The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-10-25

small cargo.
The steamer Mendell will make her last
trip to the jetty today, after which She
will be taken TO Portland.
The bark CoComa came down the river
yesterday laden with flour for Hong
kong. She will leave out tomorrow
The schooner Letitta came in from San
Pedro yesterday. She win be taken up
to Portland today to load lumber for
San Francisco.
The steamer Thistle, the Victoria Fish
ing Company's vessel, arrived yesterday
from the Queen Charlotte banks with
&C, 900 pounds of fresh halibut. Two car
loads of the fish, about 10000 pounds,
went East in refrigerator cars attached
ito the overland train yesterday. Their
destinations are Boston and New York.
The remainder of the fish go TO coast
points.-Seattle P. I.
"The German bark Bertha, Captain
William Rosch, which arrived from San
Francisco Sunday evening"" says the Ia
coma Ledger, twill load lumber at the
Tacoma mill for San Pedro She brought
she is dlscharglng. The Bertha is one
of tine fastest iron merchant sailing ves-
sells afioat. She broke the record for
this year in her voyage from Hamburg
to San Francisco, making the trip in 12S
days. Last year she made the quickest
trip out of 50 ships sailing from the East
Indies to Europe. Captain Rosch re-
ports novel sights witnessed when THE
vessel was about fifty mites off the en-
trance to the Straits The ship ran into
an immense bank of dense smoke which
extended for miles. The phenomenon
was reported to the branch photographic
office alt Port Townsend. The smoke is
supposed to have come from forest fires
i'm the Olympic mountain region"
Two ships were cleared for England
yesterday, says the San Francisco Chron-
icle with large lines of canned salmon.
The Castro, for London, carried the fof-
lowing consignments:
Pacific Whaling Co................. $4,000
Alaska Improvement CO. .......... IL, ,15O
p. A. William ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000
H. HugneS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2,542
c. D. Bunker & Co................... $50
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1902
These lots were valued at $156,51S.
Shipments by the Lord Templemore for
Liverpool were as follows:
P. A. Williams Observation-Disclosures. 4,35y
F. Z. Booth & Co.................... 1,5OO
Miscellaneous ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S22
notaR Observation-Disclosures. 6,6sl
Weleh & Co., in transit. ............. $500
Iotal '''''''''.'.'........,.... l4,1l
The domestic salmon by this Ship was
valued at $27,S21, and the foreign $41, ,25O.
Ships that are able to carry 5000 tons
cargo are not pls1tifuB even in these
days of sharp competition and low
fl eiglhts, and the few of this charac ter
now afloat are the outcome of the Ship
iblu.ding industry of the past twenty
years The first vessel that ever took a
5,OOO-ton cargo from this port was the
British steamer Silverton, which was
Goaded here about thirteen years ago.
This stealmer had been engaged in laying
a cable before coming here and aus the
owners desired to get her back to Eng
cand 1t was deemed good policy to first
send her to San Francisco for cargo
of wheat. She was loaded with 1888
tons, and could have carried more, even
width the large quantity of cable material
she already had. There are probably
several other steamers in the Atlantic
trade that can carry 5000 tons and up-
wards of cargo, in addition TO their coal
and provisions for a large crew. But
sah.ing ships with carrying capacity for
5000 tons cargo are not often cleared
from any American port outside of San
FranciSco.-Calr.
Lieutenant Atwood, Of the Marion, re-
Gently furnished the Bulletin with an
interview on the subject of cstlbldshfng
a United States naval recruiting office
at Sam Francisco. The government
seems to have foreseen the necessity of
such a station, for 1t has ordered the
steamer Ranger to act as receiving Ship
ait this port. About 400 men are reeied
for the navy, and 1t would have been
impossible to sign that many men at
Mare Island OF this number, 200 are
required for the Boston. The BOSTON
has, for nenHty one year, been at the
yard undergoing extensive repairs. AL
fortune has been spent on her, and II
Is said THAT the Pacific coast workmen
made discoveries in repairing the cruiser
that do not reflect much credit on the
Eastern shlpbuiDders. OF course, the
Boston has been in service a long time.
for She IS one Of the oldest vessels of
the new navy, and allowances should be
made for wear and tear but 1t seems
strange that after about eight years of
service repairs should have to be made
which amount in value to nearly cne-
fifth the worth of the ships. F.
Bulletin.
Among the new uses to which paper
fs put is in making sails for yachts. A
regular processed pulp is made, and is
treated with various chemicals. To a
ton of pulp are added forty pounds of
prime talgow and one and a flaH pounds
OF alum, twenty-five pounds of glue and
one pound of bfchrUmhte of potash. All
of these ingredients are mixed thorough
ly, then made into sheets after the rsual
fashion, and then two eheets are
gummed and pressed together so as to
practically unite them in one. Then
specially built. very powerful congress-
or5 are employed to roll these thick,
PUPPY sheets out into the desired thin
ness. The result Is a tough, strong,
flexible paper ready for further treatment,
Which comes next IN the way Of a bath
OF su!phEtc acid and water, then It must
pass between the gtass rollers. Then
fouows an ammonia bath, then a clear
water washing and a pressing between
feI rollers. winding up by a drying and
polishing beoween heated cylinders. The
sheets, which now resemble in weight
and thickness the usual grades " duck
employed for saEs, are cemented and
sewed or rfvebed TO form a continuous
sheet Of the required size for Eais. It