Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-07
THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST z. leos-16 PAGES
Big Barge e Load Cumberland Coal
New Grain Coming Other
Harbor Matters.

The United States lighthouse tender Holly
came into port Wednesday last from q
cruise among the buoys and light stations
on the Potomac riven She brought up gas
buoys Nos. 8 and Q, the supply Of gas In
which had become exhausted. to be re-
charged here. This was done yesterday
ana the buoys are again loaded on the
tender at the American Ice Company
wharf and she viii sail today. The buoys
will be taken to the lighthouse storage sta
ton at Point Lookout. Nd. and there held
in readiness for use wherever needed In
the district. The supply of gas in one OF
these buoys Is supposed to last ninety days.
burning night and day. There are but two
or three light buoys in service on the Po-
tomac river.
There were some few trout on sale at the
wholesale market on the 18th street wharf
this morning. but the bulk of the receipts
from the bay fisheries consisted Of bluefish
and mackerei, with scattering supply Of
other varieties. AS usual on a Friday
morning, the demand was excellent, and
most of the stock was soon sold.
The receipts of fish from the nets in the
river continue light, though the schooner
Dana arrived this morning with a small
supply from the purse-net fishermen. Prices
as general thing were slightly higher,
and are as follows:
For small trout, s. to 81 per barrel: medi-
UNI trout s. to 50 per barrel; large trout.
to cents per pound; butterfsh, So per
barrel; spot. s. to 8 per barrel; founders.
to cents per pound; Spanish mackerel.
IA to 10 cents per pound; pan rock. 10 to IL
cents per pound; medium rock, ID to "A
cents per pound: boiling rock. IS cents per
pound; sturgeon. 10 to IL cents per pound;
green pike, 6 to cents per pound; porgies.
~ to A cents per pound: bluef1sh to
cents per pound; pompanO. Is to 20 cents
per pound; bass. 10 to % cents per pound:
nRrch yxhit
perch, small, 20 to % cents per bunch; cat
fish. large. Is to 80 cents per bunch; cat
fish, small, to 10 cents per bunch; yellow
perch small 10 to 80 cents per bunch; carp,
15 to Is cents each: eels 5 cents each.
Crabs, both hard and soft-shelled, con-
tinue in excellent demand at advancing
prices. the hard-shelled selling at $1.75 to
$2.25 per barrel Soft-shelled are so scarce
that figures cannot be quoted. CLANS sold
today at 40 to so cents per hundred, with
good demand.
The market for watermelons was fairly
active this morning, about 1000 being on
sale. at the following prices: Selects, 20
cents each; primes, IL to Is cents each.
while the smaller grades sold at to 6
cents each. One vessel. the Birdie May,
with about 1000 North Carolina melons,
was the only arrival this morning.
The tug VIM. H Yerkes, jr., yesterday
brought into port the Consolidation Coal
Company barge, No. 10. and berthed her at
the coal piers at Georgetown to load car
northern port. Nearly all the soft coal
now coming down the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal to Georgetown is loaded on these big
barges and taken north. Since the canal
opened twenty-five O rthirty OF the bargeS
have been loaded at Georgetown.
The steamer E. James Full. now in port
here with cargo of lumber. has been
handsomely repainted and overhauled since
employed as usual in general freighting
business on the river. The schooner Clara
Leonard which came into port yesterday,
has also been reprinted since her last visit
here.
Quantities of grain from down-river
points are now being brought to the mills
here and at Alexandria by vessel and by
steamer from the down-river counties OF
Maryland and Virginia. The bugeye r.
H. Stuart. laden with grain, arrived at
Alexandria yesterday afternoon consigned
to T. w. Robinson.
Railway Ties for Boston.
The thfee.masted schooner Mary Sanford.
which has been loading railway ties at
points along the lower river, completed her
cargo in Upper Machodoc creek early in
the week and has sailed for Boston. She
carries load of several thousand oak
ties.
The tug J. 8. Hoskins, which brings
long lows of coal-laden barges to this city,
is now out of commission for a few days
while she undergoes a general Overhauling
at a Baltimore shfpyard.
Capt. P. P. Faunce and Col. John Haines
will leave here tomorrow, with their fami
lies. on small schooner for a cruise of a
week or ten days to the summer resorts
along the lower river.
The big four-masted schooner Colbourn,
laden with zoos tons of ice from the Ken
nebec river, sailed for this port July %
from Bath and is expected to arrive here
by Sunday or Monday.
The schooner Laurena Clayton, which