Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-17
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HAULING SEINE AT FAIR LAND
ING TO BEGIN AT ONCE.
New Steamer for WeeHns Line-Pleas-
ure Craft Preparing for Sum-
mer-Other Matters.

The hauling Of seine for shad and her
ring will he commenced at Fair Landing,
the new fishing shore OF Capt. VIM. Nett
zey on the Virginia side Of the river a
short distance below Mt. Vernon. The tug
Camilla yesterday took the new seine boat
and fish lighter recently built at Cumber-
land & Sons and nets and other parapher-
MALTA to the shore. The crew has also
been taken down. It Is expected that by
the end of this week fish will be coming to
this market from the shore. Captain Nett
zey, 1t is understood, will fish seine three
or four miles long at Fair Landing, and a
haul will be made on each tide. In former
years this was one OF the best-known
shores on the river
Shad and herring from the Chesapeake
bay fisheries were on the market at the
quantities, and some few here also came
from river sources. Perch, rock and cat
fish were also on hand from the nets in the
river in good quantities. The demand this
morning was rather slow, and prices, which
are at about the same figures as yesterday,
are as follows: For pan rock, &c. to &c.
per pound; medium rock, 10c. per pound !;
boiling rock, 12c per pound; jumping null
let 4c per pound; sturgeon 10c. per pound !;
salmon trout, &C. to &c. per pound; Sleeps
head, &C. to &c. per pound; founders, &C. to
&c. per pound; Potomac black bass, 10c.
per pound; green pike, SC. per pound; white
perch. &c. to &c. per pound; white perch,
small, &c. to 10c. per bunch; catfish, large.
25c. to 3Oc. per bunch; catfish, small, 10c.
to 15c. per bunch; yellow perch, large, 15c.
to 25c. per bunch; yellow perch, small, SC.
to 10c. per bunch; carp, 15c. to 20c. each /;
eels &c. each; herring, lie. each; Potomac
roe shad, Coo. each; buck shad, 20c to pc.
each; hickory jacks, sc. each.
North Carolina roe shad, Coo. each;
bucks, Zoe each.
The arrival of fish in good quantities and
the consequent lowering Of prices have made
the demand for oysters in the shell quite
slow, while the stock on hand is good.
Today medium grade oyster could be
bought at soc. and SOC. per bushel, and Sc
lected stock sold at 9Oc. and 81 per bushel.
Purchased Emma Refs.
The Weems line has purchased the
steamer Emma Refs Of Milton, Del, and
will, it is understood, use her on the Rap
pahapnock river route. She is a handsome
little craft, 1141z feet long, and has pas
senger and freight accommodations.
The wood carrying feet, many of which
have been out of commission since last fall,
are now coming into port in numbers. The
arrivals yesterday were the Earl BiScoe
ter & Clark; the Irene, consigned to Rob
ert Murphy, and the Ann Wills. The two
latter will unload on the james Creek
canal.
Captain Sonny Reagan's boat yard to be
painted and prepared for summer cruising.
1t is stated that the two-masted schooner
Carrie l.. is lying at Colton's wharf, Md,
taking aboard cargo of seed oysters Tor
planting in the Rappahannock river.
The owners Of the pleasure craft now at
anchor in the tidal basin, where they have
been lying throughout the winter, are now
preparing to bring them around to their
summer anchorage in the f1arbor Off the
10th street wharves. Many Of the boats
are being overhaued painted and pre-
pared for the coming season.
When the harbor police boat Vigilant Is
launched from the marine railway at Ben
nett's boat yard the tug Martin Dallman
Of the Columbia Sand Conpany's fleet will
be hauled out for general repairs.
1t is reported that fishermen have within
the past day or two caught several shad
in Washington reach, and two shad are
reported to have been caught Sunday in the
nets in Great Hunting creek, below Alexan-
drla.
General River News.
Mr.. George j. Stafford, who has been con-
fined to his home by sickness, has returned
to duty as purser on the Glymont route
steamer
Mr.. Morris Parker IS acting as purser of
the steamer Harry Randall during the alb
sence of Purser Thos B. Garnett.
Capt. Thos. Todd, the new commander of
the United States army quartermaster's de-
partment tug Gibbon, went to Fort WASH
inSton yesterday and took command of the
vessel. The crew who came from New
London in the Gibbon, Will return home at
once
The ram schooner ]. D. Marvel, laden