Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-24
ON TIE RIVER FRONT
LAUNCH JAMES S. DOUGLAS GOES
INTO COMMISSION.
Steamer Moseley Returns From Baltl-
more-Work at Fireboat's Pier
Other River Matters.

The steam launch James S. Douglass, ten
der to the Potomac Dredging Company ia
Piscataway creek, has gone into coIhihis-
sion under the command of Capt George
Cook with Harry White as engineer hhe
launch made special trip to TINS CITY iass
NIGHT TO bring up one or the ere" Va
the dredging machine who was taken SUD-
denly ill and needed physicians a'teh.
tion IT is stated the launch Will go out ol
service in a few days to be hauled out ior
general repairs at an Alexandra ship9 aiu
The little vessel is to be put in the pest OF
condition for efficient service on the river.
The tug Juno has been on the marine
railway at Alexandria for the pas m VS.
~ more to stop a leak in her nun. YES
terdav il is stated the hull or the VesSel
was filled with water to hnd the ieah y!
the water coming through it. When lne re.
pairs to the tug Is completed sne WI ~
used in towing iish
river. ,,x, or fresb
There was fairly large supply OF ,, aresn
fish from both river and pay sHacks oii
sale at the wholesale nsh marhe5s IN u az
nth street wharf this morning, ana the oe-
mand for the fish was brisk, there peihs
large number of buyers In attenoance VI.
the market and the bidding at the auctiohs
being brisk Prices are TX ~
Ok cents per bunch; Spanish .mackerei at lA12
cents per pound; king mackerei at : ems
ner mound; Florida roe shad at % GEMS
each; Florida buck shad at ~ ses % cants
North Carolina roe shad at 40 ana oo cents
aacb. North Carolina buck shad at 90 10
40 cents each; North Carolina herring, sL<s
to 81 80 per hundred; mud shao' S1s 10 .
cents ner mound; bluefish, IL TO 10 cents
nor nound: salmon trout. II cents per
hound. extra large white perch, IZ12 Genus
per pound; pan rock, 10 TO ~ cents pei
hound; medium rock, IA to ~ cents per per
ppound: boiling rock, II to Is cents per
pponnd: large yellow perch, 20 to 80 cents per
bunch: catfish, Is to so cents per pufcn;
Sand nerch 80 to 40 cents per punch, sIlali
yellow perch 5 to 10 cents per puncn' "n, ~, :
rnercb large % to so cents per punch, an 7
white perch, small, 5 to 10 cents per bunch.
T. One vessel, the James ii. Beach, with
about 200 bushels of Potomac oysters
aboard, arrived at the oyseI Mnafi l. i h,,.
/ nieht The demand for the bivalves is pu.
| fair and they are selling at 4O 10 % cents
| ner bushel for medium, and u TO 81 per
| bushel for selected STOCK
Tbe sidewheel steamer Jane Moseiey ar
| rived here Yesterday evening from Baiti-
more where she has been since last ran,
| and is lying at the wharf foot OF Sth street.
| Since leaving here last fail the Moseiey mas
| been given thorough overhauling and her
/ boiler and machinery have been put in gooo
| order. She will. it is stated, be used for eX-
| cursion purposes on the river during the
| coming summer
| station on the upper part of Chesapeake
/ bay, which was discontinued last January
| ON account of the ice was relishted st.
| Patrick's day, navigation having been re-
i sumed.
| OF General Interest.
| large scow belonging to one of the local
| Sand companies sprang a leak while lying
/ in the James Creek canal several days ago,
and. filing with water, sank near the mouth
of the waterway. The sunken barge partly
blocked passage in and out of the canal.
/ Wednesday the owners of the sunken boat
/ had it raised from its bed In the sewer
/ mud and towed away for the repairs neces-
Sarx.
| A wharf-building machine is at work at
| the site of the pier for the new District
| fireboat, pulling up the piles OF the old
| wharf and cleaning up the ground for the