Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-06
ON THE RIVER FRONT
YACHT DIANA FOR
ACTIVE SERVICE.
Work at Boat Building Yards-Steamer
Norfolk Again in Service
General Matters.


Norment of this city, has been completed
at Cumberland's boat yard. in Georgetown.
and the boat was put overheard yesterday.
She will leave here shortly on a cruise with
her owner and a party Of friends aboard.
During the summer the launch will take an
extended cruise on the North Atlantic coast
and will be gone several weeks. The Diana
Is the largest vessel Of her class owned In
this city.
Fresh fish Of all kinds were in fair de-
mand at the 18th street wharf wholesale
market this morning and there was a fair
supply on hand to meet the demand. Shad
and herring are coming up from the fish
cries on the Potomac and other varieties
of fish were received from the Chesapeake
Day and coast fishing shores. Since yester-
day about !, 600 shad and $780, 600 herring
have been received. Prices this morning
were as follows: For gray trout, cents
per pound; founders, cents per pound;
Spanish mackerel, 10 to IL cents per pound;
pan rock. 10 cents per pound; medium rock.
II cents per pound; boiling rock, 13 to 10
cents per pound; sturgeon, 10 cents per
pound; salmon trout, cents per pound;
green pike, to cents per pound; white
perch, 10 cents per pound; white perch,
small. 20 to 80 cents per BUNCH catfish,
large, p to 40 cents per bunch; catfish,
small, 10 to Is cents per bunch: yellow
perch large, 10 to 25 cents per bunch; yell
low perch, small, 5 to 10 cents per bunch;
carp, 10 to 20 cents each; cells, 3 to 5 cents
each; herring. 20 cents per hundred; Poto-
mac roe shad, q to 33 cents each: buck
shad, 10 to % cents each.
Oysters are selling slowly and the stock
on hand is small. Prices range from 80 to
20 cents per buShel for Potomac stock
CLANS continue very scarce and sell at IS
cents per hundred.
Capt Sonny Reagan has at his boat house.
foot of 18th street southwest a dory, a type
OF rowboat seldom seen on southern rivers
The boat belongs to Dr. Greer of this CITY
and Will be used about the harbor The
dCry type of boat is largely used by the
cod fishermen on the coast of New Eng
land
Augustus Dean & Son have three small
pleasure craft. owned in this city, hauled
out at their boat building works for over
hauling and painting before going into
commission for the summer. The tug Baby
belonging to the National Sand COmnanv4
here. which has been on the railway at
Deans for several weeks. is now about
completed and will be launched, ready for
service in a few days.
One of the large hundred feet-Iong scows
OF John Miller is on the marine railway at
Bennetts boat yard to be shortened fifteen
feet and to be practically rebuilt The
work on the boat will take several weeks
hut when it is completed the scow will be
practically new boat When this sco1v is
put overheard other Miller scows will be
hauled out for general repair work.
General and Personal
The big fishing shore at Wide Water. on
the Potomac, in Stafford county. Va. oper-
ated by Colonel Waller ''cut out, for the
season Saturday last The fishing season
on the Potomac has been a short one. but
has been a successful one
The steamer Norfolk of the Norfolk and
Washington line, which has been at New
port News for several days past having
some work done on her Wheel returned to
this city Monday. Yesterday afternoon
she resumed her place on the route be-
tween this city and Norfolk. relieving the
steamer Newport News, which will lay
up here.
The river steamers are carrying large
numbers of fish-sbipping cans from the
of the United States fish COM
mission here to the Bryan's Point station
to be filled with young shad, for distribu-
ton over the country.
The officers of the steamer Wakefield
which came into port from lower river
points yesterday evening, report the storm |
OF Sunday night as very heavy about
W1rt's wharf. During the storm hail as
large as hickory nuts fell, and the tempera
ture became so cold that heavy overcoats
were comfortable.
Tests of new types of oil-spraying burn |
ers were made yesterday at the naval fuel>l
oil experimental plant at the foot of X
street southwest by the crew of the tor
pedo boat Rodgers.
The schooner Isaac Solomon is lying
loaded at Posey's wharf, awaiting a favor |
able wind before sailing for this city
The two-masted schooner A. H. Ouinby.
laden with about 100000 feet Of pine boards |
from the Rappahannock river, has arrived |
In port for H. L. Biscoe.
The Geo. H. Bunker laden with cord |
wood for Carter & Clark, has arrived, and |
Is unloading her cargo.
The w. A. Ceaton, with lumber from the |
lower Potomac, came into port yesterday |
for the dealers.
The three-masted schooner Ralph M. |
Hayward, with a cargo for this city, has |
arrived in tow of the tug Camilla
Barge No. Is of the Consolidation Coal |
Company has completed the loading of a |