Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-14
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LOSS OF AN ALEXANDRIA-BU
CoAsTING VESSEL.
Snow Storm Heavy on Lower River
Dredge Pontoons GO Adrift
General Matters.

The three-masted schooner Wilson &
Hunting of Norfolk, which, as stated In The
Star, was run into off Barneat light, last
Wednesday night by the United States sup
ply ship CulgOa and was sunk, is well known
here. She was product of an Alexandria
shipyard, having been built there in 1883,
when the Virginia city was having a ship
building boom. She was one OF seven YES
sells built at Alexandria and is the fourth
one that has been lost. The Wilson &c
Hunting was three-masted vessel of 41S
gross tons and was 152 feet long. 30 feet
wide and had depth of hold of II $40 feet.
The schooner paid her last visit to the Po-
tomac about six weeks ago when she
brought cargo of phosphate from GeOr-
gia TO Alexandria. Capt. Robert Walton,
was lost in her, had friends In this city.
The receipts of fresh fish from all sources
by the dealers at the 18th street wharf fish
market was very light this morning, while
part of the week. The scarcity of the fish
keeps prices up to the figures quoted Sat-
urday and there is but little prospect of
any decrease for the present. While the
hsh market was duh, the oyster market
was quite brisk, there being an excellent
demand for the bivalves and the stock on
hand being amply large to meet the de-
mand. Prices range from 80 cents to co
SoHtS pei DuSUei IOT S1ndl STOCK, up TO ~
cents and 80 cents per bushel for big, Sc
lected oysters.
The supply of wild ducks and other game
was very small, but the demand was good
and prices were high.
The storm blinds which inclose the lower
forward deck OF the steamer Harry Ran
dali were put in position on her stop here
last week just in time for the big snow
the storm about fifty miles down the river
yesterday and ran through it all the way
to this city. Capt. Reed reports the snow
SO thick that at times he was unable to see
an object hundred feet away. The snow
storm was accompanied by heavy gale.
During a blow in the latter part of the
last week number of the pipe pontoons
belonging to Dredge 3 Of the Atlantic, Gulf
andria waiting to be shipped north, broke
loose from their moorings and drifting
across the river went ashore near Shep-
herds The tug Pride recovered them and
took them back to Alexandria.
Capt. Robert L. Freeburger who has been
Ill at his home at Baltimore for several
weeks, has recovered and has again taken
command of the Philadelphia tug Peerless.
The +. Dougherty Company of Baltimore
has contracted with a shipbulding firm al
Solomon's Island for 81 new barge, which is
to be 160 feet long, 30 feet wide and will
have a depth of hold of IL feet The barge
Is to be used for general freighting business
On Chesapeake bay and its tributaries
The work of tearing down the big ice
southwest will, II Is stated, be started this
week, and, under the terms of the sale, the
American Ice Company, the purchaser of
the material in the structure, must complete
the removal of the building within ten days.
The schooner Peri. which lost her fore
mast In gale on Greenway flats last week.
has completed the dfscharging of her cargo
of cord wood here and has been taken TO
Aqua creek. where she will be fitted with
new mast and will be overhauled.
General River Notes.
The tug Peerless has delivered the coal
laden barges Laura V. Groves and William
W. Curtin at this city and has sailed with
the barges Experiment and William j. Me
Ilvane for Norfolk.
The barge W. E. McIlvane Is lying in Po-
tomac creek taking aboard a big cargo of
railway ties for Philadelphia.
The schooner Cox & Green is loading rail-
way ties at Alexandria for Boston and an
other New England port
The schooner Clearance A. Holland is at
Riverdale. n. c., loading lumber and shin
giles for this city.
The two-masted schooner Flying Scud.
loaded with lumber and shingles, from a
Virginia lumber port, arrived Saturday
evening
The schooners Edith VERBAL, Sidney Jones.
r. Mason and a. II. Quinby are the recent
arrivals in port with cargoes of wood
The steamer Lily and Howard came into
port Saturday laden with pine lumber from
Quantico and towing a raft of piling for
the new municipal building.
The schooner Harry A. Deavery has
rived at Alexandria with a cargo of glass
making sand for one of the glass bottle
making plants
The tug Davis yesterday brought into port
a light Consolidated Coal Company barge
to load for Boston. A loaded c. c. barge
has sailed for Boston, after loading at
Georgetown.
The four-masted schooners Horace A.
Stone and William H. Yerkes and the three
masted schooner Lucia Porter have sailed
in the past day or two.