Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAMER RANDALL CARRIES
POWDER TO FORT HUNT.
Ice Embargo Still Effective - Light
house Steamer Cruising on Chesa-
peake Bay-other Matters.

The little steamer Estelle Randall made
a special trip to Fort Hunt, Va, yesterday
to carry down a small quantity of powder
shipped from the United States army pow
der depot in New Jersey to the ordnance
officer at the fort. These special trips with
powder aboard are usually made at night,
but owing to the difficulty of navigating the
river in consequence of the ice the trip had
to be made by daylight. The powder will
be used on the target practice with the big
guns of the fort
The supply of fresh fish on sale this morn
Ing was very light, while the demand was
Trout mullets, rockfsh and drum consti-
tuted the bulk of the fish on sale this morn
Ing, and they brought high prices.
rev vessels at the oyster wharf still
have oysters in the shell aboard but the
stock is growing smaller each day, and I'M
less vessels get through the ice there will
be no Potomac river stock the market
before the end Of the week. Prices now
range from 70 cents to 81 .25 per bushel, and
are expected to go even higher Many of
the dealers here are now getting shucked
oysters from Norfolk to meet the demands
Of their trade.
on the Potomac in the summer are arrang-
ing dates and plans for excursions to be
given by the societies and Sund y schools
The summer business on the river is being
closed to navigation. owing to the heavy
ice.
There is but little change in the conti-
tons on the river, the ice still covering it
from TINS city almost to its mouth. and
showing but little signs Of decay 1t is now
more difficult for the steamers to get
through than 1t was last week, as the
broken Ice is drifting and packing in places
SIX 81 or more feet deep. OFF Maryland Point
1t is reported to be especially heavy and the
steamers are having trouble in gettfng
through. Ice from seven to ten inches thick
covers all the tributaries of the river, and
the country people are cutting and packing
1t away In the ice houses for summer us !,
The Ice harvest this year Is better than it
has been since the blizzard of about six
years ago.
General News Of the Port.
The steamer Calvert of the Weems line
left Baltimore yesterday with the intention
OF making her landings on the Potomac up
to the wharves In the Wicomico river. II
Ice conditions improve. 1t is stated she will
attempt to come to this city In the latter
part of his week
The United States lighthouse engineers
steamer Jessamfne Is cruising in Chesa-
peake bay among the light stations making
repairs where necessary. AS the Jessa mine
10 side-wheel steamer she was escorted
through the ice by tug until clear water
was reached.
INC sahu companies are taxing advantage
of the freeze-up to overhaul their digging
machines and put them In thorough order
70 resume work as soon as the weather con-
ditions will allow.
The three-masted schooner Mary Sanford,
which discharged cargo of pine lumber
from the south here. is lying ice-bound at
the wharf of Thos. R. Riley. The master
OF the schooner will take the vessel out In
the first tow that leaves port.
The consignees here of the schooner VIM
Marshall which has been out nearly three
weeks with cargo of laths from ST. Johns
New Brunswick, for this city, are anxious
ly awaiting some tidings of the vessel, as
they have heard nothing from her since she
sailed.
The tug Radiant has sailed from Balti-
more with two large barges laden with OIL
and will make an effort to get up the Poto-
mac to Alexandra and this city with them