Evening star., 1902-08-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW SCHOONER BUILT FOR BAY
LUMBER TRADE.
Coal Cargoes for Boston - Tug Blows
Hole in Boiler-GeneraI
Harbor Matters.

The new ram schooner William 7. Moore,
which was launched at Bethel, Del. about
three weeks ago, has gone into service on
Chesapeake bay, and will be a frequent
visitor TO this port with cargoes of lumber.
She will carry about 500 900 feet of boards.
and Is one of the largest of her class in
service on the bay. The Moore is 134 feet
long. 2S feet wide, and has a depth of hold
of 10 feet. She will carry about 4T5 tons
deadweight cargo. Capt. Thomas f. Mar
shall. who is known here, is In command
of the new schooner
While the supply of fresh fish on hand
this morning was by no means large, yet
1t was ample to meet all demands. Prices
are about the same as yesterday. the few
changes made being unimportant, and are
as follows: For blu rish. 31a to 4c per
pound; sea bass, L &C. per pound; black
bass, &C. per pound; Spanish mackerel, 12h
to 1oc. per pound; sturgeon, 10 to 12c. per
pound; pan rock. to Sc. per pound; me-
dunn rock to 12c. per pound; boiling
rock, l3 to 15c. per pound; founders, &C.
per pound; white perch, 10 to 12c. per
pound; small white perch. TO l3c. per
3 to sc. each; gray trout. s. to So per barrel;
spot, $3.50 to 81 per barrel; butterfish, 81 per
barrel: hard shell crabs. 81 to 81 per bar
rel. CLANS are selling at 40c. per hundred,
but the demand for them is very light.
There Is very pronounced glut in the
watermelon market at the 11th street
wharf today, the cooler weather having
made the sales very small, while the re-
ceipts from down the river have been
heavy. This morning there were about TO-
900 melons at the wharf and though they
were offered at 81 per hundred for culls,
s. to $6 per hundred for primes and S12 per
hundred for the best grades Of selected
fruit there We're but few sales. The same
condition Is said to prevail In the Balti-
more melon market.
Barge No 16 of the Consolidation Com
Dany has been taken to and
VIII there load a cargo of soft coal for
Boston. Barge II is at anchor off Alexan-
dria, and as soon as room can be found
for her at the Georgetown coal piers she
will be taken there to load. Since the be-
ginning of summer about fifteen barges of
soft coal, averaging over 100 tons each,
have been sent north from Georgetown.
Complaint is made by the officers of the
river steamers of the nude bathing in
dulged in by the soldiers of the engineers
battalion stationed at Fort Foote, Nd. The
men are bathing daily just about the time
the excursion steamers are passing. The
matter is to be brought to the attention
Of Major Black.
General Port News
As the tug Maud H. was on her way
up the bay Sunday night with a tow of
barges for Baltimore she blew hole in
her boiler while off Point Lookout. She
succeeded in getting into the Patuxent
notified of the accident. The tug Hercules
was sent for the disabled boat and her
tow.
The tug Louise IS on a marine railway
at Baltimore for new crank shaft to re-
place one broken the latter part OF last
week.
Augustus Dean & Son. at Alexandria.
have in frame a large steam launch for
parties here. When completed the boat
will be used on the Potomac
The sailing yacht Sea Gull, belonging to
Mr.. Jacob Deemer, which has recently
been oyerhauled at Edward Whyte's boat
house, will be put overheard and prepared
for a cruise on the river.
The Woodlawn Farmers Club of Fairfax
county. Va, had its annual excursion to
V. Arrowsmith There were a bout $50 men,
bers of the club and their friends in the
party.
Two of the large sand-carrying scows of
the Columbia Sand Dredging Company have |
been taken to Deans boat yard at Alexan- |
dria toebe rebuilt.
Little, if any. soft coal is coming down |
the canal for the dealers and the steam |
fuel by railway to this city and in carts !
to the wharf.
Mr.. H. c. Moore. engineer-in-chief for the |
Risley Dredging Company, now engaged in |
the Improvements at the Washington bar
racks, has been on a visit to Philadelphia |
and New York, on business for the COM |
pany.
The schooner c. c. Wheeler, laden with |
lumber from the Rappahannock river, has |
arrived in port.
The two-masted schooner Earl Biscoe has |
arrived in port with a full cargo Of cord |
wood for Carter & Clark.
The schooner VIM. Young, having aboard |
full cargo of pine lumber. has arrived in |
port for Johnson & Wimsatt.
The Roxana, Francis and Geo. H. Bunker,
laden with cord wood, are in port from the
Nomni neighborhood for Carter G. Clark
The schooner Matilda, laden with shin
giles from Norfolk, arrived at Alexandria |
yesterday consigned to H. K. Field & CO.
The schooner John Maginnis has arrived
at Alexandria with a cargo of glass-making
sand for the Virginia glass works.
WORK OF A DIAMOND THIEF.