Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-09
ON THE RIVER FRONT
HEAVY SHIPMENTS or FRESH
VEGETABLES FROM SOUTH.
Work on Wharf for Fireboat-Old
Schooner to Be Wrecked
Other Matters.

ington line are bringing UP large quantities
OF fresh vegetables from the truck farms in
Virginia and North Carolina In the vicinity
of Norfolk. The steamer Norfolk this
morning landed several hundred barrels OF
cucumbers. cabbage. peas, new potatoes
and other vegetables consigned to dealers
in this city. The truck was picked on the
farms yesterday morning, loaded on the
steamer at Norfolk and Old Point yester-
day and landed here this morning, 80 that
the Washington housewife can generally
feel that the vegetables she buys at this
season OF the year are perfectly fresh. az
the stuff brought up on the Norfolk steam
ers constitutes the bulk Of the supply used
here. Besides the green vegetables the
Norfolk steamers are also bringing up
quantities of other freight and are going
full each trip.
The fish market on the nth street wharf
was fairly well supplied with fresh fish yes
terday. and the demand was excellent,
there being quite a large number of buyers
on hand and the bidding at the auctions
being brisk. The bulk of the stock on sale
Is coming, as II has for several days past,
largely from the fisheries about Norfolk.
Crabs, both hard and soft. clans and
oysters are all scarce. while the demand
for all of them continues fairly brisk. They
are selling at high prices. soft crabs be-
Ing quoted at 30 cents to 81 per dozen
wholesale, and all that come are quickly
taken at that price by the dealers uptown.
Work is progressing quite rapidly on tho
wharf now In course of construction for tho
new f1reboat, but owing to the hard ground
in which the piles are being driven the pier
Will not be completed, ii is stated, as soon
as was at first expected. Within the next
ten days or two weeks, however, the new
pier will be in condition for the fireboat
to lie at It. through 1t will be a week or
two later before the structure Is entirely
completed
The pier used by the River View line exc
cursion steamers is being given a general
overhauling and the outer portion of 1t Is
being rebuilt entirely, and Is to be peed az
a coalfng dock for the River View and Co
ion1al Beach excursion steamers.
General Port News
The old schooner Col. ]. Merrick. which
collided with steam yacht of Mann's
old fertilizer factory several weeks ago.
and was 50 badly damaged that she had
to be beached to keep her from sinking.
will, 1t is stated. be torn to pieces for the
metal in her. She was, several weeks ago,
stripped of her sails and everything Of
value aboard her.
The steamer Wakefield goes into Port To-
bacco creek to Bunts and Chapel Point
wharveS on all trips. Last season but two
trips each week were made to these land
ings.
The new steamer Pocahontas yesterday
carried Barry Garrison of the Regular
spite of the cool weather large throng OF
the old soldiers and their friends visited the
resort and had a good time.
Mr.. John Callahan. general manager OF
the Norfolk and Washington line steam
ers, has returned from a business trip to
the big shipyard at Newport News. where
the steamer Washington is being over.
hauled
Capt. Richard Tull, formerly master on
the Norfolk line, is now in the lighthouse
service and is stationed on the Tail-of-the-
Shoe lightship, in the lower part of Chesa-
peake bay. mate.
Capt. S. 3. Davis and Capt John Car
penter are in command of United States
army quartermaster's department tug sta
toned at Fort Munroe and are employed
in towing targets in Hampton roads for the
gunners al the fort to shoot at. Their
vessel will also be assigned a part in the
army defenses of the Chesapeake.
The gas buoy marking the entrance to the
Coan river (Virginia), which was removed
on account of Ice last winter and its sta
ton marked by spar buoy, has been re-
placed and lighted and the spar buoy re-
moved. Coan river is one of the most I'M
portant tributaries of the Potomac and has
a large traffic with this city.
The tug Radiant came into part today
with harges 30 and II. belonging to the
Standard Oil Company, in tow. The barges
bring cargoes of oil from Baltimore for this
city.
Barge Of the Consolidated Coal Com.
pany, which unloaded a cargo of Ice here,
will go to Georgetown and there take
aboard load of about ], 500 tons of Cum.
berland coal for Boston.