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

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 passengers. Now "A cement steps along
 the side of the tramway have been sub
 stituted. Three tanks, with i4,45l gal
 Ions capacity, supply the station with
 water, that in the tanks being used for
 the fog signals and that in the cisterns being kept for the dwelling house. once a miniature garden, six feet square, en- l livened the scene with memories of home, and furnished summer vegetables Its soil, six inches in depth, was brought from Tongue Point, on Astoria peninsula. During winter his soil was boxed up and stored away in a safe place. For two summers this idyllic status lasted, but the great tornado of Dec, 9, 1894, washed the boxes into the sea, and now vegetables are brought (under the rose) from the lovely gardens on Clatsop plains. A telephone wire connects with this station and with the keepers homes, but the falling trees of the winter gales make it unserYtaeab.e at times.
 Tilamook Rock Light tStation is in the Thirteenth light house district which includes the coast and rivers of Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Coih- mander F. D. Taussig, United States Macy is the inspector in charge of ad- mnistrative work. Major w. c. Lang fitt Corps of Engineers, United States Army, is in charge of construction and repair, headquarters at Portland, Gre. The district has tWentysiX light stu tons with keepers, and two light ves- sells, one at Umatilla Reefs, near the entrance to Puget Sound and the others at the mouth of the Columbia, off from the North Beach breakers. It has eighteen fog signal stations, two of which are for the Columbia's commerce.; one on the Columbia lightship No, so, and the other at Tillamook Rick. It has three sirens four Daboll trumpets, six steam whistles and four bells.
 Alex. Rustad is now keeper, and George Niekwarder and Thomas Gib- son assistant keepers at Tillamook Rock Light Station. The chief keepers have been nine, viz, George Rowe, May, in 1881, with Rowell, Varnum and Har- ming up to 1888; then George Hunt, four years; R. Peterson, two years; M. Steam, six months; A. K. Pesonen, four years, and Alex Rustad became chief in 1898. Of the subordinates who have graduated to better stations, the fol- lowing is a list: Edward c. Davis, 1SS6- SS: Point Robinson; c. tanner: 1SS6-S9; Grays Harbor; H. P. Score, 1S90-93 Cape Arago; Joseph Burchall, 1S90-94, Willamette River; J. Fred Barker, 1885, 96, Ediz Hook; c. G. Crawford, 1S96-9S, Cape Flattery-all these as keepers; E. F. Brodie, 1S96-9S, North Head; first as- sistant; w. T. Langlois, 1S969S Des- truction Island first assistant.
 Tillamook Rock light and North Head light are the chief guardians of the Columbia river commerce, Point Adams light adjacent to Fort Stevens, having been abandoned, and Cape disappoint- ment light, adjacent to Fort Cauby be- ing too far inland for an ocean beacon, having been converted into fourth class revolving light, and used merely as harbor light.
 The redeeming feature of Tillamook station is it's elysian zephyr, known as the chinook wind flowing with perenni- al delight from the northwest in sum- mer and imparting unequaled longevi- ty, and coming in the winter from the southwest with healing on it's wings. It makes almost perpetual spring m that glorious climate, which is only marred by the fierce ocean gales, that at times render life unsafe near the promoltories that mark the extreme boundaries of the home of the glorious breeze, born of the Japan current.
 At low tide q row of smaller rocks just out of water can be seen south- westerly from Tillamook Rock in line with the large rock halfway to shore. An Indian legend says those were a giant Tillamook Indian and his wife and children of the earliest ages who start ed to wade across the water to the north side of the Columbia, instead of using canoes and were changed by the god Tal-i-pas into these rocks as a monu ment to their folly and as an object lesson in navigation.-Mo Ore gonian.