Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-16
ON THE RIVER FRONT
BARGES DISPLACING SCHOONERS
AS FREIGHT CARRIERS.
Fish. Commission Launch Blue Wing
Laid Up-Restoring Buoys-
Other Marine News.

Barge No. 3, another of the fleet of large
freight carriers of the Consolidation Coal
Company. was brought into port yesterday
evening by the tug VIM. H. Yerkes, jr.,
loaded with about 1 800 tons of ice from the
Maine ice fields for the American Ice Com
pany. She left the kennebec river in tow
of a powerful tug early in the week,
and at the capes the Yerkes took hold of
her and brought her into port. These
barges are gradually supplanting the coast
ing schooners in the coal, lumber and other
carrying trade on the Atlantic coast, their
economy Of operation, it is said, enabling
them to carry freight at low figure and
still make a good profit for their owners.
1t is stated a number of these barges will
be used to bring ice here from the north
this season This is the first year they
have been used for such purposes on the
Potomac Barge No. II, which unloaded
here last week, left here yesterday even
ing for Bath, Me-, and will load ice there
for this city.
The demand for fish of all kinds was very
good at the fish wharf this morning, but
the supply was not heavy. Shad and herring
are still being received from the fishing
shores along the river and are bringing
higher prices than they have brought for
a long time. Today roe shad are selling at
30 to Soc. each; buck shad at Is to 2Oc each;
herring, 81 to S. per 1000; founders to
&C. per pound; white perch, to 1Oc. per
pound; salmon trout, 4c. per pound; pan
rcck, 8 to 10c. per pound; boiling rock, 1914
to l5c. per pound: sturgeon, SC. per pound;
small white perch, 30c. per bunch; black
catfish, 10 to 25c. per bunch; white cat
fish, 20 to 30c per bunch; carp, 10 to
15c each cells, 3 to sc. each, and gray
trout, $3.50 to So per barrel. About 700 shad
and 5000 herring have been received at
the fish wharf since yesterday.
CLANS are in demand at the 18th street
oyster wharf today, while there are but
few calls for oysters in the shell. The sup
ply of both kinds of shell fish was good,
and this morning CLAIMS were selling at
40 to 30 cents per hundred, and oysters 40
to 90 cents per bushel.
The Annie Cowart is in port with a full
load of cord wood for the local dealers
The steamer Dennis Simmons has arrived
with a load of pine lumber and shingles
from North Carolina for several dealers
The three-masted bugeye Beulah Land
has arrived at the wharf foot of 9Th street
southwest with a cargo of plaster for the
Keystone Plaster Company.
The schooner Alice Carlisle loaded with
cord wood, has arrived in port from the
lower Potomac for Robert Murphy. She
branch.
The three-masted schooner Manuel r.
Cuza, after taking aboard a part of a
cargo of railway ties for Boston at George
town, has been taken to the Alexandra
shipyard wharf to complete her cargo The
ties will be brought to the vessel in cars
from along the line of the Southern rail-
way in Virginia. Mr.. Sigel Brown Of
Georgetown is loading her.
The VIM. Ober, ]. V. Dagger and Five
Sisters have arrived in port here with full
cargoes Of cord wood from the lower Po-
tomac for Carter & Clark
The sloop Delight arrived yesterday even
ing with load of clans and oysters for
this market.
Along the Shores.
brought the large sand and gravel-digging
machine of Mr.. Louis Smoot from where it
has been working below Marshall Hall, to
this city. 1t Is understood it will be put
in service above the Long bridge.
A barge which was a large naval gun
was yesterday taken to the Indian Head
proving grounds by the tug Triton The
gun will be given the usual tests before be-
ing returned here.
The United States fish commission steam
launch Blue Wing, which has been en-
ployed for the past two or three months at
the Bryan's Point fishing station taking
spawn. has been brought to this city and
Is lying at the River View wharf, out of
commission. She will be given an overhaul
Ing before leaving here for her usual winter
station on the Massachusetts, coast, where
she is engaged in the fish propagating
work.
The United States buoy tender Holly is in
port from a cruise on the Potomac and
Chesapeake bay. While here it is under
stood the Holly will replace the "forks-of-
the-channeI' buoy at the entrance to the
harbor, and the other buoys which are out
of position.
The steam yacht Giavota, belonging to Mr..
John r. Dos Passos. has returned from a
trip to the Coan river, with her owner
aboard.
The large four-masted schooner Frank
stinson. which has been lying in the stream
on Alexandria, unloading her cargo Of
phosphate rock was yesterday evening
locked at the wharf Of VIM. A. Smoot &
Co. oo ~
Inc haif-rater Francina II, belonging to
Mr.. Rawlings, which has been fitted With
a gasoline power engine. has proved to be
a speedy boat, making about eight miles an
Inc sioop belonging to DR.. Tindall, secre-
tary of the District Commissioners has
peen brought around from the ba thing
peach and Is lying at Townshend's boat ex
change at the foot of 7th street.