Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-15
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PILE DRIVER REBUILT WHILE
LYING AT WHARF.
Steam Launch Preparing for Service
Coal for Potomac Forts-Per-
sonal and General.

The work of rebuilding the large pile
driver of VIM. Banks has been completed
and the machine will be ready for service
In a few days. Without being hauled out
on marine railway the hull and house of
the boat were torn down and rebuilt, and
the craft is now practically new. This
driver is the only one on the river which is
supplied with a propeller and travels under
its own steam.
The supply of fresh fish at the wharf
was not as large today as it has been for
several days past, and prices were high.
This morning about 100000 herring and
5000 shad were on hand at the wharf The
current now running on the river is driving
the fish back and a decrease in the sup
ply can be looked for. Prices today are as
follows:
For pan rock, 1Oc. per pound; medium
rock, lie. per pound; boiling rock, 10 to 15c
per pound; sturgeon, 1Oc per pound; SAL
mon trout, to loo. per pound; green pike
TO &c. per pound; white perch, 10 to loo
per pound; white perch, small, 25c. to 81. %
per punch. catfish large, Is to 3Oc. per
bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 15c. per bunch;
yellow perch, large, 10 to 25c. per bunch:
yellow perch. small, to 1Oc. per bunch;
carp 10 to zoe each; cells, to &C. each;
herring, 10 to 3Oc. per hundred; Potomac
roe shad. 40 to 45c. each; buck shad, Is to
&c. each; hickory jacks, 1 to &C. each.
oysters are in fair demand and are selling
at prices ranging from 60 cents to 81 per
bushel.
The steam launch Jennie Irene which
has been lying at the anchorage in the har-
Dor at the upper end of the Washington
barracks wall all winter. has been hauled
out on the small marine railway at Rea-
CAMS boat yard for general repair work
on hall and machinery and for repainting.
She Will be used for pleasure cruising in
the river during the warm weather
The steam launch LOWE Randall belong
ing to Capt. E. S. Randall, has been put In
condition. for service and is to be used to
convey men and material to River View.
where extensive preparations are being
made for the opening of the excursion sea-
son. When this work is completed she will
be put out Of commission and laid up
General and Personal.
A large barge with about 500 tons of
hard coal aboard, is lying at the wharf at
Fort Washington, Md. unloading her cargo.
Several other barges are under charter to
bring coal to the Potomac forts during the
summer months.
Capt. Dan French has returned to his
home here to recover from the effects of
his feet, having been frostbitten while at
sea during the winter.
A petition has been presented to Mr.
Henry Williams. manager of the Weems
line, by residents along the lower Poto-
mac, requesting the return of Capt. Billy"
Geoghegan to the command of one of the
Potomac steamers of the Weems line.
Capt. Geoghegan is now in command of the
steamer Middlesex on the Rappahannock
river route.
The three-masted schooner Edwin and
Maud is expected to arrive here from Nor
folk In the next day or two with a large
cargo of lumber for Major H. L. Biscoe.
Workmen are employed at all the river
resorts preparing them for the
coming season, which will open in few
weeks. The excursion steamers are all be-
ing handsomely repainted and fitted out for
the season.
The revenue cutter Winona. which is to
be used at one of the Atlantic coast sta
tons, has been taken from Baltimore to
Philadelphia, where she was built to have
a new steel boiler installed and to have
other work DONE
The barge Daniel came into port yester-
day afternoon in tow of a tug with full
cargo of cord wood for Carter & Clark
The scow Bush has arrived with a small
load of railway ties from river point for
Carter & Clark
The tug Minerva brought tow of wood
and undertaken vessels into port this
The schooner. Laura, laden with lumber
from the Coan river for Carter & Clark. is
In port.