Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT
BEGINNING OF SUMMER TRAVEL
ON THE POTOMAC.
Steamer Randall Runs Excursions
Coal Cargo for Boston-Gen-
eral River News.

The summer travel from Washington
down the river has begun and on every
steamer leaving this city there are large
numbers of persons bound for the various
points on the Potomac. Many residents of
Washington own cottages at Colonial
Beach. Wilkerson's st. Georges Island or
at some other landing on the river, and
they take with them the furniture and
household articles necessary to fit up the
cottages.
The travel down river will continue to
grow heavier each trip until the LIST of July
or about the middle of August 1t will start
this way and the steamers will be crowded
with the throngs returning to their homes
here. 1t is estimated that there are living in
this city from $4,000 to $4,000 people who
come from the river counties in Maryland
and Virginia, many Of whom go home for
the summer.
The supply of fresh fish on hand at the
18th street wharf today, with the excep-
ton Of trout, was ample to meet the light
demand. Trout of all kinds Is reported
very scarce, and the demand for them Is
heavy. Shad and herring have disappeared
from the market. Prices today show but
few changes. and are as follows:
For gray trout, 81 to 50 per barrel; but
terfish, So to S. per barrel; founders, to I
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, IL to
10 cents per pound; rock. Is to % cents per
pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per pound; green
pike, 6 to cents per pound; white perch.
10 cents per pound; white perch. small, 70
to 80 cents per bunch; catfish. large, % to
q cents per bunch catfish, small, 13 to Is
cents per bunch; yellow perch large, 10 to
25 cents per bunch; yellow perch, small. 8
to 10 cents per bunch; carp, 10 to 20 cents
each; cells, 3 to cents each; Potomac roe
shad, % to IS cents each; buck shad, 10 to
20 cents each.
One small vessel, laden with clans came.
came into port this morning, and the de-
mand for her cargo is good. Prices for
CLAIMS today are 80 to Doc. per 100.
There is an excellent demand for crabs,
both hard and soft shelled, but the supply
is small. Hard crabs are selling at $1.50 to
81 per barrel, while the soft-shelled are
bringing 40 and SOC. per Dozen
The steamer Harry Randall, which was
practically rebuilt at Baltimore during the
past two months. will make the excursion
trips Saturday evening and Sunday morn
ing on the Colonial Beach route. The
steamer Arrowsmith will continue on the
river route to Lower Machodoc for the
present
At the fish packing houses and at the
lower river wharves the men are busy pack
ing the sailed herring which were put up
during the fishing season just closed in kegs
and kits for shipment all over the country
Much of the fish now being put up here is
being shipped to the middle west. Quanti-
ties are also being sent south by way of
Norfolk and Richmond. The down river
steamers each trip take large numbers
of empty barrels to the packers.
General River News.
The big schooners H. c. Crosby and A M.
Colburne loaded full cargoes of ice on the
Penobscot river, in Maine, and are at sea,
bound to this city These vessels will
bring more than 1000 tons each, and should
arrive here within the next ten days. The
schooners Young Bros and Neville are
loading ice on the Kennebec for Washing
ton trade.
The steam barge Lily and Howard, Capt.
Charley Raley commanding, has arrived
in port for Philadelphia with cargo of
hard coal for Carter & Clark. AS soon as
the steamer is unloaded she will go to Oc
coquan, Va, for a load of railway ties and
will sail with them for Philadelphia This
is the second round trip made by the
steamer
The schooner Horatio L. Baker, which
unloaded a cargo Of Ice here, has been
chartered to load coal at Baltimore for
Boston at 81 per ton. This is now the
standard rate for coal cargoes from the
Chesapeake to New England ports
Barge No. 10, Consolidation Coal Com
pany. has loaded a cargo of Cumberland
northern port.
The schooner Earl Biscoe has arrived in
port from the lower river with full load
or cordWood for Carter & Clark
The schooner Estelle is In Nomini creek
unloading a cargo of shingles from North
Carolina for the new canning factory be-
ing built there for the Nomini Packing.
Company.
The schooner Charles H. Dagger laden
with about 10000 feet of pine lumber, has
arrived In port from the Coan river for Ii.
L. Biscoe.
The schooner Alphabet, laden with cord
wood for local dealers, has arrived in port
from Potomac river point
The three-masted schooner Zacheus Sher-
man completed the unloading of a cargo
OF ice here today and sailed in tow of the
tug James o. Carter for Baltimore to load
coal for New England port
The schooner William Donnelly, from
North Carolina, with cargo of lumber,
has arrived at Alexandria and will dis
charge her cargo there
The schooner Janet is at the wharf at
the foot OF 18th street unloading a cargo
of pine lumber from Norfolk for Galliher
q Bro. and Ryland & Brooks