Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
ON THE RIVER FRONT
Wild Ducks Reported Numer-
Gus in Vicinity of Whitewater.
HOW THEY FOOL HUNTERS
Strange Fish on Sale in Market.
Tug Rosalie to Be Rebuilt.
Other Harbor Notes.

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| Wild ducks and geese are reported quite
| numerous on the Potomac in the vicinity
| of Whitewater Va, but they are also re-
ported to be very shy, and the gunners
that have gone after the birds found it
very difficult to get within shooting dis
lance. and most of them returned home
with empty game bags. The ducks are
said to be particularly "urse'' this year.
and the gunner who succeeds in shooting
any number of them must be an old hand
at the business. All day the birds stay
| in the vicinity Of Whitewater, where the
| river is about four miles from shore to
shore. AS soon as a boat comes any
where near them they fly to a distant
part Of the wide river, and no matter how
many hunters start after them they al
ways seem to keep at safe distance. At
night, when it Is too dark to hunt, they
come up the river to the marshes to feed.
| but at the first streak of dawn they take
! wing and return to the wide part of the
| river. Ducks have been scarce on the
| river in the vicinity of this city in day
| light this season.
| Chinese Like Squid.
In a shipment of fresh fish received at
| the 18th street wharf market from the
| Florida fisheries a box of squid. one
of the first that has been received at
the wharf market in recent years. The
| squid is ugly fish, and there is nothing
| in its appearance to tempt the appetite,
| and most residents of this city have only
seen them dried, and then as cuttlefish
put in bird cages. The dealers at the
wharf state, however that they are con-
| sidered a great delicacy by the Chinese
residents of this city. and they are also
used by persons coming from southern
Europe, who know how to clean and
cook them for the table. The shipment
| of the fish weighed about $50 pounds, but
| in few hours after the box was opened
most of them had been sold Some few
herring and half dozen shad from F1ori-
| da were also received by the dealers. Po-
tOmac fish are scarce.
| To receive general repairs and to be
| made into practically a new vessel the
| tug Rosale of the Smoot fleet has been
placed out of commission and is lying
at the wharf of her owner. foot of Sd
street southeast. The hull of the tug Is
| to be rebuilt, and the plans for its i'm
| provement call for the removal Of every
particle of unSOund wood and the replac
| ing of it with new material. In addition
| to this the machinery of the vessel will
| receive repairs. The work to be done to
the tug will keep her out of service for
several weeks and it will be well into the
spring before she is ready to return to
work. While the ROsalie is laid up the
tug Eugenia is towing in her place.
Tug Pride in Service.
Repairs to the boiler of the tug George
W. Pride. which had been in progress
at the wharf foot of street southwest
for several days past. have been COM
pleted and the tug has returned to serv-
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| from down river to this city for the Po
tomac Sand and Gravel Company. Most
| of the fleet of the Potomac Sand and
Gravel Company has been laid up in Pts
Getaway creek opposite Fort Washing
ton, and the dredges and scows are being
overhauled and made ready to resume
service in the spring, when the demand
| for sand and gravel for construction
work will be particularly heavy. The tug
Powhatan, the other towboat of the Po-
tomac company fleet, has been out of
| service for several weeks.
Pulp Wood for West Virginia.
| With full cargo of pulp wood.
which she loaded at a down-river point
| the Clarke schooner Mildred, Capt. Guilt
son, has arrived at the Alexandria ship
| yard, where the wood will be loaded upon
railroad cars to be shipped to West Vir-
gina where it is converted into pulp
terial brought from river points to Alex
| andria, for the West Virginia pulp mills
have been in progress for several months
and it is stated that many thousand
cords of the wood have been transferred
from vessels to the cars at the shipyard
wharf since early in the past spring.
,, Schooner's Survivors Landed.
A letter from r. r. Freeman of
Boston, owner of the schooner Future,
received by johnson & Wimsatt of this
city, to whom was consigned the lumber
she had aboard when lost, states that
Engineer Perry and the four surviving
members of the crew of the schooner
will be landed at Boston today from the
steamship Taxonia. The letter also con-
firms the reported drowning of Capt.
Larkin. Mate Shafter and the cook of
the Future, and requests any mail john
son & Wimsatt may have for the men be
sent to Boston for distribution. bundle
| of letters and other mail addressed to the
| men of the Future was yesterday sent to
Boston requested.
| For the first time in a week or longer
| the tide in the river yesterday evening
| made good and full, the water level
| reaching almost a spring height. The
| river men say that this is pretty sure
| Indication of the coming Of cold north
west winds that will blow for twenty
| four hours or longer with more than
ordinary violence.
The tug D. NJ Key, which has been out
of commission for a week two. has
| been placed in service for towing about
| the harbor and on the river in the vicin-
| ity of this city, while the tug Capt. Toby
| is receiving a new condenser.
| Capt. Matthew kersey, master of the
| tug Rosalie of the Smoot fleet, and neStor
| of steamboat men on the Potomac, was
visitor to the tugboat offices on Water
street yesterday.
| Capt Rodney Dickerson is superintend-
| ine the repairs in progress on the tug
Walter T.. Meade of the Columbia Granite
| and Dredging Company feet out on the
marine railway at Deans boatyard.
| Arrivals.
| Schooner Halle X. oysters in the shell
from the Potomac beds, at nth street