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Local and Coa Shipping Concerns
Which Make Astoria Headquarters.
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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
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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.
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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
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- 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