Evening star., 1902-02-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT.
SAND AND GRAVEL DIGGING MA
CHIMES BEING oVERHAULED.
Preparations for the Opening Of Spring
Season-Fishermen Unable
to Work Nets.

The tug Rosalie and the two large sand
and gravel digging machines Of Mr.. Louis
=. Smoot are lying In the Eastern branch
at the foot OF Sd street southwest, and are
receiving a general overhauling. Before the
tug goes into service again in the spring
she will be fitted with a new boiler and will
have number of improvements made to
her engine. The tugs Eugenia and Select
man Of the National Sand Dredging Com
pany are also being overhauled and put In
order, and 1t Is stated the large tug Joe
Zane, which has been lying out of commits
sion in the basin at the foot Of 18th street
for several years past, will be put in good
order and will be in service this summer.
The work on the sailing barge Daniel at
the Alexandria shipyard Is completed. and
the boat Is now ready for service as soon
as the ice leaves the river.
1t is reported that several seine boats be-
longing to fishermen about Gunston have
been carried away from their moorings by
the drifting ice and landed high and dry
on sand bars in the river.
About the first Of next month the general
overhauling of the small pleasure craft for
the summers work will be begun. At
Iownshends boat exchange at the foot of
TN street are number of small boats wait
Among them are the steam launch Jennie
irene, the naphtha launch Spray and the
SKIP, May, Boxer, Francina II, Marie md
Dauntless. Plans are also being prepared
1or the building OF two half raters for local
yacntsmen In the early spring. They are
both to be fine boats of their kind and are
to be ready for delivery about the middle
or May or early in June.
There are no fish coming from the nets
In the Potomac river or from the fisheries
IN chesapeake bay, the ice in the creeks
preventing the working Of the nets No
ROCK catfish or river mullets are on sale.
Inc nsh now being received at the wharf
come from southern waters They find a
ready sale at prices as follows: For black
pass, lO to IA cents per pound; jumping
muiets. to cents per pound; Sleeps
nead, to cents per pound: drum. to
cents per pound; pike, to 10 cents per
pound; salmon trout, 10 to II cents Der
pound; gray trout, to 10 cents per
pound; white perch, to 12 cents per
pound; yellow perch. cents per pound
fior1da herring. $3.50 per hundred: Flor
loa snad, bucks, 90 cents. and roe, 81 each.
and Georgia shad. bucks, 35 cents, and
roe, $1.25 each.
The little sloop Daisy, which went adrift
from Jones Point. below Alexandria. about
ten day ago, Is still hard aground on the
sandbar between Fort Foote and Broad
Creek, Md. Efforts are to be made at
once to get the boat afioat before she is
badly damaged in the heavy northerly
blows Of this season of the year.
The large scows building at the boat
yard of Mr.. Augustus Dean &. Son at Alex
andria for Messrs. Wand & McDermott,
the contractors for the building Of the new
Long bridge are so near completion that
the first of them will be launched today,
Inc others will be completed shortly
The Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall
line steamer Charles Manchester will under
go her annual inspection at the hands
Of the United States steamboat authorities
tomorrow.
The managers Of the Randall line Of
steamers had expected to send the steamer
Wakefield on her route to Nomini and
Lower Machodoc tomorrow. but the con-
tinued cold weather and the increasing
thickness of the Ice will prevent.
The schooners Grace g. Bennett and
Magic. loaded with lumber for this port,
will, 1t is expected, unload at Norfolk and
return to q North Carolina lumber port for
cargoes.
The barge Jackson has compl~ ted unload
ing cargo of cord wood, and will return
to Aqua creek for another cargo as soon
as the ice will allow.
The tug Edith Goddard Winship Is tow
ing coal-laden barges from Georgetown to
the wharves in the Washington harbor.
The sloop B. H. Lambert, Captain Enoch
Davis, is frozen in the Wicomico river, and
the Ella Hill. Captain Dixon, is in Lower
Machodoc. Both have cargoes of oysters
for this market.