Evening star., 1902-03-24
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ICE COMPANIES PREPARING FOR
THE COMING SEASON.
Plants Enabled to Manufacture Sup
ply for Present Demand-Fish
and Oyster Supply

All the ice houses Of the American and
Purity Ice companies of this city are now
being fitted up for the storage of Ice for
use in this city during the coming summer.
AS yet no vessels are being loaded either
on the Hudson or at the Maine ice fields for
this city. as the manufacturing plants Of
the companies able to produce ice
enough to meet the present demand.
An ample supply of all varieties of bunch
fish have been received by the dealers at
the wharf from the Potomac river since
Saturday, and quantities of sea fish have
also been brought up by the Norfolk boats.
Sales were made this morning at the fol4
iowing prices. For salmon trout. 12c. per
pound: white perch. to 12c. per pound,
black bass. 10 to 14c. per pound; pan rock.
10 to 12c per pound; boiling rock, l2'2 to
jumping mullets, to &c. per pound: hick-
ory jacks. to 13c. each; black catfish. ~
to 25c. per bunch; white catfish, 25 to 35c
per bunch; river mullets, 25 to soc. per
Chesapeake shad roe 50 to 9Oc.; bucks Acc
each; southern shad, roe, 6Oc to I5c. each;
buck. 80 to Csc. each. and herring, $2Jo to
So per hundred.
the shell at the 11th street wharf this
morning, six boats having arrived in tow
of the tug VIM. II. YerkeS, Jr., SATURDAY,
and two having come in this morning. Inc
the same as last week, the small oysters
selling at 80 to 60 cents per bushel, and the
larger ones as high as 20 cents per bushel.
The arrivals this morning were the Stew
art and the Mary Tyler, from Tangier.
The schooner A. H. Quimby is in port
with a cargo Of pine lumber from the
Rappahannock for H. L. Biscoe.
The John A. Curtis. with about 10000
feet Of Virginia pine lumber, has arrived
for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The steamer Lily and Howard, with a
cargo of pine lumber from Aqua creek,
arrived at Alexandria for the dealers there
and after unloading came up to this city.
The bugeye r. H. Stuart has gone to
Curriomen and Is loading cargo OF oys-
ters for this market.
The schooner Rover has sailed from Bal
timore for this city with cargo OF coal
and Is expected to arrive today.
The steam barge Dennis Simmons dis
charged a large cargo Of shingles at Alex
andria Saturday and sailed at once for
North Carolina port to load.
The Isaac Solomon has arrived In port
with a cargo of cord wood from Liverpool
Point wharf for Carter Clark.
The scow Washington, loaded with oak
from Piscataway.
General Port News.
The hull Of the old schooner Thomas X.
Carroll, which last fall went ashore on
Craney Island near Glymont and was
aDanOOne0, mas entlrely disappeared, tne
running ice and heavy winds Of the past
winter having broken the boat off and car
ried her away timber by timber. Not
trace Of the vessel can now be seen even
on the lowest of tides.
The new longboat Edith Verrill Is lying
at H. K Field G. Co.'S wharf at Alexandria
awaiting a new suit of sails. AS soon as
they arrive and are put on her, the boat
will go into commission and will run wood.
The tug Camilla of Taylor Bros. feet Is
hauled out on the big marine railway at
Alexandria for an overhauling and adjust
ment Of machinery.
The United States naval tug Triton, which
has just been given her spring repainting
and overhauling at the naval ordnance
foundry here, has been put overheard and
is again in commission, running between
the ordnance plant here and the naval prov
ing grounds at Indian Head, Nd. The Tri-
ton Is now one Of the handsomest tugs in
the Potomac.
The bugeye Cora has arrived in port from
the lower river and will run fish for r. A
Golden from the Windmill Point fishing
shore during the coming summer.
The barge T. E. McClain, with cargo
of hard coal, has sailed from Baltimore
for the United States powder works at
Indian Head. Md.
The steamer Sue, the freight boat Of the
Weems line on the route between this city,
the river landings and Baltimore, has ar
rived here under her new schedule. She
will sail tomorrow afternoon.
The first sturgeon of the season was
caught a few days ago In the Potomac,
Clark. The fish was a big one and was
shipped to the Baltimore market.
Mr. Harry Carter is confined to his home
by illness.