Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-27
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PREPARING FOR THE COMING
SUMMER WEATHER.
Changes in Steamboat Masters - Tug
Spray Inspected-GeneralN News
From River Points.

The Ice houses along the wharves are be-
Ing overhauled and put in order for the
storing OF ice to supply the local demand
during the warm weather Of the coming
summer, and in a few weeks ice-laden craft
will begin to arrive for the ice companies.
The Maine Lake Ice Company, which has
succeeded the old Home company, has al
ready received two cargoes of ice and
stored 1t in the fee house at the foot Of
l4th street, and several other vessels are
at sea bound here with ice, among them
the schooner Ellen NJ Codes, which sailed
from Rockport, Me. Wednesday last and
is expected to arrive here in a few days.
AT the Ice houses of the American Ice
company on the Kennebec river, Maine
the loading Of vessels for this port will
Deg1n at once, and the first cargo will reach
here early in April.
The wholesale fish market at the 18th
street wharf was duller this morning than
1t has been for several days, though there
was no decrease in the receipts of fish, and
prices of shad and herring have dropped.
since yesterday morning about 100, 600 her
ring and thousand shad have been re-
ceived by the dealers from all sources.
Prices this morning were as follows: For
pan rock. to &c. per pound; medium rock.
1Oc. per pound boiling rock, 12c per pound:
jumping mullet, 4c. per pound; sturgeon,
lOc. per pound: salmon trout, 8 to &c. per
founders, to &c. per pound; Potomac
black bass, 10 to 12c. per pound: green
pike, 6 to Sc. per pound; white perch, to
&C. per pound; white perch, small, 5 to 10c.
per bunch: catfish. large. % to 3Oc. per
bunch: catfish, small, 10 to 15c. per bunch
yellow perch, large. Is to 25c. per bunch
yellow perch, small, 8 to 1Oc. per bunch
carp, 10 to zoe. each; cells. 3 to &c. EACH
herring, so to Coo. per hundred; Potomac
roe shad, 80 to 4Oc. each; buck shad. Is to
zoe. each; hickory jacks, 1 to &c. each
The supply of oysters at the wharf is be-
coming very small, and the demand con-
tinues quite light. No change is to be
noted In prices from those Of yesterday.
Captain James Barker has been trans
ferred from the command Of the steamer
Harry Randall to the Estelle Randall. on
the Glymont route. Pilot Bailey Reed has
been promoted to the command of the
Randall and Captain AL. Richards has
been assigned to the Randall as pilot In
place of Captain Reed
The United States steamboat inspectors
visited Alexandria yesterday and INSPECTED
the tugboat Spray, which is to engage in
towing fsh-laden boats during the coming
season.
Six or eight pleasure craft belonging TO
the local yachtsmen are lying at the boat
repair yard at Jones' Point, below Alex
andria, being prepared for the coming boat
ing season. The boats are being painted
and rerigged. and are having their sails
put on.
Lighter Being Prepared for Service.
The United States army lighter Kearney,
which has been lying at the 9th street
wharf Of the American Ice Company for
several weeks, Is being prepared for service
as tender to the United States army en-
greer corps at the Washington barracks.
Trips between the barrack and Fort Foote
will be made next month
The steamer Norfolk of the Norfolk and
Washington line. which lost her propeller
nct of Foil
locked at Newport News for repairs, was
fioated yesterday and will. 1t is stated,
reach this city this evening.
The current which has been setting down
the river for the past three or four DAYS Is
still running, but with decreasing strength.
This freshet has brought a few logs down
the river. but not in any considerable num-
berS.
The trap net fishermen are preparing for
the run of shad and herring. and between
Alexandria and Glymont fully a hundred
nets are now being put up. The muddy
water from the upper river has driven the
fish back and the catch has been very light
in the past two or three days.
The tug Edith G. Winship is lying at
Moore's machine shop wharf at Alexandria
and is having her machinery thoroughly
overha uled.
The steamer Randall will leave here early
next week for Baltimore. where she Is to
receive a new boiler and have a general
overhauling before returning to this city.
While she Is away the steamer Arrow
smith will take the Randalrs place upon
the lower river route.
The two-masted schooner Roxanna Fran
els. laden with cord wood from a lower
Potomac point, came into port yesterday
evening.
The schooner Oakland arrived yesterday
with a cargo Of cord wood for dealers in
Georgetown.
The Peri laden with pine lumber, Is in
port from river point for Carter & Clark.
The Irene is reported In NOmini creek
loading for the dealers here.