Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-16
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SUMMER SCHEDULE TO THE
LOWER POTOMAC RESORTS.
Fish Market Quotations - Schooner
Still Ashore-General and Per-
sonal Mention.

| The steamer Arrowsmith made her first
trips of the season to Colonial Beach Sat
| urday evening and yesterday morning, and
on both trips carried large crowds This
schedule will be run by the Arrowsmith I'M
| til about the middle of next month. when
she will begin her daily trips to the beach.
Under the present schedule the Arrow
smith leaves here Saturday evening. makes
flying trip down the river, and after
| landing her passengers at Colonial Beach
| returns to this city at once and arrives
| here in time to make another trip, leav-
! Ing here at Q am. Sunday. She reaches
here on her return trip Sunday night about
| 10 O'Clock. During the middle of the summer
the route of the Arrowsmith will be ex-
tended to the excursion resorts in the
mouth of the Potomac.
| The 18th street fish wharf is a busy place
| early on these hot mornings when the fish
dealers from the uptown establishments are
| laying in their stock for the day. The sup
| ply continues fair from the shores about
| Norfolk and prices are follows: For
| Spanish mackerel, 10c. per pound white
| D to &c. per pound; pan rock, o to 10c. per
| pound; boiling rock, 10 to 12c. per pound;
| founder, to sc, per pound; sturgeon, 10 to
| lie. pound; bluefish, . to &c. per pound; gray
| trout, 81 to s. per barrel; butter fish, 81 to
| s. per barrel; small white perch, &c. per
| bunch; catfish, % to 25c. per bunch; carp
Il 10 loo SdCn, telS, To DC. each, UdTu
crabs, $3.50 per barrel; soft shell crabs. 80
| to 40c. per dozen, and clans. 10 to soc. per
| hundred.
The yacht Oneida, the smaller practice
| vessel of the Naval Battalion, ID. c. n. c.,
| left port Saturday evening on a short
! chuise on the river.
The revenue cutter Algonquin took a
party of Treasury Department officials
! a cruise to the bay Saturday night.
! Major Sylvester and party made in
spection trip on the harbor police boat Vigi-
liant Saturday evening to examine the work
done the Vigant at the navy yard
after the collision with the United States
naval yacht Sylph.
Painters and carpenters will be at once
| put aboard the Randall line steamer Kent.
now lying at the ferry line wharf. and will
! put her in readiness for service on the
| river route during the summer if she is
| needed
General Port News.
| Though the steam freghter E. J. Tull
! and a large covered barge have both taken
! several loads of phosphate rock from the
| schooner Eagle Wing, stranded in the
mouth of Dsgue run the vessel was still
aground yesterday evening. 1t is expected.
| however, that she will be gotten off and
| brought up to Alexandria this evening.
| Capt. Megathin of the schooner o. D.
| Witherell. which recently unloaded a cargo
| of ice here. has with him his daughter,
| Miss Edith Megathlin. and Miss Pearl Gill
| l,
! rC und trip on the schooner.
Capt. Thomas Wiistead was the pilot
| the cutter Algonquin on her trip down the
| river Saturday night.
| Mr.. George Greason has been detached
| from the steamer Wakefield and assigned to
| the steamer Arrowsmith as steward. Mr..
| Dan Tombs succeeds him on the Wake
| field.
| The Lottie c. is in port with a full cargo
! of cord wood from a lower river port for
| the local dealers.
| The Peri is at Alexandra and will load
! cargo of building material and stores for
| Aqua creek.
| The schooner Oakland has arrived in port
| with a full cargo of cord wood for Carter
| & Clark.
! The large four-masted schooner H. S.
| Little laden with 1,4:S5 tons of ice. has
| sailed from Bath. Me-. for the American
| Ice.Company here.
The Lily W. Owens is unloading a cargo.
! of lumber at the 18th street wharf for CAL
| liner & Bro.