Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
COLONIAL BEACH PREPARING
FOR SUMMER TRAFFIC.
Improvements on Steamer Kent-Tug
Key Nearly Ready for Service
General News.

The new wharf and the electric lighting
plant building at Colonial Beach, Va, are
rapidly approaching completion, and will
be ready for use long before the opening
of the summer excursion season. The en-
gines and boilers to be used in the electric
light plant are on their way from Erie,
Pa, where they were built When they
arrive they will be placed aboard the
steamer Samuel ]. Pentz and taken to the
Beach The new wharf, which will be used
as landing place for excursion passen-
gers, will be ready for use by Decoration
day, when the first excursion trip to the
resort will be made.
The close of the fishing season on the
Potomac has not made the market on 1lth
street wharf at all dull and this morning;
the receipts of shad and salt water fish
from the Norfolk neighborhood were quite
heavy. Herring coming to market in
small numbers, and the demand for them
is very light, Prices today show a slight
decrease and are as follows:
For gray trout $1.5O to y per barrel; but
ter fish, 81 to s. per barrel; founders, 6 to
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, to
cents per pound; salmon trout, to cents
per pound; pan rock, 10 cents per pound;
medium rock, 70 cents per pound; boiling
rock. ID to 10 cents per pound; sturgeon, 10
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, Is to 40 cents per
bunch; catfish, small, 10 to 10 cents per
bunch; yellow perch. large, 10 TO 25 cents
per BUNCH yellow perch small, to 10
cents per bunch; carp 10 to 70 cents each;
cells, to cents each; herring, to Is
cents per hundred; Potomac roe shad, il to
80 cents each; buck shad, II to 10 cents
each.
Soft-shelled crabs are coming from the
Potomac as we'll as from Norfolk and the
North Carolina sounds, and the receipts
were heavy this morning. Prices were low
and the largest of the crabs coul1 be
bought for 20 to % cents per dozen. Hard
crabs are selling at $50 to 81 per barrel,
and clans at 80 to 60 cents per hundred.
CLAIMS are scarce and in demand.
The work of overhauling the Randall line
steamer Kent is being pushed as rapidly
as possible to completion, and the boat will
soon be ready for service on the river
route. The steamers engine has been prac
ticaIly rebuilt the shafts lined up, wheels
rebuilt and other work done that will add
a mile or two an hour to her speed. She Is
to take the place of the steamer Wakefield
on the river route while the latter steamer
is being reprinted
The rebuilding of the wharf of Stephenson
& Bro, the landing place of the Weems
line of steamers, will be completed by the
end of this week 1t is practically a new
structure AS soon as the leases from the
District are obtained the lessees of several
of the wharyes will make extensive i'm
provements.
Along the WharveS.
The United States army lighter Kearney.
attached to the engineers battalion, United
States army, at the Washington barracks.
has shifted her berth from the wharf on
the Eastern branch and Is now at anchor
in the harbor off the upper END OF the ar
senal park.
The boiler and machinery have been
placed in the new tug D. M. Key Of the
fleet Of tugboats belonging to A. j. Taylor
&. Bro. and 1t is expected the tug will be
In readiness for service before the end of
the month She will be used as harbor
towing boat. 80
The B. and O. railway tug Major Brewer
ton now under repair at the alexandra
marine railway, will, 1t is stated be put
overheard within the next day or two and
will return to towing the sear-laden barge
of the railway company between Alexan-
dria and the transfer station at Shepherds,
D. C. Igc
Raltimore for repairs TO machinery, gen.
eral overhauling and painting
The steamer Samuel J.!ePentz has taken
the place of the steamer Estelle Randall
on the Glymont route for g, DAY or two. ow-
ing to heavy shipments OF hay to the Poto-
mac forts.
large number of hsh-shipping cans
were taken from Alexandria to the Bryan's
Point station of the United states fish COM
mission by one of the tenders from the sta
ton yesterday evening. Young shad will
be shipped in the cans to all parts of the
country to be placed in streams.
The schooner Isaac Solomon. laden with
cordwood. has arrived in port from the
lower river, consigned to Carter & Clark.
The three-masted schooner Ralph Hay
ward arrived at Alexandria today light
and will load railway ties at the Alexan-
dria shipyard for Boston. The ties come
from along the Southern railway as far as
Lynchburg.
The schooner William Donneliy Is lying
at the wharf foot of 9th street, unloading
a cargo of lumber from a North Carolina
port.
The Edith VERBAL, with a cargo of cord
wood, arrived from the neighborhood sof
Pohick creek