Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-24
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SCHOON7R NELLIE CRAIG GOES
ASHORE IN DOCK.
Steamer Moseley Back in Port-Excur-
sion Season Nearly Ended
General Port News.

at Alexandria day or two ago with a
cargo of fertilizer material, was drawing
too much water to go into berth alongside
the Fertilizer Company's wharf. The tug
made strong effort to dock her. but with
in twenty feet of the wharf she went
aground Her cargo is being removed over
a staging built over the space between the
vessel and the wharf. and as the schooner
is lightened she will be worked up to her
berth at the wharf. Where the Craig
grounded there was twenty feet of water
five or six years ago, and now there Is not
over fifteen feet at the best tide. An old
sunken barge. which lies at the mouth Of
the disused canal causes an eddy to set in
upon this wharf and to cause all the sedi-
ment to settle there.
The fish market at the 18th street wharf.
as usual on a Monday morning, was very
dull. there being but few fish on sale.
and they mainly gray trout and blue fish.
Prices show no changes from those OF Sat
urday and are as follows:
Small trout, s. per barrel: medium trout,
SC. per pound; large trout &c. per pound:
butterfish. 81 to 81 per BARREL spot, IS
to "a per barrel: founders, sc. to &c. per
pound; Spanish mackerei, 1Sc. per pound;
pan rock. 1Oc. to 12c. per pound; medium
rock. 13c. to 14c. per pound; boiling rock.
lie. to 1Sc. per pound; sturgeon 10c. per
pound green pike, &C. to SC. per pound;
porgies, DOC to 25c each; bluefish and
tailors. &c. per pound; pompano, loo TO
zoe. per pound; bass, 12c. to 15c per pound;
white perch. 1Oc. to 12c. per pound; white
perch, small, 2Oc to 25c. per bunch; cat
fish, large. 25c. to soc. per bunch; catfish.
small, &C. to 1Oc. per bunch; yellow perch,
small. 1Oc. to SOC. per bunch: mullets. 2Oc.
to 25c. per bunch; carp, 15c. to 25c Zach;
cells, &c. each.
Crabs are selling at 81 so to 81 per barrel.
The supply is now heavy and the demand
good. CLANS are selling at 45c. to 5Oc. per
hundred.
Watermelons are on hand in fairly large
quantities, five vessels with about 1900
aboard having arrived since Saturday.
Prices are for selects, SIC to $40 per hun
dred; primes. s. to $12 per hundred, and
culls 81 to 81 per hundred. The demand is
light.
The big four-masted schooner David P.
Davis with about 400 tons of ice from the
Kennebec river aboard, is in port for the
American Ice Company. She is lying at
the 9th street wharf.
The schooners Flora Thomas and W. b.
Anderson, laden with lumber from the
Rappahannock river. arrived in port this
morning.
The freight steamer E. James Tull, which
carried a general cargo away from here
Friday, sailed from Occoquan Saturday
night for Baltimore, where she has been
chartered for thirty days to run between
the tomato canning factories on the upper
part of Chesapeake bay and Baltimore. She
begins work at Baltimore today.
Inc steamer Jane MOSeley winch has
been at Baltimore for the past two weeks
under charter, has completed her contract.
She returned to this city Saturday evening,
and will resume the running of colored ex-
cursons to Glymont and other points on
the river. The MoSeley while at Baltimore
was engaged in taking excursion passengers
to Annapolis and other points on Chesa-
peake bay.
General News Of Port.
The little sand scow town ~sug Baby is
hauled out on the marine railway at Ben
nett's boat yard for general overhauling
and painting.
The tides during the past two days have
been unusually low, and Saturday evening
the river flats between this city and Alex
andria were entirely uncovered, for the first
time in several months.
The Baltimore tug Sandow is expected to
arrive In port here today with a tow OF
coal-laden barges from Philadelphia for the
dealers.
The steam yacht Dixie lying at the boat
house of James Donohoe, at the foot of 18th
street, is, 1t is stated to be fitted with
new boiler and engine and will be made
ready for service. The Dixie has been out
of commission for the past year or two.
The summer excursion season on the Po-
tomac will end with the Labor day excur-
sion. September Z. The season, in spite of
the rainy summer. has been fairly good.
The trips to Colonial Beach will be con-
tinued about a week after the nearby re-
sorts shut down.
Capt. AL Richards, master of the steamer
Samuel j. Pentz, is aboard the United
States ship Fern, the Naval Battalion yes
sci. as pilot. He will return to this city
with the ship.
Mr.. PLY George, mate of the steamer
Harry Randall, who was i'll at his home in
Virginia, has recovered and is again on
duty.
The schooners Col. ]. Merrick and the
Cowart are in port with full cargoes OF
wood for Carter & Clark
The bark Auburndale in port here with q
large cargo of lumber, will unload a small
part of her cargo for Johnson & Wimsatt
and will then be taken to the Long bridge
to unload the remainder of her cargo.
The schooner Osceola has arrived In port
with a cargo of railway ties and cedar posts
from down river point for the dealers
The schooner Isaac Solomon came into
port Saturday afternoon with a full load of
pine wood for Carter & Clark
The schooner Seabright has arrived with
cargo of railway ties aboard, from a
down river point for the dealers
The schooner S. c. Howe, with a full
cargo of cord wood aboard, came into port
Saturday afternoon consigned to the local
dealers
The schooner Mantin Cuza, loading a
cargo of railway ties at Alexandria. will
complete her cargo this week and will sail
for Boston.