Evening star., 1903-07-22
ON THE RIVER FRONT
WHARF FOR NAVAL BATTALION
NEARLY COMPLETED.
Launch Annie n. Ready for Service
Myrtledene to Load Coal
General and Personal.

The new wharf building for the use Of the
Naval Battalion. D. c. n. g.. at the foot
of n street southwest is rapidly approach
ing completion. All the piling and bracinG
under the structure has been completed,
the caps are on tops of the piles and about
two-thirds of the planking has been COM
pleted. The entire wharf will be ready for
use in ten days or two weeks. The wharf
is one of the finest on the entire river front.
and is splendidly braced, being strong
enough to stand all the weight that will be
placed upon 1t. The dock in which the
practice ship Fern will lie alongside the
new wharf will have to be dredged before
the vessel can lie in her berth without
going aground on every low water.
The receipts of gray trout blueffsh and
mackerel, caught in the nets in Chesapeake
bay, was fairly large at the fish wharf
this morning and there also was scatter
ing supply of other varieties of fish on
hand The demand was good and the stock
sale quickly sold to the uptown
dealers Prices. which show but few
changes, are as follows:
For small trout, 81 to S per barrel; me-
dium trout, s. to 81 per barrel; large trout,
to cents per pound; buttertish, 50 per
barrel: founders, to cents per pound;
Spanish mackerel. 10 to IL cents per pound;
pan rock, to cents per pound; medium
rock. to cents per pound boiling rock,
12la to Is cents per pound; sturgeon, to 10
cents per pound: green pike, 6 to cents
per pound; pcrgies, 21a to cents per
pound: bluefish, to Z cents per pound;
bass 10 to % cents per pound; white perch,
10 to II cents per pound; white perch,
small, 20 to 30 cents per bunch; catfish.
large, ~ to Is cents per bunch catfish,
small. to cents per bunch; yellow perch.
large. is to 30 cents per bunch; yellow
perch. small. 10 cents per bunch; carp. 15
to % cents each; cells. cents each.
on the market this mbr-hing. the receipts,
both from down the river and by the Nor
folk line steamers, being very heavy. They
are selling at 30 cents to 81 per barrel
with but poor demand. CLAIMS are scarce
at the wharf. the supply brought by the
Norfolk steamer this morning going entire
ly to uptown dealers.
The power launch Annie H., which has
been lying at the Clyde line wharf for sev-
eral days past. being prepared for service
has been handsomely repainted and deco
rated, and will be in service in few days
The work of placing the new engine in
the yacht Stranger has been completed and
the little vessel is again in service. The
new engine is said to work we'll and gives
the yacht increased speed.
The houSeboat GreSilda and the little
power launch Francna ii, belonging to Mr.
Rawlings, have arrived at Colonial Beach
their cruise on the river. Mr.. Frank
Rawlings, .the owner of the craft, with his
family, are aboard.
The power launch Santa Barbara, the
tender to the naval proving ground at In
dian Head. Nd, was in port yesterday on
business for the station.
General and Personal.
Mr.. John Hanson. mate of lightship No
46, on the Talbot -the-Shoe in Chesapeake
bay. has exchanged stations with mate
George b. Reynolds of lightship No. u, sta
toned on the Diamond shoal. off Cape Hat
teras.
The bursting of steam pipe on the
steamer Westmoreland Of the Weems line
prevented the steamer from making her
last regular trip to the Patuxent river. She
is again in service.
A number of the boys of ST. Johns
Church Guild went to a down-river point
yesterday evening on the steamer Calvert
to spend several days in camp.
The tug Emma, Captain Paul, is on her
way from Philadelphia to this city with
a tow of coal-laden barges for the dealers
here.
Mr.. VIM. A. Moore chief engineer of the
Randall line. who has been spending several
days at HarDers Ferry. to recover from an
attack Of illness. is expected to return
home today.
The lighthouse tender Violet is on a cruise
among the lighthouses and buoys on Ches-