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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1884)
03 , - .. . . MJ .. -'-'- YOL. XX. i0. 106. ASTORIA, OREGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE POUNDER OP ASTOEIA. The Great Grandchildren of the German Butcher Boy Celebrating the Cen tennial of His Arrival. HOW JOHK JACOB ASTOR MADE MOSET. The ball which Mrs. William Astor ?ave on January 21st to 900 New 'orkers commemorated the centen nial landing in New York of. John Jacob Astor, the founder of the fam ily, and a wonderful man in some re spects. He seems to have had many faultb, this Baden butcher's appren tice; he was ruled by his money bags; he was avaricious, sordid, niean, and, in later years, averse to giving away one dollar of his vast fortune outside of his own family. But he had a genius for commercial speculation. Since his day the Astors have been steady-going, unimaginative, heavy minded men, who have marched alongside of the Vast snowball of money which John Jacob Astor sent rolling down hill, and this will prob ably be the arduous duty of many generations of Astors to come. But this John Jacob Astor was made of different stuff; a man of ideas, bold ness, quick perceptions and extraor dinary executive powers. To the end of his life nothing interested him so much as the price current of staple goods in another country. He could show on paper how a fortune could be made by buying this and selling that, and his calculations were so weli founded that he used to boast that not one of twenty of his commercial ventures miscarried. A hundred years ago, in the poor little village of Waldorf, in the Duchy of Baden, lived a jovial butcher, named Jacob Astor, who felt himselr much more at home in the beer house than at the fireside of his own house in the principal street of the village. This roystoring village butcher and his much-enduring wife were the pro genitors of our millionaire. They had four sons George Peter Astor, born in 1752; Henry Astor, born in 1754; John Melchior Astor, born in 1759; and John Jacob Astor, born July 17, 1763. Each of these sons made haste to fly from the privations and conten tions of their home as soon as they were old enough; and, what is more remarkable, each of them had a cast of character precisely the opposite of their thriftless father. Abandoned thus by his three brothers, John Jacob Astor had to endure for some years a most cheerless and miserable lot He lost his mother, too, from whom he had derived all that was good in his character and most of the happiness of his childhood. A step mother replaced her, "who loved not Jacob," nor John Jacob. The father, still devoted to pleasure, quarreled so bitterly with his new wife, that his son was often glad to escape to the house of a school-fellow (living in 1854), where he would pass the night in a garret or outhouse, thankfully accepting for his supper a crust of dry bread, and returning the next morn ing to assist in the slaughter-house or oarry out the meat. It was not often that he had enough to eat; his clothes were of the poorest descrip tion; and as to money, he absolutely had none of it. On Palm Sunday, 1777, when he was about 14 years of age, John Jacob Astor was confirmed. He then consulted his father upon his future. Money to apprentice him there was none in the paternal coff ers. The trade of butcher he knew and disliked. Nor was he inclined to accept as his destiny for life the po sition of servant or laborer. A deep discontent settled upon him. The tidings of the good fortune of his brothers inflamed his desire to seek his fortune in the new world. The news of the revolutionary war, which drew all -eyes upon America, and in which the people of all lands sympathized with the struggling colonies, had its effect upon him. He began to long for the "new land," as the Germans then styled America; and