Evening journal., 1895-08-21
DREADWINTFRQUARTER
Lightship No. as Now Here for
Repairs.
TOSSED BY OLD OCEANS BILLoWs

Tho Equipment OFFS Lightship-How Uncle
Sam Keeps a Light In the window
Riding at Anchor I'm Fearful sees-Read-
ing, writing and Talking the Main Re-
lance Against EMMA Monotonous
Life Made DeiiEhtfuI.
'Paradoxlcally ~ It may appear,
lightship u under full headwa while
rolling with = monotonous jerk az her
auohcrs said James b. Scott yester lay
"Dlp, dip Wash, wash This Is in
csrsAntly going on with It's regular
creaklnR aud grinding OF bulkheads, tho
ar Of doors upon hooks, the aiding OF
movable objects from side to side
There are at times. however when
score Of pretty sights are close aboard
graceful bark OF the old pattern.
painted green, with new sheathng lus-
trous a. gold curtseyinR her white figure
hoad then dipping her broadslde tn her
rail looks hush with the sparkling blue
swell. her masts. with he top gallant
yards down sweeping their delicate hbrine
outlines Of shroud and stay and running
gear upon the gray streaked sky beyond,
against which the sand dunes Of the
coast mark their proportions With a
purity Of outline aud a tenderness OF
tints that makes = wonder Of the sun
lighted picture. Aud then, too, the
birds Of the seattle gulls--the eye
never weariea Of following the flight Of
these lovsly creatures, with th,ir wings
OF brown velvet tipped with white and
Q ged with ermine, cleaveing tbs white
capped billows with the stesdiness Of en
arrow to seize their prey OF fab, and then.
with a quick beat Of their wings, mount
the gale aud bear their trophies away 20
their waiting broods
Sometimes a ship appears that elvea
every evidences Of having being bufletsd
and tossed upon the ocean for many
months, An American whaler Hermeta
sheathing Is as green as grass with the
barnacles, shining through the water
little way below to whore the shesthiug
came. Evidences OF hard work are
abundant Perhaps she has been out
twenty two months cruising for whales
as far south as AZ degrees Of latitude
The great cutsing-in blockg had scrapsd
her sides clean ali about the gaugway,
and worn them into deep ruis. Half Of
the oAkum working out of the seams
left them hollow. Her boats exhibit
ing every symptom Of hard wear
stood bottom up on chocks, or hung from
massive wooden davits over the side
Dirt and Crime lay thick upon the sout
ties. There Is always pleasure In the
unexpected oonfrontmen,s OF the perfect
realization OF some visionary favorite IN
a work Of fiction. Here Is the parallel
Ia that array OF whalers poerng over tho
side 90 their motherly old craft tumbes
past the light ship. A miDgling Of white
men and black men and men whose faces
were All hair. and who looked like sailors
try ing to peer through door mats /;
and 30 the quaint, old batter od and
er.my whaler, fresh from nearly two
years washing about In search Of prey,
south OF the Cape OF Good Hop,, passes
on hsr way to her home port, New Beds
ford.
"These are some Of the sights that
vary the monotony falling Ike pail
upon the dresry waste Of waters stretch
ing on every hand. Perhaps no shoal
along the entire north Atlantic coast L.
more warily approached by the mariner
than the fam US Winter Q iarter shoal
sixty miles south Of Cape Henlopen, Of
the coast Of Virginia not excepting the
terrible Diamoi d shoals extending thirty
miles out from Caps Hatteias The seas
on the Winter Quarter shoal break more
than seven miles ont with terrific force
and WOO be to the ship caught by It's
deadly sands In 1891. the United States
cutter Dispatch. failed to see the warn
Ing lights and drove upon the shoals and
In little while was pounded TO pieces.
1T ls not by the display Of It's great
octaEon red light at the masthead that
the timsly warning Is given, bat In thics
fogs. lasting. at times. for days. the
great whistles must sound out their
hoarse notes far out over the treaoherous
spot
The Winter Q iarter lightahlp No 45.
now at the Pusey and Jones Company
rehtiing, Is having placed In position
Rovelty In signaling at sea during fogs
II consists Of two safety oil engines OF
the Bornsby & Akyrod patent supplying
compressed air to two upright boilers
which In turn are automatically acted
upon by time clocks. placed above, open
ing aHd closing the whistle valves
alternately every ffty-hve seconds No
steam whatever Is used, the power being
derived from the explosion Of oil vapor
Entering the cylinder In a gaseous form
IL gives a stroke with each explosion
causing the pisten TO travel the same ~
In steam aud furnishing the power
to two Clayton air COMPRISING pumps at
the side Of each engine The pressure OF
air being regulated to forty pounds gives
a shrill blast to the whistle when the
clock arrangement regulates the valve
levers. The machinery for this new
departure In fog signalling looks well
and promises by its simplicity Of srrange
ments 10 be effective In the saving Of
coal st least, and that, too. at times when
supplies cannot readily be received
Captain Andrew jackson is In command
Of No. IS. with James f. Mason 6rst
officer, and with two engineers and a
crew Of six men will. about the middle OF
September make fast to the anchor two
aud half miles east southeast Of Winter
Quarter Shoal aud spend the bleak
months Of Winter giving warning b.
light and sound to the large a 'et Of ships
constantly passing between the capes Of
Virginia and Delaware and for those
making the coast from the eastward"
A New Ocean flyer.