Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-18
ON THE RTVER FRONT
DEMOLITION oFc ICE HOUSE ON
sTH STREET. WHARF BEGUN.
Supplies for Thanksgiving at Potomac
Forts-Sand DIggers Changing
Base-Harbor Notes.

house at the Randall line wharf, foot OF etfi
street southwest, has been started by the
employees of the American Ice Company
the purchasers Of the building, and II is ex-
pected the building will be RACED by the eno
of next week The big building is iaho-
mark on the river front. The partitions De-
tween the big roc rs in which the ice was
stored are double walled and are packed
with sawdust This sawdust is being taken
out packed in bags and taken away. II IS
estimated that 1t will make hundreo or
more wagon loads. The material taken from
the old building. will, 1T is stated De USED
in the erection of an ice storage puiIolhg at
another location on the river front
There was a fairly large supply OF fresh
fish of all kinds on sale at the wholesaie
fish market on the 18th street wharf tnls
morning and the demand was excellent
Prices this morning ranged as follows:
For trout, to cents per pound; rock
pan, to cents per pound: medlum, ~ 10
II cents per pound: boilers, IA to III cents
per pound: carp, 3 to cents per pound; )
Potomac bass, large, 10 cents per pound
small, - cents per pound; North Carohna
bass, large, IL cents per pound; smah, IL
cents per pound; green pike, to cents
per pound; salmon trout, to y cents per
pound; large bluefish, to 10 cents per
pound: small bluefish, 5 cents per pound;
Spanish mackerel, to . cents per pound'
black catfish, 10 to % cents per bunch;
white catfish, 80 to 80 cents per bunch;
white perch. large, II cents per pound:
small, 10 to % cents per bunch: yellow
perch, Is to 30 cents per bunch; mullets, 10
to % cents per bunch; cells, to 10 cents
each; haddock, cents per pound; pollock.
3 to cents per pound, and Goldfish, to 8
cents per pound.
The supply of oysters in the shell on sale
at the wharf on vessels is again small,
Prices range from so to 80 cents per bushel
for the small oysters and up to 80 cents and
81 per bushel for the finer grades.
The depot quartermaster United States
army, in this city. is shipping quantities of
commissary stores of all kinds to Fort
Washington and Fort Hunt for the use of
the soldiers stationed at the forts. The
stores are being taken down the river on
the steamer Samuel j. Pentz.
AS the United States ship Sylph, with
Prince Fushimi aboard, passed Fort Wash
ington on her way to Mount Vernon yes
terday, the guns of the fort roared out
salute of twenty-One guns. The Sylph few
at her masthead a white flag with red
border and a red ball in the center, the flag
of Japanese admiral of the first rank.
The new schooner c. A. Witter. built at
Baltimore by William E. Woodall &, Co,
has turned out to be a fast vessel. On her
first trip from Baltimore to Wilmington, N.
c.. she made the trip in less than four days.
days
The little tug Dispatch, which was pur-
chased in Baltimore several months ago
new highway bridge, is at Baltimore. and
has been hauled out on a marine railway
Tor needed repair work. 1t is stated the
tug will not return to this city.
Captain Amy of the lighthouse tender
Maple is visiting his family at Baltimore.
The Maple is at the Portsmouth depot of
the lighthouse service.
General River Notes.
The removal of the house and upper
works of the old naval steamer Phlox, at
Alexandria,, has been completed, and now
only the hull remains of the once hand
some boat. 1t is expected the hull will be
turned into a barge and will be used in
general freight carrying on the outer
waters along the Atlantic coast.
The large steam launch Bartholdi, which
was taken to Alexandria in a disabled con-
d1tion Wednesday morning, has had the
parts of her machinery repaired
and is again in service on the river.
captain Thomas, who has been in COM
mand of the schooner Lizzie F. Denneson
Is to command the schooner Ninetta Nj
Porcella Captain Peck will succeed to the
command of the Denneson Both vessels
are owned by Winslow & Co of Portland,
The steam yacht Viking, which has heen
lying in port here for several DAYS mast
sailed yesterday.
The schooner Silver STAR laden with cord
wood from a river point came into norf
yesterday afternoon
The tug Camilla went to the lower river
Yesterday with a party of engineers from
the ONCE of the army engineers on an in
specting tour.
The schooner Murray Vandiver has UNI
loaded cargo here and has sailed for
Piankatank, Va, to load cargo of lumber.
The schooner John B. Coyle has been
chartered to load a cargo Of asphalt at
Trinidad, and will, 1t is stated, bring 1t to
this city.
towing for the Potomac Dredging Com
pany for several weeks past. has COM
pleted her charter, and will return to Bal
timore, her home port. The tug Marion
Campbell, which was built to tow for the
Potomac company between this city and
the digging machine on the river, is now
employed in general towing in Chesapeake
bay.