Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-03
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMER NORTHUMBERLAND TO
RELIEVE CALVERT.
Muddy Water in River-Steamer RAN
dali to Come Home-Gen-
eral River News.

The Weems Line steamer Calvert, Capt.
| Smith. left here yesterday afternoon fof
| Baltimore, and on her arrival there VIII
| go out of service and will be taken to q
| ship yard to be painted and given her an
nual summer overhauling. The steamer
| Northumberland. which has been running
on the Baltimore-R appahannock river
| route, will take the place Of the Calvert on
| the Potomac Capt Davis Is In command
| of the Northumberland and Mr.. Willie
Jones Is purser The Norfolk and Wash
fngton Line steamer Newport News has
| taken the place Of the steamer Norfolk
! upon the Old Point and Norfolk route
while the boiler of the latter steamer is be-
ing cleaned
The supply Of fresh fish on hand at the
18th street wharf market this morning was
ample to meet the demand, though the
market was quite brisk in consequence OF
the ember days of this week. Prices are
| about the same as those quoted yesterday,
and are as follows:
For gray trout. IS to So per barrel; butter
fish. s. to 81 per barrel: founders. to Z
cents per pound; Spanish mackerel. to 9
cents per pound: salmon trout. 81 to $
per barrel: rock 8 to 123s cents per pound:
sturgeon. 10 cents per pound; green pike, 9
to cents per pound: white perch, 10 cents
per pound; white perch. small, 20 to 80
cents per bunch; catfish large, % to 40
cents per bunch: yellow perch, large. Is to
% cents per bunch; yellow perch. small. 8
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, 16 to
20 cents each.
Two vessels laden with clans from the
eastern shore of Virginia came into port
last night. and the demand for the shell
fish is good at 40 to 45 cents per hundred.
Hard crabs continue scarce, and are selling
at $50 to 81 per barrel. But few soft she'll
crabs are now coming to market and they
sell at 40 to 45 cents per dozen.
The river from this city to below ely
| mont has become very muddy. a conse-
quence Of the heavy rains of the past ten
days. and all the tributaries of the river
are adding their streams Of muddy water
to make the main stream even more muddy.
Fears are expressed that the muddy stream
will extend to the oyster beds In the lower
river and will damage them.
One Of the small mud-digging machines
belonging to Mr.. John Miller. which has
been employed in deepening the water at
dOwn-river point was brought into port
and anchored at the mouth of the Eastern
branch. The dredge will be employed in
deepening the water in several of the docks
General and Personal Notes.
Capt. E. 8. Randall. with crew from
this city went over to Baltimore this morn
ing and will leave there tonight with the
newly rebuilt steamer Harry Randall. The
Randall will go into commission in time to
take part in the annual excursion of the
Letter Carriers Association
The fattie Seabird left port yesterday
afternoon with a seine boat with nets
aboard. in tow for the mouth of the Poto-
mac river, where she will be used for sum-
mer fishing for bass perch. rock and other
fish for this market. Several other vessels
now in port are preparing to take a fishing
outfit aboard and will sail shortly for the
fishing grounds below Colonial Beach.
The tug George w. Pride, which has been
lying at the ferry line wharf at Alexandria
being painted and made ready for service,
will go into commission in few days and
will be employed in general towing on the
river. The Pride is owned by Capt. Albert
Fair of Alexandria.
The little tug Sunbeam, belonging to VIM
A Smoot. which has been recently over
hauled and prepared for service in the
sand towing fleet, has gone into commits
sion as an auxiliary to the tug Rosalie.
The schooner Zephyr is hauled out on
the marine railway at the Alexandria Ship
yard for general repair work. The vessel
will be out of service for two or three
days
The two-masted schooner Peri, laden with
about 10000 feet of pine lumber from a
river point, has arrived in port for the
dealers.
The schooner Fannie. laden with building
sand from Greenway flats, came into port
last night for Georgetown.
The bugeye Farmers Friend arrived yes
terday evening and will load general
cargo for river point.
The Mary Ann Shea has arrived with a
cargo of cord wood and pine lumber from
a river point for Carter & Clark
The scow Bush is in port with load of
wood from a river point for the dealers
The schooner Curley Is unloading a cargo
of pine lumber from the James river at the
10th street wharf of the American Ice Com
pany.