Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-19
ON THE RIVER FRONT
FORKS OF CHANNEL BUOY PUT IN
PROPER POSITION.
Ice-Laden Schooners Arrive New
Tug in Port-Brief Harbor
News.


Holly, which came into port Thursday, re-
placed the buoys marking the forks OF
the Georgetown and Washington channels
and sailed for Baltimore. She did not re-
move the buoys which are under water
off Alexandria and in the channel about
midway between Alexandria and Wash
ington Both these buoys are obstruc-
tions in the river and pieces of timber have
been fastened to them so as to show above
the surface of the water, and prevent YES
sells from fouling them. 1t is stated that
the lighthouse authorities have not been
notified of the existence of these two hid
den buoys, and steps will at once be taken
to send them notice. They will then be
taken up by the lighthouse vessels and re-
placed in proper position.
While there was fair supply of fish on
hand at the 18th street wharf market this
morning the market was not overstocked,
and the demand was good. Shad and her
ring are scarce and are bringing high
prices, the few that are now arriving not
sufticing to supply the local demand. The
market is firm and prices today are as
follows: For roe Shad, 30 to 30 cents each;
buck Shad, 10 to 20 cents each; herring,
20 to 80 cents per hundred; founders, to
cents per pound; white perch, to III
cents per pound salmon trout, cents per
pound; pan rock, to 10 cents per pound;
boiling rock, 12la to 10 cents per pound;
sturgeon, cents per pound; small white
perch, 30 to 80 cents per bunch; black cat
fish, IL to % cents per bunch; white cat
fish, 20 to 80 cents per bunch; carp, 10 to
10 cents each; eelS. 3 to 5 cents each and
gray trout, $3.50 to So per barrel The re-
cepts since yesterday have been $50 shad
ana $500 herring.
Several small eastern shore boats are at
the 18th street wharf with CLAIMS aboard,
and there are also a few oysters on sale.
The demand is quite light, and prices are
unchanged from those quoted yesterday,
the CLAIMS selling at 80 cents per hundred
and the oysters 40 to 30 cents per bushel.
The two-masted schooner Alethea, ladel.
with pine lumber, from a river point, has
arrived in port and is unloading at t. K.
RlleyS wharf.
The large schooner Agnes Manson, loaded
with about 1900 tons of ice from the Ken
nebec river, has arrived here In tow of the
tug William H. Yerkes, jr., and has
been locked at the Georgetown wharf OF
the American Ice Company to unload car
go. The Manson sailed several days after
the schooner Henry L. Peckham, which has
been at sea since May 2, and which ar
rived here yesterday evening.
The large four-maSted schooner J. Ed
ward Drake with a cargo of about 1900
railway ties aboard. sailed Friday from
towed her to the mouth Of the Potomac.
The repainting and rebuilding of the Ran
dali line steamer T. " Arrowsmith has
been completed and the boat Is now ready
for service. The Arrowsmith since being
laid up last fall has been greatly improved
and modernized. and will be used for ex-
cursion business this summer.
General Port News.
The tug White Rose. hailing from Phila-
adelphia came into port Saturday with
Barge No. IS of the Standard Oil Company
in tow for Georgetown. The White Rose is
owned by the oil company and is making
her first visit to this port.
1t is stated that Capt. James Elliott has
sold his little schooner the Rebecca Smith
to parties in this city, who will keep her in
the Potomac river trade. The Rebecca
Smith, while a small vessel, is one of the
speediest and best of her class on the Po-
tomac. She has been employed in oyster
and fish running on the river almost from
the time she was built.
The two-masted schooner Sidonia Curley
has arrived in port with a cargo of lumber
and laths from the James river for H. l..
Biscoe.
ell Sidney Jones and Lottie Carter are in
port with loads of cord wood from the
lower Potomac.
The Baltimore tug Emma left port Satur-
day evening with a tow of three barges for
Norfolk, to load coal.
The steam barge Lily and Howard, with
a general cargo, and the schooners James
V. Dagger and Five Sister, both light, have
sailed for points on the lower river.
The bark Shetland, laden with asphalt
from Port of Spain, Trinidad. came into
port yesterday In tow of the tug Maud H.
of Baltimore
The large four-masted schooner Henry L..
Peckham, with ice for the American Ice
Company. has arrived from Bath and is
lying at the wharf foot of 10th street to
unload.
The tug D. NJ. Key has been handsomely
repalnted and overhauled for service tow
ing about the harbor during the coming
Sc ason.
The power yacht Greyhound has been
htted with a new style screw steering gear
that makes the boat very easy to handle
In all weathers.
The handsome schooner yacht Ciconta be-
longing to Mr.. c. c. Wilkinson. is at Cum
berland's boat house, at Georgetown. being
repalnted and overhauled for the summer.
The 6loop B. H. Lambert, which has been
engaged in running fish, is now laid I'D at
Alexandra, and will be overhauled prepa-
ratory to the opening of the melon run
ming season.