Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-14
ON THE RIVER FRONT
RIVER NEARBY TEEMING WITH
SHAD AND HERRING.
Launch Mercedes Ready for Service
Building Fort Hunt Wharf Chute
Other Matters.

The Potomac river below this city is
teeming with herring, and shad is also
| more abundant this season than for many
years before. Yesterday over a million
herring were received at the fish wharf
here and at Alexandria, causing glut so
heavy that the dealers were unable to cope
with it. Several cargoes of the fish had
to be thrown overheard from the vessels
holds. Drift-net fishermen yesterday made
catches of a hundred and two hundred
shad at drift. Old fishermen say that
the storm of about two weeks ago, which
destroyed the nets in the mouth of the
river, gave the fish an opportunity to come
ur the stream, and this accounts for the
unusually large catches of shad and her
ring now being made.
The stock of herring received by the deal
ers at the 18th street wharf wholesale
market this morning was very heavy, fully
100000 being on hand. Shad are somewhat
more scarce than they were yesterday and
are selling at slightly advanced prices.
The demand for fish of all kinds is good
and this morning they were selling at the
following prices:
For pan rock. 1Oc per pound medium
rock. 12c. per pound; boiling rock, 10 to 15c.
per pound; sturgeon, 10c. per pound; sal
mon trout, to 1Oc. per pound; green pike.
T. to SC. per pound; white perch, 10 to 15c.
per pound; white perch, small 25c. to $1.25
per bunch; catfish. large, % to 3Oc. per
bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 15c. per bunch;
yellow perch, large, Is to 25c. per bunch;
yellow perch. small, to 10c. per bunch;
carp. Is to zoe. each; cells, 3 to &c. each:
herring. Is to SOC. per hundred: Potomac
roe shad. 40 to 45c each; buck shad. 10
to &c. EACH hickory jacks, to sc. each.
The supply of oysters at the 18th street
wharf is small and the demand light.
Prices. however, keep up. and this morning
Potomac river stock brought from Goo. to
81 10 per bushel. CLANS are selling readily
at from so to SOC. per hundred.
The Columbia Sand Dredging Company
which owns the scows sunk in the mouth
of the big sewer at the foot of 18th street.
is preparing to have the scowS raised and
removed Harbormaster Sutton will from
now enforce the regulation forbidding
the anchortng of vessels in the mouth OF
the sewer.
The steam launch Mercedes, the tender to
the War Department, which has Its berth
at the harbor Office wharf adjoining the
tug Vigilant has been handsomely painted
and decorated in preparation for the COM
ing boating season on the Potomac. The
launch will go into commission within the
next two or three days.
The work of building the landing chute
In the government wharf at Fort Hunt,
Va, has been started by Contractor r. w.
Darby of this city and will be completed in
about a week or ten days. This wharf is
one of the highest on the river.
Of General Interest.
mooring buoy abreast of the naval powder
magazine and painted white, in order that
vessel pilots may see 1t and avoid colliding
with it.
The tug Columbia of Baltimore has ar
rived here under charter to tow fsh-laden
vessels from the nets at the Stoney Point
fishing shore to this city. The Columbia is
paying her first visit to the Potomac in
this neighborhood.
The handsome steam yacht Tuscarora
which came into port Friday night last,
sailed yesterday afternoon for Old Point. 70
The tug Baby, now on the railway at
Deans boat yard at Alexandria, will be
ready to be put overheard within the next
few days. The tug will be in thorough Or
der when launched
The tug Gibbon, the Fort Washington
tender. which has been out of service for
repairs, is again in commission, and is
making two trips daily between the fort
and this city.
The mailing port of the tug Edith G. Win
ship, which was formerly Georgetown, has
been changed to Baltimore. The tug was
purchased by the Consolidation
Coal Company, all of whose boats hail from
Baltimore.
The two-masted schooner Chas. H
Dagger has arrived in port with 10000 feet
of pine lumber from the Coan river for H.
l.. BiScoe.
The schooner w. P. Snow is unloading
her cargo Of lumber at the wharf of Fors-
berg and Murray, foot of Sth street.
The tug Pocahontas came into port yes
terday with a barge Of the same name |
laden with fertilizer material for parties at
The schooner Maud Muller is at the
wharf of Stephenson & Bro. unloading a
cargo of cord wood.
into port yesterday with eight loaded sand |
ScoWS in tow,