Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-23
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

Shad are slowly working their way up
the coast toward the spawning grounds
in the Potomac in the vicinity of this city,
and it will be only a few days before
the big fishing shores along the river will
be making catches Of the fish. Dealers
here yesterday received shad caught in the
nets in the lower part of Chesapeake bay,
and they were sale in the local
markets. This week Is the first time this
season that shad in any quantities have
been caught in the vicinity of Fort Mon
roe, and 1t shows that the fish have come
into the bay on their way up the coast
from the south Up to this time the bulk
of the shad on sale in this market has
been caught in North Carolina and in the
waters of the other south Atlantic states.
but the receipts have at no time been par
ticularly heavy. Yesterday quite a number
were received at this market, and they
were quickly sold to uptown dealers.
The three-masted schooner E. S. Plum
mer, which unloaded cargo of building
stone from New York at Georgetown for the
new District building, and which has been
taken to Alexandria and berthed at ship
yard there to load cargo of railway ties
for New York, will complete the loading of
her cargo today.
Arrived: Bugeye Ella, pine lumber from
river point; bugeye PLUME E. Smith,
cord wood from the lower Potomac for
dealers here; Anna NJ, oysters from the
beds in the lower Potomac; 7. c. Thornton,
pine wood from Nomini creek for the local
trade; tug Eugenia, with tow of sand and
gravel-laden scows from Piscataway creek
Md; tug radiant, towing Standard Oil Com
pany's tank barges Nos. 81 and II, laden
with oil in bulk for Georgetown; schooner
Norwalk, cord wood from river point at
Alexandria; tug Peerless towing two coal
laden barges from Philadelphia; fatte May
Parks, oysters from the lower river for the
dealers here; schooner Lorena Bramble, at
Alexandria; tug Peerless, towing two coal
from Newport News; schooner Walter P.
Snow, lumber from the Rappahannock
river; schooner E. N. Skinner. fertilizer
material from Baltimore at Alexandria;
buyege E. ]. Lawson pine lumber from
river point; power barge Louisa, cord wood
from Nomini creek; schooner F. w. Moore,
pine lumber from Coan river for Washing
ton dealers.
Sailed: Bugeyes A. J. Lawson and Levin
Woolford, light, for the lower river to load
cargoes back to this city: tug Radiant
towing Standard Oil Company barges 80
and II, light, for Baltimore; schooner Lot
load back to this city; bugeye Edna and
Nellie, light, for Windmill point to load
BUNCH fish for the market here; Schoon-
ers Maryland A: Shea and Silver Star.
wood for this city; steamer Dennis
Simmons. light. for Edenton, N. c.. to load
lumber back to this city; schooner Walter
P. Snow, light, for Coan river to load lum-
Der; schooner Goldie c., light for Colonial
Beach to load; schooner Earl Biscoe, to
load oysters; schooner Upshur, light, for q
down-river landing.
Memoranda: Schooner John McGinnis is
under charter to load gravel on the St.
Mary's river for the jamestown exposition
grounds; schooner Silver Star has been
chartered to load wood at a river point for
this city; steam barge e. James Tull has
sailed for Occoquan to load a cargo for this
port; schooner Sidonia Curley is loading
lumber on the Rappahannock river for this
port; schooner Grace G. Bennett has ar
rived at North Carolina port to load pine
lumber for the dealers here.
The digging out Of the docks at the new
pier of the Mutual Ice Company OF Alex
andria by the dredging machine belonging
to the John Miller Company has been COM
pleted and the dredge was brought back to
this city yesterday by the tug Martin DALI
man. The dredge will be employed in
dredging work about the harbor.
The bugeyes Edna and Nellie and the
Ada Ballenger are employed in running
cargoes of fish from the nets operated at
the fishing shores. They have made three
or four trips from the shores to this city
with fish aboard.
The tug Fortuna, formerly the Edward
Gummell of Georgetown. came into port
yesterday towing the barge Confidence,
from Philadelphia, loaded with about 500
tons of hard coal for the dealers at George
town Earlier in the week the Fortuna
brought the barge Mascot. laden with coal,
and the barge Totusky, laden with lumber.
to Georgetown. The former came from
Philadelphia and the latter from West
Point on the York river, Virginia.