Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
ON THE RIVM FRONT
VESSELS OVERLAPPING AT
NEARBY BoANMARDS.
Dispatch Boat Dolphdh Arrives at
Navy Yard-Ice CaEgpes Coming
Marine NEWS.

has been hauled out on the marine railway
at Alexandria for several days past, was
yesterday afternoon put overheard and
sailed at once for Norfolk to load lumber
back to this city for HI. Biscoe.
The schooner Janet has taken the place
vacated by the Curley on the railway, and
will have some repair work done to her hull.
She will be put overheard in few days.
The schooner Bixler was hauled out on
the small marine railway at Burnett'S boat
yard yesterday to have some caulktng done
under the water edge and to be painted.
The schooner will return to service as soon
as the work on her is completed.
There was an increase in the receipts OF
trout, blue fish and some other varieties
of salt water fish from the fisheries about
Virginia Beach and in Chesapeake bay,
and as the demand was light today prices
were somewhat lower on those varieties.
Business over early. at the fish market
this morning and many of the dealers
closed up their establishments. Prices
were as follows:
For gray trout, s. to 81 per barrel; but
terfish, to cents per pound; founders,
8 to cents per pound; Spanish mackerei,
II to Is cents per pound; pan rock, IL to IL
cents per pound; medium rock, ii to 10
cents per pound: boiling rock, 10 to II cents
per pound; sturgeon, IL cents per pound;
green pike, to cents per pound; por-
gies, to cents per pound; bluefsh, 313
to cents per pound bass, 10 to % cents
per pound; white perch, 10 cents per pound;
white perch. small, 20 to so cents per
bunch; catfish, large, % to % cents per
bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 10 cents per
bunch; yellow perch, large, 10 to 40 cents
per bunch; yellow perch, small, 10 cents
per bunch; carp, 10 to 20 cents each; cells, 3
to ) cents each.
CLANS, which have been very scarce
throughout the entire summer, were In good
demand this morning, and sold at 80 to So
cents per hundred. Crabs, both hard and
soft, continue very scarce and are com
| handing fair prices, hard crabs selling at
81 to 81 80 per barrel, while the soft ones
sell at 35 to 40 cents per dozen. Oysters
can be had at s1.2O to $3.50 per bushel.
The United States dispatch boat Dolphin,
returning from cruise on the New Eng
land coast, was brought into port yesterday
afternoon by Capt William Luckett. The
Dolphin went to her regular berth at the
navy yard and did not anchor in the chan
mel with the cruisers Prairie and Topeka.
The United States naval tug Tecumseh
yesterday afternoon brought up from the
naval proving grounds at Indian Head Nd
one of the guns built at the ordnance foun-
dry there. The tests of the gun have been
completed at Indian Head
Chief Engineer White of the steamer Es-
telle Randall has gone to his home at Nor
| folk to spend several days, in order that he
| may recover from an attack of illness.
General Port News.
Capt. w. w. Taylor has purchased a
| half interest in the Chesapeake bay trader
S. F. Kerwan, and will take command Of
| the vessel in the lumber trade on the bay.
Capt. Taylor formerly commanded the
| schooner John l.. Spedden.
| The big four-masted schooner Francis M.
| is reported at with full cargo of ice
from the Maine ice fields for this city.
| When unlOaded here she will go to Baltf-
| more to load coal under charter for Boston
| at IS cents per ton. The schooner Edwin
r. Hunt has been chartered to load ice on
/ the Kennebec for this city, She should ar
| rive here in about ten-days.
There is yet considerable current running
in the river, though thecforce of the down
| coming stream is becoming lighter daily.
| Logs and tree trunks ane still being brought
down from the upper river country.
The schooner Casper Heft is reported
hard and fast ashore in the mouth of the
| Poccasin river. Virginia, on chesa peake
| bay. The schooner was TO load humber to
Baltimore.
The steamer E. James Tull. laden with
merchandise from the. Dealers here. sailed
| yesterday for OccoQuan. She also took the
| barge c. B. Russell to OccoGuan to load
railway ties for northern port.
| The three-masted schooner Alicia Porter
has been taken to the wharf of T. r. Riley,
| foot of 9th street, to- complete the discharg-
J ing of cargo of laths from New Bruins
| wick.
The schooner Harlan w. Huston has gone
TO Alexandra, and will finish unloading at
| the wharf of H. K. Field & Co. She is to
return to North Carolina to load again for
| this city.
The schooner Mary A. Kirkwood, laden
| with pine boards from a Virginia lumber
| port. has arrived for the dealers.
| The ]. D. Bell and Clara Cowart are at
Smiths Point wharf loading cargoes OF
| cord wood for this city.
The schooner Bertha May. with a full
cargo of pine lumber from the Rappahan-
mock river, has arrived
| The schooner Small has been taken to the
wharf of William A. Smoot & Co, at Alex
| andria. to load railway ties for Boston.
The Leroy, Isaac Solomon, Five Sisters
and w. II. H. Bixler all left port yesterday
| evening for lower Potomac points.
| The schooner Samuel Russell is expected
| to arrive in port today with cargo OF
lumber from river point for dealers.
| The Regulator, laden with cord wood is
| repOrted in the river below A ndria