Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-27
LIFE SAVERS.
An Excellent Record Made by
the Brave Men.
Annual Report of Superintend-
ent kimball.

Out of 491 Disasters, with 3,491 Persons
on Board Only Fifty Perish-Over So,
100000 Worth of Property Saved-We
Now Have 23S Stations, of Which 178
Are on the Atlantic Coast.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Mr Kimball,
superintendent of the government life
saving service, reports that at the close
of the last fiscal year the establishment
embraced 238 stations-178 on the At
lantic, AZ on the lakes, II on the Pacific
and one at the falls of the Ohio, at Lou
isville.
The results of all the disasters within
the scope of the service aggregate, there
fore, as follows: Total number Of disas-
ters, 491; value of property involved, ST.
020 s05; total value of property saved
S., 1888, $50; total value of property lost
81 1886, ,845; total number of persons ON
saved, 3,441; total number of persons
lost, so; total number of persons succor-
ed at stations, 551; total number of days
succor afforded, 1910; total number Of
vessels lost, 81.
LII w pti SOilS ndNONl lIOul N6b-
sells there were forty-six others rescued,
who had fallen from wharves, piers, etc,
and who would have perished but for
the timely assistance of the life saving
service. The crews saved, without out
side assistance, 1853 vessels, valued with
their cargoes at 81 1856, $40, and assisted
other efforts in saving seventy-nine YES
sells, valued with their cargoes at 81 ,S02,-
Y,,n1y1,,ce bn o+n ,1N,,, ,,>f
vessels which they saved and assisted to
save during the year 247, involving $3,-
2sS, $50 of property. Assistance of minor
importance was rendered to 1888 other
vessels in Distress and 2l0 were warned
from danger by the signals of the patrol
men.
The cost OF the maintenance of the
service during the year was $940, ,201 .04.
The saving of imperiled property was
pToportionately greater than in any
former year with single exception.
The following table give summary
of the statistics of the service from the
introduction of the present system in
1871 to the close of the fiscal year:
Number of disasters, 5,948; value of
property involved, 1857 1854; value Of
property saved, $1l ,64l ,942; value Of
property lOSJ, pS4, l. ,OUG.
Number of persons involved, 1854;
lives lost, 6OO persons succored at sta
tions, 9242; days succor afforded, "A ,239.
Since the last report stations have
been established and put in operation at
Knobb's Beach, near Newburyport);
Great Neck, Nantucket Island), Mass.
Marquette and Bois Black Island, Mich
and Coos bGy, and at the mouth Of
Umpquah and Coquille rivers, Ore,
and stations are in process of construc-
ton st Burnt Island, (near the mouth of
ST. Georges river), Maine; Quonocop-
taug, r. l.; Fenwick's Island, Del,
and Ilweaco Beach, Wash.
Extensive repairs have been made to
twenty-siX stations on the coast Of Nortn
Carolina and Virginia, and similar work
is being done upon several of the sta
tions between Cape Henlopen and Cape
Charles.
The Sandy Hook, Seabright and Cold
Springs stations, N. j., and the Ocean
City station, Md, have been rebuilt.
Considerable extension of the service
telephone system has been made in con-
Meeting stations in the vicinity of cities
with the local systems affording ready
means of obtaining tugs and other aids
on occasion of disaster, and new line
is being constructed connecting the sta
tions on the Rhode Island coast,
The general superintendent invites at
tention to the embarrassment under
which the service labors owing to the
frequent designations of trained men
who leave the service for better compen-
sation outside at less hazardous voca-
tions.
He states that this exodus of expert
enced surfmen, shown in the last report |
to be more than 30 per cent, has con-
tinued during the past year, and it is
obvious, unless speedily checked, the
efficiency of the corps will be seriously |
leave, are retained by the hope of better
wages in the future, excited by former
and by the merits of
the case which they think ought to be
apparent