it is be lieved in Waldorf that soon after the capture of Burgoyne had spread abroad, a confidence in the final suc cess of the colonists, the youth formed a secret determination to emi grate to America. With a small bun dle of clothes hung over his shoulder upon a stick, with a crown or two in his pocket, he said the last farewell to his father and his friends, and set out on foot for the Bhine, a few miles distant. Valentine Jeune, his old schoolmaster, said, as the lad was lost to view: "I am not afraid of Jacob; he will get through the world. He has a clear head and everything right behind the ears." He was then a stout, strong lad of seventeen, ex ceedingly well made, though slight ly undersized, and he had a clear, composed, intelligent look in the eyes, which seemed to ratify the pre diction of the schoolmaster. On the fourteenth day after leaving home our youth found himself at a Dutch seaport, with a larger sum of money than he ever before possessed. He took passage for London, where he landed a few days after, in total ig norance of the place and the lan guage. His brother welcomed him with German warmth, and assisted Mm to procure employment proba bly in the flute and piano manufac tory of Aator (feiircaiwooa. IN IiOKDON. Astor brought to .London, accord ,5ng to our quaint Lutheran, "a pious, true and godly spirit, a clear under ' standing, a sound youthful elbow grease, and a wish to put it to good use." During the two years of his residence in the British metropolis, he strove most assiduously for three ebjects: First, to save money; sec ond, to acquire the English language; third, to get information respecting America. In September, 1783, he possessed a good suit of Sunday clothes, in the English style, and about fifteen English guineas the total result of two years of unremit ting toil and most pinching economy; and here again charity requires the remark that, if Astor, the million jrire, carried the virtue of economy to an extreme, it was Astor, the struggling youth in a strange land, rh.o learned tha value of money. He paid five of his guineas for a passage in the steerage which entitled him to sailors' fare of salt beef and biscuit He in vested part of his remaining capital in seven flutes, and carried the rest, about five-pound s sterling, in the form of money. HIS ABBIVAIi IK AMEBICA. America gave a cold welcome to the young emigrant He arrived in New York with little more than his German flutes, and a long German head full of available knowledge and quiet determination. He went straight to .the humble abode of his brother Henry, a kindly, generous, joval soul, who gave him a truly fraternal wel come, and received with hospitable warmth a friendly companion of his voyage who had explained to young Astor during the trip the advantages of entering the fur business, and the ease with whichtnoney could be made in it During the first evening of his brother's stay at his house the ques tion was discussed. What should the young man do in his new country? The charms of the fur business were duly portrayed by the friend of the youth, who also expressed his prefer ence for it So, the next day, the brothers and their friend proceeded together to the store of Bobert Browne, an aged and benevolent Quaker, long established in the busi ness of buying, curing and exporting peltries. It chanced that he needed a hand. Pleased with the appeirance and demeanor of the young man, he employed him (as tradition reports) at two dollars a week and his board. Astor took up his abode in his master's house, and was soon at work. We can tell with certainty what was the nature of the youth's first day's work in his adopted countiy; for, in his old age he was often heard to say that the first thing he did for Mr. Browne was to beat the furs, which, indeed, was .his principal employ ment during the whole of the follow ing