Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10
ON THE RIVER FRONT
TUG DISPATCH SENT TO HAVRE
DE GRACE FOR DUTY.
Schooner Villas Changes Owners-New
Tugs About Ready for Service
Marine Matters.


contractors for the building of the piers of
the. new highway bridge, and which was
in service here about the bridge, left here
a day or two ago for Havre de Grace, Md,
where she will be employed about a new
bridge building there The tug Sunbeam Is
now the only steam tender in service about
the highway bridge, and is employed in
towing barges laden with stone and ma teral
from the shore to the different pier sites as
wanted
The Sunbeam was brought here from
Baltimore for use about the piers of the
new railway bridge. and when that work
was completed she was sold to one of the
local sand companies and was employed In
towing sand and gravel-laden barges.
When the work on the highway bridge
was started the Sunbeam was repurchased
by the contractors, and has been in that
service for several months.
There was but limited supply of fresh
fish received by the wholesale dealers in
fish at the market the 18th street
wharf this morning from both the Norfolk
and northern sources, while the demand was
fairly good. Trout, butterfish, tailors and
catfish and rock from river sources const-
tuted the bulk of the stock on hand. Prices
range about those quoted yesterday. The
supply of oysters in the shell is becoming
quite light at the oyster wharf. while the
demand remains excellent. The quality of
has been good, and they are selling at from
80 cents to 80 cents per bushel.
There have been no receipts of water
melons at the wharf in the past two or
ply is rapidly becoming very small Prices
range from s. to SIS per hundred.
The schooner Daniel X. Sheets Capt.
Gibson, which has been employed as
tender TO the summer seineS on the Potomac
below Indian Head came up to Alexandria
yesterday afternoon for a supply of ice.
The staked nets and traps which are used
by the fishermen on the river in the fall
will be set out about the list of October,
when the weather becomes cooler
The two-masted bay schooner VIM. F.
Villas has been purchased by parties living
a Colonial Beach from her Eastern shore
owners and will be kept in general bust
ness the river.
The water in the river is clearer that it
has been in several months past, owing to
the absence Of heavy rains, and from the
falls to its mouth the Potomac is a beau
tiful green color. Bass and rockfish are
biting quite freely in Four-Mile Run and
along the wharYes at Alexandria. In the
last day or two several large fish have been
taken from the water with hook and line.
The two new tugs building at Solomons
Island. Md, for use on the Potomac in this
vicinity Will be ready for service early in
the fall. One of the new boats, the larger,
belongs to the new Potomac Dredging Com
pany, and the other to Mr.. John Miller.
General News of the Port.
The tobacco shipping season on the Po-
tomac is drawing to an end. and the
steamer Harry Randall had but four hogs
heads in her cargo yesterday afternoon
from points on the river for shipment to
Baltimore. More tobacco has been sent
from river points TO Baltimore this year
than for several years past.
The longboat Osceola is hauled out on
the marine railway at Benefits boat yard
for general OVerhdnling of her hull and
to be put in condition for efficient service
on the river this fall. The vessel will he
out of service for several days.
The tug Columbia, with tow of barges,
came into port yesterday. The Columbia
is a new visitor on the Potomac, and this
is her second trip to this port in recent
years.
Captain James Marmadue has been made
master of the tug Runaway, in service
as ferry boat between Alexandria and
the navy yard for the benefit of the me-
chanics residing in the Virginia city.
Mr.. NJ. s. Parker, cashier at River View,
who has been spending the summer at that
resort, has returned home.
Captain Al Richards is In command of
the steamer Pokanoket, which has been
employed in running between this city and
Colonial Beach.
The schooner Alethea is in the drydock
at a Baltimore shipyard for general over
hauling and repair work about the hull and
70: painting
The schooner Jennie Huddle. owned by
James Q. Carter of this city, which was
damaged in a collision with a steamer in
Hampton Roads about ten days ago, has
been repaired and has returned to service
The threemasted schooner E. Marie
Brown laden with phosphate for fertilizer
from Carteret, n. j., arrived at Alexan-
dria yesterday afternoon in tow of the tug
George w. Pride.
The schooner VIM. Violet is in port with
a cargo of cord wood from a river port for
the dealers.
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wharf foot of 9th street unloading a cargo
of pine boards from the lower Potomac
The schooner Charles Mitchell laden
with about 2J,G0O railway ties at Alexan-
dria, sailed today for New England port.
The tug George w Pride will take her
to the mouth of the river.
The large power launch Mary NJ which
came into port day or two ago, sailed
yesterday morning for Norfolk
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