The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-28
The Life-saving Service.

made to understand that they do not.
The Life-Saving Service.
A bill has been introduced in congress
to provide for experiments looking to bet
! ter means Of Communication between out
! lying lighthouses, light-ships and life
saving stations. 1t is proposed to utilize
the telephone and submarine cables, and
| an appropriation is wanted with which to
| defray the cost of experiments
Any measure that may reasonably be
! expected to benefit the hfe-saving service
is worthy of the careful consideration of
congress. The MORNING News recently
gave some details of the work of the life
saving services of the world during the
| last twenty-five years, in which it was
| shown that thousands of lives and
millions of dollars worth of property had
been saved through their efforts The
service in this country is said to be the
best Still, it is deficient in many re-
! spects. Wrecks along the coast are often
sighted first by the look-outs in the tall
! lighthouses, some of which are in almost
| inaccessible places on land, while others
are far out in the water. If means of
! quick communication between these
! places and the life saving stations could
be established much vualulble time
would be saved in getting men and boats
! to the rescue of those wrecked.
| Another need of the Atlantic coast ser
vice was illustrated during the great
storm along the New York and New Jer-
sey coasts a few days ago. 1t is the Gus
tom to keep full crews on duty only part
of the year. Most of the stations are
now closed for the summer, and when the
storm broke along the New Jersey coast
the other day it found only one or two
keepers at each station. What might
! have been accomplished with even half
crews is suggested by what was accom-
plished by the keeper at Deal beach. He
| hurriedly organized volunteer crew of
! hotel guests and rescued four out of elev-
| en- ,ship-wreched men. Had the trained
life savers been on duty the number of
rescued would probably have been great
er. 1t is the opinion of seafaring men
that many lives were lost because the
stations were closed.
1t seems that, considering the high
state of efficiency to which the signal ser
vice has been brought, if it is not prac-
ticable to have the stations fully manned
during the entire year, emergency crews
might be provided and ordered by tele-
graph whenever a severe storm is discov-
cred to be making its way to the coast, to
report at once at the stations for ser
vice.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
has been one of the extremely partisan
newspapers to contend that fear of demo-
cratic tariff tinl1ering is mainly response
BILE for the financial and industrial de
preston. But out of its own columns the
Commercial Advertiser stands convicted
of insincerity or very POOR Judgment. As
told in the MORNING News dispatches, the
Commercial Advertiser has received from
its own correspondents and published a
"broadside" of opinions to the effect that
the commercial crisis is past, and that an
era of prosperity is about to be ushered
in. And now, before we get well "out of
the woods. - it is as well to remark that
whatever degree OF prosperity may come
to the country after this season of dcpres-
sion will be due entirly to the efforts Of
the Democratic party The populist and
the republican press and the politicians
of those parties as well, have exerted
themselves to magnify all of the bad feat
ures of the situation and hide all of the
good ones, for the purpose of embarrass-
ing the democrats and making political
capital for their own parties
The Hughes court-martial at Topeka
continues to drag itself along. Two or
three weeks have been consumed in the
inquiry, but a conclusion appears to be as
far off as ever Col. Hughes disobeyed
the order of Gov. Lewelling to shoot
down a lot of republican legislators, and
is being tried therefor under an indict-
ment embracing about all the crimes and
misdemeanors in both the civil and militia
ny codes. The state house officers are I'M
portant witnesses for the prosecution. It
appears that every time a witness for the
defense makes point Secretary of State
Osborne is put upon the stand to contra
dict him. Osborne has now reached a
point in his serial story where he tells ola
plot on the part of the republicans to as
sassinate Lewelling. Osborne, it will be
remembered, is the official whose sanity
was questioned recently.
Montana has, during the recent past
figured so extensively in the silver talk as
a silver state that the fact that she pro-
duces any other metal has been almost
lost sight Of As matter of fact Mon
tana is one of the greatest copper produ-
GERS in the world, her output exceeding
even that of Michigan. Excepting Mich
igan Montana produced last year more