Evening star., 1908-01-22
GENERAL NEWS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

Laths from the maritime provinces of
| Canada are one of the few things that
are brought to this city aboard vessels
on which duty has to be paid. The three
masted schooner l. *. Stetson. which is
| lying at the wharf foot of 10th street
unloading a cargo of spruce laths from
st. Johns N. B.. has a custom house
officer aboard checking the bundles of
laths as they swing over the rail Of the
schooner, and when her cargo Is dis
| charged Johnson & Wimsatt, the con-
signees of the laths, Will give the Gus
tom house officials a check for the
amount of the duty. The tariff now in
force imposes duty of % cents per thou
sand on laths from the Canadian prov
inces. The Stetson has aboard about
100000 laths, but of these the duty Will
be paid on $4,000. or $123. The re-
ruainder Of her cargo came from Iaatne
port and is free of duty About $eOO is
paid each year at the Georgetown GUS
tom house on importations of laths from
Canada.
Numerous herring from the lower Po-
tomac are being received by the dealers
at the 18th street wharf market almost
every trip made by the steamers to the
lower river, and the dealers say that ii
warm weather continues an early open
Ing of the fishing season may be looked
for. In the shipments of fresh fish from
river points brought here aboard the
steamer Harry Randall. which arrived
yesterday, were a couple Of hundred her
ring as fine looking as any caught in the
spring fishing season. The fish COM
manded ready sale at about IS per hun
dred and We're in demand, it is said. in
the wholesale market uptown. AS yet
but few shad from Florida waters have
been received by the local dealers This
is taken by the dealers to indicate a
shortage in the supply i'm the Potomac in
the spring. The dealers say they would
like to see two or three weeks of cold
weather with ice on the river, so that the
water will get thoroughly chilled and
will prevent the fishing season from
opening too soon. At several of the haul
seine shores on the river the nets have
been in the water for two weeks, but as
yet the catch has been light.
Arrived: Schooner Horatio Seymour
cordwood from a Potomac point for the
dealers; tug James O. Carter with q
tow of five oyster and wood carrying
| vessels from river points: schooner Aman-
Hallie X, Fair American and Thomas w
Kirby oysters in the she'll from the Po-
tomac oyster beds; tug Peerless. towing
barge Worcester. laden with fertilizer
from New York, via Norfolk. for the
Alexandria Chemical Company; tug Rosa
schooner Isabelle. cord wood from Nomini
creek for Eeastern branch dealers;
schooner, Ella. cord wood from Nomini
creek: tug Rosaie. with a tow from a
down-river point; schooner Lottie. Carter.
cord wood from the lower river for
dealers.
Sailed: Schooner J. p. Brennan, light,
for the Piankitank river to load oysters
for this market; tug Camilla, with a tow
of light vessels for river point; bug
eyes Ethel Vail and Martin Wagner, light,
fo. a lower river point to load oysters
back to this port; schooner Sidoria Curley,
light. for a Virginia point to load lumber
for the dealers here: schooner Goldie c.,
light, for Colonial Beach to load lumber
back to this port: tug Camilla, with a tow
for the ST. Marys river: tug Minerva.
towing barge Mary 5. Brady, light, for
the st. Marys river.
+ Memoranda: Steamer Thelma, Nor
wegian, after discharging cargo of as
phalt here will return to Baltimore to
load coal for Kingston. Jamaica. at S1.,J
per ton: bugeye Mary and Rebecca is
at river point loading for this city:
schooner Grace Bennett will go to
North Carolina point to load pine lum-
ber for dealers here.
The schooner Charles H. Dagger was
Monday taken to the Alexandria ship
the hole in her bow made by the stem
of the ferry steamer Lackawanna, which
was in collision with the Dagger between
this city and Alexandria about a month
ago. The big hole in the schooner was
closed with canvas and boards SO that
she could be towed to Alexandria.
The engine of the gasoline power bug
eye Stephen Lark. which was broken
while the vessel was on her way up the
river to this city. was yesterday repaired
by experts of this city. and the vessel
will be able to use the engine when she
sails The Lark is at the nth street
wharf with a cargo of oysters aboard
from a Chesapeake bay port.