New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-02


Increase.
REVENUE MARINE.
The Revenue Marine maintains its position Of useful
ness and efficiency. The vessels number thirty
eight, manned by about $50 officers and men, and
stationed as ciecually to the whole coast OF the
country.
The work OF the service for the fiscal year last past is
represented, Satisfactorily. ~ follows:
Aggregate number of miles crused BY vessels 1888
Number OF merchant vessels boarded aud ex- o,o,,
Number Of merchant vessels found volstinglaw
Roper anthor,tes ................. 2,270
Fines or penalties incurred by vessels 50 seized
Number Of vessels IN distress assisted ..... 2i0
Value OF vessels and their cargoos impcrled by 20 M
the 10 which assistance rendered $705512 90
Number OF persons on board vessels asst 3ted 1910
sixty-three persons picked out OF the water and
saved from drowning.
OF conducting the service for the past year
The special work of the service has been unusually i'm
nortap Eour of the yes were cmpoycd last spring
in the waters Of the Gulf OF Mexico I'm preventing viola
tons of the neutrality laws Added to the regular work
the whole fleet has been employed during the season in
maintaining sanitary patrol upon coast against the
introduction Of cholera and yellow fever. while fonr of
vessels have In cooperation with the Marine Hos
pital Service kept mp rigid national quarantine at the
entrances to Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and In the
Gulf
The Treasury vessels for the protection of
sne prWin under command Of cnpAm eay has
cruscd indusrousy in the waters OF Alaska ami upon
our coast within the Arctic Ocean, with signal public
benefit selling one schooner engaged in the unlawful
bilIinr of seals assisting the crew of shipwrccked
whalcr succoring destitute miners, and making useful
surveys aud explorations
The rebuilding Of the revenue steamer Perry at Bufa
TO- n y has been completed during the year. and that
vessel placed duty Erie Penn her former station
Sho proved able and effective vessel and constitutes
"A valuable addition 10 the fleet
Three steamers OF the service have been thorough
ovcrhauc and repaired in the hulls and furnished with
The steamer Crawford, which has been laid mp for
several months IA un'c9worhy has an ens lne OF
iron huh Wtiling the present cngincl for service IN
southern waters For this purpose the sum CT S'o'ooo
OF the two small steamers engaged In hnrbor duty Mt
the port of New York neither II adapted Tor the WORK
now required Of them, aud one Is reported In need ~ rN
tcnsivc Repairs The ann of tooono required tot me
construction such vessel M the public interests tie
mnnl for this duty, ami recommendation Ia nude ae'
corllnely.
Alaskan waters The growing lhportancr ~ this Nlst
tho trpnta ~ tho annual ctul'ns ~ tho vrnnr rutas
IN The Naatnn tre,oG 'hov the practical utility Of The
work performed II ~ believed that thl' He\lce cannot
be- abandoned without sotinha ruhl" lnss'
ittEs,NiNa stiNipt,
Ihn operations ~ thla service have continued dWlhg
the year with unnhaoi sNccraa,
Tho nnmhre ~ stations At tho close ~ Tho year was
aoi There wcro aa7 dlaaaora to dooimonlel Vessels
within the scope NJ their action on board thoar Ncsacs
wer aaa ,oraons these, iea7 were saNod, and III
lns The numher or HhipWterhwi ictH"ns HNronirl AZ
aiO days rrlic Tho value of property involved Ne,
timatrd at O53O,O2ai NJ this SoObolil was saved
W 'N'-'f"
The assistance in saving vessels ana cargoes has been
greater Than ever before 800 vessels having beoh WOhcd
oil when stranded. repaired when dahhgcd plotted ol
of dangerous places aud similarly assisted 10y the Stallion
crews There 30 instances OF vessels being warmed
on by night signals when running dangerously near
shore aud thus probably saved from partial or total
BESIDES the foregoing, there were lo2 disasters TO small
craft such as snoat, noas &C. r D"s1"s and a
lost The property represented in these cases anohte
TO gl5 OF which SCI 22O was saved, and 5000 lost
The aggregate Is ~ follows:
Total number of disasters 1879
Total value Of property nyo
Total value of property saved .....-... rJ'lri'oot
Total value of property lost Sl,lltJ-6
Total number Of persons on board.... 4'i53 5
Total number of persons saved ..-...----. +''d3
Total number Of shpwrecked persons sue
1 SotI n ~ Of iays :icror aiorded 1919
Total number Of vessels lost................. Oh
Besides the persons saved from as above shown'
piers. and would probably have been iost Dut io inc
assistance rendered .,s,
The investigation held in each case OF loss OF lie snow
that the ife-savng did their entire duty ana th
persons who persisted were in every Instance S!ohd
The cost of the of the service during the
year has been S7G6.s34 81. l.,
Five new stations have been established and put IN
since the date OF the last report one AT Bre
S%s Il oa at 1 Waors Beach a%d one
at Parramores Beach, Va. A station has also been
rebuilt at Bancgat city and another at Chadweks.
both on the coast OF Ncw-Jcrsey. station at the
mouth of Portage Lake and Lake superior ship canal
Michigan 10 also In process OF consruciioii ana h'c
OF refuge the Florida coast are under contract
for building Proposals have also been invited for the
construction of station near Chareston > - ano'hrr
at Jupiter Inlet Fla and thrd Al SANTA ost is"nu
Fla Titles have bcen secured TO twelve sites OF, on
different parts or the coast and preparations are Dos
made for the establishment Of stations thereon
MARINE-HOsPIrAL SERVICE.
During the last fiscal year ISL patients received re-
ef-I3O7s were treated in hospitals, and 3l673 at the
dsnensaries The usual number OF surgical appliances
and orders for transpor alton furnished The re-
GENTS from all sources 1921 ,3iS 3d. and the ex-
pendturcs S465 3s7 As. This includes S37l6O o. e1-
pended for extraordinary alterations ana repairs upon
g5I recovered, ais were improved, 663 remained
unaffected by treatment. and 4s0 died There were
TO7 persois ply sically examined by officers OF thls
,cryice nj relief stations. OF them preliminary 10
shipnent n the merchant marine and enlistment III the
Revenue Marine Light House ana Life saving services
The larger number u,s5o were appicants Ior Pilots
lIrcuses xamined for color blindness OF whom Al were
rejected for this defect The examinations Tor plots
should be extended to acuteness or vision and hearing
which are as important defects as color blindness ne
general condition of the hospital buildings has been l
proyrd during the year. ana OF the new hospitals IN
course OF construction the one at Memphis has already
been occupied and those at NewOrIrnns, arr, ", ~
Cincinnati will probably be occupied before he coso VI
1854, but additional appropriations are hceucu ~ ~
completion OF tho hospitals at New.Oreans an" n ah
The recommendations heretofore Iha" lnio,.' iJo"c
lishmcnt OF nnatlonal snug iiarpor' vi """"' '
are also renewed. 81,
The Recommendation Of the Surgeon uenc'" ~, ,o
purchase of the Scanen's Retreat P'"i''y q.
Island. New York Ne recomiieiueu ~, ~. ,,a lac ~,
which rec onmendation was SUBSEQUENTLY, auoPe" v! ,io
Cumittee ON commerce OF the present Congress lke-
mort No O3O. h respectfully renewed anu carry ACTON
an the mar, Congress suggcstcd without action the
arvi M New Yurk will probably he without hospital
when tue lease OF the building terminates III May next
return to the old contract systen' ,otnctY I'D .1sue
at that port, would III my J""b""'' w "'e"' injurious
o. the two appropriations for preventing the spread
Al Az .l.a ll.tus n