for
excursion work next season.
The heavy rain of Saturday last has
caused quite freshet in the Potomac and
a strong current is coming from the upper
waters Of the river. The tides during the
past forty-eight hours have been very
high, flooding all the lowlands at the south
end Of the Long bridge.
The two-masted schooner Sidonia Curley
has been chartered to load lumber on the
James river for H. l.. Biscoe & Co. of this
city.
The Ruth and Ella and William Turner
laden with Potomac oysters, have arrived
at the 18th street wharf
Wood for the local market, to take the
place of coal, is arriving in port in large
quantities, and all along the Potomac wood
cutters are busy chopping pine and oak
wood for the dealers. Since yesterday
morning the Peri, Oakland, Earl Biscoe
and Kate Mueller have come into port with
loads of cord wood aboard.