Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
ON THE RIVER FRONT
VESSELS OVERLAPPING AT THE
NEARBY BoATYARDs.
Watermelon Season Near at Hand
Piles for New Highway Bridge
Other Matters.

the dull season just now to give their boats
overhaulng, and the boat repair yards In
this neighborhOod are kept quite busy. Tho
work of rebuilding the hull Of the schooner
Lottie Carter at Benefits railway here Is
being pushed rapidly. but 1t will be several
days before she is ready for service. When
the schooner goes overheard she will be
practically a new boat. The schooner
Sdonia Curley, which has been on the
marine railway at Alexandria for several
days past. was put overheard yesterday
She is still at the shipyard. painting and
being put in order for service. The
schooner Bertha May has taken the place
vacated by the Curley on the railway. and
will have some repair work done TO her nun
before she is put overheard again. The
schooner Sa muel Wood is also at the Alex
andria shipyard. waiting a chance to be
hauled out. At the other boat repair yards
small pleasure craft are being overhauled
The new sailing craft belonging to Mr.
Arthur King. which was launched a Few
days ago will be fitted with her mast and
rigging this week. and 1t Is expected Will
go into commission early In next week AS
yet the boat has not been given name.
Preparati are now being made by the
dealers at the fish wharf for the water
melon season, which will open in a few
days. 1t Is stated that several small craft
now on their way here with water
expected in port about the middle OF next
week Many of the vessels which during
the winter were employed In running
oysters from the beds in the river to TINS
city will engage in the melon trade. and by
the first of next month the oyster WharI.
a the foot Of nth street. Will be a busy
place and will be surrounded with river
craft of all sizes with cargoeS or the Iruit
aboard. BY the time the melon season Is
over the oyster season VII be open and the
vessels will return to carrying oysters.
Fish and Crab Market.
Trout. butterfsh and other varieties OF
salt water fish were on sale at the 18th
street wharf market this morning. but the
demand for fresh fish OF all kinds was
light. Prices lower somewhat owing
to the warm weather and the trouble and
difficulty of keeping the fish There was
a fair demand for crabs, both hard and
soft-shelled this morning. but the supply
of the latter was small. Soft crabs are
selling at soc. to Coo. per dozen and the
hard shelled at $3.50 to $50 per barrel,
according to size and quality. Grabs have
been more scarce this year than for several
seasons past.
A large Baltimore tug came into port
early in the week. towing big raft OF
piling for use in the preliminary work on
the new highway bridge. The piling. 1t Is
stated, will be used for the building of the
cofferdams In which the stone piers for the
new DrlQ8e Will De Dullt.
The L. s. naval tug Tecumseh. which was
recently given a thorough overhaulins at
the Norfolk navy yard. Is In service and Is
making daily trips between this city and
the naval proving grounds at Indian Head,
Md
The ice aboard the two large barges I'M
loading at Alexandria is to be used for the
purpose Of refrigerating the fruit and
melon-laden trains passing through Alex
andria bound north. The Ice comes from
the SuSQuehanna river
The bugeye r. II. Stuart owned here
is lying in Nomint creek undergoing a
general overhauling and painting in prep
aration for the busy fall season on the
Potomac
Personal and General.
The fishermen engaged in summer fishing
on the Potomac have had but little success
so far this year, and it is feared the sea-
son will be fiat failure
Several vessels from this city with fishing
crews aboard have had their nets over
board for two weeks or more, but the re-
ceipts of fish from them, by the dealers
here. has been very light.
Mr. Solomon +. Forbes, assistant keeper
of the Nansemond river lighthouse. has
rendered his resignation to the lighthouse
authorities and will retire from the serv-
ice early in the coming month.
Mr.. Chase Nash has been appointed an
assistant engineer on the Randall line and
has been assigned to duty aboard the
steamer Arrowsmith, on the Colonial Beach
route.
The pile work for the new wharf at the
Washington barracks has been completed
for several days but as yet no work has
been done on the platform of the structure.
The schooner c. c. Wheeler is loading
flooring at the lumber wharf foot of 9th
street for the new buildings at Fort Wash
ington.
Barge No. of the Consolidation Coal
Company which is to load a cargo of about
l. 500 tons of Cumberland coal here for Bos-
ton, was brought into port yesterday and Is
lying at the Georgetown wharveS-
Barge No. IS completed the loading or
her cargo at the Georgetown coal piers
Yesterday and sailed last night in tow of a
tug for the mouth of the river where she
will Join a tow of loaded barges going up
the coast to Boston.
The four-masted schooner The Josephine
has been locked at Bryants wharf at
Alexandria to discharge a cargo of over
/ 200 tons of phosphate rock, to be used in
the manufacture of fertilizer.
The steamer E. James Tull is at Alexan-
dria taking aboard a cargo OF grain for
the -four mills at Occoquan. The new boil
or of the steamer is being connected up,
and she will return to service on the river
In a few days.