Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-10
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PREPARATIONS COMPLETE FOB
DREDGING CHANNELS.
Loading First Cargo Of Bottles-Tus
Pride in Service-General
Marine Matters.

So FA'S-NiANliS IidCniH0 owned by Dean
q Son of Alexandria was yesterday brought
up from Alexandra by the tug James O.
Carter. and will be used. 1t is stated. in
driving the piles that will form the trestle-
work for the line of pipe to be used by the
hydraulic dredge when 1t begins the work
OF deepening the channel In this vicinity
ana the pumping of the mud on the Poto-
mac Park
Inc work OF preparing the park to re-
ceive the liquid mud has been completed
ana the dredge can go to work as soon as
she reaches this city. 1t is stated that this
dredge Is hauled out at Albany N Y. for
some repair work before starting down the
coast.
Inc supply of fresh fish on sale at the
wharf market this morning was not large
put the market was very duh and the fish
sofa out slowly at low figures. Black bass
OF which there was an unusually large
supply, sold lower than they have been for
several weeks, with no buyers. Prices to-
day were as follows:
For small trout 9 cents per noupa. largo
trout, to cents per pound; medium
trout Z cents per pound Spanish mackereI
~ % IL cents per pound; pan rock, 10 to IL
cents per pound; medium rock Is to 1S
cents per pound; boiling rock 20 to - cents
per pound; bluefish and tailors, 8 to 10
cents per pound: Potomac bass to 8
cents per pound; salmon trout. to cents
cents per pound; white perch, small. 30 to
80 cents per bunch; catfish, large, % to 80
cents per bunch; catfish, small IL cents
per punch; yellow perch. small, IS to 35
cents per punch: mullets. 20 to p cents per
bunch; carp, Is to % cents each; cells,
cents each; jumping mullets, 3 to cents
per pound: winter shad. $3.50 to 81 per box;
drum, 4 to cents per pound
The demand for oysters in the shell at
the wharf this morning rather light,
and the stock on hand in the few vessels
was small. Prices show no change and
range from IS cents to 81 25 per busheI ac-
cording to size.
Ducks are more plentiful than they have
been for several days and are selling at
average prices.
The three-masted schooner Levin Marvel
is lying at an Alexandria wharf. loading a
cargo of TASKS, made at the Alexandria
glass plants, for parties in Norfolk. This
is the first cargo of the kind ever shipped
from Alexandria in a sailing vessel. 1t is
said the demand for Alexandria made bot
ties has become heavy in the south. The
Marvel will carry over 1000 cases.
Messrs. John Berry and Will Neitzey of
this city have returned from a hunting trip
of several DAYS at Fairy landing, on the
Virginia side of the river. below Fort
Washington. While the hunters found but
few ducks. birds were plentiful and sew
eral hundred of them were killed.
General News of the Port
The tug George W. Pride. which has been
undergoing an overhauling for several days
past. went into service yesterday and will
be employed in general towing on the river.
The tug is under the command of Capt.
George Davis, with Chief Engineer Ernest
Germond in charge of her engine room.
Two of the dipper and one of the large
sucker sand-dredging machines of the CO.
lumbia Sand Dredging Company are lying
off Deans boat yard. near Alexandria, and
will be given a general overhauling during
the winter. The withdrawal of these three
machines from digging sand on the river
leaves but three employed in the business
The coast survey steamer Endeavor Is
hauled out marine railway at Balu-
more for repair work preparatory to the
vessel sailing for the southern coast of tho
United States. The Endeavor Is under the
command of Capt. Young. with Messrs HI.
S. Simpson and A L. Barker aids.
The light house authorities. 1t Is stated
have been notified of the sinking of the
schooner American Patriot, and buoy
marking where she lies will be placed on
the wreck 1t Is thought the expense of
raising the schooner will be found to be 50
heavy that her owner will let her lie where
she is until she Is broken up under the
direction of the United States engineers
office.
The schooner Beersheba, with about GU. 900
feet of pine lumber for this city and the
Hester A. Waters, with 10 900 feet for Alex
andria, have arrived and are unloading.
They come from Virginia lumber ports.
The tug Martin Dallman yesterday de-
livered a barge laden with bricks at the
Fort Washington wharf for use in the i'm
provements being made there.
The Baltimore tug Emma yesterday
brought a tow of four coal-laden barges
into port from Baltimore and sailed with
a tow of five or six for Chesapeake City.
The schooner Bertha May arrived at Alex
andria yesterday with a cargo of about
forty cords of wood.