Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-06
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PREPARING FOR COMING HER
RING PACKING SEASON.
Tug Baby to Be overhauled - LargS
Arrivals of Wood-General
and Personal

Tie fish packing plants at the 11th street
wharf are now preparing for the coming
packing season, when Potomac shad and
herring will be salted and packed for win
ter consumption. Sailing benches are being
overhauled. tanks put in order and supplies
OF salt laid In. During the months OF April
and May and a part Of June several hun
dred hands will be employed in the indus
try, and the fish wharf will be a busy
place, the men working night and day. Be
sides the plants here several Of the local
dealers have packing houses at down river
points, where millions of fish salted
down for this market Messrs. r. A. Col
den, Neitzey & Ballenger, Cogswell & Bro.
and A. F. Evans will conduct packing
houses here this season.
The supply of fresh fish on hand at the
wholesale market at the 18th street wharf
was ample to meet the demand, which was
unusually brisk. Receipts have been good
since yesterday, both from the river nets
and from the bay fisheries Prices show
but few changes and are follows: For
pan rock, 13 TO 15c. per pound; medium
rock 10 to lsc. per pound; boiling rock. 3
to 2oc. per pound: jumping mullet, to SC.
per pound; Spanish mackerel, to loc. per
pound; salmon trout, 10 to lie. per pound;
sheepshead, to &c. per pound: founders.
to &c. per pound; Potomac black bass, 10
to 16c. per pound; green pike. 70 to 12c. per
pound; yellow perch, Is to 25c. per pound;
white perch, IA to loo per pound; white
perch small 30 to bOc. per bunch; catfish,
large, ~ 10 foc per punch, Cat1Sh, small,
20 to 25c. per bunch: yellow perch, small.
80 to Goo. per bunch; carp, 20 to 40c. each:
cells, sc. each; Florida roe shad, GO to 65c.
each; buck shad, so to Soc. each; herring. 2
to 212c. each: North Carolina roe shad, as
to soc. each; buck shad, So to soc. each;
hickory jacks, 16c. each.
The demand for oysters on the shell was
excellent at the wharf market today and
the supply was good, having been aug
mented since yesterday by the arrival OF
three boats. Prices are steady, ranging
from Coo. to 81 per bushel.
The tug j. 7. Selectman yesterday took
the little tug Baby of the Columbia Sand
Dredging Company to Deans boat yard at
Alexandria, where the Baby will be given
thorough overhauling and will be put in
order for service. The tug will be hauled
out as soon as the power launch Aqua
mata, which is now on the railway, is put
overheard.
Woodworking Fleet in Service.
The wood-carrying fleet most of which
have been laid up in the creeks and har-
bors down river during the winter, have
gone into service again, and yesterday ana
today the Oakland Peri, Lottie Carter,
Earl Biscoe and Mayfiower have come into
port with cord wood for Carter & Clark,
These vessels will now run wood here reg
ularly until the cold weather of next winter
comes and they are forced to lay up.
The schooner Bessie Ford left port We'd
nesday afternoon bound down the river
for cargo, but off Fort Foote her master
miscalculated the position of his vessel
she went ashore on the mud flats and
there she remained until high water yes
terday, when she floated and continued her
trip down the river.
Two large fiocks of ducks-whistle wing,
red necks and other varieties-were seen by
the officers of the ferry steamer Columbia
on the river flats off the mouth Of Four
Mile run yesterday evening. There were
fully 500 birds in the two fiocks and not
a gunner about to disturb them.
The current, which has been bothering the
rivermen since Tuesday last, is still run
ming, and the muddy water extends almost
to Colonial Beach.
Mr.. NJ S. Parker, steward of the steamer
Harry Randall, Is confined to his home by
sickness. During his absence Mr.. Frank
Herbert is acting as steward of the Ran
dali.
NJ. Edward Ashton of Harbor Master SUIT
toms force, who has been quite sick at
Providence Hospital, has recovered and is
again on duty.
The sloop George Herman laden with
foundry iron from river points, has arrived
at Alexandria, consigned to Julius Drifuse
& Co.
The schooner Fannie, laden with railway
ties from the Gymont neighborhood, has
arrived here.
The schooner Mary Francis came into
port yesterday light and will load a gen.
eral cargo for river points.