The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-29

without any change. The builders have
lost an order from the Italian govern
ment for the construction of three gun
boats and twelve torpedo boats, owing to
their inability to furnish guarantee
that they would be delivered at a speci-
fled time. The Norwegian government
has placed an order for torpedo boats
with German builders for the same rea-
son.
The toughest weather seen on Puget
sound for many days prevailed yesterday,
says the News. No great damage was
done to shipping along the Sound. The
steamers Cricket and Multnomah each
missed a trip to Seattle. The steamer
Greyhound made but two trips from Sc
attle to Everett instead of three. The
steamer Glide anchored off Vashon ISL
and A boom of logs in tow of the tug
Laurel got adrift off Robinson's point.
The boom went to pieces and the logs
were blown up the Sound as far as Com
mencement bay, making it dangerous for
steamers to run in the bay.
The American ship Shenandoah sailed
yesterday for New York, says the Chron-
icle, with almost 5000 tons of merchan-
disc aboard. Several hundred people were
on the wharf to see the splendid vessel
pull out on her long voyage. One per-
son, however, was not so enthusiastic
over the ship. He was sailor who had
drawn and given his advance to the
boarding masters, as sailors always do,
and then concluded that he would not go
to sea. He swan ashore, but was cap
tured and taken back to the vessel. How
about the Mcguire act which says no ad-
vance shall be taken from a sailor, and
neither shall he be forced aboard of a
ship?
Charters are now being made in San
Francisco for vessels to carry wheat to
South Africa and Australia from the
Golden Gate. Australia has always fur
nished South Africa with wheat, but the
failure of the crops in the antipodes this
year compels the Australians to turn i'm
porters. Alexander Baillie, Seattle agent
for Balfour, Guthrie & Co., was asked If
he thought any wheat would go from the
Sound to Australia He said: mo, 1 do
not think they need much wheat there.
In my opinion, the wheat already char
tered for at San Francisco will, perhaps,
supply the delinquency in South Africa
and Australia. The new market cannot
be permanent"
The new revenue cutter for the Pacific
coast, for which an appropriation was
made by last congress, will be a beauty,
according to the plans which have been
drawn at Washington City, and every
effort is being made to have her built on
the Pacific coast. Captain c. L. Hooper,
of the revenue marine service, writing to
Senator Squire from Washington City,
under date of November TO- says: II
arrived in Washington City a few days
since, and am delighted to find almost
completed the plans and specifications
for the revenue cutter for the Pacific
coast. have been over them carefully,
and have no hesitation in saying that
she will be far superior to any vessel ever
owned by the revenue cutter service.
The next most important thing is to in
sure her being built on the Pacific coast
I am particularly anxious about this: the
people out there take more pride and in
terest in vessels built on the Coast, and
can turn out quite as good vessels as
Eastern builders"
The steamer Pasadena arrived at Eu-
reka from San Pedro on November 18th.
While crossing the bar she shipped three
heavy seas from astern in quick success
sion. The steamer Is an oil burner and
carries its fuel in two-iron tanks on the
deckdeck. The first sea that she shipped
came over the starboard quarter and car
ried away one-half of the lifeboat on that
side. leaving the after half of the boat
hanging from one davit. The next sea
came over the stern and struck tank
containing about 1000 gallons of petro-
leum. The tank was jammed back on
the cabin skylight, broken, and its con-
tents poured down through the skylight
into the cabin and into the galley room
and engine room. The furnishing of the
galley and state rooms were completely
ruined and the provisions and utensils in
the galley were rendered useless. The
third sea washed the oil forward that
had not found its way into the cabin
and 1t changed all the white paint work
to petroleum brown color.