The West Shore.
VOL. 8 No. 10.
I L. Bamuet, Publisher,
I I Washington Bt,
Portland, Oregon, October, 1882.
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THE QUEEN OF THE PACIFIC.
The illustrations furnished in this issue, will
give our readers but a faint idea of the real
splendor of this floating palace, owing to the im
possibility of reproducing in simple black and
white, the effect of combinations of the various
kinds of wood and kaleidoscopic glasses, that
have been used in constructing the Queen oi the
Pacific. To one whose business compelled him
to make frequent trips to San Francisco, which
occupied from five to seven days in those dilapi
dated old. concerns, of the Holladay , regime,
known as the Ajax and Oriflamme, it seems like
a fairy tale to step aboard of this, the latest acqui
sition to our fleet of magnificent steamships, ply
ing between Portland and San Francisco with a
regularity in time .that, is really surprising when
the wind and weather of an ocean voyage are taken
into consideration, Thirty-five dollars was the
fare charged for those five day trips and none com
plained;, since then the comforts have been in
creased and time has been reduced to two days,
the fare to twenty dollars cabin and ten in steer
age. The general public, especially those who
recollect old times, are pretty well satisfied with
the present facilities: now and then, however, we
hear a growler complaining that $30 for a two day's
trip is too high. , The complaint always bring to
our mind a Chinaman when selecting boots; he in
variably takes the largest in the box, being deter
mined to obtain the most material for his money,
irrespective of fit oi comfort. The Queen is the
property of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
represented in San Francisco by Goodall, Perkins
& Co.. and In thin citv hv Tohn Muir. E. Her
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cost is a trifle over five hundred thousand dollars,
and to one familiar with values she seems cheap a'
that price. The company owning her, as well as
Messrs. Cramp & Sons, her builders, have every
reason to feel proud of their production. The
Nautical Gatettt, perhaps the best authority on
such subjects, saysi " The Queen is the finest spec
imen of naval architecture ever turned out from
the establishment of the Cramps, taken as a whole;
the saloons, staterooms, social hall and bridal
chambers have no equal in this country of in the
world, for that matter, for exquisite or artistic dec
orations in its peculiar style, and the ship will
attract much attention wherever she may go.
Her crew consists of 94 men under command of
Capt. E. Alexander, with C. F. Hall, as first
officer, John Patterson, chief engineer, Geo. W.
Edwards, chief steward, and M. M. Bucknam,
the popular purser, formerly of "The Stale, as
Dtirser. Th Ouwn is X& feet long, 3s-6 fcrt
beam, 22.6 hold, 30 feet to awning deck. She
is 2,727.80 tons custuin house measurement! with
1,200 tons of freight and 400 tons of coal in her
bunkers she draws 16 feet. Her masts are of
iron, all in one piece, and she is hall brig rigged,
carrying a good supply of canvas. She has sn in
verted and direct acting compound engine, 4$ and
90-inch cylinders and 48-inch stroke of piston.
Her eight boilers, each u feet in diameter and 12
feet long, consume about 60 tons of coal every 24
hours to keep up loo pounds of steam. When
everything gets to working smoothly, loo lbs. of
steam will give her engine a maximum speed ol 80
turns per minute, and this her friends assert will
force her through the water at the late ol 16 knots
an hour, or about 33 hours from bar to bar. The
propeller wheel of the Queen is 16 feet in diameter
and 23 feet pitch; the blades and a spare set aboard,
were made in England of Magnese brontc and cost
with freight and duty $15,000. Her steering gear
is worked by steam and she has a steam windlass
for handling her anchors and a steam capstan aft.
In case of casualties she is one of the lst pro
vided with life-saving apparatus that we ever seen.
In fact nothing has been left undone to attain
speed, safety and comfort, and her rating for
transatlantic service is of the very highest class in
Bureau Veritas. Two hundred and fifty Edison s
electric lights ate distributed throughout the ship
with connections for placing lights on the wharves
whilst loading or discharging. Every stateroom
has an electric light, and is connected with the
pantry by an electric bell. Whst will lie mos
appreciated by families are her 29 commodious
family rooms; they are 10 fret deep by 6 feet 4
inches in width, and each have 3 berths the lower
one being 38 inches in width. The rooms are
finished in flat white, with trimmings of mahogany
and oak. Each room has a sofa, and each berth
is fitted with a Saratoga spring bottom, and best
of hair mattresses and pillow; the washstands with
marble tops are enclosed in wood standing on
fluted columns highly decorated, and when not in
use are covered by a highly polished mahogany
top, forming a neat side-table. The dining hall
nr and saloon is 37 feet long, 37 feel wide, and
nearly 8 feet height. It is lighted by la side posts
and contains seven t.bles capable of aaomrnodal
7 . Th viand tta rway to the social
hall is beautifully c.rved, and the social hall Itself
". finished in mahogany panels, relieved by rnouhl.
ines and carved woou. ai u - r1'
L,?r. -1... mirmr. and at the other is a piano,
While on "! book-c,M' wnttMn a
volumes of choice literature.
