Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT
BUOY BADLY NEEDED ABOUT
MAGAZINE WHARF,
Steamer Kent on Her Route-Canning
Factories in operation-Gen-
eral Harbor News.

AS the two-masted schooner ]. r. Smith
was on her way down the river yesterday
afternoon she ran ashore on the fats
abreast the United States naval magazine
wharf and remained there until the rising
tide 1oated her off. The place where the
Smith went ashore is one of the most de-
ceptive points, 1t Is said on the river, and
it is not at all uncommon for vessel masters
who are unacquainted with these waters to
put their boats ashore. The wharf Of the
naval magazine extends out into the river
on a mud fiat, but does not come within
a hundred feet Of deep water. Strangers
to these waters seeing the wharf naturally
conclude. that there must be deep water in
front of the wharf, so they make a tack for
1t and put their boats ashore A buoy
should be placed in'front of this wharf.
The supply of fresh fish of all kinds at
the wholesale fish market on the 18th street
wharf, was small this morning, while the
demand was quite brisk and nearly all the
fish the dealers had were sold in the early
hours of the morning. Butterf1sh consti-
tuted the bulk of the supply, though there
was small quantity of other varieties on
SALE Prices are steady and are as follows:
For small trout, So to 50 per barrel; medi-
UNI trout $40 to $11 per barrel; large trout,
to cents per pound; butterfish. So to 81
per barrel; spot, So to 81 per barrel; found
ers, 5 to cents per pound; Spanish mack
erel, IA to Is cents per pound: pan rock. 10
to - cents per pound; medium rock. ID to
IA cents per pound; boiling rock, IS cents
per pound; sturgeon 10 to II cents per
pound; green pike. to cents per pound:
porgies, 2la to cents per pound bluetish.
) to cents per pound; pompano. 10 to 20
cents per pound bass, 10 to % cents per
pound; white perch, 10 to II cents per
pound; white perch, small 20 to % cents
per bunch; catfish, large, % to 30 cents per
bunch; catfish, small, 8 to 10 cents per
bunch; yellow perch, small, 10 to 30 cents
per bunch; carp, 10 to % cents each; cells,
) cents each.
The steamer Kent, which underwent her
annual inspection last week, this morning
returned to duty on the route between this
city and river points, as far as Glymont,
Md Capt. Theodore Keene is in command
of the steamer. The steamer EStelle Ran
DALI which has been temporarily on the
route, will go out of commission for a short
time
Workmen were aboard the burned ferry
steamer Columbia yesterday cleaning the
ashes and debris from her hold, preparatory,
it is stated, to sending the steamer to
Baltimore to be rebuilt. 1t is estimated
that the work can be completed and the
steamer return to this city in about ninety
or one hundred days from the time she
leaves here The hull of the steamer is not
damaged.
General News of the Port.
The United States army quartermaster's
department lighter Kearney Is hauled out
on the marine railway at Alexandra to be
supplied with new propellers. She will be
ready to return to service before the end
Of the present week.
The canning factories along the lower
Potomac in Westmoreland county and other
counties of the northern neck of Virginia
are canning blackberries and huckleberries,
but by the end of the present week they