The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-30
LIFE SAYING SERVICE.
Ihe Benefit of 1t Made
Evident by the Recent
Severe Storms.
INCREASED APPROPRIATION NEEDED.
iAe Coast Should Be patrolled All
the Year Ronnd-The Men
Underpaid.
Women Help Rescue a ShipWrecked
INCREASED APPROPRIATION NEEDED.
Women Help Rescue a ~shipwrecked
Crew at Point Lookout.

The Life Saving Department IS proba-
fly the ouly one of the many departments
OF the National Governments that allows
It's employs to be the object of charity,
and there are benevolent organizations
supplying the employees of the Life Saw
Ing Service will necessaries OF life aud
with other things calculated TO add to
their comfort aud cheer during their
months of service. Notwithstanding
that it was demonstrated that tor $50 u
mcn,h these surfmen had to renain
away from their families and furnish
their own rations and purchase thelr own
uniforms. un effort was made by Super
intendeut Kinibail to defeat ths
passage of the bill that secured
for them their increase in salary
last year. The dill was first Introduced iu
the Forly-niuth Congress by James Bu-
chauau, Representative OF the Second
District or New Jersey, W hose district
took in only n part OF the New Jersey
shore. Iu Lhe beginning he securei the
assistance Of Congressman Johu ON ell
OF Missouri, who was Interested In iekis-
lation intended to eeneh5 the working
class, and Congressman Weadock OF
Wisconsin. The fight was made IN the
Committee on Commerce during the last
year of tue Fifty-second Congress. Con-
gressman Gels ,eahaiuer aid tho Rev.
Edward Young of Asbury Park,
in the latter days of the agitation.
turned in and gave the Lifts Saving
cause q boom, which resulted IN It
being fayorabiy reported u passed. me
hill for the increase OF paT would have
been passed several years 6 had IL not
been for the opposition OF Superintendent
Kimball, who represented That the men
we're well satisfied with the compensa-
tiun they were receiving.
The next fight that WAS made In their
behalf was to prevent Jahberg In their
supply of clothing. An eff 3rt WAS made
The to have the department. continue
the service all the year for The stations
along the ocean 'front.', but noS Tor the
lake service. 1t s.ust be noticed that on
the lase the service is In operation Ia
summer, while along the SHORE IL Is In
operation only III autama aud winter.
ALL II YEAR ROUND.
There is 40 Jrouols so hnd tue strong
est kind OF argument Tor the CO utinua-
tiou of the season all The yesr round,
Particularly along The Atlantic co asst. on
whicn there is more naylgRtian during
the months that tue Life Saving crews
are out of service than during the lime
that tue palrvlmen are on inc LOOKOUT.
particplariy on the upDe coast tsadluR
I tie New York har3or.
While the department. arrangas for q
keeper 10 be on duty at the stations all
tue year round he Is without crew Or pa
trollnap, He has power TO gather his
patielmeu or TO orgaIiizs a temporary
crew, which the service will compe nsate,
aid IN sonie instances this plan has
proved beneficial. for during the closed
SEASON OF 1880 assistance was given to
twelve vessels etwee May l and Sap
teruuer /; but the troubte is that during
vacation there Is NC organized patrol OF
the beach, aud The entire relief OF Those
in distress at sea Is dcpenIeuT upon tnci-
dental discovery by some one on land and
~ttlepnoning IA lo tie nearest station. There
IS auotuer obstacle 10 the successful opel
alton Of volunteer or temporary crews
aluug the new jersey co tst In particular.
Those in the Life Saving Sertice are
Eindiy disposed 10 the close season dur
lug Augustand Septe nber because of the
income they derive from hnndilng nshlng
aud sailing parties dnrinE the rush of the
Summer yIsilurS. They c1siin that their
income is 50 small from Tue Goverumsnt
that they hail with giadnsss the period Of
release. SO that they Can make something
out Of their boats fur the general assist
auce of their families who live iulaud.
Whether the incrs ase tv SIS and the pros
pect of work twelve monLus la the year
would dispei that opposition is not
known. but the probabilities are that the
Govsl nuicut would have no tronbls in
securing an efficient corps willing TO do
work slt the year round AZ that compen-
kHti0u.
FLAGRANT DEFECTS.
The distress aloug lac New Jersey
shore the past week mas Awakened much
interest III the Life Saving Sorvlce aud
has called attention To us most fragrant
defects. Tue facts demonstrate Jhas the
Government cause all by its false notlous
~ uort u4stt g. = 4lfftter IN afIaw fha
seacoast To be strew Ii with untorrunats
dead. Those who Witnessed the llss OF
lie from the wrocking OF rhs Mary Kelly
at the foot Df Ssyentu avenue In Aspury
PARK are Indignantly expressing rhem-
serves on Uncle sans ~fn-anue.s.
congressman Buchauan, VINO was the
the f~ntrouucer of the several life saving
bills before The last three Congress. Is Of
TIE olinfon thai tue department. would
have 10 trouble Whatever III securing an
additional appropriation 80 as to con
iiuur the services all ths year round II the
department sould request II. Evsn Con-
gressmen from the est and South W est.
who have very little kDowladge OF the
workings of the Life Saving service, are
tpeu 10 cou victiou, Ms was tue case when
ll.e bill for the increase OF their pay
r.assed after they Received an explanation
Of now the men lived. But the only
way That It can be obtained n the coast
patrGlled rs IL should be-all the Year
louHd--is by the pressure of public opin-
jon brought to bear on the heads OF the
department. IN Washington.
WOMEN LIFE SAVERS
In the syutueasJ gale OF yesterday
morning the bark Martha z. Tucker OF
New Y,rk was, driven ashore one mile
west OF the Poiut Lookout Life Saving
Saatlou un Poiut LOCKOUT, and eleven
men were rescued from ths bowsprit of
the wreck by un iuiurOyised life saving
crew, Consisting Of two women, n fifteen
year old girl, u 10Y and three men. The
Andrew Rhodes. Of the Point Lockout
Lie Saving S~tAtion. his fifteen Year old