The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-04-30
Along the
Water Front

Water Front
The ship Cupica is chartered.
The Eclipse came down from Brook
field yesterday.
Captain Doig went out on the pilot
schooner yesterday.
The Cascades came down yesterday
morning with three stone laden barges,
Two sealions nave been captured in
Bakers Bay traps in the past three
days.
The South Coast left out lumber Ia
den for san Francisco yesterday after
noon.
Yesterday morning the Electric took
a piledriver down to the sands below
Trullinger's mill where trap piles will
be driven today.
The Sea Foam is busily engaged tow
ing pile drivers to and from several
locations neal Sand Island.
The Colony and Ancona will be load
ed this week and will probably come
down the river on Saturday.
AT the Albion Iron Works o n Sun
day two new blades were fitted into
the propeller of the steamer Edith.
The steamer Oregon left out for San
Fran lisco yesterday afternoon with
100 tons of shocks and 100 sacks Of
oysters.
Tides for today: High water, 4:O7 a.
m. Is feet linz; 1852 p. m. &c 1t. l I'M
Low water, lib a. m. 90; 11:V9 p. m.
eft. 6 in
James Wlhitcomb is now In charge OF
the steamer Dispatch, working on tow
age in the vicinity Of Sand Island for
B. A. Sea6org.
The May1ower went up the Lewis
ard Clarke yesterday for a scowload
of hay (bhirty tons) consigned to Fin
layson's warehouse.
Yesterday morning the Columbine
was run onto the natural drydock
forming the inner edge of the channel
opposite the city and her crew at once
began to paint her bottom with ver-
milan ship color. She loated Off at
high tide with the work completed.
On Sunday afternoon the three-mast-
ed bark Southesk, Captain Hills, was
brought in by a towboat, and dropped
at Sand Island. From that point up
h sailed to her anchorage, and Pilot
McVickar brought her up along the
wharves very handily. She Is Is days
from San Pedro, with a part cargo Of
cement, and carries q crew of twenty
two men.
The steamer Ilwaco spent Sunday in
the hands of mechanics, who reolnced
her wheel and shaft and made all the
other necessary repairs. She came out
yesterday morning looking like a new
steamer with her newly painted hull,
and resumed her run to Ilwaco. The
boats that changed their schedules and
examinations or account of her retire
ment have gone back to their old posi-
ttonS once more.
Captain Higgins, the genial captain
and owner of the steamer South Coast,
has sold out his interest in that vessel
and is now negotiating for the pur-
chase of another and larger steamer
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a Francisco route. The new steamer
will be considerably faster than the
South Coast, and Captain Higgins is
positive that a good and lucrative
trade awaits his venture.
The four-masted bark General Rob-
erts arrived in from San Diego on
Sunday evening in sand ballast, with
Pilot CordIner aboard. Her passage
up was ~uneventful, with fine weather
all the way, and her crew consisting of
26 men all we'll. She reports sighting
a ithree-masted steam schooner going
south on Sunday morning. The vessel
is consigned to Sibson & Kerr, and
goes UP the river for Portland this
morning.
The Manzanita leaves this morning
for a cruise to Puget Sound. She has
several buoys aboard, and a large
amount of work will be done before
she returns home again. Information
comes from several buoy locations that
renewals and changes will be neces-
sary, and Captain Gregory cannot tell
how long the trip will last. Advantage
will be taken of a visit to Quartermas-
ter Harbor to go into the dry dock at
that port, when the vessels propeller
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generally attended to.
People up in Tacoma are mad be,
cause somebody intimated that no
ocean-going tonnage was owned in
that city. The Ledger triumphantly
points TO those two magnificent spe-
cimens of marine architecture, the
"Dashtng Wave" and the "Tidal
Wave" both bearing on the stern
the words, "of Tacoma" If Seattle, in
the face of this. doesn't get in and
build a "Sairy Ann or a Bouncing
Belle" her reputation as the boss sea
port" of the Puget Sound mud slue,
is in grave danger Of leaving her for
ever.
The result Of the test Of the Beaver
Hill coal will not be made known Off
clally for some days, as both Chief
Engineer Lord. of the COlumbine, and
the local agents. Finlayson & Co., de-
sire that a longer trial should be made
before any conclusions are drawn. On
the trip down 70 the hghtship on Sat
urday the coal was only tried for
three hours, and the time is considered
too shirt for a thorough test. 1t IL
stated, however, that the quality OF
the coal, as shown on chat TRIP, ex-
ceedsd all expectations. and that when
The final result IS arrived at the SUI
periority Of Oregon coal will be effect
lively demonstrated.
At dead low water yesterday morn
ing two fishermen had their boat haul
ed up on the sand a Parker's dock,
and were busy over breakfast A few
rashers Of bacon were bubbling in the
frying pan and coffee was simmerng