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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1908)
!S!3ftSlteiiSiSii)i!iisf i Local and Coa Shipping Concerns Which Make Astoria Headquarters. m omimi m The leading local concern devoted to slapping and marine interests is the Callcnder Navigation Company, a well-founded corporation, doing a thriving business, with a fine dock and a fleet o! six small, but excel lent, bay steamers, employed in despatch, towing and excursion busi ness. The destinies of the company are directed by President M. E. Callcnder, ably assisted by Vice-President Max Skibbe; the business detail being left in the capable and energetic hands of Charles II. Cal lcnder, the secretary, treasurer and general manager of the big concern, which, at the end of its third year of business, finds itself a fixed and flourishing factor in the commerce of the lower Columbia. The company maintains a fine dock on the bay front here, 250 feet long by 65 feet wide, all well housed, with a 40-foot gangway leading to it from the busy heart of town. The dock, and the handling of the 75,000 to 100,000 tons of freight that goes over it, in and out, during the year, is in charge of "Wharfinger Charles E. Mitchell; and is the berthing point of the North Pacific Steamship Company's fine steamers, Roanoke and Geo. "W. Elder, plying between San Pedro, San Francisco, Eureka, Astoria and Portland, on a weekly service; the California & Oregon S. S. Company's steamer Alliance, running between Coos Bay, Astoria and Portland weekly, and of the itinerant fleet of steamers that do the lumber-carrying out of this port to all points on the Oregon & California coasts, namely, the Northland, R. D. Inman, John Poulsen, Yosemite, Cascades, J. B. Stetson, Gray's Harbor, Casco, St. Helens and the Nome City. The company's own fleet consists of the steamers Melville, Wenona, Vanguard, Jordan and Mayflower, and the fine excursion motor-launch Queen. In connection with this line of boats, the Callender people maintain a fleet of six great freighting barges, with capacities ranging from 50 to 700 tons each, and a gross capacity of over 2000 tons. The steamer Wenona runs regularly, and daily, between this city and Gray's River; and the steamer Jordan takes care of the traffic between Astoria and the Deep River country; the other Callender boats being kept actively employed in towing log rafts to and fro between the many timber camps on the adjacent rivers and the great milling plants in and around Astoria. Captain J. W. Babbidge, one of the veteran river men of this city and section, in conjunction with his sons, A. S. and E. L. Babbidge, also maintains a fleet of three steamers here for bay and river work; and keeps them on the jump from one year's end to the other. The fleet consists of the fine steamer Electro, chartered to the United States government as a tender in the quarantine service of the country; R. Miler, running between this city and Chinook, on the north shore of the river; and the steamer Julia B. (recently launched), which does a general towing and excursion business all over the territory bordering on the big harbor of Astoria. The three being ranked among the best boats of the class in service here. ASTORIA AND COAST POINTS TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. The Tillamook steamship service out of this port is maintained by Samuel Elmore, one of the leading business men and factors of Astoria, THE MORNING ASTOR I AN,. ASTORIA;- OREGON. and the fleet belonging to the company, consists of the steamer Suo II. Elmore and tho fine motor Bchooners Evio, and Gerald C; tlio flint named vessel attending to tho Tillamook Bay traffic, and tho latter boats running henco to Nehalem, Nestuoca and other Oregon const points. Tho fact that most of the ports servod by those vessels have dan gerous, and almost impassable bars off their entrances, makes the maintenance of anything like a regular schedule practically impossible j but the service is made as steady as circumstances of sea and weather will permit; and the Elmore fleet does a good business and serves a long range of coast territory. Astoria Free Public Library. J One of the best Inspired, and best maintained, institutions of the city of Astoria, her people owe to the good women of the place, the Astoria Tublic Library. It stands pre-eminent among the solid and useful ad denda of the community and contrib utes widely to the pleasure and con venience of thousands, every atom of success being due to the sleepless energy and devoted work of the group of ladies, who, in the spring of 1892, established it, many of whom are yet conspicuous in its manage ment The idea originated in the Young Women's Christian Association, whence come innumerable good things of this kind, and it was fol lowed up closely to the moment of the incorporation of the association now handling it It was made an ob ject of interest and