Evening star., 1902-08-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
VIGILANT REMOVES oBsTRUc.
TIoNs FROM THE RIVER.
Heavy Travel Southward-Hooliga
on Pleasure Cruise-General
and Personal Mention.

The harbor police boat Vigilant was out
| on a cruise for several hours Tuesday
| evening, removing a number OF broken pile
| heads and other logs from the channel
between this city and Alexandria The
logs were In the path OF vessels going up
and down the river and had they been pick
ed up by the wheels OF passing steamer
might have done considerable damage TO
the boat They were towed into shallow
water and moved where they can do no
damage Since the watermelon fleet which
is made up almost entirely OF strangers
has been coming into port the Yigiiant has
been kept quite busy assigning the boats
wharf
The supply of fish on sale at the 11th
street wharf fish market this morning
came mainly from Virginia Beach and
Old Point, the receipts from the river
nets being light Spot and tailors from
appearance and are in demand. The
market this morning was quite brisk.
| and prices were follows: For Spanish
nackerel. loc. per pound; founders, &c. to
&c per pound; pan rock. &c. 60 10c per
| pound; boiling rock. 13c to 15c per pound;
black bass, l4c. TO I5c. per pound.
bluefish, 5c. per pound; white perch. 1oc to
| 12c. per pound; sturgeon, 10c. to 12c. per
pound; catfish, 15c. to soc per bunch; white
! perch. small, 10c. to 12c. per bunch: cells
| &c. to &c. each; porgies. 10c. to l2c. each
| buttsfish. So per barrel: gray trout 81
| per barrel; spot, 81 per barrel; hard crabs
| s1.J0 to 81 per barrel, soft crabs Roc 70
4oc. per dozen. and clans, 40c. TO 4Jc. per
| hundred. About 150O0 watermelons OF fine
| quality have arrived a. the 1ith street
wharf since yesterday morning from the
| lower part OF Virginia and North Carolina
| In fleet Of five or six boats. The de-
mand continues excellent. and prices range
| from 81 to 81 per hundred for culls SIS to
| $40 per hundred for primes and SO to $40
| per hundred for selected melons
The tug Stella, belonging TO the P.
Dougherty Company of Baltimore, has been
| sold to parties in Philadelphia and has been
| turned over to them for service on the Del
| aware river. The Stella was frequent
| visitor here with oil and coal laden barges
/ In tow. She is hfty-siX gross tons and Is
| seventy feet long, seventeen feet wide and
seven and one-half feet deep.
| Travel to the south on the Norfolk and
Washington line steamers has been very
heavy this summer, particularly on the Sat
! urday night trips from this port, and the
| state rooms for these trips are booked
/ up for several days in advance OF the sail
ing time. Plans are being prepared for
! the placing Of an additional number OF
rooms on the steamer Newport News This
| work will be done at Baltimore I'm the early
| fall.
The Happy Hooigan Club Of Alexandria
| sailed from Alexandria Tuesday evening
in the pungy Jos. Beach for cruise OF ten
| days on the river. Colonial Beach and
| other resorts will be visited and general
| good time is anticipated. In the party are
| Messrs. Noble Smith. John Hepburn. Ste
| phen Taylor, George Ward. William Bontz
and George Meade all Of Alexandria.
Along the Wharves.
canal barge laden with a full cargo of
| straw from a point in the Chesapeake and
| Ohio canal has arrived at Alexandria con-
| signed to the Mutual Ice Company.
The barge Souder is in port with a cargo
of lumber from Norfolk for Johnson &
| Wimsatt, She brings 10000 feet.
| The two-masted schooner Sidonia Curley.
laden with about 10000 feet Of lumber and
laths from North Carolina, is in port for
| H. L. Biscoe.
The V. V. Jackson. Goldie c.. Ellen Jack
| son, Katie, Oakland and Fannie have all
sailed light for river points and will load
| back to this city.
The ]. r. Dixon and the Mayfower are
| in port with cargoes of cord wood from
| river points for the dealers.
| The Susan Leach and the Wardo, having
| loaded cargoes of general stores here, have
! sailed for landings on the lower Potomac.
| The Uriah Horner, laden with cord wood,
has arrived in port, consigned to Carter &
| Clark.
The ]. S. Smith. loaded with lumber con-
| signed to Johnson & wimsatt, has gone TO
| the wharf of I. r. Riley to unload.
| The steamer Dennis Simmons completed
| the unloading Of her cargo of lumber at
Alexandria yesterday and sailed for VIII
| liamston, n. c.
The scow Black Giant has been chartered
| by Messrs. Wand & Mcdonald for service
| In the Long bridge construction work.
| Mr.. Charles w Beach of Virginia Beach
| has been made assistant keeper OF the
Seven Foot Knoll lighthouse in Chesapeake
bay, vice Andrew Smmonsen.
| Capt L. J. Colston OF the schooner Chas.
| Linthicum Is now recovering from an at
| tack of southern fever, and has gone to
| Dorchester county. Nd, for rest before
| returning to the command of his boat.
| Capt August Gaines is having his steam
| launch, the Augusta, handsomely repainted
| and overhauled
Mr.. w. II. Callahan, general passenger
| agent of the Norfolk and Washington line.
| has gone TO Atlantic City for a stay Of
| about a week.
| Mr. Thornton Smoot, formerly purser In
| the Randall line, who is now at Fort Stan
ton New Mexico, for his health. is rapidly
| regaining strength, and expects to return
| home soon.
| Mr. Mel Marden has resigned as second
| engineer of the steamer Wakefield, and has
| gone to New London, Conn, to take charge
| of the engine room of the yacht Gretchen
| of this city.
Mr. Lou Ballenger is in charge OF the en-
| eine room of the harbor police boat Nigf-
| liant in place OF Chief Engineer James
| Neale, who is away on leave.
l Mr. Peter Baggott mate of the steamer
| Kent, has been transferred TO the steamer
| Pentz in the same capacity.
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