Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-31
ON THE RIVER FRONT
BRISK BUSINESS ADDs VESSELS
TO PoTo1EAuFLEET.
Mtller's New WhazR Nearly Completed
General andPensonal News
Of the Part.

Durlng the past SpHng and summer tnere
has been heavy demand for two-masted
schooners and large pungys and bugeyes to
freight cargoes OF lumber from the James
and Rappahannock rivers and other points
In Virginia to this city and Baltimore, and
vessel owners, who wished to keep their
vessels employed. found plenty for them to
do at remunerative figures.
To meet this demand for vessels 1t Is
stated that several Eastern shore and Nor
folk owned boats have recently been pur-
chased by parties residing and doing BUSH
ness on the Potomac. and will be at once
added to the Potomac feet. The schooner
Mcclure and the bugeye Bertha May, new
vessels to the Potomac. are already in serv-
Ice and have made several cargoes to this
city,
The stormy weather on the Atlantic coast
and on Chesapeake bay prevented the fish,
ermen from working their nets, and as a
consequence the receipts by the dealers
at the wharf market have been very small.
The demand has been good and prices show
an advance in several varieties Of the fish
as follows:
Small trout, $3.50 to So per barrel; me-
dunn trout 4 to cents per pound; large
trout, to cents per pound; butterfish. IS
per barrel; spot, So to 81 per barrel; found
ers, to z cents per pound; Spanish mack
erel, 10 cents per pound; pan rock, 10 to II
cents per pound boiling rock. 16 to 10
cents per pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per
pound; green pike, to cents per pound;
porgies, 20 to Is cents each; bluefish and
ta1lors, to cents per pound; pompano, IL
to 20 cents per pound; bass, IL to ID cents
per pound: white perch, 10 to IL cents per
pound; white perch. small, 20 to Is cents
per bunch; catfish, large, 25 to 30 cents
bunch; yellow perch, small, 10 to 30 cents
per bunch; mullets, 20 to 25 cents per
bunch; carp. Is to 25 cents eachi cells, 8
cents each.
They are selling today at $3.50 to So per
barrel. CLANS are also scarce, and are
selling at advanced prices, with good de-
mand.
this morning with over q 800 water melons
from Virginia and North Carolina aboard,
but the market was very dull, the cold
weather having killed almost all demand
for the fruit. The dealers were holding
prices at about Saturdays figures, with the
hope of an early return of warmer weather.
The double-crew service on the Baltimore
and Ohio railway transfer tug Major Brew
erton. engaged in transferring cars be-
tween Alexandria and Shepherds Landing,
D. c.. went into effect Saturday. Capt. j.
H. Beach and Chief Engineer James A.
Wilkins have charge of the day crew. and
Capt. George Windsor and Chief Engineer
D. r. Webster of that working at night.
The heavy increase in the freight traffic
has made two crews necessary.
Lightship No. r. which is on duty on the
Cape Charles light station at the entrance
to Chesa peake bay, Is to- be relieved short
ly and taken to Baltimore for general
overhauling. Plans for the work necessary
on the ship are now being prepared by the
light house service engineers.
General Matters.
The pungy Marie. which was hauled out
on the marine railway at BENEFITS
boat yard for caulking and repair work to
her hull. has been completed and was put
overheard Saturday. She sailed at once for
a river point to load t.-
The new wharf in process Of erection at
the foot of 1871 street southwest for John
Miller. Is nearing completion and will be
ready for use In few days. The new
wharf will be used as a lumber discharging
pier. as we'll as by Mr.. Millers fleet of tugs
and scows.
Vessels unloading Ice here are being char
tered to load coal at Baltimore for Boston
and other points in New England at Csc.
per ton. The schooner independent which
left here Saturday will receive that money
The four-masted schooner Ralph M. Hay
ward while going up the bay a few days
ago grounded on the Three Sisters, but
was flOated Saturday by the tug Tormentor
and taken to Baltimore. She has a cargo of
Ice aboard and is not thought to be ig-
jured by running ashore.
The new three-masted schooner Philip
M. Brooks built at Madison. Md. for the
bay and coasting trade has gone into COM
mission and will load. 1t is stated, at Nor
folk for northern point
The bugeye R. H. Stuart, with a cargo of
grain from Nomini for the dealers in Alex
andr1a, arrived Saturday.
The schooner Clara CAN'T is at the 18th
street wharf, unloading cargo of pine
lumber from Virginia lumber port for the
dealers.
The three-masted schooner Charles w.
Church, reported as having been consigned
to the American Ice Company here. has
been taken into Baltimore to unload her
cargo of Ice.
The schooner Grace Bennett is at the
wharf of Johnson & Wimsatt, unloading
her cargo of shingles from North Carolina
The steamer Dennis Simmons completed
the unloading of her cargo of lumber at
Alexandria Saturday and sailed for Eden
ton, N. c., and will load back to this CITY.
The tug Resale, with three scows: the
George w. Pride, with eight scows: the
Baby, with two scows, and the Richards.
with two scows, all laden with sand. came
into port Saturday afternoon
The schooner Mary and Ellen, laden with
Virginia watermelons, came into port Sat
urday with her cargo for the local market