Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
ON THE RIVER FRONT
REBUILDING BOAT HOUSE AT 9TH
STREET WHARF.
Fort Washington Tender Again in Ser
vice-Repairing Wharves-Persona
and General Matters.

WIN Va ASpuAlullS nay OooS
house. at the foot of 9th street, which
was destroyed in the confagration that
wiped out two squares of the river front
about ten days ago. has been commenced.
and In few days it will be ready for oc-
cupancy. The piling for the boat building
plant of Cumberland & Son, adjoining Ray
ner's boat house. are in position. and the
constructor of the building will be started
early next week. Both these buildings are
one-story structures, and they are being
erected under a permit issued by the Dis
trict of Columbia authorities. The ma
chinery of Weigand's burnt mill is now be-
ing removed, and the burnt timbers are
being taken away by the wagon load for
fuel. The traces of the fire are being slow
ly removed, but 1t will be several weeks
before the ground is cleared up.
The supply of herring and shad from
the nets In the lower river is very light
today, and few fish were cut at the wharf
this morning for packing and smoking. The
receipts of all varieties Of fish from the
shores about Norfolk was good this morn
Ing and prices are as follows: For roe shad,
% to Csc. each; buck shad, II to 15c. each;
herring, 81 and So per hundred; pan rock,
9 to 1Oc. per pound; boiling rock, 121a to 15c.
per pound large gray trout, &c. per pound;
founders, to &c. per pound; Spanish mack
erel, to Sc. per pound; kingfsh &c. per
pound; white perch, 8 to 10c. per pound;
sturgeon, Sc. per pound; carp 10 to soc.
each; small white perch, to 15c. per bunch;
white catfish, 20 to 3Oc per bunch; black
catfish, 10 to 15c per bunch; eels &c. each,
and small trout 81 to S. per barrel. The re-
ceipts since yesterday have been about
$1,000 herring and 800 shad.
The demand for oysters in the shell at
the 18th street wharf was somewhat
heavier yesterday evening and today than
it has been for several days past, but the
supply is quito light and the oysters are
selling at about the same prices as yester-
day. 40c. per bushel for the small oysters
and from that up to SOC. for the larger
stock.
The bugeye Carl Costello is at Alexan-
dria and will load a cargo of general store
goods for a river point.
The steamer E. James Tull is in Nomini
creek loading general cargo for this mar
ket.
The three-masted schooner William Cobb,
which has unloaded a cargo here, has been
chartered to load soft coal at Norfolk for
Eastport, Me-. at 80 per ton.
A large barge loaded with lumber at the
Sth street wharf and sailed this morning
for Fort Washington.
The striped red and black buoy which
marks the forks of the Georgetown and
Washington channels below this city was
run into about week ago by a ram
schooner, and dragged about 300 yards to
the southland out Of position. The schooner
had unloaded cargo of lumber here and
anchored near the buoy. In heavy gale
and carried 1t to a position about in mid
channel below the Buena Vista wharf,
where it now is. The buoy indicates good
water on either hand when in proper po-
sition. but as it now lies. 1t Is claimed.
it will send strangers to this port astray
and put their vessels ashort on the flats.
The matter has been brought to the at
tention Of the light house authorities. and
will be corrected. II
Loading Railway Ties.
Several vessels are at different points
along the river loading railway ties for
northern markets. The barge, Chas. J.
Pugh, left here today in tow Of a tug for
Mattawoman creek and will load ties for
Philadelphia and the schooner Irene has
loaded at WilkerSen'S wharf and has sailed
for Baltimore. The big four-masted
schooner Drake is loading at Alexandria for
Boston. 5 ~ x q ''' }
The steam launch Col. Hamilton, the ten
der at Fort Washington, is again in COM
mission after having been laid up for sew
eral days while repairs were being made to
a broken pump.
The Col. Hamilton is now making her
regular trips between the fort and Alexan-
dria for supplies for the officers and men.
No date has yet been fixed for the arrival
of the larger launch, which, 1t is said, is to
replace the Col. Hamilton.
The Maryland oyster navy steamer Bessie
Jones, which has been patroling the waters
of Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river
on the lookout for oyster pirates, is laid up
at Bushwood in st. Clements bay, Md.
One of the large pile drivers belonging to
Mr.. VIM. Banks of this city, with a force
Of wharf builders aboard. left port yes
terday evening on a repairing cruise along
the river Repairs are to be made at River
View, Marshall Hall, Glymont and other
points further down the Potomac
The schooner Hattie E. Giles Is on ma
rine railway at Baltimore for a new main
mast and to have her hull caulked and
painted. Ta1s
The revenue cutter Window Is out OF
commission, and is laid up at the service
station near Baltimore, where she will be
given thorough overhauling and repaint-
ing in preparation for her summer work.
Captain Jerry Posey is in charge Of the
steamer Harry Randall while laid up pre-
pairing her for overhauling and repainting.
Lieutenant James l.. Sill, executive Off
Ger of the revenue cutter Window, has been
granted a leave of absence of thirty days.
Captain william Geoghegan is in COM
mand of the new Weems line steamer Cal