Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-12
ON THE RIVER FRONT
CHANGES IN MASTERS OF THE
C0AsTING FLEET.
Repairing Tugs and Other Craft-Pine
Piling Adrift in Potomac
Other Matters.

the Glymont mail route, is under the COM
mand Of Capt. Ned Owens, with Capt.
Thomas Todd as pilot and Mr.. George J.
Stafford purser. MI. Ernest Germond Is in
charge of her engine room.
Capt. Ross. commander Of the schooner
Edw. e. Briry, has resigned the command
OF that vessel to take charge Of a new five
masted schooner now building in Maine for
him. Capt. George H. Dudley Of the
schooner Henry o. Barrett, will take COM
mand Of the Briry, and he will be sue
ceeded on the Barrett by Capt. e. w.
Rogers. formerly Of the schooner Lizzie H.
Brayton. These masters and their vessels
are all well known here, where they have
been frequent visitors.
There was a far supply of fish of all
kinds from the nets in the river and from
other sources at the wholesale fish market
at the 18th street wharf this morning, and
the demand was good. Prices show but
rev changes. and are as follows: For pan
rock, 10 to IL cents per pound medium
rock, 10 to 16 cents per pound; boiling rock,
10 to 20 cents per pound; jumping mullet,
4 to cents per pound; Spanish mackerel,
y to 10 cents per pound; salmon trout, 8 to
IL cents per pound; red snapper. to 3
cents per pound; red drum, cents per
pound; sheepshead, to cents per pound;
founders, to cents per pound; Potomac
black bass 10 to IL cents per pound green
pike, to 10 cents per pound; white perch,
II to IL cents per pound white perch,
small. 80 to 30 cents per bunch; catfish,
large, 80 to 40 cents per bunch: catfish.
small. 20 to 25 cents per bunch; yellow
40 cents each; cells, 5 cents each; Florida
roe shad, 60 to Is cents each; buck shad,
30 to 40 cents each, and herring, 3 to 4
cents each.
the shell at the wharf, and all grades are
on sale at prices varying from 30 cents per
bushel up to $1.25 per bushel. Several yes
sells have arrived since yesterday with
fresh cargoes of Potomac river stock.
The tug Martin Dallman of this city is
at Benefits boat yard and will be hauled
out in day or two 10 be fitted with new
keel, which is to be cut from black gum
log, and will be practically indeStructible.
The Dallnlan will be out Of service for
several weeks.
The tug Sunbeam, owned by the contrac-
tors for the new Long bridge, which has
been out on the marine railway for several
days, has been completed and was put
overheard yesterday. She will return to
service about the new bridge.
The houseboat, owned by Mr.. Edward
Rammell of Alexandria. which was adrlft
in the Ice several weeks ago near Fort
Washington, and which afterward sank at
Alexandria, has been raised and is now
being made ready for hunting and fishing
trips during the summer.
The three-masted schooner j. S. Hoskins.
which went ashore in the mouth Of the
Choptank river. Nd. while on her way to
Salisbury with a fun load Of lumber, has
been foated and will be taken to Baltimore
to be hauled out on a railway and eX-
amined
The United States revenue cutter Win
dom, Capt. Mcguire, Is cruising on Chesa-
,peake bay on the lookout for vessels asho e
or in distress from the storms of winter.
A large number of pine piltng from 4
raft being towed to this city are lying on
the river shore near Marshall Hall, Nd.
The steamer E. Jas. Tull is said to have
lost them in the blow night or two ago.
New Electric Lighting Plant.
Large quantities of lumber and material
to be used in the building of the new cleo
trio lighting plant and wharves at Colonial
Beach are being shipped on every trip of the
steamer to that point. Work on the build
ings will begin as soon as the weather will
permit.
The new tug Defiance, which Messrs. P.
Dougherty & Co. had built for service on
Chesapeake bay and Its tributaries, has
been listed by the bureau of navigation,
Treasury Department, and signal numbers
have been assigned her.
1t is stated that herring have made their
appearance in the Potomac, and that sew
eral of them have been caught in the nets
near Whitewater in Stafford county. AS vet
none have found their way to this market,
the herring on sale here coming from south
ern waters.
Several barges of stone have been re-
ceived by the contractors building the new
sea wall about the Washington barracks,
and work on the wall will now be pushed.
The steamer Dennis Simmons came into
port yesterday evening with a full load of
North Carolina pine lumber and shingles
for the dealers here and at Alexandria.
The schooner Clara Leonard has arrived
in port with a cargo of cord wood from
Nomini for Carter & Clark.
The barge oBrien Is unloading cargo of
soft coal at the navy yard here, and not
hard coal, as was reported.
The schooner E. P. Evans has arrived
with full cargo of Piankatank river oys-
tiers for this market. The sloop Fannie
Shepherd also came into port yesterday
evening with cargo of oysters.
The Ruth and Ella completed the unload