The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-03-14
SHIPPING DAYBYDA
Marine Matters, Here, There aid
Everywhere.

Astorin box factory n awaiting ship
mcnt on the State Monday morning
Steamer Empire arrived down from
Portland yesterday morning and left i'm
mediAtcly for San Francisco and way
ports
The British ship Marathon. Captain J.
H CrOsslcy. sailed for the United King
dom. She carries iik.si6i9 bushels Of
wheat valued at ii5.000 She viii make
Queenstown or Falmouth for orders.
The British ship Duntrune. wheat laden
for the United Kingdom. arrived down
the river yesterday. The Duntrine Is
a fine vessel and has the honor OF maxi
ing the smArtest passage OF the season
from London. The run was made in
iOi days.
Tho steamer queen will arrive from
Portland this morning. She viii take on
10 tons OF shocks here for Alaska, The
lumber II from the Clatsop mills. and
must Of necessity go TO San Francisc1.
thence 20 the north. An Alaskan line
from this port would save considerable
freight on such shipments.
The lighthouse tender MAnzanita went
down TO TillamOok Rock yesterday
morning. returning at s o'clock. She will
leave this morning for Portland. whore
she will undergo few slight rtpairs
The Columhine will probably be down
Sunday morning,
The Oriental steamship Asioun arrived
down from Portland vest srday morning
and docked at kidneys cannorv. where
she loaded 95oC0 feet Of lumber for ioko-
hama. The lumber came from the Clai-
sop mills Exclusive OF the lumber
taken on al this port. her cargo Is val
ued at 81. .i76ts. and Is consigned to mer-
chants in Seoul Korea. Yokohama.
Kobe. Honolulu. ilongkong and Shang-
hat She has 5.0oo tons OF -four aboard
Many persons visited the large steamer
while she lay AT the wharf. The steam
tr will sail this morning. Mr.. r. r.
Adams and bride are pass ssngers for
Hongkong. where Mr. Adams win look
after the O. r. s n. Co.'S interests.
The collision between the steamer
Queen and the British bark Strathion
seems TO have been an unlucky AFFAIR
for the latter. After the vessels were
separated IL was found that The sailing
craft had her jihboom fractured. She
was towed to the Union Iron Works
ana there her damages were repaired
In tho meantime the Queen had been
made as good as new and is now on her
way to Portland (thc steamer Is in Port
N..yt a. MI L. mam a
and fast at the iron works. when an
attempt was made TO dock her IL Was
found that there was bank OF mud in
the way. Extra steam was got on the
tug and the Strathdon was finally got
alongside, This was during the spring
tides, however, and the rise and fall has
gradually been getting less ever since.
Several days ago an attempt Was made
TO move the big ship. but It failed Last
Sunday three tugs were sent, but they
could not bulge her, Yesterday two OF
the most powerful vessels In the bay
made another attempt, but after pulling
out one OF her chocks they gave II up In
despair. The chances are that part OF
the Strathdon's cargo will have 10 be dis
charged before she can be got out OF her
bed OF mud In the meantime. how ,ver,
Goodall, Perkins Il Co. the oNn3rs OF
the Queen, are paying $i5S day de-
murrase to the owners OF the vessel. and
they fail TO see where tho fun comes in.
They have willingly paid for all the dam
ages the vessel sustained, but think II
is rather hard to be compelled TO pay
the demurrage because the vessel is
stuck In the mud and canont be got of.
Another attempt will be made to get the
vessel of at high water this morning,
and II II fails the work OF tightening
will at once begin. The Strathdon was
loaded with wheat and all ready to sail
for England when the accident hap
pened. Captain Phillips. jr,. is fretting
over the delay, as he does not consider
the demurrage makes up for his loss OF
time.-Call
The coast defense monitor Monadnock,
after being nearly twenty-five years In
building. put in her first appearance at
the bay OF San Francisco yesterday,
says the San Francisco Call She also
went through the Golden Gate and OBJ
tanned a first view of old ocean in one
of his oalmest moods. There was hardly
a breath OF air, and the dozen or more
sailing vessels in the oiIlng all ran up
their flags and saluted the monitor as
she passed. During tho time that the
Monadnock has been on the ways fVe
presidents have been elected and served
out their terms. During hive admlnistra-
tions money has been appropriated for
work on her, and II Is confidently as
serted that more money had been eX-
pended on her than would build two
similar ships at the present time. she
Is old enough to vote" said an OH salt
yesterday, but, still, | guess she is as
good and sound a ship as any other in
our navy. She is very like the Mon
teroy and seen a short distance apart
would pass for sister ships" The Mo-
nadnock is not the first OF her name.
The original vessel OF that name was also
a monitor and was the FIRST vessel of
her class TO make the voyage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. She was a fine
seaworthy vessel, but the wooden por-
tions OF her frame got the dry rot and
she had to be broken up. The hest por-
tions Of her hull and machinery were
put into the Monadnock OF today. The
new coast defense vessel is 25s feet 6
inches long. IS feet inches bread and
"a feet inches deep, she Is $3.50 tons
displacement and can make lA6 knots an
hour when called upon. With the ex-
ception Of the Miantonomoh, now on the
Atlantic coast, the Monterey and Mo-
nadnock are two Of the most formidable