Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-28
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY FREIGHTS GOING TO
DOWN RIVER POINTS.
All Steamboat Lines, Except Alexan-
dria Ferry, Have Resumed Opera
tions-General River Matters.

While the river between this city and
Glymont, Md, is covered with large cakes
of ice drifting to and fro with the tide,
they are not heavy enough to interfere
riously with the movements OF the steam
boats, and with the exception OF the ferry
line between this city and Alexandria all
the steamboat companies in business on
the Potomac are running their regular
schedules. The steamer Wakefield. which
left port yesterday. carried down a heavy
freight, mainly groceries and provisions.
to river points, and she also had a large
passenger list of country people who had
been forced to remain in the city by the
freezing of the river and the stoppage OF
the steamers. The Wakefield will return
tomorrow morning if freeze does not come
in the meantime.
When the ferry company will resume
operations seems to be rather problemati
cal. Though the river has been navigable
since Sunday last, no move looking to the
placing of the boat on the route has been
made. and this morning there Were no
signs of life about her. The officials of the
line here are unable to say definitely when
the route will be reopened, although mes
sage received today from the manager
in New York stating that the boat will
sumo her trips as soon as possible.
The steamer Wakefield is under the COM
rland of Capt. Bailey Reed, with Capts.
Theo keene and Tally Fowkes as mates.
and VIM. Kelly, quartermaster; Thos Muir
dock, deckriate; George w. Guest, purser,
and George Greason, steward. Chief En-
gineer VIII Reed is in charge of the
CINE room of the steamer, with Mr..
George Sherwood as assistant.
The fish market the 18th street wharf
was quite a busy place this morning. the
receipts of fresh fish from various sources
being good and in more variety than for
three or four weeks past Black bass,
gray trout, mullets. sand perch and winter
shad constituted the bulk or the stock. and
they sod at high prices. River-caught
fish are also on the market, but in small
quantities.
There have been no arrivals of oyster
laden craft here since Monday, and the
stock of oysters in shell aboard the yes
sells is becoming very small. Prices range
from 65 cents to SIZE per bushe1, with but
fair demand Many of the dealers up-
town continue to obtain their supply OF
oysters from the vicinity of Norfolk. the
Norfolk line steamer this morning bring
ing up about 100 barrels of shocked and
shell stock, and about sixty barrels were
brought by the Weems line steamer from
the lower river
The farmers and fishermen of the sporth-
ern neck of Virginia, anu in other sections
of the state also, who have been thrown
out of employment by the long spell of
cold weather have turned their attention
to woodcutting. and now thousands of
cords of wood for fuel are being cut and
prepared for shipment to this and other
nearby markets. 1t Is estimated that fully
Il 900 cords of oak and pine wood. will be
shipped from points in the northern neck,
on the Potomac and Rappahannoek rivers
in the early spring. Besides cord wood,
railway ties and cedar posts are being cut
in large quantities and representing many
thousands of dollars.
Early in the fall long row of piling was
driven from the southeastern corner of the
Potomac Park out to deep water IN the
channel, and on these piles it was proposed
to run a line of piping to convey the liquid
mud from the dredging machine to the per-
tions of the park to be raised. The drifting
ice in the river however, has knocked down
those it has not broken off, and the piles
will have to be redriven or replaced with
others.
The large steam launch Bartholdi, which
was recently purcha sed by Mr.. Charles
Heath, was yesterday brought around from