Evening star., 1903-08-03
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ANOTHER CARGO OF ASPHALT
ARRIVES IN PORT.
Storms Do Damage on River-Launch
EHe Prepared for Service
General News.

|
phalt from Trinidad, came into port this
morning. The vessel was brought up to
Alexandria yesterday afternoon by a tug
and anchored while the marine hospital
| surgeon. DR.. Arthur Snowden. made an
examination as to the health of her crew.
| and this morning she was berthed at the
! asphalt unloading wharf here. She brings
a cargo of about $50 tons, and is the third
vessel to arrive here with an asphalt cargo
| In the past three weeks. During the yoy-
| age from the West Indies the vessel sailed
for several days on one tack. and as a con-
sequence her soft cargo worked to one
side. and she came into port with con-
siderable list
The supply of fresh fish on hand at the
wholesale market on the 11th street wharf
tins morning was not large, and consisted
mainly of trout and other varieties of
saltwater fish from the nets about Old
Point and Norfolk. Some few catfish from
the hshing seines in the river below this
city were also on sale. The demand was
fair and prices were follows:
For small trout. $3.50 to SO per barrel;
medium trout. $6 to 81 per barrel; large
trout, to Az cents per pound: butter fish.
s.; per barrel; spot 81 to 50 per barrel;
hounders, to cents per pound: Spanish
mackerel, 10 to II cents per pound; pan
rock. 10 to II cents per pound: medium
rock. 13 to IA cents per pound: boiling
rCck, IS cents per pound; sturgeon. to 10
cents per pound green pike, to cents
per pound; porsies, 21a to cents per
pound: bluetish. to cents per pound;
pompano, 10 cents per pound; bass - to %
cents per pound: white perch 10 to II cents
per pound; white perch, small, 70 to %
cents per bunch; catfish. large. % to 30
| cents per bunch; catfish. small. to ~
cents per bunch; yellow perch. small, 10 to
80 cents per bunch; carp, 15 to % cents
each; eelS, cents each.
There was excellent demand for clans
tins morning. but the supply was small
and sold at 10 cents per hundred. Hard
crabs were plentiful and sold at prices
ranging from - cents to $l.75 per barrel.
according to size. Soft-shelled crabs were
| scarce and sold at figures ranging from 81
to 60 cents per dozen. Melons are quoted
at % to 25 cents each
1t is estimated that the excursion steam
ers leaving this city for Colonial Beach
Saturday evening and yesterday morning
carried about LOO passengers to the re
| sort, and Of this number more than half
remained at the Beach. Travel to the
| down river resorts has become very heavy
during the past week in spite of the cool
weather.
Reports from Stafford and King George
| counties In Virginia, along the Potomac.
state that the heavy thunder storms in the
| latter part of last week did much damage
to barns and outbuildings. unrooiing Il
number of them, and blowing much Of the
fruit from the trees 1t is also stated that
no rain of consequence has fallen in this
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cruise among tlle i'sht stations on ttie pay.