Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-13
ON THE RIVER FRONT
UNLOADING CARooES OF STONE
FOR BRIDGE PIERS.
New Steamer for Weems Line - Fish
Market overstocked-Per-
sonal and General.

The schooner John J.. Henson, which ar
rived here Wednesday evening last, brought
a cargo of over thousand tons of granite
block from quarries in the north Tor the
piers CT the new highway bridge. She Is
the second vessel laden with the stone to
arrive here in the past week. the schooner
Edith 1rundy having arrived Monday last
The last named vessel is lying alongside
the drawer pier of the railway bridge I'M
loading her cargo of stone upon lighters to
be taken to the bridge site as wanted.
The Henson has been taken to George
town, ard will, 1t is stated, be brought to
the bridge to unload when the Trundy is
light.
The new steamer of the Weems line, built
at Baltimore, is to be launched tomorrow
and will be christened the Anne Arundel,
after Inc Maryland county of that name
Miss Williams, 4 daughter of the manager
of the company, will be sponsor for the new
steamer.
The fish market on the 18th street wharf
this morning was over supplied with fresh
fish of all kinds, and while the demand was
excellent prices dropped on all grades. The
receipts of gray trout, salmon trout, rock
founders and other varieties OF sea hsh
from the shores about Norfolk were quite
heavy, but river-caught fish, particularly
herring, were scarce.
Prices this morning ranged as follows: For
pan rock, to 10 cents per pound; medium
rock, IL to Il cents per pound; boiling rock,
ID to Is cents per pound white perch, large,
to 10 cents per pound; white perch, small,
Is to 80 cents per bunch; river mullets, 10
to 20 cents per bunch; black catfish, 20 to
20 cents per bunch; white catfish, 25 to 80
cents per bunch; roe shad, 30 to 35 cents
each; bucks, 20 to % cents each; herring.
$1.jO to 81 per thousand; small yellow perch,
10 to Is cents per bunch; large yellow perch,
20 to 80 cents per bunch; salmon trout,
to cents per pound; gray trout. $3.50 to
$50 per barrel; croaker, 81 to 81. 90 per bar
rel, and founders, to cents per pound:
sturgeon, to 10 cents per pound; sand
perch, 10 to 20 cents per bunch: black dunn,
70 to 40 cents each; spotted tail dunn, 30 to
70 cents each.
No oysters have been received at the
wharf for several days past and none are
on sale from vessels. The stock now on the
market is coming from Norfolk. CLANS
on sale at prices ranging from 45 to 80
cents per hundred
The tug VIM. H. Yerkes. which has been
undergoing repairs here, returned to service
yesterday afternoon and sailed with a
schooner In tow for Norfolk. The tug
Eugenia went into service yesterday and
came up the river with a tow of sand and
gravel-laden barges. The tug Camilla has
completed repairs, and She too is again in
service, towing on the river.
General and Personal.
The barge c. ]. Pugh Is lying in Deco
guam creek loading cargo Of railway ties
for Carter & Clark Of this city for ship
ment to Philadelphia. Owing to the deep
draft of the barge the steamer Lily and
Howard is employed in Tightening the ties
from the shore to the vessel. This will be
the first cargo of ties out of Occoquan this
season.
longing to Mr.. Goldsborough of this city,
which has been hauled out on the railway
at Deane's boat yard, has been made ready
for service and was put overheard today.
The new lumber lighter built for L. w.
Smith of this city at Alexandria, which
was launched yesterday morning, was
brought up to this city yesterday after
noon by the tug Mohler, and will be put
in service at once
The three-masted schooner A. Plummer
will complete the loading of her cargo OF
railway ties at. Alexandria tomorrow and
will sail with them for Boston or other
New England ports.
Capt Frederick Crawford has been made
mate of the schooner Il. M Skinner en-
gagged in lumber freighting in Chesapeake
bay.
Mr.. Frank Luckett has been made mate
of the steamer Samuel ]. Pentz on the ex-
cursion route between this city and River
View, Md.
Capt. AL. Richards is an extra pilot in the
Norfolk and Washington line, and is on
duty aboard the steamer Newport News
Barge No. % of the Consolidation Coal
Company completed the loading of big
cargo of soft coal at the Georgetown piers,
and has sailed for the Capes of the Chesa-
peake, where an ocean-going tug will take
her in tow up the coast.
The schooner Isaac Solomon has arrived
in port with a cargo of cordwood from the
lower river for the dealers.
The Father and Son, laden with railway
ties on the river, has arrived in port.
The schooner Harriet Ford came into
port yesterday with cargo of salt fish
from the down river packing houses.
The tugs Rosalie and Unity brought
eight barges laden with sand from the
dredges about Fort Hunt into port yester-
day evening