Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ocEAN-GoING JUG SAVAGE A
VISITOR HERE.
Ram Schooners as Lumber Carriers
Alert Ready for Service
Short River Items.

The big sea-goingD tug Savage, belonging
TO the Consolidation Coal Company of Bal
t1more, which has been lying at the 10th
street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany the past week. waiting the loading OF
three barges with l. coal, is the largest
steamer of her kind that has been in port
mere IN several years She is designed for
ocean towing, and will take coai-laden
parges from here by the sea route 20 Bos-
ton or other New England ports and will
return with them after the discharge of
thelr cargoes. The engines of the Savage
are very powerful, but she is also provided
with masts and sails for use in case her
machinery becomes disabled She is
steel vessel of 40 tons burden and is 1928
feet long. q feet wide and 1876 feet deep.
She was built at Baltimore in 1899
Ihere mas been a slight increase in the
supply or hsh received by the dealers at
the wharf in the past two or three days,
particularly from the shores about Nir-
slhla Beach and Old Point. This increase
IN the supply, together with the hot
weather has forced prices down somewhat,
ana they will, 1t is expected, go still lower.
Inc demand today is light and prices are:
for spanish mackerel, 10 to II cents per
pound; white perch 10 cents per pound;
founders, cents per pound; boiling rock,
~ TO 10 cents per pound; pan rock, to
~ cents per pound; salmon trout, to u
cents per pound; biuefish, cents per
pound; drum, % to 80 cents each; carp,
10 to 20 cents each; cells, 3 to cents each;
small white perch, to 10 cents per bunch;
catfish, 10 to 80 cents per bunch; gray
trout, $3.50 to s. per barrel. and butter
fish, 81 per barrel; hard crabs are selling
at 81 to 81 per barrel; soft crabs, 90 cents
per dozen, and clans, 80 cents per hun
dred.
A large proportion of the lumber trade
between this city and North Carolina is
q
masted vessel with no topmasts and with
but one or two head sails. There are now
in port here three of that class of vessels
the Grace G. Bennett the Harlan w. Hus-
ton and the Lizzie A. Williams-all with
lumber and shingles for the dealers here.
The Edna and Maud and the Ruth and
Ella, others of this type Of vessels, are
on their way here. Delaware is the head
quarters Of large proportion Of the
rams"
A fine metallic lifeboat in half sunken
condition was found under the Washing
ton and Alexandria ferry wharf Saturday
by the officers of the steamer Columbia.
How the boat got where it was found no
one seems to know. 1t is held awaiting
an owner.
Of General Interest.
AS the three-masted schooner Lizzie Will
liams was on her way up the river Sat-
urday with a cargo of lumber from New
bern, N. c., she ran ashore on the river
flats near Fort Foote and remained there
for several hours. Her crew finally sue
ceeded In working her into deep water,
and she came ON to this city The vessel
was not injured. The cargo is consigned
to Johnson & Witnsatt. The Williams is
OF the ram type Of schooner, and is paying
her first visit to this city.
The new parts flor the engine of the
steam launch Alert have arrived here from
the manufacturers In the west. and are to-
day being placed in position, and the launch
will be ready for service this afternoon.
Before she starts on her next cruise the
Alert is to be fitted with a new bronze pro-
peller wheel.
The work on the harbor police boat Vigi-
liant has been completed, and she is again
berthed at the harbor office wharf ready
for service.
The power yacht Greyhound, with a
party aboard, has been spending several
days the river on a fishing trip.
The steamers arriving from lower river
landings are bringing up good quantities
of leaf tobacco in hegsheads for trans
shipment from Alexandria to the tobacco
warehouses at Baltimore.
The two-masted schooner Flora Thomas,
laden with pine boards from the Rappahan-
mock river, has arrived in port for II. l..
Biscoe.
The Kate Muller has arrived in port with
A full cargo of cord wood from the lower
Potomac for Carter & Clark
The Isaac Solomon has loaded a cargo
of lumber and building material and has
sailed for a lower river landing.
The Ada Ballinger took a cargo of wheat
in sacks from Alexandria to the mills at
Georgetown today.
The American Patriot is In port with a
full cargo of cord wood from the lower
river for the dealers
The schooner Kirwan IS lying at the