Evening star., 1902-08-29
ON THE RIVER FRONT.
ASPHALT LADEN SCHooNERS
BOUND TO THIS CITY.
Repairs to Vessels Completed - New
Dredge Coming-other River
and Harbor News.

Two large SchoonerS laden with CRUDE
asphalt for this city from Port au Spain,
Island Of Trinidad, are at sea, bound here.
| The first of these vessels will, it is expect
ed. enter the Capes OF Virginia within the
next day or two. When loaded on the ves-
sells from the lake on the Island Of Trini-
dad the asphalt is In a semi-iuid condition,
and on the trip to this city, if the vessel
remains long heeled over on one tack, the
asphalt runs to the low side, and vessels
often come into port here with heavy
list. Sometimes the list becomes great
that the crew has to go into the holds of
the vessels and with pick and shovel trim
the asphalt back into place.
The cooler weather has created an excel
lent demand for fish of all kinds, and
the market at the 11th street wharf this
morning was quite brisk There was a
fair supply of fish of all kinds on hand, and
prices, which remain at about yesterdays
figures are as follows: For pan rock, to 8
cents per pound; medium rock, 10 to II cents
per pound; boiling rock, Is cents per pound;
black bass 10 cents per pound; bluefish and
tailors. 312 to Az cents per pound; sturgeon,
10 to u cents per pound; founders to
cents per pound; white perch, to 10 cents
per pound; small white perch, to 10 cents
per bunch; catfish, 10 to 81 cents per bunch;
eels, to 5 cents each; spot, So to So. 80 per
barrel; gray trout, $50 to So per barrel,
and butterfish, So to s. per barrel. Crabs
are selling at 81 to 81 % per barrel. CLAIMS
at 40 cents per hundred. Shucked oysters
are in demand at 81. 20 per gallon.
Business in WatermeloDs was somewhat
more brisk a the oyster wharf this morn
ing than it has been for several days in
consequence of the demand for Saturdays s
trade, and prices have advanced slightly.
The stock of melons on hand amounts to
about 10000, in twenty vessels, and there
have been no new arrivals since yesterday.
Today the best selected melons are selling
at SS to $40 per hundred, primes at 50 to Sc
per hundred and CullS ST 81 Der hum
dred.
The work of caulking and overhauling the
hull of the small three-masted schooner
Alice Carlisle on the railway at the Alex
andria shipyard has been completed and
the schooner has sailed for Nomini and
will load for this city. The schooner Irene,
which was undergoing repairs at Alexandria,
has also been completed and will sail in
day or two for the lower river.
The work of wrecking the old Farming
ton. Nd, route steamer Harry Lodor is
in progress at the wharf foot of King
street, Alexandria, and before the end of
the week the steamer will be stripped of
all her metal.
The steamer Harry Randall which came
into port this morning. brought up heavy
cargo of fruit and grain from river points
She also had a large passenger list from
the resorts IN the mouth of the Potomac.
General News of the Port.
It is stated the new and larger dredge
which the Risley Dredging Company of
Baltimore has secured in Philadelphia to
aid in the work at the Washington bar
racks will arrive here in a day or two, and
will at once begin operations in the channel
abreast Of the grounds.
The new power launch of Messrs. Frank
Boswell and George Webber has been COM
pleted at Whyte's boat house at the foot of
7th street, and her engine will be given a
trial on the river in few days.
A hunting and fishing ark is hauled out
on the small railway at Capt. Sonny" Rea-
gan's boat house for general overhauling
and painting preparatory to the opening of
the cunning season on the river Monday
next.
The larger power launch Diana, belonging
to Mr. Harry Norment, was out for a trial
on the river yesterday evening under the
command of Capt George Davis
The barge Maryland, laden with about 600
tons of fertilizer material from Norfolk
has arrived at Alexandria for the Alexan-
dria Chemical Company
The schooner Robin Hood has arrived in
port with cargo of pine lumber from the
Rappahannock river for the dealers.
The schooner J. D. Bell is in port with a
full cargo of cord wood from the lower Po-
tomac for Garter & Clark
The schooner Dennis Simmons is in port
to complete the discharging of a cargo Of
pine lumber from North Carolina.
The Alert, having aboard load of pine
wood for the dealers here came into port
late yesterday afternoon.
The schooner Peri has arrived with a load
Of lumber from Aqua creek for Johnson &
Wimsatt