Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-21
ON THE RIVER FRONT
FISHERMEN PREPARING TT
WORK WINTER SEINES.
Overhauling Tugboats at Boat Yards
Naval Guns Taken to Indian Head
Other Matters.

If there is no further freeze of the river,
the operators of the various fishing shores
at which winter seines are fished will with
in the next two weeks send their crews
down to the shores and the seines will be
put overheard as soon as possible. Plum
Tree Cut shore, in Occoquan bay, Va, will,
it is stated, be the first shore to begin OPP
erations, and Capt. Frank Price, the owner
of the shore, will send his men down with
in the next few days. A number of nets
will be fished from sailing vessels and the
owners of these craft putting them
in order and overhauling boats and gear
preparatory to starting down the river to
the fishing grounds about Blackstone S
Island and off Point Lookout The fishing
shores that haul for shad and herring only
will not be made ready for service for
several weeks.
Business was not very brisk at the whole
sale fish market on the 18th street wharf
this morning the demand for the fish be-
ing rather light, while the supply on hand
in the fish houses was fairly large and in
good variety. Prices are firm and steady,
ranging about the figures of Friday last.
There was a light demand for oysters
in the shell at the oyster market
on the wharf this morning, and there was
an abundant of the shell fish on hand to
meet the demand. Prices remain at about
the figures quoted yesterday.
Wild ducks and geese from North Caro-
lima waters We're on sale at the wharf this
morning and they sold at fair prices. But
few ducks killed on the Potomac have been
received by the dealers at the wharf this
winter.
tide high enough to float the tug J. t.
Selectman has at last been had and the
vessel has been launched from the marine
railway at Benefits boat yard ready for
service. The tug is owned by the Column
bia Sand Company and is employed in tow
ing sand-laden scows from the digging ma
chimes down river to this city.
The tug d. NJ. Key of Taylor Brothers
feet has taken the place vacated by the
Selectman on the railway at Benefits and
will receive a general overhauling of her
hull before being launched. Several small
launches are also at BENEFITS for repair
work preparatory to the opening of bust
ness on the river in the early spring.
General River Notes.
The tug Juno belonging to Mr. Park Ag-
new, is hauled out on the marine railway
at the Alexandria shipyard for such re
pair work to her hull as may be necessary
to put her in condition for efficient service.
The cutting of ice on the Kennebec river
to supply this and other markets on the
Atlantic coast was started about ten days
ago The harvest is said to be plentiful
one, the ice being about sixteen Inches
thick. The first cargo of ice for this city
will, it is expected, arrive here about the
middle of April
Gently been launched at a Bath tMe.) ship
ward for the general coasting trade. The
new vessel is four-master, ISL feet long,
and will carry about LOO tons or cargo.
She is to be commanded by Capt. l.. 5.
Wiley, and will be ready for sea in about
two weeks.
II is stated that the big sand-carrying
barge belonging to the TangieT sand Com
many which sank at Colonial Beach about
a month ago with a cargo of sand aboard
has broken in half, and unless the owners
of the barge raise it the town authorities
of Colonial Beach Will dow II UP III ofoei
to get it out of the way .
The baltimore schooner Minnehaha, Wmch
early in the week was cut through by the
ice on Chesapeake bay and sunk mas peeh
raised by WreckerS and taken 10 Baltimore,
ubare she will be hauled out on marine
raiIwav for repairs The vessel is owned
by Patrick O Brien.
The United States naval tugs Triton and
Tecumseh both went to Indian Head yes
terdav towing bargeS on which were new
guns recently completed at the naval ord
nance foundry here and which are to I'M
dergo their tests at the proving GROUNDS
before being sent 10 the ships IoI winch
they were built.
The rebuilding of the wharf of the WASH
ington Steamboat Company, formerly used
by the ferry line between this city and Al
exandria is being pushed along, but II Will
he several weeks before the work is COM
pleted When ready for use again in the
early spring the wharf will be practically
structure.
The three-masted schooner Pendleton Sis
ters which unloaded a cargo of crude as
phalt here, left port yesterday in tow Of
the tug Camilla for Lambert's Point, near
Norfolk. to load coal,
A large Philadelphia barge loaded with
poplar wood and railway ties which has
been frozen up in Curriomen bay, was
Thursday broken out of the ice by the
steamer Harry Randall and will sail at
once for Philadelphia.
The SchoOnprS Clara Leonard and Ferg1y-
son are reported in the river bound to this
city with cargoes of cord wood.
A tow of four coal-laden barges from
Philadelphia are on their way here and
should reach this city early in the next
week.
The tug George w. Pride, which has been
laid up at Alexandria for several days past
undergoing repairs, went into commission
yesterday and went down the river to bring
back tow of oyster-laden. boats.