Evening star., 1903-07-21
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW BARGES BUILT FOR SAND
COMPANY ARRIVE.
overhauling Pungy Silver Spray-
Peaches and Other Fruit Coming
General Matters,

The tug VIM. II. Yerkes. jr.. OF this city
came into port today with two new barges
for the National Sand Dredging Company
from Baltimore. The barges which arc
designed TO carry sand and gravel on the
Potomac, were built at a Baltimore ship
yard and are the largest in use on the
river about this city. They will go into
service at once. running between the sand
and gravel digging machines in the river
below Alexandria and this city
Augustus Deane & Son. boat builders at
Alexandra. have recently completed and
launched large scow for one of the local
sand companies, and another boat OF tho
same class is on the stocks and will be
completed in a few days.
The stock of fresh fish from the fisheries
on the Atlantic coast and in Chesapeake
bay received by the dealers at the fish
wharf this morning larger than it
has been for several days. but the supply
of river-caught fish was small. The deal
ers account for this by the fact that the
mats in the river are now covered with
thick grass, and In this the fish live and
eat, and do not have to come out for food
In the deeper water where the nets are To-
Gated the demand for fish was brisk. and
the stock in hand was sold out during the
early hours of the morning. Prices are
steady, and are as follows:
For small trout, So to 50 per barrel: me-
dium trout 81 to 81 per barrel; large trout.
= " y CeHlS per pOulU, DutteEusn, ST. per
barrel: founders. to cents per pound;
Spanish mackerel o to IL cents per pound:
pan rock, to cents per pound; med UNI
rock. to cents per pound: boiling rock.
12la to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon, to 10
cents per pound; green pike. to $ cents
per pound; porgies, 2l1 to cents per
pound bluefish, 3A to cents per pound:
bass, Is to % cents per pound; white perch.
10 to II cents per pound white perch.
small, 20 to 30 cents per bunch catfish
large. II to Is cents per bunch; catfish,
small, to cents per bunch: yellow perch,
large. 10 to 30 cents per bunch; yellow
perch, small. 10 cents per bunch: carp, IS
to % cents each: eels, cents each.
Soft crabs were in the market this MORN
ing and sold for 80 cents per dozen. Hard
crabs at 81 to 81 80 per barrel, and CLAIMS
45 to 80 cents per hundred
The large schooners Charles w. Church
and Daylight have arrived in port from
the Maine ice fields. laden with ice for the
American company. The two vessels had
aboard about 1,2uO tons each and are un-
loading at the ice wharves here. Four
large vessels with ice aboard are at sea
bound here and should arrive within the
next day or two.
The pungy Silver Spray owned by Mr.
Theo. Ballenger, is being rebuilt and put
In first-class order at Alexandria in prepa-
ration for the fruit running season, which
will open In few days The vessel has
received a new deck, her cabin is being
rebuilt and repairs made to the hull.
General News of the Port.
Capt. Whyte. boat builder. at the foot OF
7th street, is building several twelve and
fourteen-foot batteaux for his own use.
Two or three of the boats have been COM
pleted and put overheard and the others
are ready for service.
The coast survey steamer Htdrogra pher.
Capt. Vinal, has gone to Port jefferson.
j.. and will go into a dry dock there for
thorough repairs after extended tour of
duty on the gulf coast of Florida.
The steamers from down river points are
bringing up large quantities of apples.
peaches and other fruit for the dealers
here. Shipments of watermelons and cam
taloupes will come within the next ten
days from points down river for the local
market.
Capt. George Cook has been transferred
from the steamer Kent to the steamer
Wakefield as mate, to fill a vacancy caused
by the resignation of Capt. Tally Fookes.
who has taken command Of the steamer
George Washington on the ferry line.
Capt James Marmaduke has been made
pilot of the steamer 7. V. Arrowsmith on
the Colonial Beach route with Capt Bailey
Reed.
The schooner Joseph Quillan has arrived
In port with a full cargo Of lumber from
Norfolk for H. L. Biscoe
The three-masted schooner Mary Sanford,
which unloaded a cargo of ice here, com.
pleted the discharging of her cargo yester-
day and sailed in tow of the tug Camilla.
The steamer E. James Tull has arrived at
Alexandria from Occoquan with full cargo
of grain and will, 1t is understood, return
for another cargo.
The schooner Magnolia, laden with lum-
Der from the James river, has arrived in
port consigned to Thos. r. Riley.
The schooner Walter p. Snow, with a full
load of lumber from the Rappahannock
river, has arrived here consigned to III. L.
Biscoe
The H. l.. Biscoe. having aboard a full
cargo of cord wood from a river point for
Carter & Clark is in port.
The two-masted schooner John Kelso,
with a cargo Of grain from the lower Poto.
mac aboard, arrived at Alexandria yester-
day consigned to Walter Roberts.