The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-07-26
AFTER COOL BREEzEs.
THE GAZETTE FORCE FILLED WITH SEA AIR
AT NEWPORT.

The publishers, compositors, ETC., of
| the GAZETTE Office, desirous of taking
one good breath entirely clear of the
scent Of festive paste-pot and the high
ly colored ink-barrel and getting their
annual bath, fixed themselves up5o
Saturday last and boarded the Oregon
Pacific train bound for Yaquina bay.
The train, as it pulled out from the de-
pot at | 40 p. m. with E l. Ford at the
throttle and Conductor Kennedy master
of ceremonies, consisted Of one mail
and express car, a. baggage car, and
three coaclfes well filed. There were
Salem, Albany, EIgene, and Corvallis
people, numbering in all about 200,
and as each station WAS reached others
got on which swellel the number to
about 250. The ride over was very
pleasant, excepting some parts Of the
road where the dust was very thick.
Arriving at Yaquina City general STAN
pede was made for the boat which was
to take all to Newport, four miles down
the.bay. While waiting for the crowd
to get their baggage and trunks loaded
on, it was learned that every available
sleeping room was engaged in advance,
and that forty or more would have to
walk in the streets or bunk down by
the breakers. While we were Just
about giving up al hopes of having
good time and wishing ourselves back
in Corvallis, some good man hlnted to
us that we might find room, with
only three-qtarter bed in it, by go.
ing to certain house on top of the hill.
Oh! when the bout landed this writer
fairly flew up the sand path and the
good old lady who owned the resi-
dence was approached on the suhjecl
of letting us have that 3-quarters bed
and whel we showed her 4-quartel
dollar she gave us full charge Of the
room for that night and when another
dollar Of The same kind was shown we
got it for Sunday night also. Some oi
the crowd stopped at Yaquina City
over night and came to Newport the
n xt day, being afraid that no sleeping
accommodations could be had. OF the
130 or more who did go to Newport
about twenty were unable to secure
rooms.
Nothing of much interest occurred on
Saturday evening only the large num-
Der of people walking up and down
the principal streets. Miss Maud
Hoffman gave one of her sselect read
ings" that night in Titman's hall, before
| a good-sized audience On Monday
night She was at Toledo.
| About 10 o'clock in the Silly night
we, with our chuln, dropped into that
3-quarter bed and slept 'Hlike log" un
til 5 q. m. on Sunday, when we arose.
After pulling on our unmentionab bles
or something like that, and drawing
on the rest of the necessary coverings
of the body, stroll was had down to
the beach. Getting on to the govern
.nent works of the north ,jetty and
walking out to the end of the trestle
work where the work of driving the
piles was being done, good view OF
the south beach, the south jetty, ane
the wrecked "Yaquina Bay" was had
between the clouds of fog that were
coming in off the ocean. The govern
ment works on the north beach be
ginning at Newport are big thing.
, Just below the entrance to the Ocea,
House grounds is the ftfound house,
the coal house, the swinging crane,
and other apparatus belonging to th'
government All of this was built OF
piling and at the end of the coal house
begins the approach extending out t
where the jetty proper begins DESTROYS
of knowing how many piles alread,
had been driven, and how many fee
of trestle there was, this writer put sir
!, a little time figuring. Beginning at the
coal house there was 1876 rows of piles
in As and IS, making 6S3 already driven
and allowing about fifteen feet betweei
each row there is about 2,940 feet o
the work completed. This follows th'
bluff around about two-thirds of the
distance between Newport and the
north point, and then starts out tow
ards the middle of the entrance t
the bay. A narrow gauge track is lai'
upon the top of this work and a loco
motive and several cars are used t
haul the rock, lifted from the barge b
the crane at the Ray dock, to the plac
9 where l. is to be dumped between tn
piling. This north jetty will probabl
extend over 5000 feet out into til
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