Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-17
ON THE RIVER FRONT
AUTOMATIC DERRICK TO BE PUT
INTO aEMEIcE.
Calvert Again ons Baltimore Route
Large Cargoesa of Lumber Ex-
pected-Other MATTERS.

The large barge Dorchester of Baltimore,
having aboard about 200 tons of Pocahontas
coal, was brought intos port by the tug
Dauntless yesterday evening and taken to
the navy yard, the cargo of coal aboard the
barge being for the use of the naval ord
nance foundry. The barge has been docked
under the new coal derrick and the
transfer of the coal from the barge will be
its first test. The derrick is an automatic
arrangement, by which, it is stated, the
coal is loaded in buckets in the hold of the
vessel, transferred to cars on railway,
run into the coal house and dumped in a
pile without assistance, except that of the
men at the various levers.
The continued cool weather has made the
demand for fish of all kinds quite good. and
TINS morning the market was well attended
by buyers and the sales were good. The
receipts of fish from the nets in the river
and from the shores about Nor.olk were
excellent, and prices were as follows: For
sturgeon, 10 to 12c. per pound; Spanish
mackerel, l2R to 15c. per pound; black lass
10 to lSc per pound; pan rock, to l0c. per
pound; medium rock. 10 to 12Rc. per pound;
boiling rock, Is to 1Sc. par pound; bluetish.
. to &c. per pound; founders, &c. per pound !;
large white perch, 10c. per pound small
white perch, 10 to 15c. per bunch; catfish,
large, 70 to 4Oc. per bunch; catfish, small
10 to Zoe. per bunch; eels, to DC. each;
gray trout, 81 to So per barrel; butter f1sh
$3.50 to 81 per barrel, and hard crabs, 81
to 81 per barrel. The demand for clans Is
small, and they are selling at 4Oc per hun
bred.
The demand for oysters in the shell con-
tinues very good at the 18th street wharf
This morning only about 200 bushels were
on hand for sale. Prices this morning were
about the same yesterday, from 45 to Soc
per bushel.
The cool weather has made the demand
for water melons at the 18th street wharf
~. @ nnn 11ay, hpy,
at the wharf yesterday, fully 1900 were on
hand this morning. The stock now at tie
wharf will be about all that will come here
this season in vessels. Prices this morning
were: For culls, 81 to 50 per hundred;
primes, 81 to So per hundred, and selects,
$40 to S12 per hundred.
The Weems Line steamer Calvert, re-
Gently in dry dock at Baltimore to have
the bottom of her hull scraped and painted
is again on the route between this city and
Baltimore, relieving the steamer North
cumberland, which has returned to the Rap
pahannock route.
The ram schooner Harlan W. Huston,
which was ashore on a mud bar near Cliff
ton Beach, f1oated yesterday morning at
high water, and was brought up to Alexan-
dria yesterday by the tug Spray. She has
aboard cargo of shingles and about 1885,
600 feet of North Carolina pine lumber, con-
signed to the dealers here and at Alexan-
dria. The schooner was not seriously
harmed by running ashore on the bar, as
the bottom was OF sort mud, In winch the
vessel lay easily.
General Matters of Interest.
The structure for which the Wilkinson
Point Shoal Light in the Neuse river, N. c.,
was displayed and which was knocked
down and destroyed by passing vessel
June 10 last was rebuilt and the light,
white port lantern, re-est ablished August p.
The big barge Narragansett, in tow of the
f11gp loo KinD left farIa
The tug will tow her by the outside route
to the Maine ice fields to load.
Mr.. George Cook has been made mate of
the Glymont route steamer Estelle Ran
DALI
Engineer Ernest Germond has been trans
ferred from the steamer T. V. Arrowsmith
to the steamer Wakefield, as assistant to
Chief Engineer VIII Reed.
The barge Dauntless of Baltimore, Capt.
Leach, arrived in port yesterday evening
with two loaded bargesain tow.
The schooner John z. Robinson, laden
with fertilizer, has sailed for points in King
George county, Va.
The three-masted schooner VIM. Marshall
will today complete the loading of a cargo
Of railway ties at Alexandria and will sail
for Boston.
The schooner Peri, laden with general
stores from Alexandria, has sailed for Aqua
creek and other landings on the river.
The two-masted schooner Alithed, loaded
with lumber from a Virginia port, has ar
rived here for the dealers
The schooner Belmont is in port with
full load of cord wood from the lower river
for Carter & Clark.
The tug Spray brought three scows laden
with stone into port from the quarries at
Quantico, Va. The stone will be used in the
street work here.
The schooner Judy, laden with lumber, is
lying at anchor in the stream awaiting an
opportunity to go to dock.
The large barge Maggie Donaldson has
arrived from Norfolk. She brings a deck
load of chemically-treated timber for the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany and fertilizer material in the hold for
Bryant & Co. at Alexandria.
The schooner Shea has been taken to the
wharf of T. r. Riley, foot of 9th street, to
unload a cargo of lumber.