The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-19
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The Trucl1ee reached San Francisco
from this city yesterday.
The State of California will be in to-
morrow from San Francisco.
The Mayflower took the Jeidness funsr-
al party round to Greenwood yesterday.
The Ladd dumped two loads on the
sands opposite the middle channel yes
terday.
Six carloads of salmon were taken up
to Portland last night on the Potter and
Telephone.
The new spars for the pilot schooner are
almost completed, and will be placed
aboard early next week.
The steamer Lincoln was surveying
channels an day yesterday between
Smiths Point and Point Ellis.
The steamer Harrison arrived in at
o'clock yesterday afternoon from Tilla'
mock, with ten tons of dairy produce.
new oval soldering machine was COM
pleted by the Astoria Iron Works yester-
day and forwarded to the Astoria Pack
ing Co.'s cannery.
The ship that was sighted outside some
days ago Is supposed to have been vesse
beating up the coast on her way north
cay. l,fs
Harry Cribb's racing yacht which ha;
already been described at length in these
columns, is now completed. The sail'
VIII be mapped out and made next week
A great many fishermen are taking ad
vantage Of the present slack run of salm
on to mend and tan their nets, and mos
of the racks are crowded in consequence
The A. F. c. confidently expect no les
than fifteen outside yachts to compet'
at this years regatta, and it is probable
that large number of clubs will be rep
resented in the rowing contests.
The four-masted schooner Olga, 473 tons
Capt. M. A. Ipsen, sailed from Eurek'
| June Sth for Honolulu, with 6SSSA fee
| of redwood lumber valued at S,176.O'
This, the third cargo so far this year
| is the largest and most valuable eve
shipped from Humboldt Bay to the Ha
waiian Islands.
A unique and effective bell buoy ha
been placed on State Ledge, in Bosto
Harbor, where a steamer was recent
wrecked. The bell weighs 255 pound.
and 8 struck by any one of four bali
that weigh 10lh pounds each and roll bac
and forth IN separate tubes with tn
slightest motion of the buoy by the water
Those who expected to see a race dow
The river between the Potter and Teie
phone yesterday afternoon were dsar
! pointed. The Telephone did not leave he
| Portland dock It'll 8 a. m, and did con
Siderable freight work at different point
after she left. The Potter also handle
a large quantity of freight on her dow
trip. Both boats were considerably late
than their usual running time IN max
ing their Astoria wharves
| Several men employed at the Astorl
Iron Works are now working night an
| day on the steel boom of the Rathdown
and 1t is expected that the job will b
completed in week. Mr. A. L. Fo
states that the boom is the finest piec
of workmanship that ever came into tn
shops, 1t is made of a continuous serie
| of double tapering steel plates, r-vete
| together WI tn steel rivets, and the wor
| of getting 1t to pieces involves grea
amount of labor. Several of the plate
| are badly twisted and bent through tn
ships recent collision, and they will hav
to be Strengthened out by being pu
through heavy iron rollers.
Schooner Jessie. Capt. e. p. Raymond
| Is at Yesler's wharf in Seattle taking pro
visions and fitting out for a long voyag
| to Bering straits, with supplies for tn
natives in the Arctic ocean. She vii
take a cargo of about fifty tons of hard
ware, groceries, dry goods and more o
less assorted merchandise. 1t is the frs
trip of the kind ever undertaken from tn
northwest coast, and is likely to build u
a profitable trade. The goods VIII be ex
changed for seal and both white am
black bear skins, which Will be brough
on the return voyage. One of the crey
understands the Esquimaux language
having spent five years in the far north
| AS the ice win have closed the strait
Ny OSpleHlDeT, VI WIN DC ueCesSdTy LOT III
schooner to have completed her eTran
| by that time, and she wifi likely be sout.
again by October.
Captain John Brown, of the Mend 4
was busy yesterday delivering notices
| the following cannerymen: Astoria Pack
ing Co., ]. o. Hanthorn, Samuel Elmort
| Cutting Packing Co., Eureka and Epicur
Packing Co., A. Booth & Co., and tn
| Fishermen's Packing Co. The notlfica
| tlons were issued by Major j. C. Pos
through Engineer Hegardt, and contain
ed peremptory orders to remove all fis
scows from the channel lines at the hea
of Sand Island within "a hours. Most q
| the Gamers complied Immediately wit
the demand, and 1t is probable that tlher
will be no work in this direction for tn
United States marchaa today. 1t has bee
| found by the surveyors on the Lincol
snd Mendel that it is impossible 10 max
cut the channel lines correctly with thes
scows in the way, and their removs
was not asked for until 1t became absc
lutely necessary to have them out of tn
road.
Captain George Black, a foreign office
In the Chinese navy, says: "a layman ha
no conception of the awful nature o