The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-14

and will sail tomorrow or SATURDAY.
The steamer Columbia came to her
dock at $3.50 yesterday morning from
San Francisco and went up to Portland
two hours afterward.
The steamer r. r. Elmore left out at
7:sO yesterday morning for Tillamook
with sixty tons of freight for merchants
in that town. She also carried twelve
passengers down.
The No Wonder left up the river at
o'clock csterday morning with the
three-masted schooner Jewell.
The pilot schooner went to sea again
yesterday.
The launch of the Oregon, which was
originally intended for September, Will
be delayed for another month. Henry
r. Scott president of the Union Iron
Works, said yesterday says the San
Francisco Chronicle, that the big,
broad vessel will, If all goes well, slide
overheard on October 2Sth, at 1;15
O'Clock in the afternoon. So much
weight has been placed aboard her that
she will draw more water when
launched than have any of the men-of-
war previously built at the Union Iron
Works When completed the battle
ship will draw twenty-four feet and
when launched, about twelve feet. The
putting in place of her diagonal armor
which Is eighteen inches thick, and of
the fve-inch armor which goes above
the heavy belt on the sides, Is respon-
siblc for the great weight Meanwhile a
dredger is busy digging out a hole in
the mud for the ship to float in when |
she leaves the ways and an opening |
channel through which she may be
hauled into deeper water The 2Sth is
chosen because It gives the highest |
tide of the month, and IL all Is not |
ready on that day the event will very |
likely have to go over until the 2Sth Of |
November. The four double-ender boil
ers to form the main battery for gen.
Grating steam for the twin triple eX-
pansion engines are ready to go in the
ship, u ara both engines. They rest on
the dock awaiting her. The huge mill
tary mast, the only one to be placed in !
the battle-ship, Is nearly finished. The |
base of 1t Is ten feet In diameter. The |
mast tapers off to about four feet at |
the top and viii have two galleries or
military tops, on which will be mount |
ed eight Hotchkiss cannons. Inside will |
be a ladder. So that men may ascend |
to their posts at the small guns with
out being seen. The Southern Pacific |
will shortly deliver two light armor
shields for the secondary battery of the |
Olympia. These complete her armor ex-
cept the revolving part Of the turrets.
The ship Ivy brought in general |
cargo to this city from New York last
winter, and going. around to Burrards
inlet loaded lumber for Wilmington,
Del. Captain Lowell sends the following |
report of the voyage: We left Cape
Flattery, April 2Sd, and were nine days
to the latitude of San Francisco We
crossed the equator in 125;4S west, and
passed Pitcairn Island June 9Th. From
there to the Cape we had fair run.
We had only one southerly and one
northerly gale to the Cape. We passed
the Cape, July 9th, "A days out; thence
to the equator which was crossed Au-
gust Cd, l02 days out, longitude 35:42
west. August 18th there was every APP
pearance of hurricane passing south
of us to the westward; got very
heavy sea for several days afterward.
August 2Sd, In the morning, we seemed
to be running into a hurricane, having
terrific gusts of wind and heavy fall
OF rain; at a. IN. hove to under bare
poles with oil bags at bow and stern;
the storm seemed to pass to the north
west, and at p, M. kept away; the sea
rose to twenty-five feet high and kept
up high sea for several days. on ar
rIving, found there had been terrific
gale all along the coast, doing much
damage, During the passage we have
had very hlgh sea many times. July 9TH,
90 miles south-southeast OF Cape st.
John staten Island, spoke the Ameri-
can ship Florence, bound west