Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-07
ON THE RIVER FRONT
NEW POWER FOR VESSELS AT
TRACTS MUCH ATTENTION..
Tug Sarah in Service on Potomac
Launched From Marine Rail-
ways-Other Notes.

driven by gas generated from coal aboard
the steamer the engine propels, is attract
ing attention among boat owners and the
steamboat men generally on the Potomac.
The experiments with the engine to be in
stalled aboard a tug at Baltimore is being
watched with interest, and If the engine
will do anything like what is claimed for
it it will revolutionize power traffic on the
water. The engine uses gas from
| coal, in the same manner that gasoline gas
is used in the power engines now in use,
and the gas is generated from small guam
titles of coal in plant aboard the vessel.
The engine and making plant, 1t is
stated takes up but small space. and can
be utilized by all classes of vessels. large
as well as small. An ocean-going ship,
equipped with this power, is to be built at
Belfast.
The decrease in receipts of fresh fish, par
ticularly shad and herring. at wholesale fish
market has made the market much firmer,
and prices are gradually going back to
those usual at this time of the year. The
fish sold this morning as follows: For
mullets, Is to Is cents per bunch; Spanish
mackerel, 1917 to 10 cents per pound; Poto-
mae roe shad 35 cents each; Potomac buck
shad, 10 cents each;-sNorth Carolina roe
shad at 80 to SO cents each; North Carolina
buck shad at Is cents each; North Caro-
lima herring, 80 to 80 cents per hundred;
Potomac herring, % cents per hundred;
fish, - to Is cents per pound; salmon
trout, II cents per pound; extra large white
perch, 121s cents per pound; pan rock, 10
cents per pound; medium rock, II cents
per pound; boiling rock. Is cents per pound;
large yellow perch, 20 to 30 cents per
bunch; catfish Is to 40 cents per bunch;
sand perch, Is to 25 cents per bunch; small
yellow perch, to 10 cents per bunch; white
perch large, % TO 80 cents per bunch, and
white perch email 3 to 10 cents per bunch.
One small vessel with oysters aboard has
arrived at the oyster wharf In the past
twenty-four hours from Smiths creek, and
the supply on hand this morning was ample
to meet the demand. Prices ranged from
40 to 60 cents per bushel for medium stock.
and up to 81 per busfsel for selects Hard
crabs are on sale in good quantities at s1.25
per hundred.
The tug Sarah has come around from Bal
timore for duty tender tc the dredge
Kennedy, engaged in deepening the river
channels, while the tug Pickwick is out of
service. The Sarah Is we'll known at this
port, and was frequent visitor here when
she was engaged In general towing in
Chesapeake bay and its tributaries. When
the ferry steamer Columbia burned here
about two years ago the Sarah assisted in
extinguishing the flames, and from this
grew a salvage suit, entered by her owners
against the burned steamer, winch Is sui
The little tug Powhatan, which was
brought here few days ago from Rlch-
mond, where she was purchased py me
washington Stone Company, has gone into
service and is employed towing scoWs laden
with broken stone from Occoquan to the
new highway bridge, where the stone is used
in the pier building
General and Personal Items.
The Baltimore tug Sandow, with the
barge Edward Fay from Chesapeake City
and the barges Clara j. Pugh and j. C.
Easton from Baltimore, came into port to-
1av The barges bring cargoes Of hard
OH ono tons
large pile driver and a force of wharf
builders are at work putting the oyster
wharf at the foot Of 18th street in good state
of repair for use as lumber pier between
the close of the oyster and opening of the
watermelon season in the fall. Nearly all
the piers along the water front have been
overhauled during the past year.
The United States army lighter Pontonfer,
which has been hauled out on the big ma
rine railway at Alexandria for several days
mast undergoing an overhauling and the
cleaning up and painting OF her nun, was
put overheard ready for service yesterday.
The Pontonier is lying at her wharf at the
Washington barricks and will resume her
daily trips to Fort Foote within the next
day or two
The sand pumping machine Of the Column
bia National Sand Dredging Company of
this city, which was on the railway with
the Pontonier for repairing and calking of
her hull, had the work completed and was
also launched yesterday. The pumps will
be taken down the river and will go into
service near Fort Hunt, taking sand and
gravel from the beds in the river for use
at this city.
The tug Pickwick, which has lost her
wheel, will be hauled out to have a new
wheel put on and to be made ready for
service again.
The schooner Isaac Solomon is in port
with full cargo of cord wood from river
point for dealers.
The scow Bush, laden with lumber from a
nearby point on the river, was brought into
port yesterday afternoon by the tug Don
Key, Captain Kintz-
The tug James Jackson Is in service about
the new highway bridge towing scows laden
with material from point to point as
wanted. The tug Sunbeam belonging to the
contractors for the building of the bridge,
is laid up near the Washington end of the
new bridge.
The Norwegian barkentine Vardirk, which,
unloaded a cargo of bones from Buenos
Ayres at Alexandria few days ago, loaded
a cargo of lumber at Baltimore and has
sailed with it for the South American port.
At Buenos Ayres she will again load, 1t is
stated for one of the fertiiizing factories
at Alexandria or Baltimore.
The new auxiliary pleasure sloop. which
Is now being prepared for service at Cum
berland's boat house at the foot of 9th
street. is owned by Messrs. William Mil
lers, John Seamark and r. @. Stidman of