Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-17
ON THE RIVER FRONT
ANOTHER ICE-LADEN SCHOONER
ARRIVES IN PORT.
Dredging 18th Street Dock-Tug Dali
man Sails for Solomon's Island
-Harbor Matters.

BAKER, mas arrived Import with cargo OF
about 1850 tons of ice from the Maine ice
fields for the Maine Lake Ice Company.
She is lying at the wharf. foot Of 18th
street. to unload cargo. The Baker had a
rough and stormy passage down the coast
but succeeded in making the trip in good
time. She Is the fourth vessel to arrive
here within the past six weeks with cargoes
OF ice for the Maine Lake Company. The
ice is being stored for during the hot
weather of the summer Several other
large schooners are at Maine ports, load
Ing Ice for this city. and will all arrive here
within the next two or three weeks
The very high water of yesterday pre-
vented the hauling Of seine at many Of the
fishing shores, and as a consequence the
receipts of shad and herring have been
lighter in the past twenty-four hours, about
1,2o0 shad and 100000 herring having ar
rived. But few of other varieties of fish from
the Chesapeake Bay and coast fisheries
were received by the dealers at the
wharf this morning. The market was
quite brisk this morning and prices, which
are still high. are as follows: For pan
rock, 1Oc. per pound; medium rock, 12c.
per pound; boiling rock, 13 to 15c. per
pound; sturgeon, 1Oc. per pound; salmon
trout, . to 1Oc. per pound; green pike to
&c. per pound; white perch. 10 to 15c. per
TlkC
bunch; catfish. large, 25c. to 40c. per bunch:
catfish, small, 10 to 15c. per bunch; yellow
perch, large, Is to 25c. per bunch; yellow
perch, small 3 to Ice. per bunch; carp. 10
to 2Oc. each: cells. to &c. each; herring,
% to SOc. per hundred Potomac roe shad.
45 to 50c. each; buck shad 25 to CSC. each;
hickory jacks, 2 to 1Oc. each.
Oysters are very scarce, there being but
two vessels at the wharf with bivalves
aboard, and they sold this morning at from
6Oc. to 81 per bushel. according to quality.
Clans are scarce and high, selling at from
90 to zoe. per hundred. Hard she'll crabs
have made their appearance on the market,
coming from Norfolk in small quantities.
They are selling at So per barrel.
Large quantities of hay and cattle feed
are being shipped from this city on the
river steamers to points down the Potomac.
On the Randall line wharf is pile of over
200 bales awaiting transportation to the
wharf at Glymont, Md.
One of the dredging machines of John
Miller Is at work deepening the water in
the dock at Capt. Sonny Reagan's boat
yard. foot of 18th street The water has
been so shoal in the dock that it was al
most impossible to handle a vessel of any
considerable draft. 1t is understood that
Capt. Reagan has in contemplation the
building of larger railway that will haul
out any Of the smaller vessels employed on
the river.
sailed this morning for Solomon's Island.
Md, where her engine will be taken out
and placed in a new boat, building for John
Miller. A smaller engine will be put in the
Dallman, and she will, 1t is stated, be re-
built before she returns to this city in the
summer.
Of General Interest.
The steam yacht Gretchen, with ]. e.
Reyburn, her owner, and party of friends
aboard, has sailed from this city for the
Carolina sounds. where several weeks will
be spent in hunting and fishing. The
Gretchen will return to this city before
sailing on her summer cruise to the New
England coast
Ten cars loaded with gas coal were de-
timore and Ohio railway yesterday, and
will be transferred to barges and brought
here.
Mr. Bert G. Faulhaber. the New York
manager of the Alexandria and Washing
ton ferry line was in the city yesterday.
His presence in the city has revived the
rumors of the sale of the steamer Columbia
and the ferry line.
Mr.. George Cook, mate of the steamer
Estelle Randall, is absent from duty on
sick leave, and Jas. Baker is acting
mate in his place.
The tug Bartholdi has been given a thor
ough overhauling and repainting, and is
ready for her work on the river during the
summer
The May is hauled out on the float at
Banks pile driver wharf, and is to be re-
painted.
Owing to the high water, work has been
discontinued on the building of the wharf
of VIM. A. Smoot & Co, at Alexandria.
The ram schooner Edna and Maud, laden
with lumber and shingles, from Edenton,
N. c.. has arrived here consigned to H L.
Biscoe. She is unloading at the wharf foot
of 10th street
The tug Camilla came into port yesterday
with tow of several small vessels with
cargoes.
The schooner Islesboro will complete the
discharging of her cargo of ice today, and
will at once sail, in tow of the tug VIM H.
Yerkes, for Baltimore.
The bugeye Winnie Windsor, laden with
oysters, came into port yesterday for the
dealers here.
AS soon as the repair work to the tug
Baby is completed at Deans boat yard at
Alexandria the schooner Maggie L. is to be
hauled out on the marine railway there for
repairs to her hull and for caulking