Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-19
ON THE RIVER FRONT
TUG LOUISVILLE A VISITOR TO
THIS PORT.
Steamer Estelle Randall Launched
People Returning From Summer
Vacatio1is-Other Matters.

The tug Louisville of the Pennsylvania
railway feet is visitor here, having come
into port yesterday evening. She is lying
at the 10th street wharf of the American
Ice Company and has attracted much at
tention. She is paying her first visit to this
city and is the fifth or sixth strange tug
boat that has been here this year. She IS a
handsome craft and now halls from Nor
folk. Her tonnage is given as 81 gross, and
she is 49, feet long, 1872 feet wide and 81
feet deep. She was built in Philadelphia in
1883, and was formerly named the Thos A.
Balm. She is hare on business for the rail-
way company.
The fish market at the 18th street wharf
was quite a busy place this morning, the
demand for fish of all kinds being quite
heavy. Prices were about the same as
they were yesterday-Spanish mackerel,
lie. to 15c. per pound; bluefish, &C. to &c.
per pound; carp &c. per pound; sturgeon,
1Oc. to 12c. per pound; black bass, 15c. to
1Sc. per pound; pan rock, Sc to 1Oc. per
pound; medium rock, Zoe. to 1212c. per
pound; boiling rock 15c to 1Sc. per pound I;
founders. &c. per pound; large white perch,
&c. to 10c. per pound; small white perch,
10c to 15c per bunch; catfish, large, 25c
to 40c. per bunch; catfish, small, 10c. to zoe.
per bunch; cells, &c. to &C. each gray trout,
81 to s. per barrel: buttersh, $3.50 to 81
per barrel, and hard crabs, 81 to 81 per bar
and they are selling at 4Oc. per hundred.
There was an active demand for oysters
in the shell at the 18th street oyster wharf
this morning. There were only about 400
bushels on hand this morning and they
sold at prices ranging from soc. to 6Oc. per
bushel.
Watermelons are still drug on the mar
ket, and the 10000 on the vessels at the
wharf are being sold at very low prices.
This morning culls sold at soc. per hun
dred; primes, 81 to 81 per hundred, and the
best grades of melons at 81 per hundred.
The cargoes now at the wharf will be the
last to come here this season.
The steamer Estele Randall which was
hauled out on the marine railway at Alex
andria, has been put overheard and the
schooner Mabel and Ruth of Baltimore has
been hauled out for caulking and a general
overhauling. When completed the schooner
will sail for North Carolina to load lumber
for the dealers here.
The lighthouse tender Maple, with three
large gas buoys aboard has sailed for the
points on Chesapeake bay where the Duoys
are needed.
The buoys while here were charged with
gas enough to keep them burning night and
day for about ninety~days. They are only
used on the more dangerous points in the
river.
General Port News.
The wreck of the derelict schooner R. B.
Woodside, laden with pine lumber, which
drifted about in the Atlantic for several
months, a dangerous obstruction to navi-
CATION, which was lowed into the Bahama
Islands by two small schooners, has been
seized by the British government The
masters Of the vessels that brought the
Woodside into port claim salvage. Her
+ cargo OF yellow pine is said to be in prime
condition.
The steamers coming from points along
the lower Potomac are bringing up large
numbers of passengers returning from their
summer vacations on the Potomac to their
homes here. The steamer Wakefield, which
came into port Wednesday night; the steam
er Potomac, which arrived yesterday morn
ing, and the Harry Randall, this morning,
all had heavy passenger lists.
The barge No. Of the Consolidation Coal
Company, which has been lying off Alex
andria for the past four or five weeks. was
yesterday taken to Georgetown to load coal
for Boston.
The pungy Cadet has arrived at Alexan-
dria, and Is unloading a cargo of canned
tomatoes from Nomini for Harry Kirk &
Co.
The schooner Oakland has arrived In port
with full cargo of cord wood for Carter
& Clark.
The Plume Smith, the Ada Ballenger and
the A. A. Croswell have arrived in port
with small cargoes Of oysters for the local
market
The ram-schooner Harlan w. Huston has
unloaded a part Of her cargo Of shingles
and lumber at Alexandria, and has come
up to this city to complete the discharging
of her cargo.
The Silver Star has arrived with a load
of cord wood for the dealers.
Capt. Jacob Dodge, a well-known old
mariner and master of vessels which for
merly traded here, died at his home at Port
land Me-, early in the week.