summer furs requiring to be fre quently beaten to keep the moths from destroying them. In those days a considerable number of bear skins and beaver skins were brought di rectly to Browne's store by the In dians and countrymen of the vicinity, who Lai shot or. trapped the animals. These men Astor questioned, and neg lected no other opportunity of pro curing the information ho desired. It used to ba observed of Astor that he absolutely loved a fine skin. In later days he would have a superior fur hung up in his counting room as other men hang pictures and this, apparently, for the mere pleasure of feeling, showing and admiring it He would pass his hand fondly over it, extrolling its charms with an ap proach to enthusiasm; not, however, forgetting to mention that in Canton it would bring him in $590. So heart ily did be throw himself into his busi ness. IX BUSIKES3 ON HIS OWK ACCOUNT. John Jacob Astor remained not long in the employment of Bobert Browne. It was a peculiarity of the business of a furrier at that day, that, while it admtited of unlimited extension, it could be begun on the smallest scale, with a very insiguifi cent capital. In a little shop in Water street, with a back room, a yard and a ched, the shop furnished with only a few toys and trinkets, Astor began business about the year 1786. In 1790, seven years after his arrival in this city, ho was of suffi cient importance to appear in the di rectory thus: Astor, J. J.. Fur Trader. 40 Little Dock street (now a part of Water street), In 1800 he was worth a quarter of a million dollars. In 1794 he appears in the directory as, "Furrier, 149 Broadway." From 1796 to 1799 ho figures as, Fur Merchant, 149 Broadway." In 1800 he had a storehouse at 141 Greenwich street, and lived at 223 Broadway, on the site of the present Astor house. In 1801, his store was at 71 Liberty street, arid he had removed his resi dence back to 149 Broadway. The year following we find him again at 223 Broadway, where he continued to reside for a quarter of a century. His house was such as a fifth-rate mer chant would now consider kmuch be neath his dignity. Mr. Astor, indeed, had a singular diBlike to living in a large house. He had neither expen sive tastes nor wasteful vices. His luxuries were a pipe, a glass of beer, a game of draughts, a ride on horse back and the theatre. Of the theatre he was particularly f.nd. He seldom missed a good performance in the palmy days of the "Old Park." ASTOB OVEB BEACHED BY A SHIP CAPTAIN. We have all heard much of the closaness, or rather the meanness, of this remarkable man. Truth com pels us to admit, as we have before intimated, that he was not generous, except to his" own kindred. His lib erality began and ended right in his own family. It is a pleasure to know that sometimes his extreme closeness defeated his own object He once lost 70,000 by committing a piece of petty injustice toward his best Oan tain. The gallant sailor, being noti fied by an insurance office of the ne cessity of having a chronometer on board his ship, spoke tj Mr. Astor on the subject, who advised the Captain to buy one. "But," said the Captain, "I have no $500 to spare for such a purpose; the chronometer ought to belong to the ship." Astor insisting on his own view of the matter, the Captain was so pro foundly disgusted that important as the command of the ship was to him, he resigned his post Another Cap tain was soon found, and the ship sailed for China. Another house, which was then engaged in the China trade, knowing the worth of this "king of captains " as Astor himself used to style him, bought him a ship and dispatched him to Canton two months after the departure of Aster's vessel. Our Captain, put upon his mettle, employed all his skill to ac celerate the speed of his ship, and had such success, that he reached New York with, a full cargo of tea just seven days after