Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-11

ly inspected the Metropolis and whose
reputation as experts are likely to suffer
by the sad fate which overlook her, are
already in print trying to shift the re-
sponsibility to the shoulders of somebody
other than themselves. What of our
life saving service? 500 men cast ashore
on the treacherous Currituck beach with
in the last months directly under the
nose of these life saving (?) crews who
prove as useless as so many Evan
O'Neil's. The superintendent of this
service specially qualified himself for
the responsibilities of the place by serv-
ing as messenger Il believe) lst, End,
3rd and 4th class clerk successfully, and
finally as chief clerk in the End auditors
Office. In recognition of the vast strides
he made in theoretical and practical
knowledge of national affairs while thus
working up claims of soldiers for bounty
and arrears of pay, he was promoted to
the superintendency of a branch of SER
vice the utility of which must depend SO
largely upon the energy, system and in
telligence with which its grave response
bilities. and perilous duties are directed
from the headquarters here. Our super
intendent, every summer, boldly visits
the stations along the coast, critically
examining into their workings through
spy glass from the deck of a govern
ment steamer detailed for this hazardous
duty. To thoroughly familiarize him.
self with all the details of every bureau
Of his department, it will be remembered
how Secretary Sherman, scorning the
dangers of New Englands roek-ribbed
coast, accompanied Superintendent Kim
ball on his northward trip last summer,
when less Jealous officials were spending
their annual leave at the various water
ing places. Though they suffered the
horrors of shipwreck off the coast of
Maine, the voyage was not abandoned
till every nautical mile of the coast,
eastward, had been traversed While
undoubtedly true, that Democratic mean.
ness is chargable with having crippled
the efficiency of the service. it strike:
every one as odd that for hours after the
metropolis" struck, no one from any o.
the stations appeared aware of it or tina
E the furious easterly gale was likely tt
s duplicate the Huron" catastrophe. AL
ready it is stated that no horses we're a
i hand for hauling the life-saving alpara
e tus to the stranded ship, and when Their
the life line was old and rotten that
: was unable to bear even the strain # tn
y ocean current. What an eficielt in
is spector Mr.. Kimball must have OF thi
:, Currituck beach to be sure ant W
\ shiver with dread lest the efficiency {
H. his life saving force and apparatus |
tested at other points along the tori
ne swept Atlantic coast during the boi4rot
e. months of February and March yet r
IS, naming to furnish their annual recol
pc of diseaster and death. 1t is an exec
he lent subject-this metropolis" brsine
IN for a searching non-partisan invest
'ss CATION by an impartial jury who dor
ne believe in the efficacy of whitewash whe
"a. thousands of human lives are set ov
f few Small IF fry G Politicians a
ler Among the things accomplished by
IL over-worked Congress since my last
iae the passage by the House of the NJ
an thews silver resolution by vote of |
to 70; the adoption of Fosters sub.
tute to the bill of the Ways and Me-
Committee postponing the time for t
withdrawal of whiskey from bond
ion July l, 1873, declaring any reduction
Iic- the whiskey tax-for the real Object
BUS inexpedient; the passage of the an
in subsidy resolution, and the vote excll
hat ing lobbyists, save ex-members and O
the ers privileged, from the floor of
BON House. So the goose of the whisk
to railroad, and other rings are regarded
hat pretty effectually cooked for the sessi
of Still it is safe for constituencies oppo
, to them, to keep an eye on such me
i'm bers as are unequal to such template
md as are offered. The Bland bill is
m first thing in order now in both Hous
ms UNpINE