Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT
PREPARING PLEASURE CRAFT
FOR ACTIVE SERVICE.
Work at Nearby Boatyards-Barge
Comes for Coal Cargo-other
Marine Matters.

several SfHdIl pleasure craft owned mere
!are at Whyte's boat house at the foot of 7th
street for an overhauling and repainting be-
fore the opening of the excursion season.
Mr.. Whyte Is also building several four
teen-foot batteaux for private order.
The overhauling of the boats and spars
of the yawl-yacht Seashell, owned by Mr..
Henry Seymour Of the city, is being pushed
at Benefits in order to put the vessel in
trim for her annual cruise on the New
England coast during the coming summer.
The steam launch Saml. w. Sutton owned
by parties in Alexandria, Is hauled out on
the marine railway at Deans .boatyard for
necessary repairs and painting to put her
In trim for her seasons work on the river.
The receipts of herring from the nets in
the river have been quite heavy at the fish
wharf since Saturday last, but shad are
not being received in any large numbers,
and prices for them are Is to IL cents each
for bucks and 80 to 35 cents for ewes. The
stock of bunch fish on hand this morning
was not large, but the demand for all va
rieties was light. The fish packing houses
on the wharf have large force of men at
work cutting and packing herring for the
out-of-town trade.
There was a fair demand for oysters on
the shell at the 18th street wharf market
this morning, but the supply was light.
Prices range high for the season. but the
stock on sale was good. CLANS are in fair
Mr.. W. s. Michael of Baltimore has pur-
chased the schooner Mary Vickers from r.
s. Cameron of Philadelphia, as she lies
sunken in the Elk river. The Vickers was
on her way from Philadelphia with a cargo
of coal last December when the Ice cut her
through and she sank. She has been lying
under the water since that time and her
new owner will raise and repair her for
service on the bay and it's tributaries.
Dredge No. 3, of the Atlantic, Gulf and
Pacific Company, is pumping the mud from
the river channel above the Long bridge on
the part of the Potomac Park to the east
of the railway tracks over the bridge. The
levee of this portion of the park is to be
raised several feet. When this Is COM
pleted the pipes will be shifted to the part
of the park west of the bridge and this
the river.
General News of Port.
The pontoons used by the Engineers Bat
TALON, U. S. A., stationed at Washington
barracks, in their drills at building bridges
and the like, have been painted and put
overheard ready for service.
The new tug Hamilton, built at Baltimore
recently for service on Chesapeake bay,
paid her first visit to the Potomac yester-
day. when she came to Alexandria for the
purpose of towing a barkentine to Balti-
more She is handsome craft.
Capt. VIM. Geoghegan, who has been act
ing as master Oh the NOrIOlk anu w dSnlnS-
ton line steamer Newport News while that
vessel was in service, has returned to duty
as first officer of the steamer Washington.
Mr. Douglas Ross returns to duty as sec
ond officer of the steamer Norfolk.
The southerly and easterly winds of Sat
urday and yesterday caused high tides in
the river, and all the low grounds about
Jackson City and along the edge of the
Potomac Park were under water. The high
water enabled several vessels that have
been aground to come off the shoals and to
proceed down the river.
Barge No. 20 of the Consolidation Coal
Company has, 1t is stated, arrived at
Georgetown, and will there load full
cargo of soft coal from Cumberland for
New England port. This is the first of the
big schooner barges to arrive here this sea-
son for coal cargoes.
Mr. Stephen Gardella, steward of the
steamer Kent who has been absent at
Newport News on the steamer Harry Ran
DALI returned to duty aboard his steamer
this morning.
The two-masted schooner Carrie has ar
rived here from a Virginia lumber port
with a cargo of lumber, and is unloading
at the wharf foot of 9th street southwest.
The Seabright, ]. 7. Parks. Belmont, Us
ceola. M, E. Dennison and Mary Ann Shea
have arrived in port since Saturday with
cargoes of cordwood for the dealers.
The schooner Ivy Leonard, which brought
a cargo of lumber here from the James
river a few days ago. has been chartered 10
run fish on the Potomac during the hshlng
season now at hand