the arrival of Mr. Aster's ship. Astor not expect ing another snip for months, and, therefore, sure of Monopolizing the market, had notyet yet broken bulk, nor even taken off the .hatchways. Our Captain arrived on a Saturday. Advertisements and hand bills were immediately issued, and on the Wed nesday morning following, as the custom then was, the auction sale of the tea began on the wharf, two bar rels of punch contributing to the eclat and hilarity of the occasion. .The cargo was sold to good advin tage, and the market was glutted, Astor lost in consequence the entire profits of the voyage, not less than the sum named above. Meeting the Captain some time after in Broadway, he said: "I had better-have paid for that chronometer of yours." Without ever acknowledging that he had been in the' wrong, he was glad enough to engage the Captain's fu ture services. SEOBET OP THE SUCCESS OF ASTOB. The reader may bo curious to know by what means Mr. Astor be came so preposterously rich. J?evr successful men gain a single million by legitimate commerce. A million dollars is a most enormous sum of money. It requires a considerable effort of the mind to conceive it. But this indomitable little German man aged, in the course of sixty years, to accumulate twenty millions, of which, probably, not more than two millidns was the fruit of his business as a fur trader and China merchant A fair profit on a voyage to China at that day was thirty thousand dollars Mr. Astor has been know to gain seventy thousand, and to have his money in his pocket within the year. He was remarkably lucky in the war of 1812. All his ships escaped capture, and arriving at a time when foreign com merce was almost annihilated and tea had doubled in price, his gains were immense. But it was neither his tea trade nor his fur trade that gave As tor twenty millions of dollars. It was his sagacity in investing his profits that made him the richest man in America. When he first trod the streets of New York, in 1784, the city was a snug, leafy place of twenty-five thousand inhabitants, situated at the extremity of the island, mostly below Courtland street In 1800, when he began to have money to invest, the city had more than double in popu lation, and had advanced nearly a mile up the island. Now, Astor was a shrewd calculator of the future. No reason appeared why New York ahould not repeat this doubling game and this mile of extension every fif teen years. He acted upon the sup position, and fell into the habit of buying lauds and lots just beyond the verge of the city. THE POUNDINO OF ASTOKIA. The crowning glory of Mr. Aslor's mercantile career was that vast and brilliant enterprise which Washington . Irving has commemorated in "Asto- na." No other siugle individual has ever set on foot a scheme so extensive, so difficult, and so costly as this; nor has any such enterprise been carried out with such sustained energy and perseverance. To establish a line of trading-posts from St Louis to the Pacific, a four months journey in a land of wilderness, prairie, mountain and desort, inhabited by treacherous or hostile savaged to found a perma nent settlement on the Pacific coast as the grand depot of furs and sup pliesto arrange a plan by which the furs collected should be regularly transported to China, and the ships return to New York laden with tea and silks, and then proceed once more to the Pacific coast to repeat the cir cuitto maintain all the parts of this c?l,n,-nl .Tlf lirtll4 f llii OTnonfflfrnTl nf any but a remote profit, sending ship alter snip oeiore any certain intelli gence of the first ventures had ar rived this was an enterprise which had been memorable if it had been undertaken by a wealthy corporation or a powerful government, instead of a private merchant unaided by any re-1 auurces out nis own. At every mo-1 ment in the conduct of this magnifi cent