Evening star., 1902-04-23
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAM BARGE GIVEN A Salts
FACTORY DOCK TRIAL.
Increased Receipts of Shad and Her
ring at 18th Street Wharf
Port News.

The machinery of the steam barge Jas.
Jackson is now in position and yesterday
evening she was given a dock trial of her
engine and boiler, which were Installed by
Forsberg & Murray. The trial was satis-
factory one and Capt. Owens, the master
and owner of the boat will have her in
service as soon as her deck house is COM
pleted. The Jackson will run wood and
lumber cargoes from Aqua and Pohick
creeks to this city. She will be the only
craft of her type in service on the Potomac,
and her light draft will enable her to go
into almost any of the tributaries Of the
Potomac when seeking a cargo. The Jack
son is lying at the shop wharf of ForSberg
& Murray, at the foot of Sth street south
west
Since yesterday morning about 10000
shad and 225, 900 herring have been received
by the dealers at the wharf from the fish
ing shores and nets along the river. The
wharf is daily crowded with country
wagons, whose owners are buying herring
to salt down for winter use. The market
this morning was quite lively, and fish of
all kinds were in demand. Prices are steady
and are as follows: For roe shad. Is to 20c.
each; buck shad, to 10c. each; herring,
$50 to S3 per thousand; pan rock, to 1Oc.
per pound; boiling rock, 10 to 12c- per
pound; Spanish mackerel,1 to SC. per pound;
white perch, 0 to 10c. per pound; sturgeon,
to &C. per pound; carp, 40 to soc each;
small white perch, 5 to 15c. per bunch;
white catfish. 20 to Soc. per bunch; black
catfish, 10 to 15c. per bunch: eeIs. sc. each;
kinghsh, &c. per pound, and croakerS, So per
barrel.
The warm weather has had depressing
effect on the oyster market at the 11th
street wharf and while the supply of oys-
ters on hand is of good quality and not
large they can be bought at very low
figures. This morning the smaller stock
sold at 80 to 40 cents per bushel, while
the finer grades of oysters were but 60
har
practically closes May 1, and but few
oysters are brought here after that time.
CLANS are in demand and are selling at 40
to so cents per hundred. The arrivals
are the Amanda Lewis and E. P. Evans.
Along the Wharves.
The schooner Mary V. Duncan is in port
with load of lumber from Norfolk for
Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner j. D. Bell has gone to the
lower river and will load a cargo to this
city.
The Kate Muller, Edith Verrill and John
Branford came into port yesterday even
ing with cargoes of cord wood for Carter
* Clark
The schooner Grace G. Bennett has been
taken to the wharf Of Thos. r. Riley, foot
of 9Th street, to unload her cargo Of North
Carolina shingles.
The tug George W. Pride. which is tow
ing in place of the Maryland. yesterday
lOOh several IRnt SCOWS TO OcCOQuaD to
load broken stone for this city.
The three-masted schooner w. ]. schu-
bert will complete the discharging Of her
cargo of Georgia pine lumber at T. w
Riley's wharf today and will go to Baiti-
more to load cargo Of coal for a south
ern port.
The schooner ram Harlan w Huston
unloaded part of her cargo Of lumber
and shingles at Alexandria and has come
to this city to complete unloading.
The Uuriah Horner, American Patriot and
Leroy have gone to the lower Potomac
and will load wood for Carter & Clark
The three-masted schooner Alice Car
Isle. loaded with cord wood for Robert
Murphy. is in port and will unload her
cargo on the Eastern branch.
The schooner E. NJ Skinner, we'll known
visitor to this port with lumber cargoes,
has proved herself to be very fast saiIer,
A few days ago she made a run of seventy
five miles from Cambridge. Md. to Balti-
more In seven hours. At times her speed
exceeded eleven miles an hour.
The overhauling of the steam launch
James Douglass has been completed at
Deans boat yard at Alexandria and the
launch has been put overheard and is again
ready for service.
A large pungy, the Flirt and Wave, while
on her way down the river yesterday even
ing ran ashore on the flats off the United
States naval powder magazine and remain
ed aground until the rising tide fioated her
Sixty head of horses gathered in Fairfax
and Loudoun counties. Virginia, by the local
dealers were brought here yesterday after
noon on the ferry steamers from Alexan-
dria. They were consigned to the local
dealers.
The overhauling of the engine and the
repainting Of the naphtha power launch
Julia Beunton, belonging to Mr.. George D.
Hopkins. has been completed and the launch
is now in commission.
The naphtha power engine has been
placed In the sloop Francina II, belonging
to Mr.. ]. T. Rawlings, at Townshends boat
house, at the foot of 7th street. and the
boat has been put into the water ready for
service.
In compliance with the wishes of the
local steamboat men. Colonel Black. the
commanding officer at Washington bar
| racks. has had the red glass replaced In the
gas lamp at the southwest corner of the
arsenal grounds. This red light is used by
pilots as mark when bound up the river
from Alexandria to this city on dark
nights.