Evening star., 1903-07-10
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY RECEIPTS OF FRUIT FROM
RIVER PoINTA
Schooner Yacht sylph Leaves Port
Unloading Coal CArgoes-osn-
era1 and Personal NewA

The Weems line steamers are now bring
ing up large carsoes of homegrown toma-
toes from the wharves along the lower Po-
tomac for the dealers here. The early crop
| this year will not be more than half as
large as II was last season. Cantaloupes
which ordinarily come from the Potomac
| counties In Maryland and Virginia during
the latter part of July. will be two weeks
or ten days late. Large quantities of early
| apples and peaches are being brought up
from down-river points for the commission
merchants here. The fruit this year has
been very inferior and the demand for IL
has been light
Capt Ply George. deck mate of the
steamer Harry Randall who has been Ill
| at his home in Westmoreland county, Va.
has recovered and is again on duty.
Butter fish and trout from the Chesa-
peake bay fisheries constituted the main
| ouik or the stock on sale at the whole
sale fish market on the wharf this morn
ing. Other varieties OF fish were also on
| sale. but the supply was limited. The
| market was quite brisk in the early hours
or the morning. and prices, which show
but little change. were follows:
For gray trout. s. to So per barrel but
terfsh, So per barrel: founders. to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, IA to
ID cents per pound: pan rock. O to cents
| per pound medium rock Z to cents per
pound; boiling rock. 12h to Is cents per
pike. to cents per pound; porgies. to
cents per pound; bluefish, 311 to cents per
pound; bass, ID to - cents per pound:
| white perch. 10 to II cents per pound: white
perch, small, 20 to 20 cents per bunch; cat
fish, large, IL to 16 cents per bunch cat
| fish, small. 10 to II cents per bunch: yellow
perch, large, Is to 40 cents per bunch; yell
low perch. Smafl. 10 cents per bunch; carp,
10 to 20 cents each; eeis, Z to cents each.
The supply of hard crabs in the past two
| or three days has been quite heavy. es-
pecfally from lower river sources. and this
morning they could be bought low
50 cents per barrel, while the selected
stock sold at 81 per barrel. CLANS were
| also more plentiful and are selling at 80
cents per hundred There were no soft
shelled crabs offered for sale at the wharf
today.
The handsome little schooner yacht Sylph
of St Paul, which has been lying in port
here for several days while her passengers
have been visiting the points of interest,
| took aboard ice and stores yesterday after
| noon and will leave port today She will, 1T
| is understood. slowly work her way down
| the coast on her way to the West Indies.
The tides yesterday evening made very
| low at least two feet below the average
| low water. and the bottom in many of the
| more shoal docks was exposed. The river
flats between this city and Alexandria were
| covered with but few inches of water.
The tide came back very rapidly last night.
however. and this morning the water in
the river was about normal
General Matters
| The three-masted schooner Ida c. South
ard. with full cargo of ice for the Ameri-
| can Ice Company. has arrived and is un-
| loading at the wharf foot of 10th street.
| She brings about 1000 tons.
| The work of building the new wharf for
the naval battalion. d. c. N. c.. at the
foot of o street southwest. is progressing
| rapidly, and it will be ready for service in
about a month or six weeks
Augustus Deane & Son have several of
the scowS of the Columbia National Sand
Dredging Company of this city at Their
They are also building two new sand-car-
rying scows for on the river.
The river line steamers taking large
| numbers of telegraph poles to Fort Wash
ington and Fort Hunt, to be used in the
| new work going there. Eighty poles
were carried to Fort Washington yester-
day. and another lot of thirty or more
were taken down this morning.
The schooner Barnes. with cargo of
Florida pine lumber. has arrived and is
lying at the wharf of T. w. Riley, foot of
9Th street, to unload
The schooner Col. E. J. Merrick arrived
in port yesterday evening with a cargo of
cord wood for Carter Clark.
The ram schooner Harlan w. Huston has
Alexandria, and will sail for Norfolk.
The Mary Ann Shea has arrived with a
cargo of cord wood for the dealers.
The barge Kent is at Aitchison's wharf
at Alexandria unloading a cargo of hard
coal from Philadelphia
The schooner A. H. Quinby loaded
cargo of railway ties at Grinders wharf
on Mattawoman creek. and has sailed for
Philadelphia, and will load coal back to
this city.