attempt, Mr. Astor appears the great man. His parting instructions to the captain of his first ship call to mind those of General Washington to St. Clair on a similar occasion. "All I the accidents that have yet hap- peued," said the merchant, "arose i from too much confidence in the In- j dians." The ship was lost, a yean after, by the disregard of this last! warning. When the news reached New York of the massacre of the crew and the blowing up of the ship, the man who flew into a passion at seeing a little boy drop a wine glass, behaved with a composure that was the theme of general admiration. He attended the theatre the same evening, and entered heartily into the I play. Mr. Irving relates that a friend J having expressed surprise at this, Mr. j Astor replied: "What vould you have me do? J Would you have me stay at home and j weep for what I cannot help?" The war of 1812 foiled the enterprise. "But for that war," Mr. Astor used to say, T should have been the richest man that ever lived." He expected to fro on exoendin" money for several years, and then to g in a steady an ..-. nual profit of millions. He was an active business man in the city for about forty-six years from his twenty-firat to his sixty seventh year, Toward the year 1830 he began to withdraw from business and undertook no new enterprises except such as the investment of his income involved. His three daugh ters were married. His sou and heir was a man of thirty. Having re tired from business, Mr. Astor deter mined to fulfill a vow of his youth and build in Broadway a house lar ger and costlier than any it could then boast, Behold the result in the Astor House, which remains to this day one of our most soliJ, im posing and respectable structures. The ground on which tho hotel stands was covered with substantial three-story brick houses, one of which Astor himself occupied, and it was thought at the time a wasteful and rash proceeding to -destroy them. It was at this time he removed to a wide two-story brick house opposite Nib lo's, the front door of whioh boro a large silver plate, exhibiting to awe struck passers-by the werds: "Mr. Astor." Soon after the hotel was finished he made a present of it to his oldest son, or, in legal language, he sold it to him for the sum of one dollar, "to him in hand paid." On the 29th of March, 1S, of old age merely, in the presence of his famUy and friends, without pain or disquiet, this remarkable man breathed his last He was buried in a vault in the church of St Thomas in Broadway. Though he expressly declared in his will that he was a member of the Re forme 1 German Congregation, no clergyman of that church took part in the services of his funeraL The unusual .number of six Episcopal Doctors of Divinity assisted nt the cerenoar. A bishop could have scarcely "expected a more distin guished funeral homage. Such a thins it is in a commercial city to die worth twenty millions. The pall bearers were Washington Irving, Philip Hone, Sylvauus Miller, James cr. King, Isaac Bell, David B. Ogden, Thomas J. Oakley. Ramsey Crooks and Jacob B. Taylor. THE ASTOBS OF TO-DAT. John Jacob left money for two pub lic institutions S400.000 to found the Astor library, which now contains the most valuable collection of books in America, rni S50.000 for an orphan age in his native village of Waldorf. This orphanage, called the Astor house, was opened in 1854. Of his twenty millions in money and real estate,' four-fifths went to his son, William B., his other son not being of sound mind. m William B. Astor died in 1875 and loft two sons, John Jacob and William B. Astor. John Jacob is the present head of the family a portly, red faced man of fifty, very much like an Englishman in appear ance, who may be seen walking down to business and back every day. He never goe3 into bocioty, or to tne opera, devoting himself body and soul to the increase