Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-25
ON THE RIVER FRONT
CHESAPEAKE BAY TUG SARAH
SOLD TO NEW OWNERS.
Schooner Stevenson to Be Raised
Exodus to Down River Resorts
General Matters.

The tug Sarah, one Of the fine tugs en-
ployed in general towing in Chesapeake
bay, the Potomac and other tributaries of
the bay, has been sold by the James Clark
Company, her owners, to other Maryland
parties, and will be used as a tender to the
channel dredging machines Of the Maryland
Dredging Company. The Sarah was fire.
quent visitor here with barges and ice
laden vessels in tow. and is a fine craft.
She is a wooden hull boat Of ninety-six tons
gross register and is eighty-seven feet long.
twenty feet beam and nine feet five inches
deep. She has ample power to give her
high speed and good towing ability.
The stock of fish on sale at the nth
street wharf wholesale fish market was
very light this morning. the receipts from
all sources being small Catfish were on
hand in good numbers. but the demand for
trout and other salt water fish was far in
excess Of the supply. Prices this morning
show some changes from those Of yester-
day and are as follows:
For gray trout. s. to 80 per barrel: butter
fish. to cents per pound: founders 3 to
Id cents per pound: pan rock. 8 to 10 cents
per pound: medium rock. II to Il cents per
pound: boiling rock. Is to l6 cents per
pound; sturgeon. 10 cents per pound: green
cents per pound; white perch, 10 cents per
pound; white perch. small, 20 to 80 cents
per bunch; catfish, large. % to 40 cents per
bunch; catfish. small. 10 to 10 cents per
per bunch; yellow perch. small, 8 to 10
cents per bunch: carp. 10 to 20 cents each;
cells. to cents each.
CLAIMS are being received in barrels from
Norfolk and are selling readily at good fig
ures ranging from 40 to 60 cents per hun
dred. Crabs. both hard and soft shelled,
are also in demand and sell well. the for
mer at $3.50 to 81 per barrel and the latter
at 30 to 90 cents per dozen.
Augustus Dean & Sons, boat builders at
Alexandria, have two pleasure launches
owned here hauled out on the marine rail-
way for an overhauling.'
The tug James Jackson, owned by one Of
the local sand companies, is hauled out on
Bennetts railway for attention to hull and
other repair work.
The rebuilding Of this railway will be
begun as soon as the Jackson is completed
and is put overheard.
1t Is stated that the schooner Stevenson
reported sunken in the harbor near the
Long bridge, will be raised at once and will
overhauled and made ready 70. service. A
leaky seam is supposed to have caused her
mishap.
General Port News
The schooner A. H. Quinby has been
chartered to load a cargo Of railway ties at
Grinders wharf in Mattawoman creek for
parties in Philadelphia and will load a
cargo OF hard coal there for dealers here.
She left port yesterday afternoon for Grind
ers.
The summer exodus to Colonial Beach
and the other resorts on the Potomac, in
spite of the cool weather, Is now large and
the river steamers on each trip take down
large crowds Of passengers. Household fur
niture for use in the cottages is also being
shipped in large quantities.
Capt William Davis, mate Of the steam
er Samuel J. Pentz. is confined to his home
by illness and Capt. AL. Richards has been
transferred from the steamer Arrowsmith
to the Pentz for temporary duty.
Several of the larger pleasure craft are
now preparing for extended cruises on the
chorage in the harbor will be practically
deserted.
Two large vessels laden with plaster are
reported at sea bound to Alexandra for the
fertilizer plants there.
Efforts are now being made to discover a
sand fit for glass-making purposes on the
river in the vicinity Of the Nomini cliffs.
aged the mud wall thrown up by the
dredges around the portion Of the Eastern
Branch flats to be reclaimed.
The schooner 7. j. Seward, loaded with
pine boards from Virginia lumber port,
has arrived for the dealers.
Ten scows laden with gravel and sand for
building purposes here were brought into
port yesterday evening by the tugs ]. T.
Selectman and Baby.
a lower river port with a full cargo Of
bricks and building material.
The two-masted schooner Humphrey Too
mey has been taken to William A. Shoots
wharf at Alexandria and will load fertilizer.
The schooner Janet, having aboard q