The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-08

! The rock Is precipitious on all sides, 1 except on the east where it shapes up at an angle of 20 degrees. The summit, except the sharp ledge on the west side, | is enclosed all around it's edge by a strong iron railing. The dwelling houses is located in the centre of the summit It faces to the east, and is located about due east and vast. It is a stone and cement structure held down by great iron bolts. The stone tower rests on the rock and shoots up from the centre of the dwelling. The enclosure from this wild sea -girt house contains some 1000 square feet, or less than two acres in
 area. The focal plate of the tower light in the tower is 196 feet above sea level. Yet this Pacific Ocean, when in it's ang- riest mood, ofttimes dashes it's waves
 against the plate glass enclosing the light and hurls gigantic rocks high
 above and drops them upon the home
 of those faithful but helpless guardians of the storm tossed mariner. The worst storms of this region are the south
 easter and southwestern of mid-winter.
 Then the winds have a velocity rang
 ing from IS to 104 miles an hour. The
 gales focalze around Tillamook Head
 in the fierce conflict of giants. They lash
 the head and the rocks and themselves
 with the greatest fury. It is truly centre of storms, in the fierce ebulitions
 of one of which the ill-fated British
 bark Lupota went down, will all on
 board, one awful night in the year 1881, just before the completion of this most
 important and unique lighthouse on the bn ne+ fl, nd h,1r full of all the storms in the history of TillamooS Light Station occurred Dec. 9, 1894
 Chief Keeper Pesonen tells the graphic story. The hurricalne lasted from Il A. M, Sunday until A. M,, Monday. It was a gale, alternating from the southeast and southwest The wind had a velocity of 104 miles an hour. Mountains of water rolled in first from the southeast and then from the south west. The alternating waves, colliding, lashed each other into horrible fury leaping high above the tower, they covered the rocks and tower with a cloud of spray as they broke against the base of the rock and ran up the steep sides of the building and tower. The buildings trembled, the main rock itself semed to tremble in it's socket. The smaller adjacent attached rock on the south side was the focus of the waters fury. Great powders were broken off from the sharp top of that rock and dashed 100 feet above the main rock, coming down upon the building and striking the plate glass of the tow CT with fearful force.
 By noon the storm was in it's greatest rage. Glass was crashing all around; thirteen out of the forty-eight panes of heavy plate glass were smashed to pie ces, and the lenses and clock work of the lamp were thereby exposed to the storms fury that 1t required six days to make even temporary repairs of the damages. A powder weighing 146 pounds was torn from the south rock and hurled 100 feet above the top of the light, and then fell down crashing the roof and through the kitch- en range Three ducks were in the oven The cranberry sauce was on the table. It was delayed Thanksgiving dinner. The assistant, whose turn it was to cook, was sick The other three assistant keepers had each picked his own duck, and was doing his own cooking, Within five minutes more those nervy and tried men would have been seated at the dinner table, and would have met their doom. Three days afterward the ducks were found in the debris of the wreck and were cleaned and eaten, with a great relish, too, for nearly all the provi- sions and all else had been washed away, and it was six days before the tender was able to land fresh supplies. There was six feet of water in the siren room and four feet in the living room. Chief Keeper Pesonen tells how he stood on a table and climbed out through transom.
 Of course 1t requires man of nerve for such a post. Dewey at Manila was under no more strain nor enduring more terrible conflict. No doubt the chief qualities for a keeper or assistant on this lone rock of this fierce storm centre are sanguine natures and un- daunted spirits to meet the terrible me- mace to reason and life.
 That fearful hurricane caused some further protection to be provided for | the keepers A concrete roof three feet thick, with steel stanchions, or pillars,
 
 roof through which that rock crashed. | It is impossible to protect the plate | glass, but heavy canvas. cover for the lenses has been placed between them and the encirclng plate glass to pro- tect the lenses and clockwork.
 There is story current that this | hurricane split the main rock. Not so, however. The small rock was already | In the long ago of time split off. It | alone suffered. But to guard against | such a danger to the main rock non metal band has been placed | around that rock
 The Tillamook light is a Fresnel lamp | lf the first order There are 1,032 pieces | If glass in it's lens, viz, 8 in lower, IT | n centre, and IS in upper tier, with 24 | panels. The lamp Is 300 candle-power, ! increased to 5000 cande-power by re- | lection and refraction. This light is | IS feet above the base of the tower, and | 36 feet above mean sea level. It is | lrst order lens apparatus, encased in | l lantern and gallery which crowns the .ower. The keepers dwelling is a square, one-story building of stone for outer walls, and brick, iron and wood | Or interior, with rectangular extension or the duplicate siren apparatus The ight was first shown on Feb 1, 1881, having been begun Oct. 21, 1879, and ,n,,, ,1ato6 1,I11ar oir nnae of l