Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-07
ON q RIVER FRONT
VESSELS ASHORE IN POTOMAC
NEAR WASHINGTON.
overhauling Craft at Boatyards-
Oneida Takes Party to Mount
Vernon-General Mention.

The bugeye PLUME E. Smith, with a
cargo Of fertilizer aboard, started down
the river yesterday evening bound for the
lower Potomac, and had gone but a short
distance on her journey when she went
ashore on the flats abreast of Mann's fer
tilizer factory. She was still aground at
an early hour this morning. AS the vessel
went ashore on a good high tide, it Is prob
able she will remain aground for a day or
two until there is another full tide.
The large white power launch which
blew ashore from the forks of the channel
Saturday night and grounded near the
naval powder magazine is still where she
struck, and nothing can be done to float
her until the water in the river is again
high. The vessel is now lying partially on
her side, and is in a position to be badly
damaged before her owners get her afioat
again. The schooner Curley, ashore near
Broad creek, will be fioated today.
The supply of bunch fish on sale at the
18th street wharf market was not large this
morning and the demand for them was
light. Shad and herring are being re-
ceived from the traps at the lower end OF
the river in good quantities, but the re-
ceipts from the nearby fishing shores are yet
light. Since yesterday over 100000 herring
and about $500 shad have been brought to
the fish wharf. Prices today ranged as fol-
lows:
For pan rock, 1Oc. to 12c. per pound;
medium rock, 15c. per pound; boiling rock,
1Sc. to 2Oc. per pound; white perch, large,
Sc. to Zoe. per pound; white perch, small,
1Oc. to Csc. per bunch; carp, &c. per pound;
river mullets, 15c. to 30c. per bunch; black
catfish, zoe. to 25c. per bunch; white cat
fish, 35c. to 45c. per bunch; roe shad, 30c.
to 35c. each; bucks, 13c. to tic. each; her.
ring, 3Oc. to SOC. per hundred; small yellow
perch, 15c. to 2Oc. per bunch, and large
yellow perch, 25c. to 35c. per bunch; Span
ish mackerel, 1Oc- per pound.
Three vessels laden with about 1,2UO
bushels of Potomac river oysters have ar
rived at the market on the 11th street
wharf since yesterday, but the warmer
weather has made the demand very light.
Prices range from about Acc. to zoe. per
bushel. Clans are on sale in small quaint
ties and at prices about 0Oc. per hundred
TIL yawl-rigged power yacht Seabelle,
belonging to Mr.. Henry Seymour of this
city, is at Benefits boatyard to receive
a painting and o~verhauling preparatory to
her usual spring trip up the Atlantic
coast. The steam yacht Giavota is lying
at the wharf of Forsberg & Murray at the
foot of Sth street, being painted and over
hauled and put in trim for service on the
river during the summer.
Thu tug Rosalie. belonging to the Smoot
Sand Company, which has been hauled out
on the marine railway at the Alexandria
overheard yesterday morning and has re-
turned to service.
One of the large clay-carrying scows used
to transport brick-making clay between
Broad creek and this city Is at the boat
yard to be caulked and put in order for
service. It is stated that the work to be
lone on the tug Vigilant will keep the tug
on the railway until the end of tins week.
General Port News.
The dredge of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pa
cific Company has started work on the
channel a short distance above the Long
bridge, where a shoal bar has formed. She
will deepen the entire channel from the
fridge to Georgetown, cutting out all shoal
places to a Uniform depth.
The new barge Norfolk, built for the
Dougherty Company of Baltimore, at a
bodybuilding yard in Elkton. Nd, has gone
into commission and is loading logs at a
bay point. The barge, which will carry
about 500 tons, will bring cargoes of coal to
this city.
The steam yacht Oneida, the smaller Of
the practice ships of the Naval Battalion,
L.. c. N. g.. was-in service yesterday to
take a party of Navy Department officials
and others to Mount Vernon. Capt. Ned
Owens was the pilot of the yacht on the