The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-05-25
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

ALOlNO AlhLS w Al LIN INOlNhs
The Telephone will resume her run IL
about two weeks.
The dynamo engine belonging to tht
steamer Victorian is soon Ito be trans
ferred to the Potter.
The Snte of California left out fol
San Francisco yesterday morning with
over 1000 cases of salmon
The boilers OF the steamer Mayhowei
have now been thoroughly braced vi
and are working very satisfactorily.
The steamer Electric went over 10 Hun
cry Harbor yesterday afternoon with q
boom of timber from the Clatsop Mill.
Fish continued to run fairly well yester-
day and averaged nine to the boat, with
an average weight Of from q to 2:
pounds.
At the Astoria Iron Works the ova
can soldering machine for the Cutting
Packing Co. is nearing completion, and
Will be sent out next week.
Most of the canneries are now supplied
with all their seasons machinery and in
consequence work around the iron shops
is stacking up considerably
The steamer Lincoln will continue the
towing work of the Mendell during the
present week, and will then resume sound
ings in the vicinity of Sand Island.
The six carpenters at work on the
Eclipse are still tearing away ner tim
bets, and yesterday got down ITO the
ribs of the vessel. She is now entire
ly dismantled, from the deck down.
Joe Leathers will in all probability lay
the keel for a regatta yacht early next
month. He will model her after the shape
of the steamer Electric, and states that
he will be able to turn out sailing boat
on those lines that will prove a tough
competition for anything that is likely to
come against it.
AT the regatta held in Victoria, B. c.,
yesterday, there were twenty-four rowing
races, including seven between crews of
various men of war. Fourteen sailing
races are to be contested there tomorrow
und naval rattle and capture of the
city by blue-jack-ts from the warships
will take place on Tuesday.
The Mendell will take a day off today
and her crew will be busy washing boil
ers and cleaning the engine room. To-
morrow she will continue her sounding
work at the mouth of the river, and
with fine weather should complete 1t
by next Friday. She sounded "a miles OF
channels on Thursday, but was unable to
do anything yesterday on account of the
fog that prevailed on the water.
The capital nof the British ship Senator
which arrived ait Queenstown May 1st
from this city, reports that on the 29th
Of April, at 8 p. M, in 40 north, 13 west,
ne passed vessel bottom up, apparently
u large-sized schooner, and with which
his ship narrowly escaped colliding. This
in all probably is the vessel that has been
reported so often, and which is a most
dangerous obstruction, being right in
the track of navigation.
Captain ]. Rasmussen, of the schooner
Vega, has been notified through the
branch photographic office in Portland
that an ocean current report, thrown
overheard by him on November %, 1884,
in latitude north 43 42, longitude west
18 Sc, has been picked up one mile
north Of Cape Blanco, oregon, on April
9, 1886, and forwarded to the hydrograph-
lc Office. This shows drift Of 19S miles
ESE, S-4 E. true, in 1877 days.
Yesterday afternoon the tug Relief took
out the ship Highland Home bound for
Queenstown, and the small lumber
schooner Laura Pike for San Francisco.
The sailors of the Highland Home were
happy and with prospects of a big dinner
in honor of the birthday Of the English
Queen and a speedy voyage home they
crowded the forecastle as the vessel ran
down the river, and gave people along the
wharves a free concert of sea choruses.
Contrary to the general opinion the pi-
lots and captains Of this city, and in par
ticular Pilot Larl5ins, consider the Bailey
when she is in good running
order, a faster bcnI. than the Tele-
phone From Portland to st. Helens.
a distance of % miles, the Gatzert on
running time has taken hour and 20
while the Telephones fastest
time to that point is / hour "a minutes.
From the dock at this city to Skamoka-
wa, about q miles the Gatzert has n
record Of hour and minutes, and the
best trip was made in /
hour minutes, both on the flood tide.
The steamer Tacoma, which took home
to Victoria Captain Smith and the crew
Of the wrecked tug boat Mogul, returned
to Port Townsend on Tuesday after dis
charging the boats, furniture and tackle
Of the Inflated steamer, all Of which has
been saved. The water is now washing
through the wreck, but the engines and
may yet be saved, and this is
a very important item. There is little
more to be added to the story Of the
steamers loss. Captain Smith ascribes
his misfortune wholly to the collision
with the tow, which occurred through the
rough weather bringing the two craft
together while the Mogul was running
alongside TO receive the shore letters.
ETC., from the Darra's master. The Mo-
gul's people were all paid on on Tuesday.
The schc Jner Annie is q TacomI siih
l4.0OO pounds Oh haiibut for the North
Pacific Fish Company. Captain Olsen re-
ports that most Of the time out the
weather was very rough. 50 that only
two full days were pun in on the lines.
On the nrst ham two men took 700