Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW SCHOONER FOB THE CHESA-
PEAKE LUMBER TRADE.
Fishing Season Closing Rapidly-Tug
Eugenia Again in Service-Gen-
eral River News.

Capt E. G. Bennett and others OF Snarp
town, Md, have purchased the schooner
William H. Davidson for service IN the
lumber trade on Chesapeake bay ana the
Atlantic coast. The vessel Is in Philadei-
phia port, and as soon as she completes the
unloading of her cargo she Will go 10
Georgetown, s. c., to load lumber. Inc
Davidson halls from New London, Conn.,,
and was built there in 1894 She is vessel
of 2O4 tons burden and Is an able craft.
Captain Bennett will take the command Of
the schooner and will be succeeded on his
old vessel, the James H. Hargraves, by
Capt. William Beauchamp, formerly OF the
schooner Bill Nye.
There was a small supply of fish of all
kinds on hand at the 18th street wharf
wholesale market this morning, and shao
and herring are becoming scarce, while put
ter fish and other salt water fish are COM
ing in the market. Prices today were as
follows:
For gray trout $3.50 to 81 per barrel; but
ter fish, 81 to S. per barrel; founders. 6 to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel TO
cents per pound; salmon trout, to cents
per pound: pan rock, 10 cents per pound;
medium rock, IL cents per pound; boiling
rock, Is to Is cents per pound; sturgeon, ~
cents per pound; green pike. T. to cents
per pound; white perch 10 cents per pound;
white perch, small, 20 to 30 cents per
bunch; catfish, large, rs to 40 cents per
bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 10 cents per
bunch; yellow perch, large, Is to 70 cents
per BUNCH yellow perch, small. B to 10
cents per bunch; carp, 10 to 70 cents each;
cells, to cents each; herring, 70 to %
cents per hundred; Potomac roe shad, IL to
80 cents each; buck shad, IL to 15 cents
each.
Soft-shelled crabs are becoming more
plentiful in the river, and the steamers
from river landings are bringing up gooo
consignments of them They are selling at
from so to 60 cents per bushel. Hard crabs
sell at $1.5O to 81 per barrel, and CLANS ~
cents per hundred.
The schooner VIM. Donnelly, laden with
pine lumber from North Carolina port,
has arrived for the dealers.
The tug Peerless came into port yester-
day with the barges Ann Thompson, s. M
Provost and John 1. Brady, laden with hard
coal for Stephenson & Bros. and others
She also left the barge, ..iary c. McNally,
at Alexandria with a load of fertilizer for
Bryant & Co.
The tug Pocahontas left port yesterday
evening with the barge Robert Donaldson
in tow for Norfolk.
The schooner John D. Ferguson is in port
with a cargo of pine lumber from the Rap
pahannock river.
Barge No II of the Consolidat ton Coal
Company is lying light off Alexandria and
will be taken to Georgetown to load soft
coal for Boston.
A large house boat, belonging to parties
here, Is at Cumberland's boat house, at the
pared for service. The boat has been out
of service for several months and will have
to be rebuilt before she can go into COM
mission. She is now hauled out on the
small marine railway there.
Port News Of Interest.
The tug George w. Pride, which has
been at Baltimore shipyard for several
weeks receiving new boiler, is expected
to arrive here today. The Pride is to be at
once prepared for service and will engage
in general towing on the river.
The twin-screw launch Aquamata, which
is owned in this city, is at Deans boat
building yard to be painted and prepared
for service on the river. She will be used
for pleasure cruises.
The lighthouse tender Holly, which has
been in port for the past two days, has
sailed for cruise among the light sta
tons in this district
Cumberland & Son are building a num-
Der of batteaus and other small boats
for private orders. They are to be used
on the river during the summer.
The game wardenS and harbor police are
very vigilant, preventing Illegal fishing in
the District. night or two ago two
fishermen were seen drifting net below
the entrance of the harbor, but they man
aged to get away. The net they were
was caught with a number of shad in it.
The schooner Sidney Jones, with full
cargo of cord wood from a lower river
point, has arrived for Carter & Clark.
The two-masted schooner James B. An
derson, laden with about 10000 feet Of
pine lumber from the Rappahannock river,
is in port for johnson & Wimsatt.
The schooner Edwin c., having aboard
lumber from Norfolk, came into port this
morning for H. l.. Biscoe.
The Minnie May, laden with junk for
julius Drifuse & Co., has arrived at Alex
andria.
hor,o 1o5a, with cool, tIinds ,,n,ho-
and other building material left port this
morning for Yoeman's dairy farm. at High
Point, Va, in tow of the tug Dallis
The schooner Martin Cuza is unloading
a cargo of laths at the 10th street wharf
of the American Ice Company.
The tug Eugenia of the Columbia Sand
Company fleet, which was hauled out on
the marine railway at Benefits boat yard
yesterday to have some work done on her
outside connections, was put overheard this
morning and is again in service.