there are but few citizens in this city whose friendliness to the project has not been made manifest in some distinctive way, in the founding, and subsequent opera tion. After the interminable vicissitudes through which all such enterprises must .perforce, pass, the Library is today ensconced in beautiful quarters at the City Hall, elegantly furnished and equipped, and the Mecca of a thousand visitors a month; it has 3320 well chosen volumnes, including all the phases of literature usually found at such establishments, with all standard lines of reference, and 52 of LINE STEAMER LURL1NE " THE OLD RELIABLE " Leaves Astoria Daily, Except Sunday, 7 p.m. Leaves Portland Daily, Except Sunday, 7 a. m. Making connections at Astoria for Seaside, Long Beach points, Chinook, Deep River, Grays River, Nehalem and Tilla mook and at Portland with Str. Undine for Vancouver, Wash., and with Str. Mascot for Lewis and Lake Rivers, t- River transportation has been one of the greatest developing agents of the Northwest, in which the Vancouver and Lewis River Transportation Companies have had a prominent part. These companies constitute the "Diamond K Line" and have been under the direct manage ment of Jacob Kamm, president, and pioneer steamboat man of the West. The Vancouver Trans portation Co. was incorporated in 1874, and for the most of the time since the Lurline has been plying between Astoria and Portland. the popular current magaxines upon its tables; and to accommodate the pronounced foreign element of local population, there are large numbers of works in Danish, Swedish, Norweg ian and German, The city government imposes a small tax yearly for the benefit of the Library and has always given it specific recognition and aid and wilt undoubtedly do more as the growth of the place and the needs of the in stitution demand. The subscription dues have been placed at $3.00 per annum, but, happily, this has been relegated to oblivion forever, and the library made absolutely free to all accredited users; a step that but enhances its extraordinary value as a municipal adjunct. The library is in the hands of a board of directors of IS ladies and the business is carried on with con summate skill and a rigid adherence to the most approved system of li brary government, and is kept prac tically free from debt, an administra tive phase peculiarly notable in these days of extravagance in the handling of public and quasi-public affairs. Those responsible for the library at the present time are: Mrs. A. A. Finch, president; secretary, Mrs, P, A. Trullinger; treasurer, Mist Eva Holmes; directors: Mrs, Samuel El more, Mrs. P. A. Stokes, Mrs. A. J. Taylor, Mrs. N. Troyer, Mrs. John It. Smith, Mrs. A.D. Carner, Mrs. A. S. Tee, Mrs. Frank Tatton, Mrs George II. George, Mrs. Herman SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1901. Pracl. and Miss Dora Dadollet. The librarian, Mrl.' Margaret L Upshur, is couscletloui and tireless representative of the management and a courteous and friendly hostess to the thousands who flock In the handsoiiia rooms of the Astoria! Public Library from one year'i end to the other. RIVER VIEW DAIRY. Three miles out from this city, on the fertile hunk of the Lewis & Clark river, Messrs. J. II. and I. M. Jcffers maintain one of the finest dairying properties in Clatsop county. They handle UK) thoroughbred milch cows, from which they market a superb line of dairy produce, through three dis tinct depots in this city, with two deliveries daily to a big clientelle. Their milk and cream being handled either in glass measures or lit bulk quantities, and all of it simon-pure and exqiiinitely clean from all pro cesses. They are among the sub stantial figures In the department of the business world of Astoria and en Joy a rightful and pronounced share of the commerce of county and city. There is no safer investment than in Astoria and Clatsop County Real Estate. It is a bank that never breaks. Dividends are sure. Best bar gains in all kinds of Real Estate. Fine Fruit and Berry Lands in small tracts. Fishermen's Homes, Dairy Lands, Chicken Ranches, Im proved and Unimproved City Property. Some choice snaps in Real Estate. A few blocks in North Pacific Addition to Astoria, yet at a low figure. Call On Or Address A. R. CYRUS Real Estate, Insurance and Financial Agent Notary Public and Conveyancer. 424 Commercial Street, ASTORIA. OREGON Refer by permission to the Astoria National Bank, or any business man in Astoria. J . M I 1!7 I Callender Navigation Co. Steamers Melville, Jordan, Wenona, Van guard, Eclipse and Launch Queen Barges Suitable for Moving Logging Engines, Lumber. Etc. Towing, Freighting and Excursions V - Agents For NORTH PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO. CALIFORNIA & OREGON COAST STEAMSHIP CO. E. A. DODGE & COflPANY Operating passenger and freight steamships to all coast ports from San Pedro, California to Astoria, Oregon. ASTORIA, OREGON