Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-26
ON THE RIVER FRONT
WORK PLENTIFUL IN LOCAL
BODYBUILDING YARDS.
Heavy Receipts of Fruit From Down
River-Work on Morgue-
Harbor News.

The bodybuilding yards on the river in
this vicinity quite busy now with re-
pair work on vessels of various kinds
owned here. At the Alexandria shipyard
the steamer Kent was launched from the
railway today and will be at once brought
to this city and made ready for service on
a river route. The two-masted schooner
Sidonia Curley is at the yard to be hauled
out for repairs and as soon as she Is COM
pleted the schooner Irene is to go upon the
railway.
The tug James Jackson, which has been
on the railway at Benefits boatyard Tor
several days was put overheard yesterday.
Cumberland & Son have a number of small
craft at their boatyard foot of 9th street
southwest, to be overhauled and made
ready for service.
The easterly storms on the coast and on
Chesapeake bay keep the fishermen from
working their nets, and but few f1sh are
being caught and sent to the dealers mere
AS consequence business was dull at the
wholesale fish market on the 18th street
wharf this morning, though the demand
for fish of any kind was good. Prices were
steady and were as follows:
For gray trout. IS to 50 per barrel; butter
fish, to cents per pound founders. to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel. Il to
10 cents per pound; pan rock, to 10 cents
per pound; medium rock, IL to Ia cents per
pound; boiling rock. 10 to Is cents per
pound; sturgeon. 10 cents per pound; green
pike, to cents per pound; bluefish. 10
cents per pound: white perch. 10 cents per
per bunch; catfish. large. 25 to 40 cents per
bunch; catfish, small. 10 to Is cents per
bunch; yellow perch. large, 10 to 70 cents
per bunch: yellow perch, small. 8 to 10
cents per bunch; carp, 10 to 20 cents each;
eels to cents each.
Soft crabs are becoming more plentiful.
but there is no decrease In the demand for
the delicacy and they find ready sale at 40
IN &c NOR I'd he IL
ing at 81. % to $175 per barrel. Last sea-
son CLAIMS sold as low as 30 cents per hun
dred, but the scarcity this year year has
kept prices up. and they have been selling
at 40 to IS cents per hundred throughout
the year.
The receipts of peaches and apples from
the wharves along the lower river are be-
coming heavier each trip of the steamers
from down river points. The steamer Harry
Randall. which arrived this morning
brought up over 200 barrels and boxes of
peaches and apples. A number of vessels
are now lying here and at Alexandra, and
preparing to run fruit and watermelonS
from river points to this city.
1t is stated that the new pile driver OF
Carter & Clark has been engaged to drive
a line of piles along the wharves of the
Eastern branch, to show the port warden
line along that stream. This will be DONE
II is stated, to locate the lines for docking
vessels.
Target Practice at Fort Hunt.
Target practice with the big guns at Fort
Hunt, Va. is being engaged in almost daily
by the artillerymen stationed there. The
reports of the guns can be heard for sew
eral miles on each side of the fort Excel
lent work is being done II is stated by
the artillery marksmen and shot are land
ed in any desired portion of the river with
ease.
Long iron beams. which are to be used
as the foundation for the new morgue
building the ground and as soon
as the pile work is completed the beams
will be put in position. The beams. which
are forty feet long, will extend across an
open space and will rest on heavy stills
a. each end
The tug Jas. O. Carter of this city has
arrived at Baltimore and will at once go
to shipyard to have her old boiler taken
out and to be prepared for the reception
of new boiler. The tug will be out of
service for several weeks.
There are now in port six seven
schooners OF various sizes. all unloading
cargoes of luraber for the dealers here.
Within the past week over a million feet
Of lumber. II is stated, has arrived here
from ports in Virginia and North Carolina
The harbor police boat Vigilant with
District Commissioner Harry L. West
aboard. made a tour on the river yesterday
evening. The tug went down the river to
Alexandria and then returned.
The three-masted ram schooner Charles
p. Strann. laden with about 10000 feet
Of pine lumber, has arrived here from
She is unloading at the wharf at the foot
OF 18th street
The schooner Janet Is discharging her
cargo of lumber at the wharf at the foot
of h street southwest.
The schooner John Maginnis has COM
pleted the unloading of a cargo Of glass
making sand and will return to the Severn
river to load another cargo for an Alexan-
dria glass plant.
The schooner Charles Butler has arrived
and will unload her cargo at the wharf
foot of 9th street southwest. She Is con
signed to Johnson & Wimsatt.
The pungy Smith, laden with cord WOOD
for the Dealers came into port yesterday
evening from a lower Potomac port.