of that big for tune for which his grandfather toiled. His only child is Wil liam Waldorf Astor. a young man of thirty, and our present minister to Borne. William B. Astor is a inau of the world, a yatchsman, and hi wife and many daughters lead the ultra fashionable and conservative set of the city. He does not concern him self much with businos3, leaving that to his brother. Among the persons who have married daughters of the Astor family and have become rich in consequence, are the Langdons, Boosevelts, Drdytons, Boreels, Chan lers, Bristeds, "Careys and other well known New Yorkers. AX INCOME OF MILLIONS. In 1875, when William B. Astor died, he had 72G houses on his rent roll The present number of the Astor houses exceeds 1,200. the whole estate being valued at about fifty mil lions, producing au income of three millions a ear. - GERMAN REMEOt FOR -AJLTXT. CURES Rheumatism.Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbaaa. Backache. Headache,Toothache, Sore Throat, SwclIInc. flprnlnn. BrubM, Uarna. 8caM. fcrot Itilcs. ASD ALL 0T11EK BODILY TUNS XSD ICBTS. Sold by Drnsplt nl I)elrn erf rrwbtre. Fifty CtaU a bottl. Direction In 11 I.nro?t. TIIF. CIIARI.E A. YOfiEI.EK CO. C9utnuX.VIUialV) lUlUaurv, iL,CB.A. W STOMACH BlTTEffS They who work arly :unl Lite the year round need. ore isnm.d.y. the healthful slim, u in iniiKi'tel hy n w o eomi tonic like IIo-ti t.e 's Stnnuich Itinera To all, lis mirl v .iii.l i flic enev a .i le m Iv and ore veiiilveofdls a-e commend .t. Ir cn-cxs 1 1 t ... ..t.. t ....1 ... .t inc pit ut rln urn uw ami ui.ii .n;u -yiii.-tonis. relieves c ill tip itlon. dyspepsia. :um Id I uMies. arfMsp.vmuiuvdfaiy of tin pliysic d fiienr'cs, mitijj.i the mtinnti of ae and liasti i convalescence, r'orbdli b all UruUU and Dealers generally. H.B.PARKER, PEAT.KK CT Hay, Oats," Straw. Lime, Brick, Cement and Sand Wood Delivered to Order, Orcytngt Teaming and Express Business. Horses ana Carriages for Hire. DEALER IK WINE?, LIOUORS AND CIGARS FIKT ('(.ANN FOR SALE. XX T)TS TO Sl'ir, FK M 5 ACRES TO 40 acre trict In S. W. corner of Ch:is. Stevens' n. C Tlrie netfeit. Kor particu lars Inquire at office oi N. I . Raymond. City Hall ; or on tht premises oX O. U. Young. Astoria, Ksr. yd. 1883. CTJAGOBS nil J 1 CELEBRATED l X HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. PARKER HOUSE, II, B. PAItKKIt. Jrop. ASTORIA. - -. - OREGON. Al. CROSBY. - - DayCleric rwi. BOWERd, - - Nlpht Clerk. Jas. DUFFY has the Bar and Billiard robta. First Class in- all Respects. FREE COACH TO THE HOUSE. IT IS A FACT -tot JEFF'S CHOP" HOUSE 03? Concomly Street is the Best in Town. THAT lie Iuim AlwajTH ob ITund FRESH ShonI Water Hay aitd Kauri em Oysters. THAT- . "JEFF" IS THE BOSS CATERER. THAT tlr lia been Proprietor f the "Aurora Hotel" la Uuapptoa eveajear. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. A Good Cup of Coffee AND OYSTERS AT Mrs. Powell's Coffee House, On Jl.ln Street next to Oregon Bakery. Campi Restaurant SV.W AND WKIL F.qt'lPl'ED ' Til R'OCGIIOUT. L.Serra has rebuilt his establishment and is im-pared to accommodate the traveling pub 1c. A good meal furnished at any hour of the d.iv ir night. lie fl est Liquors and Cigars at the bar. Two doors wet of Dee b rater's. n Cm LU1GI SEREA. THE BEST Boarding and Lodging House. nins. Wallmau has opened a bearding: and lodging house south of O'Brien's hotel, near the gas works. The tablp is supplied with the brst the ma'ket afford; j:o d food and clean b-da will be furnihed at the regular prices. Give nie a call .and satisfy yourselves, CHAS. WaLI.MAN. Figures Never Lie ! JEFF OP THE CHOP HOUSE Can piove by Ills book-) that he Is doing the bij;j;rt business of any EESTATTRANT Sn the city, and he will puarantee to give the leit meal for cash. