The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-05-11
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.


ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
The Elida is tied up at the bonded ware
house dock.
The sealing schooner Kate and Ann
passed out yesterday
The State of California Is due from
San Francisco this morning.
A 75-inch section wheel for the steamer
Edith is being made at the Astoria Iron
Works.
The schooner Laura Pike came in yes>
terday with deckload of oak bark from
Humboldt, Cal.
One Of the Shoalwater Bay plungers
paid Astoria a visit yesterday for the
hrst time since last years regatta.
Stone barge No. had new stem plac-
ed In her yesterday, and was towed up
to her anchorage opposite the Scow Bay
Wood Yard dock in the evening.
The Alice Blanchard came down the
river from Portland yesterday morning
with full cargo, and passed out to sea
at a. m bound for San Francisco and
way ports.
The run of salmon yesterday was
again slack, all the canneries reporting
small average return from the boats.
The quality and size of the fish, how
ever, continue very satisfactory
New shaft couplings for the steamer
Miller are being manufactured at the Dali
CITY Iron Works, and it is probable that
the boat will be able to resume her regu-
lar trips to Westport by Monday.
Yesterday, soon after daylight, the
steamer Chilcat crossed in over the
mouth of the river and docked below the
bonded warehouse. She will go to the
bonded warehouse wharf today and take
aboard seventy tons of tin for Alaska
canneries.
Boat No. 40, belonging to the Astoria
Packing Co., in which Fred Peterson
and his unfortunate boat puller were up
set last Tuesday, was recovered yester-
day and brought up to Kinneys dock.
and is half filled with sand.
Last night the new propeller shaft that
the Astoria Iron Works turned out for
the steamer o. K. was shipped aboard.
This little piece of Improvement evens
up the repairs that were effected on the
sly to the Oregon on her last visit to San
Francisco, and both cruisers are now
about matched for their two-mile regatta
race.
Over fifty men were working yesterday
in the new addition to Kinney's cannery
and packing went on all day, the machin-
cry running very satisfactorily. Carpen-
ters have nearly finished rebuilding the
delivery slip and everything will be ready
for the abandonment of the Devlin can
merry on Monday. The traces of the re-
cent fire are now nearly all swept away,
and the new structure is so planned
that every part of the work going on in
all departments can be seen at glance
by the foreman.
Chinook" in the Cathlamet Gazette,
says Mondays storm made sad havoc
among the fishermen of Bakers Bay.
Boats came ashore and were smashed
into kindling wood. The sloop Mayfiower
went ashore on Chinook beach. She had
her center-board smashed and her rigging
badly damaged by the drift logs. She
was hove off again at high tide on the
7th. Ole Peterson lost fine scow with
a house on her. He had just purchased
the scow at Astoria for $3.50. She is a
total loss. He also lost two skiffs."
The agitation for more local yachts
with which to compete against all COM
ers at the regatta is still a much dis
cussed question among the various boat
builders in town, all of whom seem will
ing to be a little patriotic in the matter.
Any one of them is willing to build a
yacht of any designated size, on the
condition that she must beat anything or
her inches that can be brought against
her on the coast, or no sale. The sale
price may be placed at a fair figure, suffi-
cient to cover the labor and designing.
This is a proposition that certainly ought
to be taken up by some members of the
local sporting community. The boat
builders claim that they can uphold the
city's honor in the matter of turning out
fast boats, and they surely ought to be
given a change to prove their skill.
LCONCiudy Il hNAAG dldll NiioN
will stand investigating occurred on the
river just abreast of Tongue Point. The
Lurline and Harvest Queen pulled out
from their docks for the trip up river
at about o'clock, and for little dis
tance both boats had a lively spurt, with
the result that the Queen seemed to get
the best of 1t. Both steamers slowed up
a little and the Lurline, the officers
Of the Queen claim, was headed straight
for the paddle box Of the latter boat.
A moment afterwards the Lurline struck
her on the wheel, turning the Queen
round, and damaging both her
own stem and the Queens wheel box to
the extent of about 800. The captain OF
the Harvest Queen, II is stated in the
local offices. will ask for an immediate
inquiry. They claim that this Is not
the first time that such an affair has
happened with Captain Gray In charge
OF the Lurline, and considerable bitter
ness seems to have bee naroused over the
present occurrence.
BY the arrival of the City Of Topeka
at Port Townsend from Alaska, addition
al particulars are obtained Of the finding
Of the lost Montserrats medicine chest.
and is is also learned that fragments OF
woodwork from both Montserrat and
Reweenaw have lately come ashore at va
rious islands of the queen Charlotte
group. clearly demonstrating the truth
Of the theory that both the Inflated col
Iiers were lost well to the north, having
stood TO sea to escape the dangers OF the
Vancouver Island coast. The Victoria
sealing schooner Maud s., which arrived
at Yakutat on April Is with go skins,
brought several pieces Of deck fittings
easily recognized as having belonged to
one or the other Of the lost vessels.
Captain Nickel had obtained them at
Rose Harbor. Queen Charlotte, where,
he said, the HaAda Indians had utilized
portions of Montserrat
wreckage IN repairing their houses one
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