Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-03
ON THE RIVER FRONT
CHANGES IN STEAMERS ON Po-
ToMAC RIVER ROUTES.
Record Shad Of Season Caught-Tm-
Der for New Potomac Bridge
General and Personal.

The steamer Wakefield OF the Randall
line has completed her spring overhaulfng
and painting and this morning she resumed
her place upon the Wirts wharf and Co
lonial Beach route on the river. The Wake
field Is under the command Of Capt. Harry
8. Randall. with Theodore Keene as pilot.
Thos. Murdoch, mate; Geo. Guest, purser.
and VIII Reid. chief engineer.
The steamer Harry Randall, which has
been running on the Wirts wharf route
while the Wakefield was laid up. resumes
her place upon the Nomini route tomorrow
afternoon, relieving the steamer T. ". Ar
rowsmith. The Smith goes out of commits
sion to receive her spring cleaning and
painting in preparation for the opening of
the summer excursion season to Colonial
Beach.
The steamer Kent will be kept on the
Glymount mail route until the steamer Es-
telle Randall can have her boiler over
hauled and receive her spring painting and
cleaning up.
The demand for fresh fish Of all kinds
was light at the 18th street wharf fish mar
ket this morning and prices were rather
lower than they have been for several days
past. Roe shad sold this morning for % to
80 cents each and bucks at 15 to IS cents
each. About $500 shad have been received
from the nets in the lower river. and the
supply OF herring continues very large.
Bunch fish are scarce and high There are
several vessels with Potomac river oysters
aboard lying at the wharf and the demand
for the bivalves Is light. Prices range from
45 cents to about 60 cents per bushel. Three
small vessels with CLAIMS from the eastern
shore are also in port The clans are SELL
ing at 45 cents per hundred.
ten pounds was brought up on the steamer
Kent from gill net in the Potomac yes
treday evening. The fish was 80 inches
long and measured 10 inches around the
10 aof MI - h~Ix -
by Capt. A. Kelly at White Stone, short
distance below Mount Vernon. It is the
largest shad that has been caught in the
river for several years past.
The big hve-masted schooner Gardner
c. Deering, which was sunk in a collision
in Chesapeake bay on the morning of
March and which was raised and taken
to Baltimore, was launched from the dry
her side has been closed up and the vessel
Will be ready for service in a short time.
General Port News.
The three-masted schooner Isabelle Gill,
laden with large cargo of heavy timber
from southern lumber port. was brought
into port yesterday afternoon by the tug
VIM. H. Yerkes, jr.. and was taken to
Georgetown to discharge her cargo. It is
stated that the lumber aboard the vessel
Is to be used in the work of building the
new railway bridge across the river
The schooner Estelle has completed the
loading of cargo of many thousand rail-
way ties at Alexandria and sailed Sunday
night In tow of tug for the mouth of
the river on her way to Boston The ties
came from inland points in Virginia and is
the second cargo of the kind that has left
Alexandria this spring
The excursion steamers running to nearby
resorts on the river are in commission all
of them having made trips Sunday The
regular daily trips to the resorts will not
begin until about the latter part of this
month.
The work of planking the new hull of the
steam launch Candoc at Benefits boat
yard has been started. The launch will be
ready to put overheard about the last of
this month.
The steamer Gov. R. NJ McLane, the
flagship of the Maryland oyster police fleet
is out of service at Baltimore for her annual
overhauling, and the police schooner Bessie
Jones is out of service at Rock Point in
the Wicomico river to be painted and over
hauled.
Mr.. John Stewart of this city has been
appointed manager of the hotel at Colonial
Beach, Va, for the coming season.
The schooner ". G. Tafts, laden with pine
lumber, from 4 Virginia lumber port, has
arrived and is at anchor in the stream.
The sailing barge, Daniel and the schoon-
ers Mary Ann Shea, Z. H. NJ Allison and
Goldie G have arrived in port with full
cargoes of cord wood for the dealers.
The schooner Matilda is in port with full
cargo OF pine boards from a lower river
landing for the dealers
The steamer Lilly and Howard left port
yesterday laden with building material for a
lower river point.
The schooner !. S. Anderson Is in port
with j load of lumber from the Rappahan-
mock river.