Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-12
STONE & FAIRFAX.
8O4=8O6=8O8 F Street NV.
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LOW TIDES GIVE STEAMBOAT
MASTERS TROUBLE.
New Barge for Chesapeake Bay Service
-Overhauling Yacht Chipeta-
Matters Around Harbor

While the easterly weather has kept the
tides high along the Atlantic coast, they
have been unusually low in the Potomac
for the past week. On the up-trip of the
steamer Harry Randall Tuesday night she
had trouble in making landing at Colonial
Beach owing to the very low tides. Captain
Reed. master Of the steamer. says the tides
have kept lower continuously the past week
than ever before in his experience of ten or
twelve years on the river.
The Weems line steamer Anne Arundel is
at a Baltimore shipyard having some repair
work done preparatory to coming on the
Washington Baltimore route next week, re-
lieving the steamer Calvert. The steamer
Potomac of the Weems line is also being
overhauled at Baltimore shipyard.
The stock of fish on sale in the fish houses
at the 18th street wharf wholesale market
was not large this morning and consisted
chiefly Of yellow perch, bass and mullets
from the river nets, and king mackerel and
salmon trout from the sea fisheries. There
was a fair demand for the stock on hand at
fair prices.
At the oyster wharf the stock on hand is
largely in excess of the demand several
vessels having arrived at the wharf with
Potomac stock aboard since Tuesday. The
vessel masters are holding the oysters
aboard their boats for higher prices, rang
ing from 90 cents to $1.25 per bushel. Con-
tinued moderate weather would cause big
drop in prices.
Wild ducks and geese were on sale at the
fish wharf this morning at prices ranging
about the same as early in the week.
The tug Volunteer, belonging to the
Dougherty fleet, has completed repairs at
Baltimore and. having successfully passed
her annual inspection, Will go into service
at once. Capt. Peter Pearson will command
the tug
The Dougherty company is having a new
barge built at Solomon's Island for carrying
coal and other .cargoes on the chesapeake
and it's tributaries. The barge will register
12OO tons and will be 100 ieet long, with
beam of 80 feet and 10 feet depth of hold.
General River Notes.
The schooner Gardener G. Deering. well
known here, has put into Vineyard Haven
to repair damages received in gale jan
uary T. The schooner was struck by the
storm off Fire Island and lost her foresail,
mainsail and jib, and had windows in cabin
and forward house smashed by seas.
The crew of the steam yacht Chipeta
lying at the American Ice Company wharf,
are taking advantage of the vessel lying
idle to paint her decks and house and TO
nut her in good trim for service. The
Yacht is employed here in ewing demon
STATIONS of a new underwater fog sig
Mailing apparatus.
The large sand digging machine and fleet
of scoWs belonging to the Columbia Ma
tional Sand Dredging Company OF this city,
which were blown ashore on White stone
Point about a week ago In a gaze, nave
been foated and taken to place OF safety
The floating machine shop OF Prof Lang
ley's flying machine, which was taken out
of the harbor about ten days ago, was car
ried ND to Georgetown and berthed at the
wharf of the United States army engineers.
where she will remain for the winter.
The big Philadelphia barges Overlook.
Katherine A. Brady and James T. Easton,
which unloaded cargoes of coal here, are
living at the 10th street wharf of the Amer
lean Ice Company awaiting tug to take
them away.
On the barge which the naval tug Choc-
taw took down to the naval proving
grounds at Indian Head yesterday were two
large guns built at the naval ordnance
foundry here for one of the new ships now
building
was yesterday taken alongside the monitor
Puritan, lying in the harbor, and the coal
transferred to the bunkers of the big ship.
Although the vessel is anchored at bow and
stern, steam is kept in her boilers to keep
the ship warm and prevent the freezing of
any of her pipes.
The schooner Charles II. Dagger has ar
rived in port with cargo of pine lumber
from the Coan river for the dealers.
The tug Radiant, with barges 80 and q in
tow. came into port yesterday from Balti-
more The barges bring cargoes of Oil for
the Standard Oil Company.
The tugs Camilla. Juno and Pride all ar
rived here yesterday with lows of oyster
and lumber laden boats from the lower
Potomac.
The barges Lewis Thompson and McNut-
ly, which unloaded cargoes of coal here,
have sailed in tow of the tug Sandow of
Baltimore. the former for Norfolk and the
latter for Fredericksburg.
The steam barge E. James Tull took
aboard a large quantity of flour, groceries
and other stores at Alexandria yesterday