Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMBOATS, TO OVERHAUL FOR
COMING BUSY SEASON.
Preparing for Dredging Work in Wash
ington Channels-Overhau
Steamer Arrowsmith

After the first Of the year about one-half
the steamboats, owned here will be tied up
at the wharves overhauling and preparing
for the resumption of business in the
spring and SUMMER. The big ships of the
Norfolk line, the steamers Harry Randall
and Kent, the steamer Northumberland,
the Mt. Vernon boat Charles Manchester
and the ferry steamer George Washington
will be the only boats in service on the river.
Five excursion boats are now out of service,
and after Christmas several of the steamers
on down river routes will be withdrawn for
a month or two. This is the regular pro-
gram every winter. 4.
There was a fair supply of fresh fish on
hand this morning at the wharf market
but only jumping mullets at ~ to Be. per
pound and bass at 1Oc. per pound sold. The
demand was fairly good for these fish.
Oysters in the shell are scarce at the
wharf and are selling quite briskly. Small
oysters bring from 70 to Toe. per bushel
and the large stock sell up to S1.25 per
bushel.
Ducks are quite plentiful. and selling
slowly, with no change in prices.
!; The light house tender Holly Is cruising
on the bay with the lighthouse inspector
aboard, on a tour of inspection among the
light houses on the lower portion of Chesa-
peake bay.
A large force of workmen is employed in
throwing up the earthen banks which are
to form the ponds into which the dredge
Will pump the uQulu muO from tNe OOtlOm
of the river channels. 1t is stated the dredge
will reach this city about the first of the
year and that the work will be started as
soon as possible after she gets here. The
work outlined for the dredge will keep her
busy several months.
OF General Interest.
The guards of the steamer 7. v. Arrow
smith,, which during the summer months
ran excursions to Colonial Beach. Va, are
being renewed, and the steamer will be gen.
orally overhauled during the winter
months.
The dredging of the dock at Miller's
wharf at the foot of 1872 street southwest,
has been completed, and the schooner
Marvel has been berthed in it to unload
cargo of lumber.
new type of power boat is in process of
construction In the boat house at the foot
of 9th street. The little craft is to be but
tw Give feet long, and her builder and de-
signer says she will make speed of twelve
miles an hour. owing to the shape of the
propeller and the method of applying the
power. ~ 80
The pile driver and mud digging ma
chimes recently purchased by Dean & Son,
at Alexandria, are being rebuilt and made
ready for service here and at Alexandria.
Vessels looking for cargoes Of oysters for
this market now have to go to bay points
for them. or spend week or two going
II en- point to point on the river in order to
get aboard cargo enough to warrant a trip
here. Many Of the oyster runners are
rargtng to come into port during the week
before the Christmas holidays
The question of building a big summer
hotel at King Copsico Point Va. on the
lower Potomac, is still being discussed,
but no decision. 1t is stated, has yet been
reeched.
The schooner Martin Wagner has arrived
at Alexandria laden with $50 barrels of salt
fish from river packing house.
The steam barge Lily and Howard, Capt.
Raley, came into port Saturday night with
a raft of pine in tow from Ocoquan.
The Uriah Horner. Goldie c., Annie Glib
son. Eleanor Russell. Zephyr. VIM. Turner.
Bessie Reed and Lottfe S. have sailed since
Saturday morning for points on the Po-
tCmac to load.
The schooner Phineas w. Sprague has
been chartered to load asphalt at Trinidad
for this city or Baltimore