Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-11
ON THE RIVER FRONT
LARGE FLEET OF WOOD AND LUM-
Der VESSELS ARRIVE.
Fish and Oyster Market-Pleasure
Craft Overhauling at Boatyards-
Personal and General.

"A large fleet of wood and undertaken
vessels from the Potomac river and points
In Maryland and Virginia arrived in port
yesterday and went to anchor in the
stream. which presents an animated APP
pearance. In the fleet are the schooners
Walter P. Snow from the Rappahannock
river, the w. NJ. Moore from the James
river, the Arizona, c. V. Dagger and Joseph
Smith from other Virginia ports with lumber,
and the Osceola, JOS. Willet Blanch Hutch
inson, Emily Washington, Oakland and sew
eral smaller vessels with cord wood aboard
from points on the river. These vessels
have been detained down the river waiting
for favoring breeze and took advantage
Of the southerly winds of yesterday to sail
into port. Large additions to the lumber
fleet are looked for when the vessels now
in the river and coming here arrive.
Two hundred thousand herring and 500
shad were received by the dealers at the
wharf market from all the nets in the Po-
tomac river this morning, and the demand
for them was excellent. Bunch fish from
river sources were also on sale and they
brought good prices Herring are selling
at 81 to So per thousand, shad at 40
cents each and buck shad at l. to 10 cents
each wholesale. on the wharf.
The supply Of oysters sale at the
not large, while the demand was quite brisk.
The advance in prices, which started yes
terday, continues, and this morning they
were selling at 60 to 20 cents per bushel
for small oysters and up to 81 % per buShel
for selected stock.
CLANS now being received in good
quantities, and the demand for them is
good. They still sell at 20 cents per hun
dTed.
Hard crabs from Chesapeake bay are on
sale at $1.25 per hundred and the demand
for them is excellent.
The wharf building machine of Carter Il
Clark, which has been working on the river
pier for the District fireboat and on other
work since the ice left the river, is to be
hauled out on the marine railway at Ben
netts boatyard as soon as the work on
the police boat Viglant is completed and
the Vigilant is launched The machine is
to be given general overhauling of her
hull and will receive other repairs.
The clfnker built launch, tender to the
bugeye yacht Javeln. belonging to DR..
Greer, was taken to Cumberland's boatyard
yesterday afternoon and taken from the
water while her gasoline engine was re-
moved, to be taken to a machine shop for
completed the launch will accompany the
Javelin on an extended cruise on the river
and on Chesapeake bay.
Vessels Undergoing Improvement.
The power launches Charlotte and Marion,
which have been overhauling at the boat
yard of Capt. Sonny Reagan for the past
two weeks, will be put overheard today
ready for service
The engine is being installed aboard the
auxiliary sloop Greyhound at the Sth street
wharf and the little craft will be ready for
service within the next week. 1t Is under
stood the owner of the Greyhound will
Will make long trip in her, exploring the
seldom visited tributaries of the bay during
the coming winter.
The auxiliary sloop Margaret, owned by
Dr. Prentiss, which has within the past week
been given an overhauling and has been
repainted at Cumberlands boathouse was
put overheard again yesterday. The little
vessel Is now in the best Of order, and is
ready for extended trips on the river.
The charging of the cabin on the sloop
Rover is rapidly nearing completion and
the boat will be ready for service in a week
ten days.
The tug Spray of Alexandria. which was
given a general overhauling during the
winter months, has gone into commission
and her owners are looking for fish
towing charter for her. At the close of
the fishing season she will be emploved /,
in general towing in the river
The steamer Estelle Randall of the
Randall Line made special trip to Fort
washington, Sunday. to take down the
property of the 10th Company of coast
artillery recently ordered from St Louis
to the fort. There were about six or
eight tons of the stores in the shipment
MI w iiiidI A. moore, chlef engineer
of the Randall Line, who has been at
Newport News for several weeks past
experimenting the repairs to the steam
er Wakefield, was home for a visit yes
terday. He returned to Newport News
last night
Mr.. Michael Dugan has been made
chief engineer of the tug Spray. in sery-
ice on the river.
The steam barge z. James Tull is in
port with cargo of pine lumber from
Aqua creek for the dealers.
The schooner William Cobb has arrived
at Alexandria and Will complete the I'M
loading of cargo of plaster at William
\. Shoots wharf.
The two-masted schooner James B. An
derson, laden with lumber from the Rap
pahannock river, is in port
The schooner Clara Leonard has been
taken to the Eastern branch to complete
the unloading of a cargo of cordwood
The schooner Murray Vandiver is lying
at Forsberg & Murray's wharf here, I'M
loading cargo of lumber.
The schooner Lula Quillan, with a cargo
OF glass making sand aboard, has arrived
at Alexandria from the Severn river Md.
The schooner Rover is lying at Ham
mond's wharf at Alexandria, taking
aboard cargo of Alexandria made glass
for Norfolk.