Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-27
ON THE RIVER FRONT
TUG SELEMN&M ON RAILWAY
FOB AN oVERHAULINd.
Sand Scows Adrift in Ice - Vessels
Bound to This City-other
81 Matters.

1ue tug James I. Selectman, DeOn8an8
to the National Sand Dredging Company
OF this city, IL hauled out on the small
marine railway at Benefits boat yard,
foot Of 18th street southwest, to have
some repair work done to her propeller
wheel and to have her stern bearing pack
ed. Her hull will also be caulked in places
where needed.
The Selectman will be out Of service
about week. and when completed will
return to towing sand and gravel-laden
barges from the dredges to this city. The
other tugs of the sand company are laid
up In the tidal basin for the winter and
will receive minor repairs while out OF
commission
The steamer T. v. Arrowsmi.h. in the dry
dock in Baltimore for repairs to her hull,
VIII be launched either this afternoon or
tomorrow, and will leave Baltimore for
this city early next week.
While the supply of fish on hand at the
18th street wharf fish houses this morn
Ing was not large, 1t was ample to meet
all demand, and prices remained firm. The
Tar southern waters. Today's prices are:
For pan rock, 10 to 12c. per pound; ne
dunn rock, 10 to 16c. per pound; boiling
rock, II to zoe. per pound; Spanish mack
to &c: per pound: gray trout. to &c. per
pound; sheepshead, 6 to 7c per pound
founders, to &c. per pound; Potomac
black bass. 10 to 15c. per pound; North
bluefish and tailers 10 to 12c. per pound;
green pike, 0 to 10c. per pound; white
perch, Y to 15c. per pound; white perch,
small, ~ to Soc per bunch; catfish, large,
1bc. per bunch; yellow perch, 20 to 40c.
per bunch carp, Is to 4Oc. each; eels DC.
each; Florida roe shad. 60c. each; buck
shad. 4Oc. each. and herring. &c. each.
MO @ o. L. ckO - -
grades on sale at the 18th street wharf
market this morning, ten or twelve boats
with oysters aboard being tied up at the
wharf, However, the market Is not over
as yesterday, the small oysters selling from
50 to Toe. per bushel, and the better stock
as high as $1.25 per bushel
Two Sand Barges Adrift.
The officers Of the steamer Harry Ran
dali, which came into port early yesterday
morning from landings along the lower
river, report having passed two sand barges
adrift In the ice Off Marshall Hall. They
are supposed to have COME from the dredge
digging sand and gravel on Greenway flats
between Marshall Hall and Glymont.
black buoy. marking the channel be-
tween this city and Alexandria was picked
up by the drifting Ice yesterday afternoon
and carried about hundred yards out of
position.
Efforts are being made to raise the little
steam launch Jennie Irene, which sank at
her moor1ngs at TownShend's boat house
about three weeks ago. A large number of
empty oil barrels are being placed about the
sunken hull to buoy it up, so that 1t can be
worked into shoal water and there pumped
out
There are at sea, bound to this city. sew
eral large schooners laden with ice, lum-
Der and fertilizer material. The schooners
Henry Worthington and Sullivan Sawin
are reported as having sailed from Sargent
vlIle, Me-, with ice, and the schooner Chas.
T. Strann is on her way here from New
bern, N. c., with a, cargo Of pine lumber.
TWO vessels are reported coming from the
south with phosphate rock.
large stone got into the cutter Of the
dredge Alice Vivian. now at work in the
harbor In front Of the arsenal, and dam
aged 1t so that operations had to be sus-
pended for while in order to make re-
pairs. 7fea-
The large floating derrick of Louis Smoot
Of this city has been taken to Alexandria
and will be used to transfer sand and gravel
from barges to railway cars for shipment
to points along the line of the Southern
River Full Of Floating Ice.
The river between this city and Alexan-
dria is again full Of floating ice, but the ice
is not heavy enough to offer any serious
obstruction to the movements of vessels
make all their landings, in the creeks as
well as on the river.
The schooners PLUME Z. Smith and c. J.
Cunningham have arrived in port with car
goes Of Potomac river oysters for this mar
ket.
The steamer E. James Tul which has
been lying at Shoots wharf at Alexandria
for the past three weeks. undergoing an
overhauling, sailed yesterday evening for
down-river point.
The barges George Dougherty and Col.
]. l. Wistar sailed yesterday in tow of
tug for Philadelphia.
The schooner Ada Ballenger is lying in
Cold Harbor creek loading a full cargo of
oysters for this city.
The schooner Nettie May is reported in
the river bound to this city with a cargo.
The schooner Clara Coward is lying at
the wharf of Carter & Clark unloading
cargo of wood. This Is the first load of
wood to arrive here for several weeks.