Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-06
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
SCHooNERs LOADING ICE CAR
GOES FOR THIS PORT.
Large Quantities Of Lumber Coming
Will Inspect Steamer Kent
General River News.

The large four-masted schooners David
P. Davis, Independent and Ida Southland
are on the Kennebec river, loading large
| cargoes of ice for this city. The schooner
William H. Yerkes. as soon as she COM
| pletes unloading her cargo of coal at Bos-
| ton, Is under charter to go to the Kennebec
| to load for this city. These vessels, having
about 5,01S tons Of ice for the American
| Ice Company, are at sea and should arrive
here within the next ten days.
For the first time for several months
| there have been no arrivals of wood-laden
craft here from the down-river points
| There are, however, SIX or eight longboats
and small schooners at river points taking
aboard loads of oak and pine wood and
| will arrive here with their cargoes IN the
next two or three days.
The supply Of fresh fish from all sources
was very light at the 18th street wharf
wholesale market this morning, and as a
consequence business was rather dull there,
! although the demand for the fish on hand
was good and the stock was disposed of
early in the day. The continued stormy
weather on the coast and bay has prevent
ed the fishermen from working their nets.
Pr1ces show some changes and are as fol-
| lows:
For small trout, S. to 81 per barrel; medi-
UNI trout, IS to 50 per barrel: large trout,
| 4 to cents per pound: butterflsh, Sc per
barrel; spot, 81 to So per barrel: founders.
| to cents per pound; Spanish mackerel.
II cents per pound; pan rock. 10 to IL cents
per pound; medium rock, 10 to IA cents
per pound; boiling rock, ID cents per pound:
sturgeon. 10 to II cents per pound; green
pike 9 to cents per pound; porgtes ~
to cents per pound; blueflsh. to Z cents
per pound; pompano, Is cents per pound; :
bass, Is to % cents per pound; white perch
10 to II cents per pound; white perch, small
20 to Is cents per bunch; catfish. large, Is
to 30 cents per bunch; catfish, small to 10
cents per bunch; yellow perch, small, 10 to
~ cents per bunch; carp, Is to Is cents
each; eels s cents each.
Hard and soft-shelled crabs are both very
scarce, the former selling at Sc per barrel
and the latter from 80 to 60 cents per dozen.
but they are hard to purchase even at that
price. CLANS are in demand at 40 to so
| cents per hundred.
Watermelons are selling at from 8 to Is
cents eacn' according to size and quality.
Cutter Window In Service,
The United States revenue cutter Win
dom, which has been hauled out on a ma
rine railway at Baltimore, has been put
| overheard and will prepare for service at
once. She will sail In day or two for a
short cruise on Chesapeake bay, on the
lookout to assist any vessels that may
have gone ashore during the recent thunder
storms on the bay.
Large quantities Of pine Lumbar ~ al,
kinds have been brought into port in the
last two or three days from the Kappa ham
mock and James rivers and from the sounds
OF North Carolina. Ten vessels Of VARYING
sizes are now lying at the wharves unload
ing cargoes varying from 5000 feet to
25oOOO feet. Several vessels with laths and
shingles aboard have also been among the
arrivals since Sunday last
The schooner A. H. Quinby ia LIVING Of
anchor in the harbor, and her crew is
giving her new dress Of paint and an
overhauling before sailing for the lower
river to load for this city.
The Foxy Grandpa Club of Alexandria.
consisting Of Engineer VIM Bontz. Driver
stephen Taylor and other members of the
alexandra fire department, have gone on
the pungy James Beach on cruise of a
week or ten days on the river as far down
as Bickistone's Island and Colonial Beach.
Inc wood storage wharf of Carter &
Clark, at the foot Of street southwest
is having some necessary repair work done
to It, The entire wharf structure is to he
rebuilt in the early fall.
The Randall line steamer Kent will I'M
dergo her annual inspection at the hands
OF the officials of the United States steam-
boat inspection service, who will come over
from Baltimore for the purpose.
The new power launch recently purchased
by Judge ]. d. Yoemans has not vet
reached this city from the eastern shore of
Maryland, but she Is looked for at any
! time. The launch Is a handsome little
craft, and will be used about the Yoemans
stock farm on the river at the mouth of
Occoquan bay.
The steamer Estelle Randall has resumed
her place on the mail route, running from
this city to landings on the river as far as
Glymont. Nd
Mr.. B. G. Faulhaber. who has control of