Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-19
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY RECEIPTS OF LUMBER
FROM VIRGINIA PORTS.
Last Fishing Shore Cuts out-Some-
thing Doing on Langley Boat
house-General Matters.

Eight lumber laden vessels have arrived
/ III port in the past thirty-six hours These
/ are the schooners w. H. Melking, Bertha
Bennett, Willie White, Howard Dale. Annie
/ Combes, Florence, Matilda and T. W.
| Moore. They brought in all about half
million feet of lumber.
The receipts of cord wood have also been
quite heavy since yesterday noon, the
| sehooners Sidney Jones. Eulalia, Col. j.
Merrick, Isaac Solomon Seabright, Ella and
Annie Mills having arrived, each with a
supply aboard. The unusually heavy re-
ceipts CT lumber in the past two or three
| weeks las given the dealers much trouble
| tG find q place to store it. Every wharf on
| the river front, from the foot of 14th street
| to 7th atreet not used by the steamboats,
| or coal business, is stored with lumber, IN
piles fifteen feet high and over.
Fresh fish from bay sources were quite
plentiful at the wholesale market on the
| fish wharf this morning and the auction
sales were well attended There was ex-
ceilent demand for the fish at good prices
Riyer-caught fish were scarce. the re-
| ceipts OF ahad and herring being lighter
| than they have been for some time.
Prices this morning ranged as follows:
For pan rock, 10 cents per pound; medium
| rock. II to II cents per pound; boiling
rock, 13 to Is cents per. pound; white
perch, large, 10 cents per pound; white
perch, small, 10 to Is cents per bunch,
river mullets, Is to 20 cents per bunch;
black catfish, 20 to 20 cents per bunch;
| white catfish, 20 to % cents per bunch;
roe shad, 40 to so cents each; bucks, 20 to
80 cents each; herring, $3.50 to 81 per
| thousand; small yellow perch. 10 to 10
| cents per bunch; salmon trout, to
cents per pound; gray trout, $3.50 to
| $2.S5 per barrel; croaker, $1.50 to $3.50
per barrel; founders, cents per pound;
sturgeon, 8 cents per pound bluefish, 8
L blIff oh fn re
per pound; founders, 3 cents per pound
Hard-shelled crabs Were on sale, but the
supply on hand was small and came from
the vicinity of Norfolk. Soft crabs from
well at 20 to so cents per dozen, accord
ing to size. Hard crabs sold at SI.50 per
hundred. There have been no arrivals of
oyster or elam-laden vessels at the wharf
for several weeks.
The four-masted schooner Young Broth
ers laden with full cargo of about l. 500
tons of ice from Bath, Me-, for the Ameri-
can Ice Company. came into port yesterday
morning. This is the second ice laden YES
sci to- arrive here from the Kenebec river
this season.
The schooner Bertha May. laden with
railway ties from the lower river has ar
rived Il port for the dealers.
The schooner Bertha May laden with
cord wood, has arrived at Alexandra for
the merchants there.
The schooner Ada Rallinger has arrived
from down river fishing shore with full
cargo CT salt in barrels.
The schooner Mayfiower is lying at Cliff
ton BEACH loading cargo of cord wood for
The schooner Daylight completed the un-
Loading of her cargo OF ice and sailed yes
terday III tow of the tug. Camilla for Balti-
more 20 load
The Leroy came into port today with
cargo OF cedar posts from Nomini.
General Port News.
The Norfolk and Washington line steam
err Newport News has taken her place upon
the route between this city and Norfolk
relieving the steamer Washington, which
is undergoing her periodical overhauling
and cleaning up
The tug VIM. H. Yerkes yesterday
brought a barge laden with coal from
Norfolk and locked it at the naval powder
| magazine wharf in Mattawoman creek.
She took a light barge from Mattawoman
to Norfolk to load
One of the large sand digging machines
of the Columbia National Sand Digging
Company, which has been in operation near
Fort Hunt, has been brought up to Alex
andria and is at Deane's boat yard for
some necessary repairs.
Capt. Ollie Crowder master of the tug
VIM. HI. Yerkes. jr., is spending trip or
two ashore. He will join his boat on her
| next visit to this city. During his absence
Mate Robt. Brown is in command of the
tug.
The tug j. T. Selectman, which was hauled
out on the marine railway at the Alexan-
dria shipyard last week to have some re-
pairs made, has been launched and is again
in service. The tug Sunbeam, belonging
| to Mr. Louis Smoot, was hauled out and
had her bottom painted Tuesday When
she was launched the tug Rosalie was
hauled out and is yet on the railway She
| is having some repairs made to her out
ward pipes and the bottom of her hull is
being scraped and painted
The steam launch Teaser belonging to
| parties here, is hauled out in the shoal
| dock adjoining the naval battalion wharf,
| foot of 1th street, to have her hull under
| water painted and to be prepared for
service.
The new power launch Edith. belonging
| to Mr.. John Williams, which was launched
at Reagan's boat house about week ago.
has gone into service. She has had several
| trial trips recently to test her qualities and
| 1t is stated her owners are very much
| pleased with her. When her machinery is
| linlbered up she bids fair to be one of the
| fastest boats of her class on the river
Chapmans fishing Shore the only seine
! hauling shore the river that has been
1 in operation during the past week, cut out
Tuesday and most of the men employed
| have been laid off. The shad and herring
4 coming to market are caught by the gill
net fishermen and In the traps.
| During the past week signs of life have
! been visible on the big houseboat lying In
| the dock at the foot of 9Th street which
shelters the Langley flying machine. Me-
| chanics have been going and coming from
| the vessel and it is said new aeroplane is
/ being constructed and further tests of
/ Prof. Langley's ideas will be made during
the coming summer Only those employed
| in the work on the boat are allowed aboard.
This is the first time the hOuseboat has been
opened for work since the disastrous trial
of the Langley flying machine last fall.