Evening star., 1907-08-03
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The receipts of fsh from the nets being
operated in the lower Potomac have been
very small for several weeks past. The
operators of the summer fishing outfits are
becoming much discouraged and it is prob
able that unless the fishing outlook i'm
proves the vessels employed in summer
fishing will be brought home and crews laid
off until cooler weather and the prospects OF
making good hauls with the nets improve
Usually at this season of the year rock
perch and often taiors are caught in the
river in good quantities. and the steamers
coming up from river landings as q rule
brought UP several barrels of fish consigned
to local dealers. This summer the catch
has been extremely light and, as stated, it
has fallen to almost nothing in the past few
weeks. The bulk of the fresh Ash on sale
is coming from the deep-sea fisheries on the
Jersey coast, though a few barrels are re
ceived from Old Point. the catch being by
the fisheries In the lower part of Chesa-
peake bay.
The big Philadelphia coal carrying barge
Sirius. which unloaded q cargo of hard coal
at Alexandria, has been brought up to this
city and is lying at the wharf foot of 18th
street taking aboard a cargo OF gravel for
Norfolk. Within the past three months a
dozen cargoes Of Potomac gravel have been
sent from this city to Norfolk for use in
building operations there. and 1t is stated
that several more cargoes have been con-
fracted for and barges will come here to
load them. While sand Of the finest kind
is obtainable on the Chesapeake bay shore
and on the Atlantic coast near Norfolk
gravel Is very scarce and that taken from
the Potomac is particularly desirable for
the making of concrete foundations
Arrived: Steam barge Daniel X. Jackson,
railway ties from n river point, at Alexan-
dria; bugeye Norwalk. partial load building
material TO complete cargo for a river point:
n.
mac point for the dealers: schooner Plumie
E. Smith. pine lumber from Machodoc
creek: schooner r. Mason, cord wood from
the lower Potomac for dealers; schooner
Earl Biscoe. cord wood from Aqua creek
for this market.
Sailed: Bugeye Eleanor Russell pine Ium-
ber and building material to a river point:
schooner Two Sisters. for a river point I'D
load for this city; schooner Robin Hood.
light. for Maddox creek TO load poplar wood
for Philadelphia; schooner Maud s., light
for the lower Potomac to load: power boat
Stella, a cruise to the lower Potomac:
tug Rosalie. towing light barges to a river
point to load sand and gravel; schooner
Coward. for Alexandria to complete un-
loading cargo OF ice.
Memoranda Schooner Five Sisters is re-
ported on her way to this city with n cargo
of pine lumber; sloop Enola has sailed from
a North Carolina port for this city with 4
cargo of watermelons; schooner Nettie has
been chartered to load lumber on the Rap
pahannock river for this city: schooner Sui
Ivan Sawin has been chartered TO load fee
at a Maine port for this city.
The barges WIcomico and L. n. Clinton.
which have been loading railway ties at a
river point have completed their cargoes
and are on their way to Philadelphia, via.
Chesapeake City. in tow of the Baltimore
tug Dixie
The three -masted schooner Daylight yes
terday completed the unloading of a cargo
of ice at Alexandria and has been brought
up to Georgetown to load coal for port IN
New England.