Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
OLD SCHOONER DENIKE TRANS
FORMED INTUA BARGE.
Another Vessel to Load Coal Here-Ex-
cursion Season Euds-Personal
and General.

! few days ago as Capt. Charles Court
| ney of Northumberland county, Va, was
| preparing to sail from Kinsole. on Coan
| river. at the mouth OF the Potomac, the
anchor Of his vessel brought up a relic of
| days long past in the shape of an old flint
| lock musket of the type of about century
| ago. The old gun. considering the length
| OF time 1t must have been buried in the
| river. was in a fair state of preservation,
but was covered with growth of shells of
all kinds. The old gun is supposed to have
| been thrown in the creek in the war of
| 1872. when the British attacked the settle
| ments along the river shore about Coan
river.
The barge A. Denike, with a big cargo of
lumber from Norfolk, arrived in port Sat
| day afternoon In tow of tug. The Denike
was formerly q three-masted schooner and
a large vessel for the time when she was
| launched. For many years she travelled up
| and down the Atlantic coast. until her own
ers had her masts removed and changed
her into barge. She was built at Green's
boro'. Md, In 1865, and was fine vessel IN
her day. She is now owned by parties in
Baltimore from which port she halls.
The work of repairing the hull of the
sailing barge Daniel at the Alexandria ship
yard has been completed and the vessel
has been launched and has sailed for a
river point to load.
The demand for fresh fish of all kinds
at the wholesale market on the wharf this
| morning was good, while the supply on
hand was quite small, the receipts, both
from Norfolk and river sources, being quite
| light. Prices show but few changes from
| those Of last week. and are as follows:
Small trout. S. to 81 per barrel; medium
trout, cents per pound; large trout, .
cents per pound; butterf1sh So per bar
rel; spot, So to 81 per barrel; founders, to
6 cents per pound; Spanish mackerel. %
cents per pound; pan rock, 10 to IL cents
per pound; medium rock, IL to Is cents per
pound; boiling rock, 10 to 20 cents per
pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per pound; green
pike, to cents per pound; porgies, 20 to
% cents each; bluefish and tailors, to 8
cents per pound; pompano, 20 to 25 cents
per pound; bass, 10 to IS cents per pound;
| white perch, 10 to IL cents per pound; white
perch, small, 20 to % cents per BUNCH cat
fish. large % to 80 cents per bunch; catfish,
| small, to 10 cents per bunch; yellow perch,
small 10 to 80 cents per bunch; mullets, 20
to % cents per bunch; carp, Is to % cents
each; cells, to 10 cents each.
Hard crabs scarce and high selling
today at $1.5O to 50 per barrel CLAIMS
also very scarce and sell readily at 60 cents
per hundred.
On the watermelon wharf the market is
slow, the return of cooler weather having
caused heavy falling off In the demand.
Prices this morning range from $3.50 per
hundred for the smaller grades of melons
up to SIS and $50 per hundred for the finest
stock.
One small vessel with about $50 bushels
of Potomac oysters aboard arrived at the
11,h street wharf this morning, and this
constitutes the bulk of the oysters on SALE
The demand for them Is good at prices
ranging from 80 to so cents per bushel
Z. {. c. barge No. arrived here light
Saturday evening in tow of the tug Re
lance. and has been taken to Georgetown
to load a cargo of about / 800 tons of Cum
berland coal for Boston. Barge No O.
loading at Georgetown. has nearly her
cargo aboard and will leave in a day or
land port.
Schooner Runs Ashore.
The two-masted schooner Mary and Ellen
completed the unloading of her cargo here
Saturday and sailed. On her way down
the river she ran ashore the mud flats
abreast of the United. States naval maya
zine wharf between this city and Alexan-
dria and lay there fast aground for sew
eral hours, until the tide came in Saturday
hight and she was foated by her crew
Captain w. s. Saunders, master of the
new schooner Philip M. Brooks has been
taken very Ill. and it Is. feared his illness
will end in typhoid fever. His schooner
has just been completed and was to leave
the shpyard where 1t was built on its
first voyage this week.
Captain J. I. Bowles master of lightship,
No. 40, in the Sole of the Shoe is home on
twenty day leave OF absence. Mate Rey-
nOlQS Is IN command or the snip IN the alb
sence of Captain Bowles.
The trips of the excursion steamers made
today to the resorts on the river nearby
will be the last for most of them until next
summer. The rainy and cool weather of
the entire summer has made the excursion
season a poor one. The last trip of the
Colonial Beach excursion steamer will be
made Sunday next
The tug Vulcan is reported coming down
the bay with two large barges laden with
coal for this city. They should arrive here
this evening.
General River News.
The steamer Endeavor of the coast sur
vey fleet, which is employed in making sur
veys over the Kettle Bottoms at the mouth
Of the Potomac. is in port for a short stay,
and will take on supplies here
The buoy in the harbor marking the outer
end OF the old penitentiary wharf at the
arsenal has been taken up by the dredge
at work in the harbor and laid ashore, but
will be replaced as soon as the work is
completed.
The steamers coming in from the wharves
along the river are now crowded with pas
sengers returning home from vacations
spent in the river counties of Maryland and
large quantities of household furniture
which was used In fitting out summer
homes on the river.
The schooner Janet. laden with lumber
from the Rappahannock river. has arrived
in port for the dealers
The bugeye r. H. Stuart, loaded with
canned tomatoes from the factory at Nom
ini. arrived here Saturday evening.
The x L is in port with a full cargo of
cord wood from river point for dealers
here.
The schooner Earl Biscoe, laden with
both wood and lumber has arrived, and is
consigned 70 Carter & Clark
The Ella, Albernette and the c. S. Ora
ham have arrived with loads of cord wood
from points on the lower Potomac
The two-masted schooner Charles Butler,
having a cargo Of pine lumber from a Vir-
ginia lumber port aboard, has arrived for
Johnson & Wimsatt
The four-masted schooner Merom has
been chartered to load ice on the Kennebec
river for this city.