Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-12
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW NAVAL GUNS TO BE TESTED
AT INDIAN HEAD.
Rebuilding Water Street Wharves-
Army Engineer Officers Busy In
specting Bridges-Other Matters.

On the barges taken to the Indian Head
proving grounds yesterday by the T. S.
tug Triton were two new guns built at
the naval ordnance foundry here, which
are to be given their tests at Indian Head
TINS week If the tests are satisfactory
the guns will be returned to this city
and Will be sent to the ships for which
they were built On calm days or when
the wind is from the south the reports
| from the big guns being tested al Indian
Head can be heard for ten or twelve
miles up the river. Hardly a day passes
but that newly completed naval guns are
sent from this city to the proving
grounds to be tested
The L. S. navy tender Maple. which has
been doing heavy duty on the Potomac
Tor several weeks past, returned to the
lighthouse service headquarters at Bal
timore yesterday.
Business at the wholesale fish market on
the 18th street wharf continues very dull
there being but little demand The stock on
hand is quite large. AS consequence
prices are down low, choice fish selling at
less than half they brought a week ago.
The stock of oysters in the shell on sale
at the oyster wharf this morning was good
and there was also an excellent demand.
Prices ranged from 15c. per bushel for the
smaller stock, up to Toe. per bushel for the
better grades. Reports coming from the
lower river state that the larger varieties
of oysters are scarce and are commanding
high prices.
Hard crabs are yet sale. but the de-
mand for them Is very small. CLANS are
IN demand at G0c. per hundred.
The entire stone abutment across the
front of the 10th street wharf of the
American Ice Company is being renewed
and a considerable portion of the crib of
the wharf is also being renewed, in prep
ration for the renewal of ice shipments
from the north in the early spring. Inn
provements are also being completed at
the Alexandria and Washington ferry
line wharf at the foot of NJ street south
west.
Day and night crews are again at work
on the Baltimore and Ohio railway tug
and car carrying bargeS running between
Alexandria and Shepherds Landing of
the B. and o. on the District side of the
river. Trips with freight trains aboard
the barge are made almost hourly night
and day to accommodate the heavy freight
Traffic now running.
About the Wharves
The sloop 3. H Lambert, which has been
lying at the Alexandria shipyard for the
past day or two, completed repairs there
yesterday and sailed for Occoquan, where
she is now owned The Lambert has re-
Gently been fitted with new mast and put
in good trim for efficient service on the
river.
The tug Genl Warren, the tender to the
u S. A. engineers in charge of the govern
ment work along the Potomac, is kept
very busy these days and has but little
time to lay tied up at wharf. She is
used by the army engineers in making
tours of inspection to Fort Washington and
Fort Hunt, where new buildings are in pro-
cess of erection and also in the inspection
work about the new highway bridge and of
the improvements to the Aqueduct bridge
The Warren has made trips to Fort Wash
ington almost every day fer week past.
The schooner Rover of Baltimore is at
sea from New Haven, with a large cargo
of material aboard to be used in the con-
struction CT the new lighthouse at Point
No Point on CheSap eake bay. The work OF
constructing the light is being pushed.
The handsome little British steam yacht
Adele of Cape Breton. which has been
paying a visit to this city for several days
past with her owner, Mr.. A. j. Moxham.
and his family aboard, sailed yesterday on
a trip to southern waters.
A lumber lighter belonging to Johnson &
Wmsatt. which has been rebuilt al Cum
berlands boat house. was launched ready
for service at, high water yesterday. This
lighter was in collision with the steamer
Riven Queen in the river about month
ago and had one end badly crushed in by
the blow.
The schooner c. C. Wheeler with cargo
of laths aboard from a. Virginia lumber
port, has arrived and is unloading her
cargo.
The three-masted schooner Mary and Ann
Bestwick came into port yesterday after
noon with cargo of plaster aboard. She
is lying at the wharf foot of 9th street, and
will discharge her cargo there.
A scow laden with cord wood was brought
into port yesterday afternoon by the tug
James O. Carter.
The schooner Lottie Thomas has arrived
in port with cargo of oysters in the shell
from the beds in the Potomac.
The bugeye r. H. Stuart has been placed
under the command of Capt Jas. Marina
duke and is now at Alexandria being made
ready for a trip to the lower Potomac,
where she will engage in the oyster trade.
The tug Peerless has arrived in port with
the barges Ellen S. Jennings and T j.
Milley in tow, both laden with hard coal
from Philadelphia.