Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-26
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW TUG NEARLY READY FOR
RIVER SERVICE.
Power Launches Completed-Barge to
Load Coal at Georgetown
Other Marine News.

| The newetug NJ NJ Davis, built for Tay-
lor Bros. of this city, will arrive here ready
| for service the latter part of next week.
| The machinery Of the new boat is In posi-
| ton and connected up, and steam was
raised on her for the first time today. She
! will have a dock trial of engine and boiler
| early next week, and her trial trip on
Chesapeake bay will follow. Soon after
that she will leave Baltimore for Wash
| ington. She will at once go into service
| towing on Chesapeake bay and the Poto-
mac river. Capt. Jack Taylor will take
personal command of the tug on her first
| trips.
The work of building Hammond's new
| wharf at the Alexandria ice-making plant
| has been resumed, and it is thought the
structure will be completed and ready for
| service in a few weeks
/ The new naphtha power launch belong
| Ing to Mr. Frank Boswell, which was built
on the old wharf of the steamer Estelle
| Randall. at the foot of eth street, was
| launched yesterday morning and will be
ready for service in few days. The
| launch is about 80 feet long, feet wide
and will carry about ten passengers. She
Will be used for pleasure jaunts on the Po-
| tomac.
j The sailing sloop Bess, which has been
changed into power launch at Capt.
| Sonny Reagan's boat house, has had her
| engine and wheel put in position and will
be taken out of the house and placed on the
marine railway tomorrow Saturday for
caulking and painting 1t is expected the
Bess Will be ready for service on the Poto-
mac early next week. She is equipped with
four-horse power gasoline engine and is
expected to make good speed.
The supply of fresh fish of all kinds con-
! tlnues quite small at the 18th street wharf
market, but few fish of any kind, except
butterfish and gray trout are being re-
| ceived. The receipts from the nets in the
| river are particularly light. Crabs are more
| in dom md
| The market this morning Was quite brisk
and prices were as follows: For Spanish
mackerel, 10 to 13c. per pound; salmon
| trout, TO &c. per pound; white perch. 9 to
! 12c. per pound; founders, to Sc per
| pound; bluefish, to 1Oc. per pound; pan
| rock, to 1Oc. per pound: boiling rock, 10
to l2c per pound; sturgeon. 10 to lie. per
| pound; black bass 13 to 15c. per pound;
small white perch, 20 to 25c. per bunch:
| catfish, % to Soc. per bunch; gray trout
81 to IS per barrel; butterfish, $3.50 per bar
each; carp, ID to 15c. each; hard crabs,
$15O to 81 per BARREL soft crabs, 6Oc to
Toe per dozen, and CLANS 40 to 5Oc per
| hundred.
Of General Interest.
| The schooner L. r. Mcnamara of Balti-
more has arrived in port and anchored in
the stream awaiting to be hauled out on
the marine railway at Benefits boat yard
She is to be caulked and will be given
thorough overhauling The work on the
schooner Sidney Jones, now on the railway
VIII be completed and the vessel will be
| put overheard the latter part of the week
Barge No. 8 of the Consolidation Coal
| Company of Baltimore, which unloaded
| large cargo of ice here, has been taken to
the coal piers at Georgetown and will load
| ABOUT 200 tons of soft coal for New
! England port This will be the first cargo
| or soft coal to leave here in several weeks
long before the strike in the coal regions
The large side-wheel steamer Jane Nose-
| ~, winch is to run colored excursions t,
| Glymont, Cedar Point and Norfolk. arrived
mere from Baltimore yesterday and made
| aer nrst trip down the Potomac last night
| Sne Will have her landing wharf at the
foot Of 9th street Wv
| AS the schooner Five Sisters was on her
| way up the river yesterday evening sn6
den flaw in the wind broke the eaff of nov
main sail in halves and she came into mort
with II hanging in the canvas of the SAN
| & Clark. ~ A' ei
The boiler of the tug Camilla was given
an overhauling yesterday, preparatory to
saliing Tor the. lower river on the lookout
~ .or vessels bound here. The tug returned
| 10 service yesterday afternoon
| Inc tug Maryland is temporarily ont of
| service, having some minor repair work
Done. The tug James H. Richards is tow
| ing clay-laden scows in her place
The steamers arriving from the lower Po
tomac are bringing up small quantities of
| new wheat for the flour mills here and at
alexandria. Considerable tobacco is being
received at Alexandria for transshipment
! to Baltimore.
The schooner w. P Snow is in port and
is unloading cargo of lumber from a Vir-
| ginia lumber. port at the wharf of Fors-
perg & Murray. for Johnson & Wimsatt.
Inc schooner Charles V. Dagger, laden
with cord wood. has arrived in port from
| the lower river for Carter & Clark
| The schooner Chase, laden with fertilizer
from Baltimore, has arrived at Georgetown
| for the dealers there "'
Inc schooner E. l.. Bowen yesterday took
on large quantity of bagged bone dust at
Shepherds, and. completing her cargo at
Alexandria, sailed for the lower river.
| Inc two masted schooner Fannie Insley
| lumber laden, has arrived in port for the
| local dealers. "