Evening star., 1902-01-17
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT
NEW TUG FOR FORT WASHINGTON
EXPECTED SOON.
Depot Quartermaster Arranging fos
Wharf Accommodations-Fish and
Oyster Market-General News.

1t is expected the new tug which is to
be used as a, dispatch boat between this
city, Alexandra and the United States
army posts at Fort Washington, Nd, and
Fort Hunt, Va, win be here and in serv-
ice within the next month or six weeks.
The depot quartermasters office here is
arranging wharf accommodations for the
new boat. The tug, It is stated. will be
about sixty-five feet long and will make
several trips each day, and at night VIII
bring theater parties of the officers ana
their families from the forts to this city.
Light articles of freight will be taken by
the tugs, for it is understood the bulk OF
the freight will continue to go by the river
steamers
The supply of fresh and salt water fish
at the 11th street wharf market was quite
light this morning and the demand. was
good. Prices were about the same as yes
terday and were as follows: For drum, D
cents per pound; sheepshead, q to cents
per pound; jumping mulets, cents per
pound; silver perch, to cents per pound;
pan rock, Il cents per pound: medium
rock, 16 cents to IS cents per pound; broil-
ing rock, ~ to % cents per pound; carp.
4 cents per pound: green pike. to 10
cents per pound; black bass, 10 to 12ts
cents per pound: salmon trout. 9 cents per
pound; catfish, 20 to So cents per bunch;
yellow perch 25 to 40 cents per bunch, and
winter shad, S175 to 50 per hundred.
There have been no arrivals Of oyster
laden craft at the oyster wharf since yes
terday morning and in consequence the
supply on hand today is light. The demand
is good and prices range from roc. to Sl2o
per bushel, according to size and quality.
Captain Thomas o. Moore, one OF the
best known tugboat captains on Chesa-
peake bay, who has been in command OF
the steamer Buenaventura at New York.
has returned to baltimore and will take
command Of the tug Samson.
General Port News.
The tugs Carter, Edith G. Winship and
Minerva have succeeded in putting the bow
of the large four-masted schooner James
McFadden abreast of Smoots wharf at
Alexandria, and the unloading of her cargo
of phosphate rock is now going on.
The tug VIM. H. Yerkes, jr., has gone
to the capes of Virginia on the lookout for
| vessels bound up the river.
| The schooner A. III. Quinby has complet-
| ed the unloading of her cargo of lumber
| and has sailed in tow of the tug ferkes 1or
| a Virginia lumber port to load.
The Lottie Thomas has gone to the lower
| river and will load cargo for the dealers
| here.
| The schooner Bell,-which is unloading at
| Johnson G. Wimsatts wharf, brings car
go of about 100000 shingles from the North
| Carolina mills.
The small three-masted schooner Sarah
| S. Tyler is at the wharf of Thomas w.
| Riley, foot Of 11th street, loading a cargo
of about 500 tons fertilizer for the Norfolk
| neighborhood.
The hull of the new tug boat building
| at the shipyard of NJ. NJ. Davis, at Solo
| mons Island, Nd, is rapidly approaching
| completion and the boat will be launched
| about the first of next month.
| A large party of excursionists from New
| England will arrive here this evening by
rail and will take the Norfolk and Wash
| ington line steamer for Old Point, where
| they will spend several days.
| Improvements at Fort Washington.
| The steamer Estelle Randall is daily TAX
ing from Alexandria large quantities Of
| dry plaster for the new quarters in course
Of construction at the Fort Washington
| artillery station. A contract for the build
| ing Of additional quarters at the fort will
| be given out in a day or two.
| The material for the large scows to be
| built at Alexandria for the use of the Penn
sylvania Railway Company in the con-
| struction of the>new bridge over the Poto-
| mac is on hand, and the construction OF
| the scows will begin at once. r-~s-
| The owners of the fishing shores along
| the river are now preparing for the open
| ing Of the shad and herring fishing sea son
| in the middle or latter part OF next month.
| Nets are being overhauled and the build
ings on the shores placed in order.
| 1t Is expected the overhauHng Of the
| steamer Wakefield will be completed early
next week and the boat. will resume her
| route to the lower river landings.
| The steamer Charles Manchester is now
| making, under a new schedule, but one trip
| per day to and from Mount Vernon, in
| place of the two trips she formerly made.
| Capt. John H. Masingo of the tug Samp-
| son, who died in Baltimore Wednesday,
| was well known on the Potomac river hav-
| ing for a number of years been in COM
this city and New York. and in various
| tug boats that worked on the Potomac.