The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-05-07

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ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The Alarm left up for Clifton Yesterday
with big load of salmon.
The Ancona will leave out this morning
If the weather is favorable.
The Electric took the Walkley funeral
cortege to Greenwood yesterday
The steamer Bandorille from Southern
ports, is expected to arrive this morning.
There were no shipments Of salmon
yesterday by any of the transportation
lines.
The steamer Oregon is due from San
Francisco today. She left day late on
account of delay at the drydock.
Last night the Bailey Gatzert took j.
G. Megler's new soldering machine up TO
Brookfield from the Astoria Iron Works.
The Emma Hayward took the Mozam-
bique in tow at 5 o'clock yesterday morn
ing and started with her up the river
to Portland.
The schooner Kate and Ann leaves out
tomorrow. Her crew were busy all day
yesterday taking provisions aboard for
her sea otter cruise.
The ship Colony came down the river
on Sunday in tow Of the Hayward. and
yesterday afternoon left the Sand Island
anchorage outward bound.
A fine 15O-pound sturgeon brought in
on Sunday night from outside was taken
up to Normile's camp yesterday. The
boys are evidently living high.
Machinists are now busy setting up the
soldering and washing machines in the
new addition to Kinney's cannery. The
carpenter work is finished and canning
operations will be in full blast at the end
of the week
The steamer Harrison will make anoth-
er attempt to get out for Tillamook this
morning If the weather abates. Her
crew were filling up the time yesterday
scraping the masts and cleaning various
parts of the hull.
The steamer Mayflower went down to
Skipanon yesterday after a raft of logs
for the Clatsop Mill. On her return she
towed a load of boomsticks up to
Youngs River. She makes her regular
run to Young's river today.
Thirty thousand tons of shipping is on
the way to Astoria from New York, Phil
adelphia, Acapulco Calcutta, Dunkirk,
Liverpool, Newcastle, N. S. W.. and SAM
ia Rosalia. This is just 5000 tons more
than was headed this way at this time
last year.
Some of the upper canneries have
discarded the use of teams and now
haul their crates of cans from the can
factory stacked up in fishboats, and
drawn by naphtha or gasoline launches
People are economizing nowadays, con-
siderably.
After her arrival from Portland yes
terday the Bailey Gatzert took load OF
brick down to Trullinger's wharf, for
the oil factory combination. This cargo
is the last that will go down, and about
concludes the shipments of material
which have been going on for the last
few weeks.
The run of fish yesterday morning was
large and all the boats came in with good
hauls, the average being about ten TO
the boat. All the salmon delivered were
very big for this season Of the year,
easily averaging % pounds, with several
tipping the scales at 40 pounds and over
A rough estimate indicates that fully
$500 cases have been packed on the lower
river in the past "a hours.
The windstorm yesterday was very Sc
we're, more particularly at the mouth OF
the river At a. m. the wind was Que
south and blowing at a speed OF % miles.
At noon 1t veered around slightly to the
eastward. increasing in velocity 10 80
miles, and by sundown was blowing di-
rectly from the southeast at AZ miles
1t continued to storm steadily TILL MD
night, but the glass rose shortly atter-
wards, predicting a cessation or the pioW
by early morning
The steamer Alice Blanchard came IN
yesterday morning from San FRANCISCO
and way ports and tied up at t1nlaysons
dock. She brought 100 tons OF COOS Bay
COAL and large amount OF msceiia-
neous freight for this city, with nothlhs
for Portland. Her passenger list Is very
large, numbering AZ people, several Oh
whom have come here to locate. The
Blanchard proceeded up the river at
o'clock. She will leave here FOR san
Francisco on Thursday morning.
The latest issue of the Alaska News
saws Captain Mccormick, with tine 70
kon towed the wrecked steamer Lucy 10
last Sunday and on Monday
the latter was beached. They used oil
tanks to buoy up the hull, and by yank-
ing with chains about the boiler the nun
was towed from the reef to the Deach,
where the repairs were maze SO liia'
it would float. The house has peen ue-
molished and besides numerous hoIes III
the hull, the keel has been knocked , on
in places to the cardboard streak' AHe
steamer will be repaired by the A. l. "
NJ. company
Since the Potter and Gatzert have been
calling in at the up-river canneries before
reaching their city docks it has become
customary for several local young bioods
to board the steamers at these places
and enjoy a run of a mile or SO uoWh tne
river. The uninitiated crowd on tne
wharf, having probably seen these snort
distance travellers half an hour oeiore on
the streets. set their wits working TO
find out how they could possibly be com
ing down from Portland. Meanwnile tne
causes of the speculation invariably put
on a most serious air and strut up ana
down the deck waiting for the lahulns ~
be made, with the full belief that every,
body imagines they have , 3usl a Ana
from New York or the Contlnohs' Niu
they believe it themselves, too
II is said that the largest derrick in the
,rorId fe that ,tead in the granite quay "a