The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-11-19
A LIFE-SAVING STATION.
The Governments Exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
An Interesting Feature of the Great Ex-
position Which VIII Become
- Permanent In
stftution.


The ife-saving bureau Of the treas
ury department will be represented at
the Worlds Columbian exposition at
Chicago by hfe-saving station and APP
paratus that will show to perfection
this humane feature of the federal gov
eminent. The most essential feature
of the exhibit, the station itself, is rap
idly nearing completion on the lake
front within the space to be dedicated
to the exposition. The station. will be
fully equipped with all the apparatus
| pertaining to a first class lake life-saving
station, and besides the articles used in
work on the great lakes it will have on
exhibition boats of the styles used on
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and on
the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, with
such other apparatus as is peculiar to
the work in any part of the United
States. For instance, at Louisville two
life slziffs and two reels are used, this
apparatus being in use nowhere else.
The station will be manned by one of
the regular life saving crews, who will
perform daily drill, and it may be
that some of the visitors will have an
opportunity to observe the work as it is
actually performed in storms, for the
station is erected on one of the most
dangerous parts of the coast in the
vicinity of Chicago. The station APP
paratus and crew are there not only for
exhibition but for business whenever
any vessel needs assistance.
The station is to be a permanent one
L. !. l.
eminent was not able to secure salts
factory title to the site of the present
Chicago life saving station, and in the
last sundry civil appropriation bill, con-
gress inserted proviso that new sta
ton should be erected within the
grounds set apart for the worlds fair,
on condition, however, that there
must first be coded to the United States
the title to the site selected.
The bureau obtained gold medal for
its exhibit at the fish and fisheries ex-
hibit in London, where it simply showed
it's apparatus and did not attempt to
put it in operation. Superintendent Kim
ball is willing to put the American sys-
TEN into competitive test with that
used in any other country. The medals
and awards received will be placed on
exhibition and also some apparatus
showing the progress of life saving in
vention. Side by side will be shown
n modern Lyle gun for throwing a sue
coring line to the crew of distressed
vessel and the old-style mortar which
was used when this method OF saving
life was first adopted. The bureau has
in its possession the first mortar and
first ball ever used in America in life
saving work. About thirty years ago it
was used to throw a line to the crew of
the British ship Ayrshire in danger of
going on Squan Beach, N. j. The ball
struck the deck and carried the line to
the passengers and crew. By means OF |
the life line col persons were saved out |
Of a total of 222 persons on board. The |
ship sank and the ball went to the bot |
tom. About twenty years afterward. |
through the working of the waves the |
ball was brought to view again and |
sent to the life-saving bureau.