Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17
ON THE RIVER FRONT
POTOMAC HERRING IN DEMAND
IN ALL SECTIONS.
New Tug Approaching Completion
overhauling Steamer Estelle Ram
dall-other River Matters.

The fishing shore at Monkeys Point. near
Marshall Hall, cut out for the season Sat
urday evening last and laid off all the seine
haulers and other workmen about the
shore. On the last haul made 10000 herring
were caught, but shad were very few.
The big fish packing houses, which dot
the Potomac from Alexandria to its mouth,
are filed to overlooking with sailed herring,
and many thousand more would have been
packed had the fsh-packing men been able
to obtain labor.
The fish being shipped to this city.
Orders for the fish are received by the deal
ers from Maine to California, and from
Minnesota to the gulf. Herring, it is
stated, reach their prime in Chesapeake
bay and the Potomac, their flesh having a
flavor there that they do not have either
south or north of U.S..
Business was as dull at the wholesale fish
market on the 18th street wharf this morn
ing as it has been brisk during the past
month, and instead of ten or twelve vessels
laden with fish being at the wharf only
one small boat was on hand. The receipts
I-of herring today amounted to less than
10000 and but few shad were on sale.
Bunch fish, rock, gray trout, catfish and
the like were on sale in good quantities,
and they brought fair prices. The cooler
weather has increased the demand for all
grades of the fish
Since Saturday two vessels laden with
CLAIMS have arrived in port from the east
ern shore of Virginia, and the shellfish are
selling at As to so cents per hundred. No
oysters in the shell are on sale on the
wharf except in the oyster houses, and the
bulk of this stock comes from Norfolk.
The work on the tug building at the boat
yard of NJ. Mitchell Davis. at Solomon,s Is
land, Md, for Mr. Angus Cameron of Balu-
more, is being pushed rapidly. The tug is
intended for use on the Potomac, towing
the sand and gravel-laden scows of the new
n 49,,
and dredging machine building at Alexan-
dria, will be ready for service about the
middle of next month.
The power launches, Fife and Evan, are
on the small marine railway at Reagan's
boa tyard. being cleaned, preparatory to
beng repainted and decorated.
Boilermakers and machin:sts are aboard
the steamer Estelle Randall, overhauing
the machinery of the steamer and getting
her in good trim for service on the mail
route between this city and Giymont. Md
Before the steamer goes into commission
again Ii is stated, she viii be hauled out
on the marine railway at Alexandra to
have new speed wheel placed in her and
to have some repair work done to her hull.
General News of Port.
The tug J. l. Seletman, belonging to the
Columbia National Sand Dredging Com
| pany of this city, was hauled out on the
big marine railway at the Alexandria ship
yard yesterday afternoon for some minor
repair work. The tug will be out of ser
vice for day or two.
Deane & Son of Alexandria are engaged
in Transforming several of the sand scows
into pocket scows for the carrying of mud
and will use the scows when completed as
tenders to the dredging machines recently
built at the Alexandria yard.
The planking has been completed on the
steam launch Candoc at Bennet's boat
yard and the workmen are caulking the
seams preparatory to painting the boat. 1t
is stated the steam engines now aboard the
launch are to be removed and she is to be
equipped with a large gasoline engine to
drive her propeller.
The United States lighthouse tender Holly
came into port Sunday evening last with
the big tank buoy from Hog Island in
Chesapeake bay. on board. Yesterday
morning the empty tank was charged here,
and, with buoy aboard the tender, sailed for
the Point Lookout station.
Capt. Brown father of the master of the
schooner Annie and Ellen. who. with his
mate, was brutally assaulted at Alexandria
several nights ago. has arrived at Alex
andria and taken charge of the schooner.
| 1t is stated that parties residing in this
city are negotiating for the purchase of
| the vessel. and her sailing may be delayed
until the deal is completed.
The two-masted schooner George c. A.
Travers, Capt, Kennerly, has been charter
ed to load lumber at Bermuda Hundreds,
on the James river. for dealers here. The
| schooner is now at Bermuda Hundreds.
The steamer Dennis Summers has arrived
| in port from a North Carolina port with
| full cargo of lumber and shingles aboard.
| The schooners Decator and H. H. Pitts
are in port laden with pine lumber from the
Rappahannock river.
The tug Canvilla came into port yester-
| day afternoon with c. c. c. barge No IL
| in tow for Georgetown to load soft coal for
| Boston.
The schooner Levin Woolford, laden with
! salt herring in barrels, came into port yes
| terday evening from packing house down
| the river.
| The steam barge D. X. Jackson has ar
rived and is unloading her cargo of rail-
way ties.