Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-18
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW TUGBoATs FOR SERVICE ON
cHEsAPEAKE GAY.
Large cargoes of e. comins-Ferry
Boat on Her Way Here
Other N tterss.!

Mr.. w. g. Cahiu OF th@ James clark
marine engine and boiler works has. with
in the past week. placed cShtracts for the
building Of three tugboats for service on
Chesapeake bay and its tributaries. Two
Of the vessels are to be ITO feet long and
the third seventy-six feet. They will be
modern in all their equipment and will be
fitted with compound engines, large enough
to give them good power and speed Dur
ing the past year six or eight tugs, used
for towing In the bay and its tributaries,
have been sold to northern purchasers and
lately there has been a dearth Of towboats
in the bay. These boats will be ready for
service by the latter part of the fall. Sew
eral other new tugs will also be built be-
fore next spring.
There was good demand for all kinds
Of fresh fish at the wholesale fish market
on the 18th street wharf this morning while
the stock on hand was small. little but
gray trout, blues and catfish being on sale.
Butterish, bass, perch and nearly all varie-
ties of river fish were very scarce and were
in demand. Prices show but few changes
and were as follows:
For gray trout. 50 to 81 per barrel; but
ter fish. IS per barrel; founders, to
cents per pound; Spanish mackereL to IL
cents per pound; pan rock, to cents per
pound; medium rock. to cents per
pound: boiling rock, I'm to Is cents per
pound: sturgeon, to 10 cents per pound;
2h to cents per pound; bluefish, 81 to
cents per pound; bass. 10 to % cents per
pound; white perch, 10 to II cents per
pound; white perch small 20 to 80 cents
bunch: catfish small. to cents per
bunch; yellow perch. large. 10 to 80 cents
per bunch: yellow perch small. 10 cents per
bunch; carp, 10 to Is cents each; cells,
cents each.
Crabs and clans were on sale in good
quantities and the demand for them was
fair. Hard crabs sold at rs cents to 81
per barrel, and CLAIMS As cents per hundred
Soft crabs from river points are very
scarce and are selling at high prices.
The large schooner Mary Sanford. laden
with ice in the kennebec river for use
here was brought into port yesterday by
the tug Yerkes, consigned to the American
Ice Company. The schooner brings over
a thousand tons Of ice and will unload her
cargo at the 10th street wharf. Within
the past ten days over 5000 tons of ice
have been unloaded at the ice houses of
the American Company.
General and Personal Notes.
The smaller of the two boilers in use at
the fuel Oil experimental station on the
wharf foot of L street was yesterday
placed upon a heavy dray and taken away
to be prepared for shipment to St. Louis
The work Of removing the larger boiler
and it's house will now be started.
The work of fitting the new launch be-
longing to Mr.. Nicholson of this city with
its engine and machinery is being pushed at
Cumberland's boat house at the foot of 9th
street and the little craft will be ready for
service in a few days. So
The handsome power launch Nadia, be-
longing to Mr. CLARENCE Norment, is lying
at anchor in the stream off the foot of 9th
street. 1t is understood she will leave here
on northern cruise shortly.
The two-masted schooner Kate, which I'M
loaded cargo of lumber here. has been
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big marine railway there for general
overhauling and caulking of hull. She will
be launched early next week
The steamer George Washington, which
Is to run on the ferry line between this city
and Alexandria. left New York in tow of a
tug last Thursday and is expected to arrive
here this afternoon. She is to be made
ready as soon as possible and will take her
place. 1t is understood. on the ferry route
early Monday morning. The steamer Co.
lumbia was burned May 10. and the ferry
line has been closed since that time.
The lighthouse tender Maple Is in the dry
dock of the Baltimore Shpbuilding Com
pany for repairs to hull and machinery. She
will be out of service for several weeks
Mr.: William A. Moore. chief engineer OF
the Randall line. is confined to his home
in this city by illness.
Capt. L. ]. Colston OF Baltimore is to
take command. 1t is stated, Of the bay
schooner John Maginns, now unloading a
cargo OF lumber here. He will relieve Capt.
Peter Galloway, who will take a vacation
ashore
Mr.. George w. Taylor has resigned as as
sistant keeper of Nansemond lighthouse
Va, and will be relieved from duty July 81
The schooner Col. J. Merrick, laden with
cord wood from a river point has arrived
in port for the dealers.
The tugs Eugenia and Baby brought
eight scows, laden with sand and gravel,
into port yesterday.
The tug VIM. H. Yerkes brought a large
schooner laden with about / 900 tons of ice
into port yesterday and sailed with the
schooners L. r. Burt and Dora Allison for
Baltimore and Newport News to load coal.
The schooners Lucia Porter and Fred
Small, laden with railway ties from along
the line Of the Southern railway in Vir-
ginia, left Alexandria Yesterday for BOSTON