Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-12
ON THE RIVER FRONT
FIRST OF SEASONS CARGoES OF
ICE IN PORT.
Fishing Season at an End-Soft Crabs
Being Caught--General and
Personal.

The first cargo of ice to reach this port
arrived yesterday afternoon in the big barge
NO II of the Consolidation Coal Company.
The barge is lying at the 10th street wharf
unloading her cargo of about 200 tons. No
IL loaded on the Maine coast and sailed in
tow OF tug for the Chesapeake, Thursday
last Saturday at am. she came in the
capes, In tow Of the tug Piedmont, and at
the mouth of the Potomac the tug Camilla
took her and brought her here. She was
followed closely by the schooner Henry L.
Peckham, also laden with Ice for this city.
The Peekham sailed from Bath, May 2. and
came In the capes Friday. She briggs 1,25O
tons or Ice. The schooners Agners Manson
ana II. II. Benedict are at sea bound here
with ice, and barge No. 8 and the schooner
Bradford c. French are on the kennebec
loading.
The fishing season for shad and herring Is
now practically over, and but few are now
being caught in the Potomac and brought
to this market. The operators at the shores
are preparing to close business for the year.
Inc supply of other varieties Of fish, how
ever, continues quite good, with fair de-
mand. Prices are firm and are as follows:
FOR roe Shad 30 to 35c. each; buck Shad,
Il to lIc. each; herring, 81 to s. per 1000;
founders, 3 to 4c. per pound; white perch,
to loc. per pound; pan rock, to 1Oc.
each; boiling rock, 1212c. to loo each; king
nsh, &c per pound; sturgeon, SC. per pound;
small white perch, 15c. to SOC. per bunch;
black catfish, Zoe. to 15c. per bunch; white
cathsh, zoe. to 3Oc. per bunch: carp, 1Oc. to
loo. each; cells, &c. each, and gray trout 81
to SO per barrel. Since Saturday about
1000 shad and $4,000 herring have been re-
ceived by the dealers at the wharf from
the nets in the river
The cooler weather has made slight in
crease dpm9 In ho
shell at the 18th street wharf, and today
they are selling at 40 to soc. per bushel.
CLANS are coming to this market from the
eastern shore and are bringing good prices
The demand for both kinds of shell fish is
good
The two-masted schooner G. P Sumo,
laden with about 10000 feet Of pine lumber
from the Rappahannock river is in port for
Johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner A. II. Quinby, with a cargo
or hard coal, arrived in port from Baltimore
Saturday evening.
The schooner Murray Vandiver is unload
ing cargo of sand for the Old Dominion
glass works at Alexandria,
Inc schooner Henry l.. Peckham, laden
with ice for the American Ice Company, ar
rived in port Yesterday evening from the
hehnepec, IN tow of the tug VIM. H. Yerkes
Jrr for the American Ice Company.
The K: ii. Stuart is in port with full
cargo OF cord wood from Curriomen for
Carter & Clark.
~ 'lAc I>uiliCe has arrived at AleXaN-
dria, loaded with scrap iron from river
points, for Drifuse & Co
Of General Interest.
The pleasure sloop Edna Earle has been
thoroughly overhauled and repainted at
the boat yard Of Sonny" Reagan at the
foot Of 1872 street southwest, and is now
being fitted out for trips on the river this
summer. Mr. Reagan has the steam launch
h3lllP6 m roll 70
new condenser and for repair work She
IS being fitted for service on Chesapeake
bay.
Soft crabs rom the shores Of the creeks
and inlets along the lower river are now
being caught in small quantities and are
being shipped to this and other markets
The outlook for a good catch of soft
crabs this year on the Potomac is excel