Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
ON THE RIVER FRONT
Low TIDES GIVE TROUBLE TO
POTOMAC CRAFT.
Steamer Harry Randall Goes Ashore
Good Catch of Shad Reported
Other Matters.

The water in the river has been lower
since Tuesday last than it has been since
the northerly storms of last fall. All day
yesterday the flats in the river which are
ordinarily covered with two or three feet
of water were bare, and the sea gulls and
aquatic birds were having fine feast on
the fish and mussels left exposed by the
low tide Around the harbor the bottoms
of several of the docks were exposed, and
the steamers had trouble getting in and
out of them. The low water caught the
steamer Harry Randall in Port Tobacco
creek Wednesday. and she went aground,
remaining on the bottom for several hours.
The sand and gravel digging machines at
work near Fort Hunt have been ashore on
the flats for the past two days, and have
been unable to work in consequence A re-
turn of the water is looked for on today S
tides.
The supply of fresh fish on sale at the
wholesale market on the 18th street wharf
this morning was not large but there was
an increase over the receipts of the early
part of the week The demand for fish of
all kinds was very brisk, and prices are
higher. Since yesterday morning only
about about 200 shad and about 100000
herring have been received at the wharf
Prices for fish of all kinds this morning
were as follows:
For pan rock 10 cents per pound; medium
rock, II to 10 cents per pound; boiling rock
Is to 20 cents per pound; white perch, large,
10 to y cents per pound; white perch.
small, 10 to 30 cents per bunch; carp, to d
cents per pound; river mullets, 10 to 20
cents per bunch; black catfish, 20 to %
cents per bunch; white catfish, % to 40
cents per bunch; sand perch, % to 30 cents
per bunch: roe Shad, 40 to 40 cents each;
bucks. 20 to % cents each; herring. 40 to 30
cents per hundred winter shad, 50 per hum
dred; small yellow perch, 10 to 10 cents per
bunch; large yellow perch, % to 30 cents
per bunch; salmon trout, 8 cents per pound;
gray trout, g cents per pound; croaker, B
cents per pound, and founders, to cents
per pound.
The supply of oysters on hand on the
wharf amounts to about 800 bushels.
Prices range from 80 to 10 cents per bushel.
CLAIMS are in demand and are selling at 80
cents per hundred.
A giller working a net near Glymont,
Md, yesterday caught 1913 fine shad on two
tides. This is the largest catch reported
by any of the gill nets this season. The
fish We're shipped by steamer from ely
mont to the market here.
The steam yacht Aquilo. which has been
lying in port here for several days past,
yesterday afternoon made trip to Mount
Vernon with her owner and a party of
friends aboard.
Advantage has been taken by the engi-
neer officers in charge of the improvements
at Washington barracks of the low tide
leaving the bottom of the new sea wall
about the park exposed, to cut off a num-
Der of piles that We're used as lines to
guide the wall builders. The piles were
sawed flush with the river bottom.
Mr. George Guest, purser of the steamer
Harry Randall, has been summoned to the
eastern shore of Maryland on business
Mr.. George Stafford has temporarily taken
charge of the office on the Randall and
Mr.. Michael Robb is acting as purser of the
steamer Kent in Mr.. Staffords place
Capt. Frank V. kintz has been made cap
tain of the tug Unity, the largest of the
Columbia Sand Company's fleet of tow
boats.
Fishing Shore Abandoned.
The hauling of seine at the fishing shore
at Freestone Point, Va, operated by Capt
Theophilus Ballinger, has been discon-
tinued and the crew transferred to the
Gums shore, lower down the river The
ice drifting about last winter forced mud so
thickly into the fishing butt at the shore
that 1t was found impossible to work the
Dig seine hauled there, although efforts
have been made for the past two weeks 10
do So
Two large sand-carrying scows belonging
to sand companies here are hauled out on
the big marine railway at Alexandria for
general repairs.
Carpenters are aboard the steamer Es-
telle Randall oVerhauling her woodwork
and placing her in readiness to go into sarv-
Ice in the early summer. She will then
take up her old route between this CITY and
Glymont Md.
The tWo-masted schooner George w
krebs sprang a leak in the Choptank river
early in the week and was beached near
Easton to keep her from sinking The
schooner was loaded with hard coal
The overhauling of the tug Eugenia is be-
ing pushed in order to have her ready to
tow sand and gravel-laden scows as soon
as possible.
The schooner J. Dallis Marvel laden
with lumber and shingles from Edenton
N. C., has arrived in port and is discharg-
ing her cargo at the wharf, foot of 18th
street.
The schooner Edna A. Pogue, laden with
hard coal from Baltimore which was
ashore off Fort Foote, has been floated by
the tug Spray and brought into port
The schoOners Carrie NJ. Leonard and
Lola Bennett, with loads of cord wood
aboard from river points, are in port.
The schooner Wright is unloading her
cargo of lumber at the wharf foot of 9th
street, and the schooner Roxanna Francis
is unloading at the foot of K street south
west.
The barge Farmers Friend, with a load
of building material aboard for lower
river landing. has sailed.
The schooner Elizabeth Doyle has been
chartered to load asphalt at the Island
of Trinidad for this city or another port
north of Cape Hatteras
The tug Unity has gone into service and
is towing sand and gravel laden barges
from the dredging machines to this city.
naafb If Sir Harry ThornnsoD