Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-21
ON THE III IN In NUN l
oLD-TIME SCHOONER A vISITOR
TO THIS PORT.
First Cargo of Coal via Canal-New
Boiler for Tecumseh-Personal
Mention.

ago unloaded a cargo Of cord wood at this
city and sailed Monday, is among the old
est vessels afoat. According to the marine
blue book she was built ffty-seven years
ago in Dorchester county, Md. The Orbit
has been kept in thorough repair by her
owners and looks fit for another half CEN
fury of good service on Chesapeake bay.
This is the first visit the schooner has made
here in a number of years. The Orbit is not
a large vessel, registering but thirty tons.
She is owned by parties living in Balti-
more.
1t is reported that Capt. Herbert has ex
changed the schooner E. L. Bowen for the
large bugeye Lily May. Both vessels are
regular traders in this port and their new
owners will keep them in the Potomac
trade.
The demand for fish, in consequence of
the high price of meats, has been very
good at the fish wharf for some days past
and while the market is not overstocked a
good supply of fish of all kinds is being
received from various sources. The mar
ket today was firm and prices were as fol-
lows: For roe shad, % to 80 cents each;
buck shad IA to Is cents each; herring so
to 90 cents per hundred; founders, 3 to 5
cents per pound; white perch, 8 to 10 cents
per pound; salmon trout cents per pound );
pan rock, to 10 cents per pound boiling
rock, 12l2 to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon
y cents per pound; small white perch, 20
to 30 cents per bunch: black catfish. IS to
70 cents per bunch; white catfish, 20 to 40
cents per bunch carp, 10 to 10 cents each;
cells, 3 to 3 cents each, and gray trout
S25O to $3.50 per barrel. Receipts of shad
and herring are somewhat heavier, about
l,oO of the former and 10000 of the latter
having been received since yesterday morn
ing.
The demand for clans at the 18th street
wharf is excellent but there are but few
calls for oysters. CLAIMS are selling at 40
to oOc per hundred, and oysters are quoted
at the figures of last week
The Passing Craft.
The steam yacht Gretchen, belonging to
Mr.. ]. E. Reyburn,. has returned to this
city from a trip through the North Caro-
lima sounds.
The tug Favorite has arrived in port
with tow of two coal-laden barges from
Philadelphia for the dealers here and at
Georgetown
The schooner Seabright is in port. loaded
with cord wood for Messrs. Carter & Clark
from river point.
The schooner Robin Hood is un1oadipo =
cargo of lumber from a Virginia lumber
port for Frank Libbey & Co
The schooner ]. p. Robinson. laden with
building pun, material. has sailed from Alexan-
dria for Upper Machodoc creek
The Belmont and Levin Woolford have
unloaded cargoes and have sailed for lower
Potomac points to reload
Inc coast survey steamer HydrOgra pher
mas arrived here from a cruise on the bav
Inc tWo-masted schooner Lottie w OW-
ems has arrived here with a full load of
pine lumber from a Virginia lumber port.
ne hrst cargo of soft coal to come down
Inc Chesapeake and Ohio canal from, Gum,
berland was locked out into the river Mon
DAY and was taken to the wharf of VIM
A Smoot & Co.. at Alexandria,
Inc three-masted bugeye Beulah Land
mas gone to Alexandria ship yard to be
lore sailing for the lower Potomac.
General Port News.
The little sloop Skipjack is hauled out on
the sman marine railway at Cant sonny,
Reagans boatyard at the foot of 131h
street, for general overhauling and re-
painting preparatory to service on the river
this summer -
The large pungy John Martin. laden with
lumber from Chesapeake bay point. came
into port Monday evening, consigned to
the dealers.
The barkentine Shetland has been taken
10 the wharf of the Asphalt Brick Cow
pany, at the foot of South Capitol street
10 unload her cargo of asphalt She did NOT
reach the wharf until yesterday afternoon
having been detained at Alexandria for
medical inspection by the United States
quarantine physician.
Mr. Ernest Germond second engineer of
me steamer Wakefield. has been assigned
to the steamer Arrowsmith as chief en-
glneer. Mr. Mel Mardin has been detached
the Wakefield. ~
The Virginia board of fisheries has an
P9iIted NJ. L. Price oyster inspector for
Ting n, Georges county; A. V. Williams and
M ~, W, Iudson Tor northumberland county
ana w. L. Parks and John H. Chandler for
Westmoreland county. These inspectors viii
nave charge of the oyster beds on the Vir
gina side OF the Potomac river.