Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY SHIPMENTS OF ICE COM
ING TO THIS CITY.
Loading Railway Ties at Alexandria
Cutter Window on Cruise
General News.

The schooner Southland arrived here to-
day with a cargo of about 200 tons of ice
from the Maine ice fields for the American
Ice Company and there are now at sea
and loading for this port six large vessels,
all of which will be here in the next ten
days. The schooner Jose R. Burt Is ex-
pected to come in the capes at any time
and she will be followed by the schooners
Sanford, VIM. H. Yerkes jr., and the Day.
light in the order named. The four-masted
schooners c. w. Church and Edwin R.
Hunt are now in the Kennebec loading for
this city and will sail within the next two
or three days. The vessels named will
bring nearly 1900 tons of ice for use here
during the warm weather yet to come Sew
eral vessels consigned to the Purity Ice
Company are also at sea bound here.
The supply of fresh fish on sale at the
wholesale fish market on the 18th street
wharf was somewhat lighter this morning,
though the supply was about equal to the
demand. Trout, butterfish and mackerel
were In demand and sold well, and catfish
from the nets in the river also found ready
sale. Bass. perch, mullets and other rive-
fish very scarce, and the supply does
not meet the demand. Prices today show
some changes and are follows:
For gray trout, So to So per barrel; but
terfish, s. to So per barrel; founders, 5 to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, Il to
Is cents per pound; pan rock. to cents
per pound; medium rock. to . cents per
pound; boiling rock, 1214 to Is cents per
pound; sturgeon. IL cents per pound; green
pike, to cents per pound; porgies, 3 to
cents per pound bluefsh 31s to cents per
pound; bass, Is to % cents per pound
white perch 10 to II cents per pound; white
perch, small. % to 30 cents per bunch cat
fish, large, 10 to 16 cents per BUNCH cat
fish, small, 10 to IL cents per bunch; yellow
perch, large, Is to 40 cents per bunch; yell
low perch, small, 10 cents per bunch; carp
10 to 20 cents each; cells, to cents each.
There has not been a sailing vessel with
clans aboard at the wharf for two weeks,
the supply coming by steamer from Nor
folk and Old Point. They sell at 45 to 30
cents per hundred. Hard crabs sold this
morning at 81 % to $1.JO per barrel Soft
crabs are in demand at IS to As cents per
dozen.
The tug VIM. H. Yerkes yesterday after
noon took the three-masted schooner Lucie
Porter which had unloaded a cargo of
shingles here to Alexandria and locked her
at the Alexandria shipyard, where she will
load railway ties for a northern port. Two
| three-masted schooners are now lying at
the Alexandria wharves for cargOes of ties
for Boston~or other New England points.
The Yerkes. after delivering the schooners
at Alexandria, picked up c. c. c. barge
No. 6. laden with soft coal from George
town. and started to the mouth of the
going tug to be towed to Boston The
Yerkes will then. it is expected. return to
this city with a light Consolidation barge
in tow for Georgetown.
General and Personal.
The United States revenue cutter Win
dom, which has been lying at Baltimore for
several days past. has sailed on a cruise
and will pay a visit to this city,
The tug Peerless is at one of the Balti-
more boat building yards having her ma
chinery overhauled. She will be out Of
service about week.
The schooner Beulah Land, which went
ashore in Poccasin, Va, while taking
aboard cargo of lumber, has arrived at
Baltimore leaking badly. She will go into
dry dock for repairs.
The schooner Janet, now upon the marine
railway at Alexandria for general repairs,
will be put overheard today or tomorrow
and will at once sail for Norfolk to load
lumber for this city.
Mr.. George Sherwood. chief engineer of
the steamer Kent, is confined to his home
in Alexandria by illness.
MIR. PLY George, deck mate of the Randall
line steamer Harry Randall. is en- sick leave
at his home in Westmoreland county Va.
Capt. Campbell, formerly master of the
schooner Ida Lawrence, which was lost at
sea, has been made master of the schooner
Edward G. Hight, succeeding Capt. David
E. Crockett, who died a short time ago.
The Baltimore tug Emma arrived in port
yesterday afternoon with the barges Clara
A. Pugh, Geo. B. Roberts and Gen. Wistar
for this city and the York for Alexandria.
They all bring full cargoes of coal from
Philadelphia.
in port with cargo of pine lumber from
a Virginia lumber port for the j. tlers.
The tug Radiant, towing one OF the tank
barses of the Standard Oil Company laden
with oil. arrived at Alexandria yesterday
afternoon.
The tug Eugenia came into pot yesterday
evening towing six barges laden with gravel
for use here