Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-08
ON THE RIVER FRONT
VESSELS SPRING A LEAK AND
SINK AT THEIR MooRINGS.
New Fish-Carrying Lighters Construct
ed-Easterly Winds Cause High
Tides-Other Matters.

The tug Juno, formerly one of the best
known towboats on the Potomac, but which
has been laid up at the Alexandria Ship
yard for several years past sprang leak
Sunday night and was found lying on the
bottom in the shoal water of her dock yes
terday. 1t Is supposed when the ice went
out of the dock few days ago 1t pulled
the oakum from her seams.
A pile driver which had been employed on
some work at Fort Washington last fall
and which had been lying near the fort
wharf during the winter also sprung leak
Sunday night and sunk at her mornings.
No one was aboard the machine when 1t
sank, and what caused the accident is not
known. The piledriver is owned by d. f.
W. Aitchison of Alexandria and will be at
once raised and made ready for service
again.
The supply of fresh fish on sale at the
wholesale fish market at the wharf was
rather light. and the demand was quite
heavy. The receipts of bass, yellow perch,
catfish and carp from the nets in the river
between this city and Glymont. Md, are
growing larger each day, and some fish
are also coming from the lower Potomac.
Prices remain at unusually high figures for
the season.
There is an ample supply of oysters in
the shell on sale from the vessels lying at
come into port since Sunday last with Po-
tomac river stock aboard. The demand is
light, though prices are not above the av-
erage, ranging from 90 to 20 cents per
bushel, according to grade.
A large fiattie. built by Mr.. Robert Evans
at the old boatyard near the Baltimore and
Ohio railway barge landing. will, it Is
stated, be made ready for service at once
the coming season. The new craft, though
built for about year, has never been
fitted out.
Dean & Son have recently completed a
large lighter for Capt. Thee. Ballinger OF
Alexandria, who will use the new boat al
his fishing shores this season. The lighter
is about fifty feet long and eighteen feet
wide.
A fish lighter is also in process of con-
struction on the Alexandria fish wharf fol
one of the packing houses there.
Along the Wharves.
The big marine railway at Alexandria
which has been frozen up for the past
several months. is again in working order
and the dredge Dewey has been hauled out
upon 1t for repairs. The steamer Kent and
several vessels are to be hauled out for re-
pair work as fast as possible
The easterly winds of Sunday night ano
yesterday caused unusually high water
Many of the low wharveS along the har'
Dor were about awash yesterday afternoon
and last night
The schooner Jennie Ford has been fitted
with fish pens on deck and in the hold In
preparation for the freighting of fish from
the nets in the river to this city. Severa
other vessels here are also preparing fol-
the fishing season, and others will do sc
as soon as they unload cargoes of oysters
Mr.. Joseph Nash. assistant engineer
aboard the Randall line steamer Harry
Randall has resigned to accent the chief
engineership aboard the tug J. r. Select
man. Mr.. George Sherwood takes the place
made vacant by Mr. Nashs resignation.
Mr.. George j. Stafford, purser of the
steamer Wakefield. on the Glymont route
is confined to his home by sickness. Mr.
T. B. Garnett is looking after his work
The steamer Westmoreland has resumed
her place on the Washington Baltimore
route, and will make tri-weekly trips il
connection with the steamer Calvert, Cap
tain Geoghegan.
The master of the German steamship