Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT FOR
COLONIAL BEACH.
Ice Plow~ on Tug Mohler - Coal at
Lambert's Point-Other
Harbor News,

The engines, boilers and dynamos which
are to be used in the lighting of the big
hotel, wharves and streets of Colonial
Beach, Va. by electricity, have been or
dersd from firm in the north through an
agent here, and will be delivered at the
Beach, ready to put in position, by April 1.
The plant will have a capacity of 5000
lights, both arc and incandescent, and will
be ready fer operation by June 1.
Early in the spring carpenters and brick
layers will go from this city to Colonial
Beach to erect the buildings necessary for
the plant and to build the foundations for
the boilers and other heavy machinery.
The work on the plant is to be pushed as
rapidly as possible
The supply of fresh fish at the 11th street
fish wharf was somewhat larger this morn
ing than it has been for several days, and
the cooler weather has made the demand
good. Shad and hickory jacks are being
received from the south in good quantities
and are selling readily. Prices are: For
Potomac black bass, to Toe. per pound !;
North Carolina black bass to &c. per
pound; Spanish mackerel, 12c. per pound;
pan rock 10 to lie. per pound; medium
rock, 14c. per pound; boiling rock, IS to &c.
per pound; salmon trout, 8 to &c. per pound !;
sheepshead . to 10c. per pound; bluefsh
and tailors, to Sc. per pound; founders, )
to &c. per pound; green pike, to 1Oc. per
pound; white perch, 10 to 12c. per pound;
white perch small, 90 to zoe. per bunch;
catfish, large, 30 to 35c. per bunch; catfish,
small, 10 to 1Jc. per bunch; hickory jacks,
10 to Doc each; carp, Is to 40c. each; eels.
DC. each; Florida roe shad, Soc. each, and
buck shad, soc. each.
The return of cooler weather has made
the demand for oysters in the shell much
more brisk at the 18th street oyster wharf,
and this morning there was fair supply of
Potomac river stock on hand. Prices are
frnn n Shel he
grades, 20 to Toe. per bushel for medium
grades and 81 to $120 per bushel for the
selected stock.
Capt. Jack Taylor managing owner of
Taylor Bros fleet Of towboats has gone
to Solomons Island, Md, to look after the
work being done on the tug NJ. Mitchell
Davis.
DR.. Geo. E. Marchand, surgeon of the
coast survey schooner aEagre, has been
made fleet surgeon and placed in charge of
the steamers EndeaSor and Blake, and the
schooners Matchless and Eagre, now lying
at Baltimore undergoing repair work.
General Matters.
The light house tender Violet has sailed
with supplies Of coal aboard for the light
houses on the Potomac
The large scow Black Jack, which has
been under charter. To. work, for the con-
tractors for the, Long bridge, has been re-
leased from her contract and has sailed
for Occoquan bay, where she will go into
winter quarters.
The tug VIM. H. Mohler Of, Georgetown
has been equipped with an ice-breaking
pillow, and is ready for service on the river
during the winter. The Mohler has been
towing stone-aden scows from the Quarries
above Georgetown on the Virginia side of
the river.
The United States naval tug Triton Tues
day took down to Indian Head, Nd, a
car loaded with material to be used in the
manufacture of SClOkeleSS powder at the
government plant.
1t is stated that forty vessels of all kinds
are lying at Lambert's Point, near Norfolk
waiting to load soft coal from the Pocahon-
tas mines for coaStwise and foreign orders.
The lumber-laden schooner Grace G. Ben
nett is consigned to Johnson & Wimsatt,
and will unload her cargo of lumber at the
wharf foot of 18th street southwest.
The schooner Lottie Carter has arrived
in port with full load of cord wood from
the lower river for Carter & Clark.
The Bessie Ford and Cadet laden with
oysters, have arrived in pert and are lying
at the wharf foot of 18th street southwest
The tug Peerless. with barge - and the
S. NJ. Thompson and the L. NJ provost in
tow, and the schooners Lott!e Thomas and
Belmont have discharged cargoes and
sailed.
The ram schooner Harlan w. Huston is
unloading her cargo of North Carolina pine
lumber at the wharf foot of 18th street
southwest She has lumber and shingles
for the dealers.
Tie large steam barge Dennis Simmons
has arrived in port. laden with lumber and
shingles from Williamson, n. c., for deal
ers here and at Alexandria.
The schooner Clara Coward is in port
with full load of cord wood from the lower
Potomac for Garter & Clark.
The schooner Lily W. OwiHgs, laden with
Virginia pine lumber, came into port yes
terday.