Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-05
ON THE RIVER 'FRONT.'
VESSELS WITH CAR0OES OF ICE
COMING HERE.
Steam Launch to Be Overhauled-The
Rebuilt Steamer Harry Randall
Returns to Duty.

Three large vessels laden with ice from
the Maine ice fields are at sea. bound to
this port. The schooners Zach Sherman
and Huatia L. Baker are coming from the
Kennebec river for the American Ice Com
pany. and the Henry s. Little from Sar-
geantville, Maine, for the Maine Lake Ice
Company. The three vessels will bring
over 1000 tons of ice, and are expected to
arrive at the capes at any time. Tugs are
on the lookout for them, and they will be
brought into port as fast as steam can
bring them here. Eight ten vessels are
under charter to load ice on the Maine coast
for this city, and should arrive here within
the next ten days or two weeks.
The supply of fresh fish on hand at the
nth street oyster wharf light this
morning, while the demand, in consequence
OF the Ember days, was quite heavy. Trout
were on hand in fair quantities from the
fisheries at Virginia Beach and about Nor
folk, and there has been a slight decline
in the price of them Several of the other
varieties of fish advanced in prices and
We're selling this morning at the following
prices: For gray trout. 81 to 81 per barrel:
butter fish. s. TO Sc per bararel; founders.
q to I cents per pound; Spanish mackerel.
II to 10 cents per pound: salmon trout, u
cents per pound; rock, Is to % cents per
pound; sturgeon. 10 cents per pound: green
pike. to cents per pound; white perch,
10 cents per pound; white perch. small. 10
to 30 cents per bunch; catfish. large, - to
% cents per bunch; catfish, small IL to Is
cents per bunch; yellow perch, large. IL to
% cents per bunch; yellow perch. small,
to 10 cents per bunch; carp. 10 to 20 cents
each; cells, to cents each: Potomac roe
Shad, 80 to 40 cents each; buck shad 10 to
20 cents each.
Soft-shell crabs Were scarce at the wharf
today and sold at ~ to ID cents per dozen.
Hard crabs are selling at l.J0 to 81. % per
barrel, according to size.
Vessels
street wharf daily with clans aboard and
they sell at from A. to 80 cents per hum
dred.
The steam launch Annie H., which has
been out of service for several months, has
been brought to Cumberlands boat yard at
the foot of 9th street to be given an over
hauling. Exactly what work is to be done
on the launch has not been determined, but
she is to be made ready for service
The tug James o. Carter is at Bennetts
boat yard for calking of hull and repant-
ing. The boat while laid up will be givon a
general overhauling of her machinery, and
when she goes into service again she will
be in thorough order. The Carter will be
used for general towing on the river. while
the tug Key will be used for harbor work
Of the Taylor Bros. fleet
General Port News.
The steamers Richard Cromwell. Hester
A. Waters and Kate Darlington. all WELL
known traders on the bay and Potomac
river, are engaged in the fruit business,
running from the Bahamas with pineapples
and bananas to Baltimore.
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