Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-17
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LoNGBoAT PERI RUNS AGROUND
NEAR FORT FooTE.
Digging Out Harbor Docks Tug
Rosalie Again in Service
Personal and General.

AS tDe ICnSDOaI rem. loaded Win COI0-
wood. was on Ter way up the river yester-
day afternoon she ran ashore on the flats
near the black buoy off Fort Foote wharf
and remained hard and fast aground for
several hours. until the rising of the tide
foated her and she was enabled to come
on to this city. No damage was done the
Peri, as the bank on which she lay was
composed of soft mud
1t is now stated that the steam yacht
Erl King, lying at the 10th street ice
wharf is not the largest yacht that has
ever visited this city. The Waconta, be-
longing to j. ]. Hill; the May. belonging to
Mrs. Van Renssaler; Howard Goulds Nj
agdra and e. C. Lees Sycamore are all
larger and have been in port here within
the last three or four years.
The warm weather of the past two days
has made the fish market on the wharf very
dull and while the receipts of fresh fish
have been light the demand for them has
been lighter.
The promise of cold weather has prevent
ed any slump in prices.
The oyster market, too has been very dull
for the past two or three days, although
there a large number of oyster-ladeSl
boats at the wharf Many of the boat own
ers are holding the stock waiting for a bet
ter market.
Some few ducks are being received by the
dealers, but they are poor In quality and
are selling at low prices.
The dredging machine which last week
completed the digging out of the docks of
the naval battalion boats Is now at work
deepening the water on the upper side of
r. K. Riley's wharf. The water on this
side of the wharf has been so shoal that
only small boats could go into the dock.
The steam yacht Valcorer, belonging to
Representative Sibley. left port Saturday
and returned to port Sunday night with
her owner and party of friends aboard.
The dredge Dewey of the Sanford Brick
mel in the Eastern branch from the river
to the navy yard has cut the channel
through the Buzzard Point bar and is now
working hundred feet above it.
General Port News.
The tug Rosalie which was hauled out on
Benefits railway with broken shaft, has
had the shaft replaced and was put over
board yesterday. She will return to service
towing sand and gravel laden scows for
Smoot & Co. soon as possible
The tug Martin Dalman is on the big
marine railway at the Alexandria shipyard
for caulking and painting of hull and for
other repair work.
The large steam launch Doc. Reh is at
Benefits boat yard to be hauled out on the
marine railway as soon as schooner now
on the railway Is launched. The Doc. Reh
was formally in the service of the United
States fish commission and was known as
the Blue Wing.
Mr.. Thomas Il. Garnett, purSer of the
Randall line steamer Harry Randall, who
has been extended leave, returned to
duty aboard his steamer yesterday after
noon.
Mr.. George J. Stafford, who has been
acting purser of the steamer Randall,
has been transferred to the charge of the
pursers office on the steamer Kent.
Mr.. Michael Robb retres from the pur-
sership of the steamer Kent to accept
position ashore.
Mr. Chap Sly, who has been spending the
past two weeks with his family in lower
Maryland returned to duty in the pilot
house of the steamer Randall.
Mr. Lew Ballenger, assistant engineer of
the harbor police boat, is still confined to
his home by serious illness.
The schooner Walter P Snow has arrived
in port with a full cargo of pine lumber
Biscoe,
The schooner A. H. Quinby, laden with
hard coal from Philadelphia, came into
port Saturday evening and is now lying at
anchor in the stream.
The schooner Samuel Wood, with cargo
of cord wood from the lower Potomac
aboard, has arrived in port.
The schooner James V. Dagger is reported
in the river below Alexandria, on her way
to this port, with cargo of lumber
The steamer E. James Tull is discharg-
ing large cargo of cord wood at George
town for the dealers there.
The three-masted schooner DonneHy has
arrived at Alexandria with a cargo of fer
tilizer for the chemical company.