Connecticut western news., 1879-08-13

134 disasters, jmperilflng Just f506 lives, ] of (which but thirty-nine were lost.
 HoW greatly the chances of escape from | shipwreck along the coast have been in. screased by this service will be seen by a EyRw figures. When the service was re- k0Fganized in 1871 it was stated, again EaAd again, by two members of Congress, Ethdt more than thousand lives were
 lost annually up9nss 7tba coasts >Yf gNew. | de Hbt this was an over-statement. No
 careful account of the losses upon these
 coasts had ever been kept it was known,
 how wever, that during the twenty five
 years previous to this time, 512 persons
 had perished, an average of twenty five E4as year; and it was also certain that many more had been lost of whom no
 record had been made. During the five years beginning with 1871 only skixteen F persons were lost upon the coast, an av- Icerage of but little more than three fyear. " In other words," says, the .xe- port, ''where twenty-five persons, were annually lost (and doubtless thrice that
 11umber) there are now only three. Such
 g record as this," theNGanaeel Saperius
 tendent has rightf fo Aa Nhas hsven
 been surpassed in the annals Of efforts for the mitigation of marine disaster" {. Such are some of the results what
 are the means employed to secure them
 At each of these life say Ng@ta6aasi is a,
 keeper and crew of six s1rfmen. By these the beach is steadily patrolIed at night, men going out in both directions
 from each station until they meet the
 patrols from the nearest station on
 either side; Each. psFol is furnished with 8 AsdHeadhghay whseks Kx xburns on discovering ship in danger, to alarm the crew at the statioh and agiye notice
 fo the wreck that relief is at hand. ! Then he 'hasteis to the station to help
 in bringing up the apparatus for the rescue. A metallic life boat and small cedar surf boat are waiting thers to, be 1used when the conditions will admit
 there is also g neat little mortar (he
 pattern of which was, designed by Lieut.. FLyle- of the Springfield Armory), by which a,shot-dne may be sent over the wreck if it is not more, than five or six I thundred yards, from the shore. The
 line carries out hawser, and upon that cthe people,on board the vessel are car .ried hshoEewheR the water is\ SO rough t4hat the boats cannot be managed in it. .a The principal conyeyapces that travel, sby the hawser arg the>b >breeehes-buoy and
 1he life-car. The buoy is sufficiently
 described by, it's nanes, it is: suspended cby puileyato the haaiwsef; and one per
 son at g. time IS carried ashore by means. .!of it.. The ife-ear,i is ''a covered boat, having afew air-holes in the, top (these :perforations being made from within to prevent, by their raised edges, the water from readily entering), an interior ':capsc4y fpx receiSing frsm twp tg fqub'
 persons for it's load, and a ring at esch lend to which are attached the hauling Hines that epaRlsH to beppAefa,to and fro through the water between tho shore and the wreck. Besides these are Iife-
 rafts and cork buoys, and those life-pre serving suits in1which Captain Boyton has performed, so many wonderful ,ex- .ploits. A medicine-chest contains stim- ;;ulantgand rest toratiyea .andthe eteA are ;th thoroughly trained in Towards method ,of resuscitating the drowned.