The Morning herald., 1878-12-19

The elephant got, safe to. sboIe but tts
captain, and nearly all the crew weIe
drowned. The body of her captain, was
found in his shirt sleeves, stark and stitf,
and the frozen corpses of her crew strewed
our ocean beach. -Four footed animals
generally get ashore safely from wrecks
and the elephant is the largest and strong
est animal of the brute creation, and there's
fore the more able to combat the huge
ocean waves. But 1 again repeat, / did
not get Life Saving Stations established to
save the lives Of slsphants-but to save
the lives of men.
As regards the wreck of the Tuscarora
(which by some mist axe previously men-
toned IS the Montezums) the informa-
tion l have, is, that she was wrecked as |
have before described in the Gazette, by
the mistake of her captain (Turley) not
Furley as the Gazette had it. This mis-
take in the name was only typographi,
| ical error. He mistook the Cape Hen
lopen Light for the Five Fathom Light,
and 80 ran on shore, and that she did cost
her owners to repair her 100000 But OF
course am liable to be mietaken. 80 also
is Mr.. Townsend.
| In relation to the other coasts described
by Mr.. Townsend in his letter to you, l
have nothing to say, for in the manner he
speaks of them, they do not concern in any
waythe discus ion between him and myself.
From what / can gather from his re-
marks, the real difference between us, is,
that he insists that l ins!igated the article
in the HERALD of the 20th of November
And insist that knew nothing Of it un>
til saw it In print And also that l
aIlege that the Delaware Sea Coast be>
tween Cape Hsnlopen and Rehoboth, is
one If the most dangerous, and has had
greater loss of life than any similar extent
of sea coast in the country. This is a
mere differences of opinion. l base my
opinion on the nunber of wrecks, and
loss Of life consequent thereon, (the stats.
tics Of which l have given above) that
occurred on the ocean shore of ours,
tn at have before described, in about tive
morths space before | visited it, and
patrolled its beach, and upon numerous
wrecks of old that have occurred, like that
of the Faithful Steward where four hum
drsd lives were lost. And many recent
wrecks like that of the Charles P. Sinick>
son, which went ashore at 2 o'clock in the
morning of the I7th of september 1866.
| The crew of this vessel remained in the
rigging, until o'clock in the afternoon.
During all that time, there was no boat
put off TO save them. Of all her officers
and crew but two men were saved. One
poor boy when n .ar shore, exhausted, said
| good by tothe msnetruggling,in the waves
near him, gave up, and sunk beneath the
waters, to rice 30 more. Also upon the
1.-TWO wrecking companies at Lewes, with
their costly apparatties, which took great
many wrecks to sustain. Also upon the
report of the United States officers, who
upon my application for Live Saving
Stations, were sent by the government TO
examine toto their necessity: And upen
their recommendation, not orly 10 establish
them where suggested in two places be"
tween Rehobeth and Cap" Henlopen, but
down the Atlantic coat of the whole
peninsula.
Mr.. Townsend ..on the contrary ignores
| all these facts-all this destruction of life
and property, and endsavors to prove be,
cause forty-fye years ago, an elephant
swan ashore (though the crew OF the yes
sci were nearly all drowned) yet the Della
ware coast from this single circumstance,
cannot be dangerous-and therefore no
Life Saving Stations should be established
Let the people of Delaware judge between
as. and say which is right.
| In conclusion will say that have nc
earthly interest in this question. J saw
numerous lives lost ne'r'T all OF WHOM
might have been saved, ani ''ied to es'
.abii.k means and appliances. to prevent
like calamities in the future. spent
time and some little money in doing this
and like all my public acts peeunialily il
has never been cent of profit to me
never in my life asked or received of any
one, a cent to assist nae in this or any
other public undertaking. | did what
considered to be my duty-and shall DO Sc
again wiz never i like opportunity occurs
Il NIA G at Respect
81 Remains Yours
FRANCIS VINCENT.
Il (The f.st article which appeared in tn
; HERALD in relation to the Life Savlpl