The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-06-11
UNCLESAMS LIGHT-HOUsES.
Devices Used TO Protect Life-A womnn's
Deeds OF DaFing.

Devices Used 20 Protect Life-A Woman's
Deeds OF Dar'ng.
Lighthouse keepers are paid from eco TO
II 600 year. the highest salaries being given
10 those who occupy insulated posts like
Minots Ledge and those on the Florida reefs
Each one of them has book of 1872 pages
which tells him what % do III every emeI-
gency. II his light goes ont he IS discharged
80 matter what the excuse may be. Experts
called ''lampistsn 90 from lighthouse 20
lighthouse continually, e1amlning anu re-
u4irine Tampa. A frst-Order lamp consumes
two and half gallons OF oil in long winter
night The oil is fed TO IL by clockwork aud
Ilbe fash is controlled by similar mechanism
An opaqua pane is the cylinder OF glass re-
volvine about tho light makes dark inter
val and,a red pane produces q req ha5n.
The lens OF a first-Order light - SIX ieet III
diameter and the lamp has four cOncenIrlc
,gicxs the biggest being tOnr inches III dam
eter one Of the greatest human Inventions
is the Fresuel lens. now used IN all hight
hnuses which condenses the hight by an
or-anrement Of compound retract0rs 30 rs
TO throw all the rays IN a sgnle sheet 10y
its means "a frst-order light. naturally OF 45O
candle-power obtains power OF Az'V'O e@u-
dies
The most celebrated of lieht-house-keepers
ia Ida evils. who 10 deeds OF herosm has
surpassed the famous Grace Daring She is
no,y fifty years old and has charge on the
Iine Rock lighthouse az Newport MheL
she was twenty years of aye her N Their kept
that light. her father being helpless cripple.
That was in l-54 and IA September OK that
year she rescued four young men from cap
ailed sailbOat in midWinter or 1866 she
| so,ed a solder of the Fort Adams garrison
who had been similarly upset. and be was
restored 10 life az the lighthouse. In the iaii
az 1861 three men were swamped IN their
| bOat near Limo Rock while trying 20 PICK up
n valuable sheep that had fallen from e
wharf. She saved them and the sheep also.
| Not long afterwards she saw man clnglDE
! 10 spindle that marked reef near me
| lighthouse. rOwed out 20 him. and got MN
| safely ia gale in March, 1852 she rescued
two more soldiers from swamped boat On
/ February 4th. 1880 two members of the Fort
| Adams garrison band broke through the ice
/ between the light house and the fort. and she
puued them out Thus far she has saved
| thirteen persons from. drowning.
Many & deed of heroism is performed Oy
the light keepers IN Uncle SAM employ.
/ scores of people have been saved from wrecks
| bv the hardy mariners of the New South
/ Shoal liehtship. who never hesitate 70 lunch
n boat i'm the midst of the most violent storm
for the purpose Of rescue. On one accession
/ tventv-seyen persons were snatched by them
| from a watery grave when the City OF new
castle ran upon the Nantucket banks and
sank stern foremost TN another Guy they
cqught sight Of black object driven before
| The Gale. and. putting forth in pursuit OF II:
rascned a man on raft. whom they found
aeated mon the corpse Of q tello~-castaway
! bis head buried in his hands, and hopeless Oi
| tba aid which came az last In February.
ISL the Sharp's Island lighthouse WAS car.
/ ried away by ice in Chesapeake bay. The
keepers tended the lamp 10 the last, anc
chung 10 the structure when II was sweep
fron its foundation. finally saving not onlS
themselves. but great part OF the valuable
apparatus.
house Board are regarded by residents OIL
shore As extremely Objectionable Worst o.
ali are the steam sirens" which are truly
diabolical invention from any other point o
view than that Of utility. They utter serie
ofrneartbly whOops. which ascend the scal'
note bv note until the unwilling listener feel
asif. Ia case they should 90 a few note
higher, he would become suddenly insane
Nearly az bad are the vhistling buoys. tn
a.tablishment OF one OF which near any N
babited spot IL sure 70 excite most franti
protests from jewellers IN the neigh borhood
Sixty-tvo Of these buoys ara employed IN tn
aaryiee the biggest Of them costing -l.Ol
zach and being audible al q distance of tli
teen miles. The sounds they utter are mex
nressibly mournful and saddening. The
consis, Of al iron pear-shaped bulb. with
,nbe running through the middle and extend
inc thirty-twO feet downward into the water
al the upper end OF the tube Is adjusted
locomotive whistle. through which the az
automatically compressed by motion Of tn
waves. Is liberated in horrible t0ots. Buoy
Of this description are particularly useful l
/ sopOy waters.