At each end of the hall Is a bridal chamber
12x12 feet, gotten up in most exquisite taste and
Itvfc finished In mahogany and oak, with dellc.lt
,tyle, Imisneu i n "V .? . , lied,teldi , Ursf
wardrobe sofa, table, etc. fill the appointment, of
nv nuarters. 1 ne
covered with bronre par-er of a Japanese pattern.
V".. .u. .,li.r features of the Interior ar-
rangements is the dome covering the grand stair
r" K ' Li. i. 1- fr,i in diameter, end 6 kel
"i-'I, aoex is M feet the
n.gn " T7'.,.!d ,U- i. set In th. side.
AtZ T the apex hangs a teauliful chandelier of
and from the apex mK .rtift,ui
lM-inc Merits ana rruw
All the chandelier.!", of bron. very
fi.:,erV " J .ml the dwlW effect, when all
rJL" Li .7... Turned 0. at nighC
describe U i simply a .alter of tapoUh.,.
THE LUMBER TRADE OF PUGKT
SOUND.
The great lumber producing port lun of Wash
ington Territory Is contained in Ihe area lying
north of the Columbia river and bounded on Iht
east by the Cascade range of mountains, on Iht
noith by British Columbia and the Strait of Fura,
and on the west by the Pacific ocean; containing
round numliers aliout 30,000 square miles.
The principal portion of this great region' is
covered with a dense growth of timber trees, of
which Ihe most abundant and most Important be.
ing used almost exclusively in the manufacture of
lumber, are red fir (Abut Douaiii) and yellow
P.- I II.'.. J' i nu. - .1 - I f I
ur Irow (jroifimi, incomer x mm 01 cornier w
found at the mills are Ihe cedar (Thuya Gipmlni),
Ihe spruce (AHa MtntUtii) and hemlock (Ahiit
MrUndtintt), A secies of white pine (1hui
Allm) is occasionally found, and used fur inside
finishing work. The yellow pine (Vnm JSmJf
rata), which grows to' majestic proportions in
Eastern Washington, is not found on Tuget
Sound. The other cone-bearing trees an lh
arbor vil.e ( Thuya Pilitua), which grows along
the borders of the Strati of Futa, 'and tht yaw
Tiixui Hrifioliit), a lough but small wood, used
mostly by the natives for tht manufacture of
bow's; but of no use as a limber Ire from Its
small site. Careless and Ignorant writers term
the whole of the conifer of I'uget Sound, Ore
gon pine, which is as much of a misnomer as lo
all all deciduous trees oak. Full ninety per
cent, of all the lumber, limber and spars produced
on Puget Sound I. fir, and Is so known and
classed by all lumber dealers and millincn.
Of Ihe deciduous trees the most common b tht
white maple (Atrr All), a beautiful wood capa
ble of a high polish; vine mapU (A. CiWiW);
Ihe alder (Alum Ortpma), which atlainl a bight
of sixty feel. The wood being white and soft la
good for carving and for furniture, and tha bark t
furnishes a red dye, wed by the Indians tot color
ing cedar bark. The whltf ash (fraxm Ortpma)
it larger than the ash of lite Atlantic state and
Is light and clastic. The beautiful laurel tree Ar
butm MtHiiflt) extends from California lo Van
couver's Island, and Is common on the Immediate
shores of Pugel Sound, Fuca Strait and iht west
coast. Three specie of poplar are found, the
most abundant is Iht aspen (ftfului Trmulm).
Several varieties of Iht willow grow along tha
river banks, but only Iwo ( W Sfl4 and S.
SioulrraHa) attain iht six of tree, they being
generally about thirty feel high. Tha crab-appla
(Pynii Ktvularii) Is a hard and tough wood smc1
for many purpose, Tht oak ((W'" Ortfma)
Is found in soma localities, but la quilt Inferior la
tht oak of Iht Atlantic slain.
Bui few of Iht deciduous wood havt been
awed al Iht mills, but they will bt In demand,
and will furnish important article of export bf
fort many years havt elapsed.
THE riaST MILLS.
la 1845, CnL Michael T. Simmons, who bad
coat to Ortgoo from Missouri, and who ha bee)
termed tht LWtl Boom of Washington Territory,
caata to Paget Sound white it Wat yet a potlio