Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LOADING COAL CARGOES FOB
NORTHERN POINTS.
Vessels Ashore In Potomac - Launch
Crosby Put Overboard-General
News From River.

The three-masted schooner Ellen M. Col
den. which unloaded a cargo of ice here for
the Maine Lake Ice Company. was taken to
Georgetown yesterday and will load soft
coal for Boston. The tug Savage, Capt.
Hand. with one Of the big barges Of the
Consolidation Ice Company of Georgetown
in tow. came into port yesterday. The
barge was taken to Georgetown and will
also load Cumberland coal for New Eng
land port Nearly all the soft coal now
reaching this city by the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal Is to be shipped from here in
schoOners and barges as fast as the ves-
sells can be chartered and reach this city.
The two boats now lying at the Georgetown
coal docks will carry away about 2,7OO
tons.
The fish market, at the 18th street wharf.
was dull this morning. while the receipts OF
herring were larger than they have been
any day this season. and shad were more
plentiful also. Other varieties of fish con-
tinue scarce. This morning 800, 900 herring
and 5000 shad were on the wharf. and
prices, which were considerably lower than
those of Saturday, are as follows:
For pan rock 10 cents per pound; me-
dunn rock, IL cents per pound; boiling rock,
ID to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon, 10 cents
per pound; salmon trout, 8 to 10 cents per
pound: green pike. 6 to cents per pound;
white perch. 10 to Is cents per pound:
white peTCn, SIIldll, % Genus 10 $1.<C per
bunch; catfish. large % to 30 cents per
bunch: catfish. small, 10 to Is cents per
bunch; yellow perch. large. Is to % cents
per bunch; yellow perch, small, 8 to 10
cents per bunch; carp. 10 to 20 cents each;
cells. 3 to cents each; herring, 80 to 40
cents per hundred: Potomac roe shad s.
to 40 cents each: buck shad IS to 10 cents
each; hickory jacks. to cents each.
Oysters were scarce at the wharf this
morning, but the demand was light and
prices ranged from 90 cents to $1.15 per
bushel. The return of warmer weather
will put an end to the oyster season for
this spring. CLANS are coming to market
from the eastern shore in good numbers
and are selling we'll.
General River News.
A small schooner bound for this city
with load of lumber went ashore on the
flats on the Virginia side Of the river a
short distance above Alexandria yester-
day, and when the tide fell she was left
high and dry in the mud.
The officers of the down river steamers
report a large bugeye and a schooner high
and dry on the beach on the Potomac side
Of Point Lookout. The vessels went ashore
in one of the recent heavy blows and will
have to be dug out to be f1oated.
The United States army QuartermaSter' s
department launch. Lieutenant B. F. Cros-
by, which has been in the marine railway
at Benefits boat yard for several days,
having her hull covered With yellow metal,
was put overheard Saturday. She is to be
taken to the navy yard and loaded on a
fiat car for transportation to one OF the
army posts in North Carolina
The steamer Newport News of the Wash
ington and Norfolk Steamboat Company,
which has been repainted and cleaned up at
the Newport News shipyard, was foated
from the dry dock Saturday morning and
arrived here Saturday night
The masters Of the naval tugs Triton and
Tecumseh have placed another mooring
buoy in the river abreast the Bellview
magazines.
The pungy Etui. with a cargo of about
&C, 900 feet of pine lumber from the Coan
river, has arrived.
The Kate Muller and Mary Ann Shea
have arrived In port with cargoes OF cord
wood for Carter & Clark.
The Peri loaded a general cargo at Alex
andria today and has sailed for Aqua creek
The steamer River Queen has returned
from Baltimore. where she went to go Into
a dry dock to have her hull scraped and
painted.
The three -masted schooner r. H. Gibson,
with q cargo of about 1000. 600 laths came
into port this morning from st. Johns, N.
B.. consigned to johnson & Wimsatt She
had a rough passage down the coast. en-
countering succession Of gales. and was
eleven days on the trip.
The schooner Walter P. Snow is In port
with a load Of Virginia pine lumber for H.
L. Biscoe.