The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-11
II DAILY AsToRAN ASTORIA WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER il M
ALONG THE WATER FRONT.

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ALONG THE WATER FRONT.
Louis Martin yesterday finished re-
The tests Of the new Lyle gun, to be
used by the life saving crews, have Prov
en- satisfactory.
tic ocean is six and a half feet higher
than the Pacific.
The British bark Oreaila left out yes
terday afternoon for Queenstown. The
Relief towed her to sea.
$1,000 for salmon stream in Norway,
out of which they have caught two fish.
A monster shark, said to have been a
! genuine man-eater was recently captur-
ed off Wi.letts Point, N. Y, by two
soldiers.
The British bark Auldgirth left up the
river for Portland yesterday. She will
at once so to the elevators and load
wheat for England.
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! Yesterdays fishing operations were not
/ productive of much results and very few
| salmon were brought into the canneries.
Repairing work WIN be begun on the
| naptha launch Vigilant this morning. She
Is to be lifted with new engine and Will
have the shape of her deck house entire
| ly altered
/ The Canadian government contemplates
protest against the prosecution OF the
that 1t VIII tend to shoal Canadian har-
bors. 1t is not unlikely that American
harDors on the Great Lakes VIII join in
the protest.
Ihe BRUSH snip tranklston 1911 tons, |
shepard master, arrived in from Shang-
mai yesterday afternoon. She encounter
ed Ilght winds most or the way, and
made tair average passage OF A days
The Frankiston is in ballast and Will
go up the river today.
explorer, Alert, recently sold by the Do
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BEAUFORT Beach, Quebec, where she will
be burned for the value of the copper |
and iron used in her construction. The |
old ship has had an eventful and histor-
lc career
The Polk County Itemizer says: "Nu- |
merous fish wagons are running in all
direction from the salmon cannery over
on the Nestucca, the fishermen there not
being able to supply the demand. man
came to Dallas Tuesday with twenty |
salmon, aggregatng about 400 pounds,
and had no trouble in selling out at six
! cents a pound
There was the regular periodical race
between the Telephone and the Potter
yesterday, and as usual the boat that |
finished last met with about " accidents, |
while the "winner' would have won with !
several minutes to spare If some crank !
pin hadn't worked loose. These pre- |
tended races are getting very tiresome |
and, with the excellent service that both |
companies are giving, the public doesn't |
know and doesn't. care whether one boat |
is few minutes faster than the other !
or not.
Yesterday morning there was Lively |
time aboard the Orealla, and for several
minutes a large number of sailors had
all the fun they wanted Three or four
of the seamen wanted to go ashore for q
farewell drink" and when permission
was refused them became abusive and
finally started in to fight. The captain
was unable to take a hand himself on
account of an injury sustained in a
game of cricket some days ago, but his
first and second mates, both strapping
young men considerably over six feet in
height, jumped in and completely bested
the four sailors. Two of them were put
in irons and will not be released till the
vessel gets well to sea.
The electric launch industry is slowly
taking root in this country, the main
difficulty being that of finding places TO
Iecharge the storage batteries or get
new supplies of chemicals if primary bat
teries are used. In this respect today the
owner of an electric launch is often like
a nation which has a fleet but no coal
ing station In Europe the rivers are so
much shorter than ours, the towns SO
much closer together, and the population
so much denser, that we find many places
where launches are in demand and high
ly successful The English Thames has
a. fine fleet, and the continental rivers
are all dotted with such craft. At Ber
gen, Norway a regular line of electric
launch ferry has been established, with
eight boats running on "a five-minute
schedule across the harbor In Winter,
when the schedule is shortest, the boats
ply from a. M to 9:3O p. m. On an aver
age the boats cover thirty-seven miles !
daily and carry 1900 passengers The |
boats, which are Is feet long, G feet 8
inches beam, and made to carry eighteen
screw at each end. A three-horse-power
motor runs each hoat and the charqinp