Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-30
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOONER INSLEY FLOATED
AFTER REMOVING CARGO.
Dredge Pugh in Port-Overhauling at
the Boatyards - General
Port News.

The schooner laden with lumber reported
ashore the fats near Fort Foote, Md,
was the Fannie Insley of Baltimore, and
was bound to this city. She went ashore
Tuesday night last, and despite the efforts
of her crew TO get her into deep water she
could not be started and did not get afloat
until yesterday morning, when the sailing
barge Daniel went alongside and lightened
her deck load of lumber. She came on to
her destination here in tow of the tug D.
NJ. Key. As the bar on which the schooner
grounded was of soft mud no harm was
done her by going ashore. At the point
where the Insley went ashore there is a
sharp turn in the channel, and within the
past week three vessels have grounded
there.
The catch of shad and herring by the nets
in the lower river is becoming smaller each
day. and the quality of the fish is also be-
coming poor OF other varieties, however,
There is an ample supply on hand, and the
demand for them is good. Prices this morn
ing were steady and are follows: For pan
rock, 10 1oc- per pound; boiling rock, 10
to 12c. per pound; Spanish mackerel, Z to
Sc. per pound; founders, 3 to &c. per pound;
white perch, 10 TO lie. per pound; sturgeon,
10 to lie per pound: blue fish. &c. per
pound; salmon trout ) to &C. per pound;
gray trout. 81 - to $3.50 per barrel; butter
fish, 81 to So per barrel; white perch 25c.
per bunch; catfish, DC. to soc per bunch;
carp. 10 to loo each; eels, 3 to &c. each;
porgies. 20 to pc. each: roe shad % to DC
each; buck shad, 10 to 12c. each and herring
40 to soc. per hundred. The demand for
oysters and CLANS is fair, and the former is
selling at Soc to 81 per bushel, and the lat
ter at jOc- per hundred.
The large pump dredge Pugh, with three
scows, which have been employed in deep
ening the water over the Maryland Point
shoals, was brought into port yesterday
In tow of the tug Annie of Richmond 1t
Is understood the dredge is to be over
hauled
The large sea-going lighthouse tender
Armenia, which has been anchored off Alex
andria for several days past, sailed yester-
day on cruise at sea, visiting the light
stations.
The naphtha- power launch Aquanita, be-
longing to Mr.. H. a. Campbell of this CITY,
Is rapidly approaching completion at Deans
boat yard at Alexandria, and will be put
overheard in a few days. The Aquanita is
one OF the largest power boats on the Po-
tomac. and her engines of sixteen horse
power will drive her through the water at
good rate of speed.
OF General Interest.
The longboat Uriah Horner is hauled out
on the marine railway at Benefits boat
yard for overhauling and caulking She
will be out of service for several days
small scow, thirty feet long and twelve
feet wide. built at Cumberland's boat house
foot Of 9th street, for Carter & Clark,
has just been put overheard This is the
first building done at Cumberland's since
the big fire on the river front several weeks
ago.
The handsome sailing yacht Ella Tread
wei. while engaged in fishing work down
the Potomac, was given a thorough over
hauling and repainting. She came into
port yesterday evening for the first time
In several weeks. The Treadwell was not
many years ago. the fastest sailing craft
on the Potomac, and won many hotiy con-
tested races.
The power sloop Greyhound, with a
party aboard, has sailed on a cruise of
about ten days to Old Point and places of
Interest on the James river
The United States dispatch boat Dolphin
returned to the navy yard yesterday from
her trip up the Atlantic coast.
The coast survey schooner Eagle Captain
butelle, Is at Oxford. Nd, making surveys
OF the navigable streams on the eastern
side of Chesapeake bay. She will be en-
ployed on this service all the summer
The three-masted schooner EsteIle Phin-
ney, loaded with ]. 235 tons of ice from the
Kennebec river. has arrived in port for the
American Ice Company. She sailed from
Bath, Me-, May II, and was detained . day