The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-18

The Sierra Parima cleared yesterday at
the custom house for Liverpool She has
81, ,S64 bags of wheat valued at $31 900 and
31,0S3 cases of salmon valued at 800, III.
Her salmon cargo is divided as follows.
Figures stand for cases: Aberdeen Pack
ing Co., lb. flats, 1000; j. o. Hantborn,
l lb. ovals, 600, y ID. ovals, 1000; p. ].
McGowan & Sons, 1 lib. ovals, 759; CUT
ting Hacking Co., Ib. ovals, 2,739, lb.
|. fats, 1,765, lb. tails, 1885, u lb. flats,
1000; j w. & V. Cook, l H. flats, 25;
Eurel1l g. Epicure Packing Co.. lb.
ovals, 752, lb. flats, $3.50. 10. talks, 500;
Astoria Packing Co, u 0b. flats, 400,
1 Id. ovals, 500; Samuel EImore, lb.
ovals, 500; Fishermen's Packing Co., /
lb. tails, 1000, " 10. flats, 1,1OS; A. Booth
Packing Co., ID. fats, 1900, u ID. flats,
1000; j. G. Megier No. fats, 1000
The steamer Bellarden arrived at New
York recently from Santos. Two days
befors her arrival a small sailing boat
was reported and a piece of cgo0h being
waved in the air. the Bellarden bore
down ON the boalt. The occupants wsre
man and a woman, a seven-year-old
boy and an infant. They were weh
nigh exhausted Through want of food.
The man explained thalt he was changing
his home from one part of the island OF
Bermuda to another, but storm arose
and the boat was blown out to sea, ana
had bsen 2 1days out when the Bellarden
came up Ito her. Both provisions and
water had given out. Captain Davidson
offered Ito take the party on board ana
tow the boat to New York, but this offer
the man refused, saying tnat his little
craft CONTAINED all he had IN the world.
However, they were literally supplied
with water and provisions and the course
to Bermuda givel, the BelpaTden con-
'tinIDsd her voyage.
An interesting instance, showing The
Duration of the working life of a set OF
first-clasS marine engines and boilers, is
to be noticed in the case of the White
Star Lin:r Germanic. This steamer left
Belfast in the year 1876 to take her sta
tion dn the White Star line between
Liverpool and New York and from that
time until she was returned Ito her build
ers ait the end of last year to receive
new boilers, etc, she was regularly at
work ON the Atlantic, and made no less
than 422 passages across the Atlantic,
or distance of more than one and one
half million statute miles. The original
engines, after nearly 20 years work, have
been taken out, ais well as the boilers,
and are NOW replaced by The latest type
of ltriple-expansion engfns. The ma
chinery, it may be taken for granted,
is sldll fit for service in a meaner capac-
ity; but judging from THE foregoing we
may conclude that 20 y:ars hence the
best machinery of the present day will
be found Old fashioned and unfit to COM
pete with the improved machinery of the
future.-Phllad;lph Record.
A New York dispatch commenting on
the HACK of freight on the American At
lanI1ic coast says: Thare were on July %,
in port of New York, mot including river
sound and harbor craft, 103 steamers, rs
ships Ga barks, 10 bItgis and 25S schooners
A good proportion of glhe steamers are
regular liners, and a majority Of the
schooners are coalStwise craft SO that
tfls others, usually referred to as the
"square-riggers," represent THE ordinary
deep sea carrying trade-the class OF ves-
sells in demand If freights ans good ana
an expense Ito their owners If the ship
Ifng business ds dull. OF dhe above
number of square rugged sailing vessels
in port, II ships, 26 barls and 8 brlgs are
unchartered This represents a volume
of about $4,000 tons OF unemployed ship
ping here just now, but thalt estimate Ito
be complete should include sundry handy
sized tramp steamers alnd big four-masised
schlronerts virtually in the same class, 30
that $4,000 tons is probably under rather
than over the mark of the actual condl-
tlon of affairs. On the Atlantic coast,
diner ports besides New Yrk are found
oveTtstocked with tonnage. Philadelphia
has in port 20 stealmars, 10 ships, 20
barks 3 brfgs and so Schooners one big