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bkktox Strket, Nkak Pakkf.b House, ASTOKIA. - ORF.GON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILEl. MAKERS. LAND and MARINE ENGINES BoilerWork, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. O. STUSTG-S , or all Dearriptiuut nade t Order at Hhort Notice. JL D. Wahs, President. J.O. Hc.sTLKK.Secretary, 1 . W. Gas , Treasurer. JOHN Fox.Superlnteadent. S. ARNDT & FERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSM1TEL SHOP and i: Boiler Shop All kinds of ' ENGINE, CANNERY, AND STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing- CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. FRESH CANDY AT THE ASTORIA CANDY FACTORY Patronize Home Manufacture. All my CANDIES are of the FINE-T QUALITY. A full assortment NUTS FOREIGN FRUITS, ETC. ta - ''Wmp TRANSPORT A.TIO tf LIN i. OreQon Railway ANavigatior COMPASY. OGRAX DIVISION. During the month of January, 1884, Ocean Steamers will sail from t'o'rtland or San Francisco, and from San Franclseo for Port land eTery 5 day, leaTlng AlnsworthDoeic, Portland; at Midnight, and Spear aireei Wharf, San Francbco, at 10 a. 2C Taraach Tickets sold lo all principal citlesr in End United States, Cauada ami Europe. ' . RAIL DIVISION. Passenger Train leave Portland for East enLpoluta, at 7 :39 P. M. dully. K1VER BIYISI0 (Middle Co1hhi!1jO. Boats lea Ye Portland for Dal lea at 7 :Oi A M. ALSO: EeaveTort-l i I I I I land for 1 MToqI Tu. I We.lThu.1 Fn. I S n 4.torU And I Inaa. ftAl Iambi.. ..IA AM 8 AM RAM 6AM kAM hAV mrton. ur .7AH ,7AM,' 17 AMJ SIem I Vpv1IIb BAM! I AMI Vic ton .BO mmI m Le&rea totori for Prtlcd at t a. m. dalli ei ept Saodty. Pullman Placa Cr rnnnlax between Por -land, tod St. Paul. C.il PKHMKLT. JOHN XIOIR, Mhii3i. Suji'lnfTnitnc A. L. STOKES, F-. P. KMElt, Aealit. ap't. General Afteiit of traffia. Pnzer Dep't Oregon & California R. R OREGON & TRANSCON'TTNENTAL COMPANY, LESSEE. On and after Dec 2d, 18S3, trains will ran as follows : DAILY (Except .-undajs). KABXSIOE DIVISION. Iftwtci POKTLAB and CR WTA PASS MAIL TRAIN. LEAVE. ARRIVE. Portland 7 :T0a.m Grant's Passl 2o a. m. Gntni'araas lO:tOP. M Portland ..... ita v. m. Albany exprcSs traiis. LEAVE. AliRIVF. Portland. 4 -00 P. M. Lebanon ... 9 2j p. u Jbtuon......i :45 a.m. I'oitland... lu :U5 a. m The Oregon and Califonil.i Kailroad FVrry makes connection with all Regular Trains oa Kastside Division. WE3TSIDK DIVISION. Kctweea t.rit..u. uuu Corvnlti MAIL TBAIX I.EAVE. ARRIVE. Portland....9 :C0 A. x. Corvalli 4 -jsu p M. Coivallis S :30 . m. Portland 3 M p. it. EXPRESS TKAJK LEAVE. ARRIVE. Portland 5 :00 p M McMInnvllle 8 .-oo pm McMianvlUe5:t5 au Poitland 8:3Uam Close co'iuec Ions made at Grant's Pass with the sttages of the Orecon and Califor nia Stage Company. 3"Ticke'9 for sale at all the principal points In California, at Company's Office, Corner f and Front &ts., .'ortland, Or . Freight will-not be received, for shipment alter jro'cloct p.m. on either the tast or West side Dl viiion. B. KOEHLhB, JOHN' MUIB. Qtn'l. Mft. im;. nup't. of Traflc. A. L. aTOKKH, P EOOtBt, At Sup't. Genera) x't of Traffics. Pksjenger Dep'U Hwaco Steam Navigation Go.'s WINTER SCHEDULE. Astoria to Fort Steu-ins. Fjrt Car by, and tlwa o. Connecting by stages and boats for Oysterville, Montesano and Olympia Until further notice the Ihvaco Steam Navigation Co.'s ste.uner G-GX3L. 3VT1 1 est, A ill leave Astoria On Monday Thursdays, and Saturdays (Oysterville and Montesano mall days. at 7 A. U. FOB Ft. Stevens, Ft. Canby and Hwaco OK Tuesdays, Wednesiays, and Friday The deamerwill leave Astoria at 9 A. 31.. as formerly, not beiuc conn tud strictly t .schedule time. Fare to Fort Canby and Hwaco,......75 cK iy Hwaco frel-'ht, by the ton. In lots of one ton or over, 82 per ton, jaT"For Tickets, I owage or Charter ap ply at the office of the company, Gray'? wharf, foot or Bentou str- et. J. H. D. GRAY. Agent Shoalwater Bay Transportation Co. SUMMER ROUTE. Astoria to Olympia, Touching at Krt Stevens. Fort Cauhy. Ilwac aferth Beach. Oyiuervll 1. JVorth Cve. Peterii6 S'olnt. Uu- qainn, .tfoiitfanu. And all points ou Shoalwater Bay. w Cm Harbor. GKN. MILES.) Strs. or V On Columbia Rifi GEN.CANBY. ( . - GEN. GARFIELD " Shoalwater Ba M MONTESANO " Gm '. Har'.o Connecting with Stages over Portages. Leave Astoria for Olympia, at - - 7 A. M On Mond ys, Thursday and Satumaxs arriving at Montesai.o the dav after It-awu. Astoria through tri in rto hour.. Leave Olympia for Astoria on same days Columbia Transportation Co. FOR PORTLAND. 