Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-16

ihoeS RtbVu ID. L amer iOi piSSluSuI.
On election day last that gentleman
drove TO the polls and cast his little
ballot for Hughes, Republican,
against Hearst, Democratic nomineel
What dye think of that?
FISH AND OYSTER NOTES
The Virginia police boats Accomac
and Rappahannock were active last
week on the Potomac, fning a dozen or
so dredgers and buyers for having I'M
culled oysters aboard. Steamer Maury
and inspectors Brewington, Hardy,
Dcggett and Howard the past week
imposed some three hundred dollars in
fines in the Rappahannock and Pianka-
tank rivers.
| The steamers of the menhaden fishing
fleet in the lower end of Northumber-
land county came in Tuesday (election)
night heavily loaded and the factory
men were very much elated. The fish
are yielding large amount of oil, and
a citizen from Fairfields reported yes
terday that the oil is selling for 20 cents
per gallon on the factory wharves, the
highest price paid in the last twenty
years. Heathsville Echo.
| Around Norfolk oysters are scarce
and high, labor is the same on account
| Of fba rr,.oof oy,,o,,,,t sc ,,,o-l- +Lo+ To-,
to be done for the jamestown EXPOSE
ton and the immense amount of new
buildings going up in Norfolk, many of
the openers and other people that usu-
ally work in oyster houses are now
finding better employment elsewhere,
consequently hardly any of the packing
houses have more than half of their
usual force to work and filling orders by
them is out of the question at present.
Prices now are S1.O5 and Sill for stan
dards, S1.15 and S1.2O for selects, anc
values firmly established
Captain George w. Maddox, of the
Maryland police schooner, Bessie Jones
had busy time last week corralline
the violators of the oyster law on the
Potomac, says the Baltimore Sun. Fiji
teen captures We're made of Maryland
boats having over the legal percentag,
of unculled oysters on board. Justice
Selby, of Charles county, placed a fins
Of SIS each on Captain Newton, of the
fatty Rosa Augusta, and Captain Rob
erts of the schooner ALBERT. The thir
teen other alleged violators were trieC
before st. Mary's county magistrates
and fines imposed, aggregating in al
1855. They were: Captain Adams, Of
the schooner Florence; Captain Sim
mons, of the Simmons; Captain Lewis
of the Richard Smith; Captain Travers
of the Travers; Captain Adams, of the
Whiting; Captain Phillips, of the fatty
Branch; Captain Bevan, of the schooner
Julia Lawson; Captain Lewis, of the
Richard Smith; Captain Donohue, Of
the sloop Mary Elizabeth; Captain Lew
is, of the sloop Ruark; Captain Robbins
of the sloop Phillips, and Captain Phil
lips, of the sloop o. P. Smith. Justic,
Herbert made Captain Marshall, of the
schooner Alice Langrall, and Captain
Willie of the sloop Robert Landin, pay
$50 each; the highest fines imposed upor
any of the violators. 1t is reported
that the master of an oyster boat ha.
been placedon the list for investigation
growing out of unguarded expression,
made by himself. In a moment o.
boastfulness he asserted that he tool
from the Potomac 1. 900 bushels of un
culled oysters which he covered with an
other 1000 bushels of legally market
able oysters. He took his cargo to al
important Eastern Shore town, wher,
the cargo was sold. The face of hi
cargo was so fine, he said, that theoys
ter inspector decided to pass the whole
as it was time lost to see the bottom
of the vessel.
The packers of Cambridge, Md, ar,
all busy filling orders, with about 81
per cent of the number of shucker
required. The labor questionwas neve
more serious. With an almost UMPIRE
cedented demand for shucked oysters
and with their houses flied with shell
stock, the packers of Cambridge ar,
confronted with scarcity of shuckers
and the business is handicapped. Al
day the packers have men driving t,
points in the inland districts looking fol-
shuckers, and have telegraphed to in
land towns of Maryland and Delaware
for help. Thanksgiving orders will
soon be coming in, and unless largely
increased number of shuckers can be
| secured heavy losses will result to the
industry in that city. The lack of shuck.
ers is partly due to the lack of white
labor on the dredge boats. The cap
tains have hired every available colored
man as dredger, as they were unable
to get white crews What is known
as the tramp element has not turned VI
this season to seek employment on the
dredge boats, and the result is that
there are many idle boats in port, al
fitted up and all licensed, but with nc
crew. Stock is good and will last for a
few weeks, but will soon be scarce
again, as before dredging commenced.
After the stock runs short the packers
are at loss to know what to do, fol-
Virginia is also short, and some of the
packers from this State have beer
buying Maryland oysters. The dredg.
ers that have been using power fol
holsters find them too small and will
nave to use larger engines. A number