The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-01-21
DAYBY DAY
Marine Matters, Here, There aid
Everywhere.

The British bark Bcdfordshire left up
for Portland Sunday morning.
The steam nchooner South Coast lcft
out for Ban Francisco yesterday after
noon
Tho steamer Alice Blanchard left out
yesterday for Gan Francisco and way
ports.
The british bark Glvngaher Will finish
~discharglnE her coal cargo this morning
and will be lowed up the river tomorrow.
The British bark Glencairn arrived
down from Portland yesterday afternoon
fuzzy laden with wheat for the United
Kingdom
The Weather outsid" moderated very
considerably yesterday evening. and the
wind dropped from ~ miles In the morn
INK to y miles at I g. m Tho wires To
the Cape were put In working order on
Sunday.
The Gloucester fishing fleet. comprising
d total Of 80 vessels and boats Of every
description above twcnty ION burden.
Win "a ANNlIAAhN w MaHNAf NfAHt hNfHH 80"
fishing season OF 1896 with a total catch
Of about 1i.aO tons. which includes about
100000 pounds marketed outside the
home port.
The recent report Of the commissioner
OF navigation gives tho total u OF
the American merchant marine as +,0h-
"a tons. Of which 2.t2LiA Is sailing and
2.2i?.s steam tonnage. The sreat bulk
OF these vessels are engaged In a trade,
where little or. In the coasting trade. no
competition with foreign bottoms exists.
The Melbourne journal OF Commerce
says, Timed salmon has beca In brisk
demand. cheap brands Of Alaska fish at
Is Cd TO ca "a having most support Red
Alaska has brought Ga a TO -, Skecna
river FISH. which IL worth ~ 81 to - oil.
according to brand, has not been In
much request, but HAT tins have been
taken freely.
The captain OF the schooner Western
Home, which arrived yesterday. makes
the following report. says the Call: on
January u at u m. we picked up n seal
Ing boat belonging to the schooner Kate
and Anna with Hunter Daniel ClausRcn.
Boa Stccrcr Carroll and Boat Fuller
Jacobs, who were lost from their vessel
on January 6 during a thick fog. on
January 1 they were picked up by the
schooner Rio Rey. bound for Bowens
Landing. but the next day. the weather
being very thick and no chance OF get
ting to Bawens Landing. they left the
Rio Rev ana started out by themselves.
expecting TO nnd somc vessel bound for
San Francisco, on January Y they were
tl.L.l tt hH an, NN.aVa.u ITa,,n anl ap
January II at . n. m. they left the West
trn Home, expecting 10 ind their vessel
at brakes Bay or Point Reyes waiting
FOR them,
Lately the first experiments with n
telephone connection between q warship
and the shore were made In Kiel on the
gunrdship Hcincdal. and resulted very
favorably," says Der Stein Der welsen
Wionna). In future. accordingly. IL
viii hc possible for all ships that lie near
a buoy In Kicl harbor to be connected
by telephone, not only with the telephone
system of the city. but also with the
other ships In the harbor, The central
office OF the ship telephone sytem Is In
the torpCia boat, From a small tenn
porary building wires are run through
the water 10 the same buoy, so that the
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Il n vessel leaves It's buoy It d~isconnects
the wire from the ships telephone and
" II approaches one Il makes connection
The communication of the ship with The
different port authorities and with the
purveyors OF pre- y%lsions. hitherto fraught
with 20 great Inconvenience and delay,
has by this innovation been greatly ia
cilitated. and It is also OF noteworthy use
for signaling purposes"
The whalehack steamer City OF Everett
completed her final passage in the Pana-
ma railway line yesterday, and II is said
that h will be put In the Australian
trade, h brought up about 1900 tons OF
freight and left about the same quantity
for the NashtenBw. The arrival OF the
latter steamer Will end the Panama rail-
way line of steamers. on the way up
from Panama Il fatality occurred. on
January S~the steamer was of ManEa-
Milo. and one Of the seamen, named Jo-
scph Benson, was standing on the for
ward part Of the ship, The weather was
perfectly calm, and how the accident
happened is n mystery, BY some means
or another Benson lost his footing, and
as he struck the water the steamer
passed over him. lie came up astern
and started to swim. A boat was low
cred and Benson caught the log line to