Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-04
ON THE RIVER FRONT
THE BAY TUG FAVORITE SOLD TO
NEW OWNERS.
Broken Shaft of Dredge Repaired
Overhaulding at the Boatyards-
Other Matters.

The tug favorite, one Of the smaller tow
boats Of the P. Dougherty Company Of
Baltimore, has been sold TO the Chesapeake
Towing and Tightening Company, and Will
be used for towing work about Baltimore
harbor. The Favorite was frequent WIS.,
itor here with lows OF oil and coai-taden
barges and, though a small boat was
most serviceable one. The tug was built
In 1898 She is sixty-three feet seven inches
long, sixteen feet two inches wide and has
a depth of seven feet in the hold. She
registers forty gross tons and twenty
seven net It Is understood the Dougherty
Company will replace the Favorite with a
new and larger boat
There was an ample supply Of fish of all
kinds sale at the 18th street wharf mar
ket this morning. The demand has fallen
off somewhat from what 1t was early IN
the week. Prices were as follows: For pan
rock, to s cents per pound; boiling rock,
Is to 16 cents per pound; medium rock.
to 10 cents per pound; green pike, to 10
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, 10 to
IS cents per pound; founders. cents per
pound; black bass, IS to % cents per pound;
blue fish and tailors to cents per
pound; salmon, river, to cents per
pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per pound; white
perch. large. to 10 cents per pound: white
perch, small. 10 to Is cents per bunch: cat
fish large, % to 40 cents per bunch; cat
fish small. 10 to 25 cents per bunch; cells.
3 to cents each; carp, 10 to 40 cents each;
gray trout, $3.50 to 81 per barrel. and but
terfish 81 per barrel
Oysters are in fair demand at the wharf
this morning The uptown dealers are lay
ing In their stocks for next week. oysters
are selling at from so to 65 cents per bushel,
according to size and quality.
General Matters.
1t is stated that the broken shaft of the
small dredge Gray Eagle will be replaced
in a day or two and she will resume work
on the Washington barracks improvements.
The big dredge Alice Vivian Is operating
night dday pumping mud from the bot
tom Of the harbor upon the low lands OF the
arsenal
The big pile driver OF the Pennsylvania
railway which has been hauled out on the
marine railway at Benefits boat yard for
rebuilding has been completed and was put
overheard Thursday. The driver will be
taken to the new Long bridge for work on
the new piers.
The three-masted schooner Sebago, which
brought cargo of laths here from New
Brunswick. is lying at the wharf of the
shipyard at Alexandria and Will be given
an 0yerhauling 1t is stated that after the
work on her Is completed she will load a
cargo of railway ties for Boston.
The pungy James Beach has been hand
somely reprinted and given overhauling
at the Alexandria shipyard, and will short
ly enter the oyster-carrying trade in the
river.
The lighthouse tender Maple is at ons Of
the Baltimore shpyards and is having her
hull cleaned and painted and her outside
machinery looked over.
The steamers Charles Manchester Samuel
J. Pentz and River Queen will run upon the
route between this city and Mt. Vernon next
week. Trips will be made every hour from
0 am. until the hour the grounds close.
The steamer Wakefield brought heavy
cargo of fruit, country produce and stock
from the lower river for the dealers here
quantity of tobacco, for shipment to Bal
timore was also brought up by the steamer
and landed at Alexandria
The name OF the schooner James Boyce,
er. which was built at Alexandria In 1882
has been changed to the Isleboro
The barge Swansboro' with a cargo of
tug for the dealers