Evening star., 1902-05-05
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LARGE PILE-DRIVING MACHINE
SINKS IN WADF's BAY.
Schooner Goes Ashore Near Alexandria
Lumber Vessels Arrive-Mat-
ters General and Personal.

The large pile-driving machine belonging
to Mr.. Groves, which has been used for
driving the mooring piles for the dredges at
work deepening the channel over the Mary
land Point shoals is lying sunk in Wade
bay. on the Potomac, preparations are be-
ing made to raise the machine and fit it up
for service.
The schooner Grace G. Bennett, which
sailed from this city with a cargo of broken
stone for bay point Friday evening, ran
aground on the flats at the mouth of Great
Hunting creek, below Alexandria, Saturday
morning last, and remained ashore for sew
eral hours until the incoming tide fioated
her off. The schooner was unharmed.
The receipts of shad and herring at the
18th street wharf are light this morning,
the catches in the river nets being quite
small But few changes are to be noted IN
the price, as follows: For roe shad, 23 10
2Sc each; buck shad, II to 1oc. each; her-
ring, 50 to So per hundred; pan rock, TO
1Oc per pound; boiling rock, 12k2 to 15c. per
pound; founders, &c. per pound; kinghsh,
&c. per pound; white perch, to 1oc. per
pound; sturgeon, SC. per pound; carp 10 10
3Sc. each; small white perch, to 13c per
bunch; white catfish, 20 to 3Oc. per bunch;
| black catfish, 10 to 15c. per bunch; eels, DC.
each. and small trout So to 81 per barrel.
The receipts from the river nets have been
since yesterday about 10000 herring and 4oo
shad.
About $50 bushels of oysters in the shell
were on sale at the wharf this morning,
with a very light demand. Prices range
about the same as they did Saturday, the
small oysters selling from 30 to 40c. per
bushel, and ranging from that up to SOC.
per bushel. There is ample supply of
CLAIMS on hand, and the demand is active at
prices ranging from 40 to soc per hundred;
The schooner Alethea is in port to unload
a cargo of lumber from a Virginia lumber
port for dealers.
The c. H Dagger, the Regulator, the VIM.
Oliver, the Matilda and the steamer Lily
and Howard have sailed for lower river
points since Saturday.
General Port News.
The Norfolk and Washington line steamer
Washington made special trip to Old Point
with party of Philadelphia people aboard.
She left here Saturday evening, and re-
turned this morning. Captain Tull was in
command of the steamer on the trip
The power yacht Greyhound was out on
the river Yesterday for short time to try
her newly rebuilt engine and a steering
gear which has just been placed on her.
She will be repanted and prepared for sum-
mer trips.
Mr.. Frank Boswell has purchased large
yaWl which was formerly one of the boats
of the United States dispatch boat Dolphin,
from parties in Alexandria, and will at
once fit it up as steam iaunch. New gun
wales will be placed on the poat, anu she
is to be decked over before the engine and
boiler are placed on her
One of the large sand-dgging machines
belonging to the Columbia Sand Dredging
Company, which has been operating below
Marshall Hail. has been brought up the
river and has gone into service above the
Long bridge.
Dil's wharf Gower Cedar Point will be
rebuilt in a short time, and material for
the work is now being hauled to the wharf.
Dilps is one of the most important wharves
on the river.
The tug Maryland, in avoiding the tide,
went ashore on the flats about Fort Foote
Saturday for a short time, when the in
coming tide and her wheel worked her into
deeper water. At the time she grounded
the Maryland was bringing tow of laden
scows to this city.
Mr. R. G. Craren of River View has
gone on an automobile trip to New York
city and along the Hudson river. Mr..
Julian NJ. Moore, assistant engineer Of the