Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-29
ON THE RIVERl FRONT
TUGBoAT LAUNCHED TODAY
FROM BALTIMORE sHIPYARD.
Ice-Laden Vessels Continue to Arrive
Receipts of Ffnit Heavy
Other Matters

bay and its tributaries was launched at
Baltimore today. The vessef was the tug
Hunter, built by McCosker & Co, for the
James Clark Company. The new boat Is
Is feet long, 1S feet beam and S1z feet hold.
The vessel will be ready for service early
in the winter.
Shipments of peaches, plums and other
fruit are coming in good quantities. from the
lower river to the dealers here. Tobacco
and grain are also being brought up by the
river line steamers.
The new schedule Of the Weems hne has
gone into effect. Tri-weekly trips are now
being made from this city to points on the
Potomac and Baltimore
The Randall line steamers and the WeemS
steamers are now giving O. daily service
to the mouth OF the Potomac.
The supply Of fresh fish on sale at the
18th street wharf market. as usual on
demand was also light. and the supply was
ample to meet 1t. Gray trout from the nets
in the bay In the vicinity of Norfolk con-
stituted the bulk of the stock on hand, ana
sold at "a to 81 per barrel. Butterhsh ana
cIoakers were also on sale. but In small
quantities.
Watermelon craft are lying at the oyster
wharf with melons aboard In large guam
titles and in excess of the demand. Prices
are very low. ranging from $3.50 for the
poorer grades up to SIS per hundred for
the selected stock.
There has been big falling off In the
receipts of crabs in the past four or five
days. and the demand for them has in
creased. Prices range from 81 to $3.50 per
barrel.
The four-masted schooner Alice Holbrook
laden with over 100 tons OF ice from the
Maine ice fields for this city, was brought
into port yesterday afternoon. The Hol-
brook, which sailed from Bath August 10,
had quick trip down the coast. The
Bath August 20, with ice for this city, is
expected to arrive here today or tomorrow.
This will be the first visit the Penley has
made to this port, as she is new in the
ice-carrying fleet. These vessels are the
only ones ahoat for this city with Ice
aboard.
The schooner Malcolm b. Searey is at
Bath loading for this city, but the time of
ten days $500 tons of ice from the Maine
ice houses have arrived here aboard YES
sells.
The schooner Charles Mitchell has ar
rived at Alexandria to complete the loading
of her cargo of railway ties for Boston.
The vessel loaded part of her. cargo at
Boyd's Hole and Whitewater. The Mitchell
will be the fourth vessel that has left
Alexandria with ties aboard in the past
month.
The two-masted schooner VIM. Irven.
which ran ashore on the fats abreast Of
Alexandria Friday afternoon, succeeded in
night, and at once resumed her interrupted
trip to a Virginia lumber port, where she
will load for this city.
The steam barge James X Jackson is on
temporary duty at the new railway bridge,
assisting In the unloading Of a cargo of
stone from the schooner Hanson.
General News of the Port.
The schooner John J. Hanson Is discharg-
ing her cargo of stone for the piers of the
new highway bridge aboard lighters near
the site Of the new bridge. The stone is
taken by the lighters to the point wanted,
and time and trouble In handling it Is
avoided.
The four-masted schooner, Independent,
which has been lying out of service at Bal
l..nore for the past three months awaiting
a charter, is to go to Charleston light, and
will there load railway tiesefor Boston.
The schooner A. H. Quinby, with hard
coal aboard from Philadelphia, Is lying at
the wharf foot Of 18th street unloading.
The schooner Seymour, which was on the
marine railway at Alexandria for repairs,
has been launched, and one Of the large
nd-carrying barges Of the Columbia Sand
Company has been hauled out for repairs.
A barge of the Allegheny Coal Company
Is also on the railway.
large log, dangerous to vessels, was
drifting about In the river abreast of Buena
vista Wnar1 SATURDAY. Inc log was large
enough to badly damage a vessel striking
it and the steamboats, wheel that struck It
would be the sufferer.
The United States naval yachts Rest
less and Hornet, the training vessels for
landsmen for the navy, are cruising In
Chesapeake bay in the vicinity of Annapo-
lis and Baltimore.
The steamer Anne Arundel of the Weems
line will be temporarily withdrawn from the
route between this city and Baltimore and
placed upon the Rappahannock river route
for short time. This change it is stated
is made at the request Of residents along
the Rappahonnock in order that they may
sec the new steamer.
The Philadelphia barges John l. Brady
and George B. Roberts were brought into
port few days ago by Baltimore tug
laden with hard coal for the dealers. The
two vessels have aboard over 1000 tons of
the fuel
The three-masted schooner Lucia Porter
which loaded a cargo of railway ties at
Alexandria, completed the taking aboard Of
her cargo Saturday and sailed for Boston
The four-masted schooner John r. Teel,
which unloaded a cargo of Ice here Is lying
at anchor off Alexandria awaiting orders
The bugeye Wemostus, with about $4,000
feet of pine lumber aboard from a river
point, has arrived in port for the dealers.
The steamer James X. Jackson delivered
cargo of pine lumber from this city at
Fort Washington a day or two ago. The
lumber is to be used in the building opera
lions now going on at the fort.