Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-02

The record shad of the season, and of
good many past seasons, has arrived
at this city, and was to be seen at the fish
house of Shaffer & Stuart, at the foot of
18th street southwest yesterday. The big
fish was in a shipment of shad received
from Old Point, and when it was pulled
out of the barrel its unusual size was
commented upon by the throng of buyers
and dealers. The shad weighed exactly
nine and a half pounds and is over two
feet long. and all the dealers at the
wharf agree that it is the largest fish of
its kind ever seen on this market 1t was
proposed to send it as a present to Presi-
dent Taft. but the dealers were doubtful
IL he would accept 1t. and today it was
placed on sale at an uptown market.
Receipts of shad and herring both yester-
day and this morning show decided in
crease. and today herring are selling at
81. 30 to $1.75 per hundred. and roe shad
at 20 to 10 cents each, and buck at 20 to
80 cents each.
Personal to River Men.
Capt. William Taylor. for several years
past master of the tug James o. Carter of
the Taylor fleet. in service on the Poto-
mac has resigned to go into other busi-
ness.
I. B. Garrett, a popular purser of the
steamers on the Potomac river route. has
taken charge of the purserS office on the
steamer Queen Anne, on the route be-
tween this city and Nomini.
Sergt. Russell Dean of the harbor police
precinct. who has been on leave of abb
sence for several days past, returned To
duty yesterday.
Capt. Char.ey Adams, master of the
first visit to this port with his vessel for
a year or longer. For several years Capt
Adams traded almost exclusively to this
city from bay points.
Capt Biscoe Milburn. who has been
quite ill at his home here for several
weeks past. has recovered and has been
made dock captain for the Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company
Shipments of American Rails.
American-made rails are to be used in
the equipment of the Buenos Aires Mid
land railway, Argentina. South America.
and cargoes of the material are leaving
Baltimore frequently for the far south
ern port About 2 coo tons of rails were
shipped on the British steamship Tudor
Prince about two weeks ago from Balti-
more, and the steamer Indiana, now at
Norfolk, will go to Sparrows Point, near
Baltimore, within the next few days to
take aboard / 500 tons OF the track ma
terial. The British steamship Manches-
ter Miller is under charter to take 1000
tons of the rails to BuenOs Aires, and 1t
is expected she will be ready to load by
rails the Miller will carry out will be
rolled at the Sparrows Point mills next
week.
In the Lighthouse Service.
The United States lighthouse engineers
steamer Jessamine, which has charge of
the repair work to all the light stations
in the fifth lighthouse district, sailed from
Baltimore yesterday under the command
of Capt. Cruck, on repairing cruise
among the light stations on Chesapeake
bay and it's tributaries. The vessel Will
be two or three weeks on the trip.
The lighthouse service steamer Holly,
Capt Miles, has returned to Baltimore
from an extended inspection trip over the
district, and after taking on bunker coal
and supplies will sail on another cruise.
Charles A. White, assistant keeper at
the York Spit light station on chesapeake
| bay, has rendered his resignation to the
lighthouse authorities for the district. His
| Repairs to lightshp No. q. which
sprang aleak on the Cape Lookout shoal
about a month ago. and had to abandon
the station to avoid sinking. has been
! completed and the ship will shortly again
relieve No. so on the station The light
| house authorities for the district have is
sued the following notice regarding the
change in the ships:
| Cape Lookout shoals light vessel, sea-
coast of North Carolina: Light vessel No.
50 will be replaced by light vessel No. ~
about April IL. The change is temporary.
and sound signals having the same char
lacteristics as those of light-vessel NO
So except that the lights are shown at
height of 81 feet above the water.
| Light vessel No. ~ differs from light
vessel No. 50. in having a red hull with
= sReIief'' white letters on