07AST TIME.) The popular steamer FLEETWOOD, Which has been reflttedfor the comfort o passengers wlU leave WiKon and Fisher's dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriuing at Portland at 7 P. M. Returning leavas Portland every Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 A. M. Arriving at Astoria at 1 P. M. An additional trip will be made on Sunday of Each Week, Leaving Portland at e'cleok San4ay Merainj;. Passengers by this route connect at Kalaraa ier souaa pons. u. j. ihajil. BUSINESS CARDS. Q B. THOMSON, Attorney and Counselor at Lav,'. Room No. 6, over "White House, ASTOKIA, OREGON. O. W. FUXTON". O. a FCXTOX. FULTOn BROTIIEKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rooms 5 and C, odd Fe'lows Building. r Q.A. HONJL.BY. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Chenamus tr et, ASIORIA, OREGON r J. CL'UTIM, . ATTY AT LAW. Notary Pub Ic, Cnunlsin'ier of Deeds for fail -or.. la, :ev orkaud Washington Ter ritory Rooms 3 and 4, Odd Fellows Uollding, As tor a ir-gon N B -Claims at Washington. D. C, and rollet-tious .ispecin t. 4 V.ALliK., Astnriu Acrnt Hamburg-Magdeburg and German-American FIRE INSURA.VCK COMPANIES. L" C. 1IOI.OK.V NOTARY rUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. O. IV. L.E1CK. ARCHITECT AND DRAUGHTSMAN. Scholars received for Course . I Draughting. fcOfllcu owr h".te House Store. VUIhO V. lMJtKKIt. SURVEYOR OF 'latop County. mid io f nlori.i Oillce: ClieiniiiuD.nlieel, V. .U. C. A. hall Uoom Sn. 8. I U. S. O. ilOAHlAX, Ph.sician and Su-geon. Kooms 9 and 10. Odd Fellows .Building. ASTORIA, UKEGON. I A V Tl'TTLE. Jl. 1. PHYSICIAN A.ND 6URUEOS Okkick Rooms 1, 2, aud 3. lythlaii Duild- Injf. RKsiDK2.CE Over J. E. Thomas Dru, Store. P P. filC MLS, nENTIST, ASTORIA, ... - OREGON Rooms In Allen's bnililinp up stairs, corner of Cvssaud Sueiiiocqhe stret . J. R1SBERG. Practical Tailor. On Genevieve itieet, bpp site Itozorth & Johns. jiu-sui THE THINGVALLA LINE. Is the only DIRECT LINE Between NEW YO .K aud SC VNDIVAVIA. Firit class Steamers aud good usage. TicUi U Tor alr nt I. 31. J till O.VS. Aent, Astinia, Oiegon. CENERAL STEAMSHIP ACEKCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1AM AGhNr FOR TIIK FOLLOWING w't-i: known uud commodious aiemhip nics. STATE LINE. RF.O STAR. WHITE STAR. n.vMUUKG-AM ER ICAN. I) MINI' N LINE, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE. Prepaid tick ts to or mmi any European port. For full Informntli'n as to rat-s or fare, aillnir days, etc, ppll to LW.CASE. OKO P. WIIEKI.Klt. Noiary imblic w. L. i:ouc WHEELER & EOBB. GENERAL Real Estate I Insurance Apt. We have very deIrahle property m As toria and Upper Astoria for s.i e. Alio, Hue farms thnuin'iont the O'Uiitv. Accounts carefully adjusted and collec tions made. We represent the Hoyal. Norwich Union nnl rnnca Hhire IiiMuranrt '.'.., With a combined capital of S3C.O00.OOO. THE Traveler Life nmt Acrid! Insnr- uwr- Co , of Ha tford. and the lai.- liut.au I. f iu-niice Co.. f N w York. W- are a'"nt for tjn Da'ly awl iTeeklu XnrthKeai Kctcn, ami th Onuwt Vidette. All iiiisiurs u lust d to our care wi.l re ceive prompt atiftiiiou. COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers In LUMBEE, HAY, GEAIN, POTATOES,. AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Advances made on Consignments. ST0I&BAM1