Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-29
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW SCHOONER FOR CHESA-
PEAKE LUMBER TRADE.
Buoy Locations Marked With Bushes
Heavy Shipments of Fertilizer
General Port News.

Inc new schooner Rubie and Bessie, which
has recently been built in Gloucester comm
ty, Va, for the Chesapeake lumber trade.
has arrived at Baltimore to be fitted with
spars and sails. She brought a cargo of
10000 feet of lumber on this her maiden.
Trip and though only partially rugged and
rtted out she came up the bay and into
maroon without the aid of tug. The yes
sci was built and IS owned by George w.
and 5. K. Marshall. and is under the lat
ter's command. She is us feet long, 20 feet
wide and has feet depth of hold. She was
built at a cost of $4,000, and will run lumber
cargoes from North Carolina ports 20 this
city and Baltimore.
The dealers In fish at the I1th street
wharf market had good stocks of fish of all
kinds on hand this morning, the receipts
from the bay and river nets being quite
heaVy. Prices this morning show but few
changes and are follows: For Spanish
mackerel 10 to 1Sc. per pound; salmon
trout &c per pound; pan rock, 3 to Sc. per
pound medium rock, to 1Oc. per pound:
boiling rock 15c. per pound; black bass, II
to 1Sc. per pound; sturgeon, 10 to lie per
pound; bluefish or tailors. to &c per
pound founders, 2 to &c, per pound; white
perch. large. to 1oc. per pound; white
perch, small, 10 to 15c. per bunch; catfish,
large % to 40c. per bunch; catfish small,
10 to 2oc. per bunch; cells, to sc. each:
carp 10 to 4Oc. each; gray trout, 81 to IS per
barrel, and bluefsh, 81 per barrel.
The demand for oysters in the shell was
very light at the 18th street oyster wharf
this morning, though prices were low. A
fleet of ten or twelve vessels with oysters
aboard was lying at the wharf this morning
and prices ranged from 40c. to soc. per
bushel.
The officers of the steamer Harry Randall
have placed bushes in the mouth of Currio-
men bay, where the new buoys are to be
placed to guide vessels In and out from
Curriomen wharf on dark nights The spar
channel marks will be placed In position
early next week.
The red spar buoy. marking Fleet Point
flats, in the Great Wicomico river. which
was reported missing September 13. was
replaced Wednesday last by second-class
new buoy. painted red
On every trip down the river the steamers
are taking large quantities Of fertilizer, both
from this city and Alexandria, for the farm
ers in lower Maryland and Virginia Large
quantities of fertilizer also go to the lower
Potomac from Baltimore
Shipments of poplar logs are being made
from river points to the paper making fac
tories in the neighborhood of Philadelphia.
The schooner Richard Tall Is loading In
Nomini for Elkton, Md.
The dredges working in the harbor have
run cable across the channel to the Poto-
mac Park wall, and have posted a sign at
each end Of the cable warning vessels not
to anchor over it. The cable is used in
moving the dredges about.
Mr.. c. V. Dagger has a soop on his rail-
way in Lower Machodoc creek to be rebuilt
from stem to stern. The boat, which Is
owned by parties at Edgewater wharf, will
be almost new when she goes into service
again.
General News Of Port.
The handsome little power launch Alert,
which has been undergoing repairs at
Townshend's boat house, has been put over
board ready for service.
The old Rome brick yard, in Fairfax coun-
ty, Va, below Fort Hunt, is being prepared
to resume operations. The plant is under
the control of Mr.. John Miller of this city.
The schooner Oakland is at Alexandria
unloading a cargo Of cord wood for William
A. Smoot & Co.
The two-masted schooner Ella Covington
shingles from North Carolina for Field
& Co.
The schooner Murray Vandiver, laden
with pine lumber from Norfolk, has arrived
for H. L. Biscoe.
The schooner Alethea has sailed for Nor
folk laden with fertilizer material from w.
w. Riley & Co.
The VIM. Mcdonald, Anne E. Croswell. e.
L. Bowen, Oakland, Lottie Carter and Earl
Biscoe have all sailed under charter for
lower river points and will load cord wood
for use in this city.
The Mary A. Shea has sailed from Alex
andria with a general cargo for river points,
and will load cord wood for return cargo
Barge No. and the Young Brothers are
under charter to bring ice TO this city from
the Name ice fields.