Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-24
ON THE RIVER FRONT
SAND SCoWS BUILDING FOB
WASHINGTON OWNERS
Tug Favorite Rebuilt - Celebrating
Arcanum Day-Other News q
River and Harbor.

The Columbia National Sand Dredging
Company of this city has placed an order
with the shlpbuilding firm OF Charles Rhode
& Son of Baltimore for the building Of two
large sand-carrying scows for use on tine
Potomac river. The scows are each to be
So feet long. "a feet inches wide and q
feet inches deep. and will carry several
hundred yards of sand. One of the vessels
is now on the stocks and work is being
pushed that she can be launched in
about ten days. Both vessels to DO
ready for service before the end Of July
and will bring cargoes of building sand and
gravel from She dredges in the river below
Alexandria to this city. Several of the
Columbia Companys scows are being re-
built at Alexandria.
The fish market at the 18th street wharf
was dull place this morning. there being
but few fish on sale the storm about Nor
folk preventing the fishermen from working
their nets. The stock on hand consisted
mainly of bluefish and some few catfish and
other varieties from the Potomac.
Prices were about the same as yesterday
and were as follows: For gray trout, 80
to 50 per barrel: butterfish 81 to s. per
barrel: founders. to cents per pound:
Spanish mackerel - to Is cents per pound;
pan rock, s to 10 cents per pound; medium
rock, II to IA cents per pound: boiling rock,
10 to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon, 10 cents
per pound, green pike, q to \ cents per
pouiu, piueiiSfl, ~ cents per Wnlte
perch, 10 cents per pound; white perch
small, 20 to 80 cents per bunch; catfish
large, p to 40 cents per bunch catfish
small, 10 to 10 cents per bunch; yellow
perch, large. 10 to p cents per bunch: yell
low perch, small, to 10 cents per bunch:
carp. 10 to % cents each; cells, to cents
each.
Crabs are coming from the lower river
wharves and are selling we'll Hard crabs
brought S1.5O to 50 per barrel and soft sold
~ npr ,fs-o
in demand at 45 to % cents per hundred
The work on the hull of the steamer kent
at the Alexandria ship yard is being push
ed, and she will be put overheard today
She is to be used on a route to the lower
Potomac during the summer.
1t is stated the Weems line will put an
other steamer on the Washington Baltimore
route during the summer.
The tug Favorite of Baltimore. a frequent
visitor to this port. which has been prac-
t1cally rebuilt in the last six weeks is again
in service Among the changes made in
the vessel is the placing of the pilot house
on top of the deck house of the tug.
Arcanum Day Celebrated.
Arcanum day was celebrated yesterday
by a big complimentary excursion given by
the Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum
to River View. Three boats were in serv-
ice to transport the throng. and speeches
and music were the order of the day at
River View.
There was high tide last night. caused by
the continued easterly winds at sea. Many
of the lower wharveS were awash, and the
low grounds were again under water
The vessels which have been lying in
port for several days took advantage of
the favorable winds to sail yesterday. In
the fleet were the schooners Christopher
Collins, Sidney Jones, Z. E. Wright. Peri
and Edith VERBAL. bound for ports on the
Potomac and on Chesapeake bay.
The tug Britannia of Baltimore, while
on her way UP the bay Sunday with tow
of dredging scows from new York, lost her
propeller wheel Off the mouth of the Po-
tomac. and was totally disabled. tug
had to be sent from Baltimore to take her
into port
The schooner T. j. Seward. Captain Muir
ply, has sailed from Clearmont, Va. for
this city and is expected to arrive today.
The three-masted schooner Fred H.
Small, laden with plaster rock from Wind
sor. Nova Scotia. has arrived at Alexan-
dria, consigned to Herbert Bryant
The schooner William Donnelly is in port
with a full cargo of pine lumber from a
Virginia lumber port for dealers.
c. c. c. barge No. 16 was brought into
port light yesterday evening by the tug
Camilla. She will load soft coal at George
town for a New England port
The four-maSted schooner EStelle Phinney
unloaded her cargo of ice and sailed yes
terday for Baltimore in tow of the tug
William H. Yerkes, jr.
The schooner Fanny has arrived in port
with load of building sand for parties in
Georgetown.
The tug Emma will arrive today with the
barges Kate M. Latta, Eastern and Georgs
p. Roberts, all coal laden for the dealers.