Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-09
UP IN OREGON.
A EUREKAN'S TRIP TO THE ME
TROPOLzs OF THE NORTH.

Bars-ObservatiOns Ola the Column
bia-The Town of the F~uture-Its
Business, Prospects, Etc.
PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 26, 1882.
Ed. SENTINEL: The Rubicon, in the
shape Of the bar at the mouth Of the
Columbia, has been crossed, and the
limpid waters of the beautiful Willamette
gurgle sleepily past my latticed window as
I write.
The trip up was void of things exciting.
I left the foot Of Spear street wharf, in the
city and county Of San Francisco, at 10 A.
NJ. Tuesday, Aug. Is. There was a good
deal of handkerchief shaking and hand
waving between friends going away and
friends staying where they belonged, but I
kept my hand in my pocket; l had no one
to shake it at; l was a stranger in a strange
land, and l had been taken in, but I soon
shook off the azure-tinted feelings that
were encompassing me round about and
turned my thoughts to the brilliant future
that I was to hew out for myself out Of the
mighty ashlar of a pine forest.
ON THE DEEP BLUE SEA. $
As 1 wandered around the decks Of the
stately Oregon" which bore me so
proudly over the vessel-dotted bosom Of
San Francisco Bay, filled with hope, and
ambition, and whisky myself, not the
bay and several other incentives to acts
of valor and deeds Of greatness, l was sud-
denly struck dumb with CONSERVATION at
the significant actions of the paid hire
1fNvn of tLAn II C. NJ HD nhnr, -,a-
double lasting the freight. Although a
regular 'fake" in maritime matters, I
understood that; oh, yes, I knew without
being told that the wind was fresh outside
the heads Exceedingly fresh, I thought,
and that when The old ship got out there
she was going to walk on her hands and
make an Internal old fool of herself gem
orally, and that the young man from Eu-
reka was going to be as sick as the devil
and yield up his immortal soul to the
lavenous beasts that are lulled to sleep in
the cradle of the deep.
A VERY SICK BOY.
And it came to pass that l was dead
right, and the young idiot from the Base
Range got as sick as two devils, and more
than once got him unto the rail, and,
leaning far over, gave unto tho vastly deep
the triumphs of the steamers cuisine.
Great Hesvings but it was horrible, and
to make matters worse, an opera troupe
was on board. Now, taken in the abstract,
that does not mean anything in particular,
but in this particular case it did. 1t meant
that in going down the bay l was unlucky
enough to become invested with a gold
collar with one of the prettiest of the
choristers, and when we got out to where
the wind was so 'fresh" I had to quit,
not that there was any stern parent or in
vidious brother in the case, but 1 could
not keep my own dinner in its place and
I'd be "durned' if I was going to run
chances On anybody else's.
A TIMELY FRIEND, WITH ADvIoEs.
On the whole, however, the trip was an
average one, except for the presence of the
iend who never gets sick n gives adj
vice. l think the most contemplate, dis
gushing person on the face of the globe,
Except maybe a member of the Eureka
Goldfish aristocraoy), is the man or woman
who is never seasiok and who insists on
trying to get you to brace up. "Oome,
come, my boy, this will mover dol get up
and stir around; you will feel much better;
il your stomach is restless eat q little lard
tack. or take q little brandy and settler.
or o little cold, black coffee, or a little
IItiou blbnGn L IlAkAb as we'll nave
told me to follow the example OF the noted
Nazarene and get out and walk. / could
nave done it las easily as what he advised
stir around IN a id old ship that is
trying to fall over backwards half Of the
time. I did try to stir around, and while
one step required an elevation Of my knee
far above my chin, in the next 1 could
very handily have stepped clear across
the boat and half way to the shore, aud q
mad clutch at the stop royal gallant OF
the main capstan" was all that saved my
luuaoy-tainted carcass from feeding the
sharks.
GOOD MANY HAIRS.
Yea, verify. I was sick; never before had
I realized the trurhfulness of those poetic
lines, "Hell hath no fury like a stomach
turned" But the most painful hours
have endings as well as the ~'happiest,"
and about noon of the third day we sighted
the dread Columbia bar. Now, a word as
to this bar. There are a good many kinds
of bars. There are whisky bars, such as
Joe Mendes', Tommy Douglas and Fat
Mary's. Then there are legal bars, like
Hon. Thomas Wren's, Eddy Vanderlieth's
and Captain Hubbard's. Again, there are
horizontal bars, parallel bars (such as the
Rev. Mr.. James fell Off of, crowbars,
bars of bullion, grizzly bars, and many
others too numerous to mention. This is
not one of those kind. This bar is a sand
bar. and while it remains, as l guess it
will, it will hurt Portland as a seaport
town, although there never was a vessel
wrecked in crossing it yet.
OF THE SAM BAR
We were RECALLED while going over "by
the sounding four" and by the ''mark
fve," etc., delivered in very fair tenor
voices. That turned the drift Of what
conversation was going on to Mark Twain
and his sounding of "By the mark Twain"
and when that had subsidized and the shall
low part ascertained (which was twenty
fout feet and the wreck of the Great Re-
| public discussed (she was wrecked inside
OF the bar on a calm moonlight night,
lone on purpose for money! our gun went
off, and we swung slowly around to our
| pier at Astoria.
A REMINDER OF VENICE.
Astoria is an exceedingly live little town
of 2 800 inhabitants, situated at the foot of
q steep hill; in fact, about half Of the
town is built on the water, reminding n
somewhat Of Venice. although the logs
| that float around beneath the streets and
| at their side would make it very lively for
any chance gondola that might stray in
there. TIL Industries arc lumber n
salmon canning; in the fishing season
there are from 1000 to Q 1000 fishermen
| congregated in the town. and then things
r. lively.
A BRIEF TRIP sHoRE
called at the offices OF two OF the law
yers, but found only cards saying they
were at the Courthouse. While l was
hunting around in the woods for this afore-
said Courthouse our gun went Off again,
and / had to hurry back to the boat with
out ascertaining the state of mind OF the
lawyers located there, the size Of the fees
obtained, etc. I believe, however, a man
might do worse than settle in Astoria.