Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-02
ON THE RIVER FRONT
STEAM LAUNCH BUILDING FOB
ALEXANDRIA OWNER.
Work Suspended on Colonial Beach
Wharf-lieavy Storm on Potomac
Other Matters.

new steam launch is in process Of con-
strrotion at an Alexandria shipyard for
Mr.. Joseph Moore of Alexandria, and VIII
b. ready for service about the middle of
July. The hull OF the new boat was nut
overheard during the latter part of the
past week. and the installation Of the boiler
and engine in the new boat is going on.
The hull of the new boat is ihirty-two feet
long: and IL has a beam OF a bout seven feet.
1t will be of light draft and will be able
TO take pleasure parties into all the shoal
creeks or the river on summer cruises.
Unlike most of the new launches on the
river the Moore launch will be fitted with
a twelve horse power steam engine and
the boiler viii have a working pressure of
about $50 pounds to the square inch
The demand for fresh fish at the wharf
market this morning was fairly heavy and
the supply of trout and butterf sh on hand
was quite large. while there was a scatter
ing supply of other varieties. Prices are
ranging about follows: For roe shad
81 to 20 cents each; buck shad - to 20
cents each; herring, 60 cents per hundred
bluehsh . to cents per pound: salmon
trout, cents per pound. extra large White
perch. 10 to Is cents per pound: pan rock,
l21e to IA cents per pound: boiling rock Is
to II cents per pound; large yellow perch.
20 to 30 cents per bunch; catfish, IL to 80
cents per bunch; sand perch. IL to - cents
per bunch; small yellow perch. 10 cents
per bunch white perch large % to 80
cents per bunch: white perch small > to
10 cents per bunch sturgeon. . cents per
pound; croakers, $3.50 per barrel: gray
trout, SIS to $40 per barrel; butterfish. So to
s. per barrel, and struck herring, "a per
1000
Oysters are still being received by the
dealers at the wharf from the beds about
Norfolk. and the supply is ample to meet
the light demand.
Soft-Shelled era very scarce and
sell readily at 30 cents to 81 per dozen
wholesale. Hard crabs have advanced in
price, and this morning they were selling
at $50 per hundred, an advance of %
cents. The scarcity of crabs in the river
and bay is assigned the cause for the
advance.
CLANS on sale. and are in good de-
mand at 60 to 20 cents per hundred.
One of the large clay and prick carrying
sccws belonging to John Miller & Co.
oil this city, which has been hauled out on
the marine railway at Benefits boat yard
TO- overhauling and caiking for several
days past, completed repairs yesterday and
was put overheard. The long boat Silver
Star took the vacated place on the railway,
and will be given general oyerhauing.
HarbormaSter John r. Sutton. who has
been on a business trip 10 Colonial Beach.
returned home Tuesday night, and is again
on duty.
General News of Port.
Owing to the Don-arrival of material. work
on the rebuilding of the freight wharf at
Colonial Beach has been temporarily sus-
pended, and the pile-driving machine is at
work on the pier at Bentley's pavilion at
the beach, which was badly damaged by the
ice last winter. When the piers are COM
pleted the driver will go TO Lower Cedar
Point TO rebuild the steamboat landing
there .
The two-masted schooner Kate Richard
son, which was reported ashore in Nomini
IL ln-r tod Ia
part of this week and is on her way TO this
city with cargo of about 10000 feet of
pine lumber aboard for dealers. The YES
sci, it is stated. was not seriously damaged
by going ashore on the soft bottom in
Nomini creek.
Capt. James T. Barker of the steamer
Wakefield reports very severe storm
the river Tuesday night as the steamer was
on her way to this city from the landings
on the lower river. The steamer was forced
to tie up for about two hours at Colonial
Beach wharf until the violence of the gale
s.bated. Considerable damage was done
along the river by the violence of the wind.
The large power boat Adelaide, hailing
from Hampton, was lying at Alexandria
Wednesday afternoon. and tbs reported that
she will take up the little route from Alex
andria to Pennington, Md, on Piscataway
creek eut r.a se..'
The sloop Arizona and the schooner Nellie
and Matte are in port, laden with cargoes
OF pine lumber from the Coan river for the
dealers --'r' 80
The steam barge Lily and Howard cam9
into port yesterday evening with a cargo
from the lower Potomac.
The schooner Edith Varrell came into port
last night with a cargo of cordwood aboard
from q river point for the local market
The schooner Urbanna rs unloading a
cargo of pine lumber at the wharf foot OF
9Th street for the local dealers.
Barge of the G. c. Company has been
berthed at the 9Th street wharf of the Amer
lean Ice Company to unload a cargo of ice
from the Kennebec river
The sloop Water Witch. with a cargo of
lumber and building material has sailed for
Colonial Beach. where the material will be
used In the erection of a new summer cot
tage for Washington owners. The cottage
will be ready for occupancy during the COM
ing summer
The schooner G. H Richards Is in port
with a cargo of lumber from Virginia
lumber port for the local market.