Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-06
ON THE RIVER FRONT
TUG CARTER TO TOW oIL-LADEN
BARGEs ON RIVER.
Railway Ties Scarce on Potomac-Vesr
sells Coming Here-Freighters
Arriving and Departing.

The tug James o. Carter of the fleet OF
| A. J. Taylor & Brother will. in the future.
| do the towing for the Standard Oil Com
| pany on the Potomac. the owners of the tug
| having. recently closed contract for the
| work. The tug Radiant of the oil company
| fleet will bring the laden barges from Phil
adelphia or Baltimore to the mouth of the
Potomac. where the Carter will meet her
| and will take charge of the barges consign-
| ed to this city. while the Radiant goes on to
| Richmond and Norfolk. The Carter came
into port yesterday on her first trip with an
oil barge.
The fish market on the wharf busy
place this morning. a large throng of buck
sters and uptown dealers being on hand.
The demand was very heavy and at adj
Yanced prices over those of yesterday.
There was also a heavy demand for oys-
ters in the shell at the 18th street wharf
market this morning. The supply was
good. there being seven or eight vessels at
the wharf with oysters aboard. Prices
have advanced. the small oysters bringing
J5c per buShel and ranging from that price
to soc. and 81 per bushel for the finer stock.
The tug Selectman which was hauled out
on the marine railway at Benefits boat
yard to have leaking seam closed. was
launched yesterday and is again in service
on the river. The pungy Oyster Boy took
the place of the tug on the railway and will
receive general repairs.
1dpi oDIiy fttdSdn has iAlu tfe bottom
timbers for a lumber scow for lighter work
about the harbor. The scow will be about
thirty feet long and will be put overheard
ready for service in ten days or two weeks.
The hulk of the steam launch Falcon,
which was wrecked by running upon SUBJ
merged piles near Alexandria, has been
brought to this city and is lying at Cum
berland & Sons boat yard. Her owner IT
is understood. will have her rebuilt and
made ready for service again by the early
spring.
Vessels Coming and Going.
Johnson & Wimsatt have received advices
that the ram schooner Grace Bennett, with
a large cargo of lumber and shingles
aboard. has sailed from Newbern. n C.,
consigned TO them. She will reach this city
early next week. The schooner Sebago
laden with lathS from st. Johns, n. b..
consigned to Johnson & Wimsatt. is expect
ed to reach this city within the next two
or three days.
the Henry Sutton and the Maiden, lying at
Alexandria unloading cargoes of plaster.
They came from Canadian ports and il is
stated. are paying their first visit to. the
Potomac.
The handsome steam yacht Valcour is
lying at anchor in the lower part of the
harbor, off the arsenal grounds, and will
remain there until permanent berth at
one of the wharves is secured for her
The two-nsted schooner Henry H. Pitts
with about 125U00 feet of pine boards
ABOARD, came INTO port yesterday She IS
consigned to Carshee 4 Co. of Baltimore.
The schooner T J. Parks has arrived with
full cargo of canned goods from Vir-
ginia point for dealers.
The schooner Irene. with cord wood for
Robert Murphy. and the Clara Leonard
and Osceola, with wood for Carter & Clark,
came into port yesterday afternoon.
The schooner Father and Son, laden with
about 2iO cedar posts from a down-river
point. has arrived for H. l. Biscoe. She Is
unloading a Forsberg Murrays wharf.
The two-masted schooner Loon has ar
rived in port here with full cargo of pine
lumber for the dealers.
The shipping of railway ties from points
on the river to the Philadelphia and Boston
markets is very dull just now. and for the
first time in several months there is not
vessel on the river taking them aboard. 1t
is stated that nearly all the white oak and
chestnut trees from which the ties are
made have been cut down throughout that
portion of Virginia and Maryland border
ing ON the Potomac.