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The herald., 1896-11-22
THE LIFE SAVING SERVICE
Thrilling Tales Of Wreck

Walker Of the United States revenue
cutter service, inspector of life saving
stations, to present briefly some facts
which will figure rather extensively in
the report.
This is the silver wedding year of the
life-saving service. In the twenty five
years since it was established on the
present system in 1871, nearly $4,000
people have been concerned in marine
disasters of one sort or another. Some
$4,000 have been actually rescued; 5000
days succor have been given and only
about 800 lives have been lost, 85 of these
in single disaster, the wreck of the
steamer Metropolis in 1S77-7S, when the
service was impeded by distance.
There are now some 260 stations, near
ly 200 of them on the Atlantic coast, one
at the falls of the Ohio at Louisville,
thirteen on the Pacific coast. the rest
along the great lakes. Each station is
manned by from six to nine surfmen
during the season and by at least one
at all times. Until recently the ocean
stations were fully manned for only
eight months-from September to May
land the lake stations during the time
of open navigation from April to De-
cember 1, but the furious gales which
occurred in August for a number of
years in succession on the Atlantic coast
caused an extension of the time, and
now the stations are fully manned ex-
cept during June and July.
1t is Capt Walkers very positive opin-
ion that they should be open throughout
the year, and that in all probability con-
gress will soon see the advisability of
such step. The pay of the surfmen
ought, however, in such a case to be
generously increased. At present they
get but $50 per month for exacting and
dangerous duty and the salaries of the
superior officers are proportionately
small.
The duties Of the surfman are pretty
exactng. He patrols the beach on the
lookout for wrecks When his turn comes
to take charge of the station he keeps the
records. which includes some weather
data. When the life boat is manned he
has his station assigned him in her.
When the life line is fired, or the breech-
es buoy operated, it is his duty to drag
and man the mortar make tackle, man
the ropes and work without food or rest
until the task is done.
Every year, in May, the board of life
saving appliances meets to consider i'm
provements in the machinery of the
service. The most important innovation
at present in progress is the construc-
tion of twelve new life boats on the Eng
lish plan. Only one of these is complet-
ed, and this is in use at Sandy Hook sta
tion. The new boat is thirty-four feet
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in length, seven feet longer than the old
one, is unsuitable, and will accommo-
date fifty persons, though hardly luxu-
riously. She Is fitted with sail as well as
oars, like the boats of the type formerly
in use, but has an important innovation
in the shape Of a centerboard which ena-
bles her to beat to windward
No other new appliances are this year
to be adopted, and some that have been
previously experimental with are aban-
doned. The rocket, for instance. has been
found in practice too erratic for certain
use. and the small mortar will be used
at all the stations to shoot the line out
over the stranded ship.
The life car of corrugated iron in
vented by the late Joseph Francis, while
not abandoned by the board, is on ac-
count of it's weight not to be used except
where a large number of passengers
must be rescued in a very short time.
The life car will carry six or seven peo-
pie and is run on a line like the breeches
buoy. The latter, which remains the
most approved method of landing pas
sengers and crew from a stranded ship
in very heavy weather. will ordinarily
carry but one at a time, but is light
enough to pass back and forth rapidly.
If only men are to be saved two can use
the breeches buoy at once, each thrust
ing one leg into one of its compartments
and dangling the other outside.
In Dorchester harbor and at one or
two other points the service has expert
mented with a floating station, hulk
100 feet long and thirty-three feet wide,
with an opening nineteen feet wide
running from it's square stern far into
the interior to shelter lifeboat. The
advantages of this is that, as the an
chored hulk always swings bow on to
the weather, the lifeboat can be launched
in lee; the fully counterbalancing dis
advantage is that it is difficult to put
the surfmen ashore for patrol.
Although the greater part of the duty
of the life savers consists in rescuing
the crews of wrecked vessels, the surf
men and keepers of the various stations
rescue in the way of exhausted bathers,
yachtsmen in distress, drunken men who
are freezing on the beach in winter fish
ermen cut off by the rising tide, balloon
lists who descend into the water of the
sea or lakes, and men adrift on ice foes
on the great lakes In gathering storm and
darkness Some of the most thrilling res
cues ever undertaken on the great lakes
have been those of workmen employed
on the waterworks cribs of Chicago,
Milwaukee and other cities, and cut off
from shore by storm at peril of their
lives. 1t IS a matter of slighter conse-
quence, but worth mentioning, that the
service has saved considera bly, over a
hundred millions of dollars worth of
pIopcity uuflHS the twenty 1--WE years
of it's existence.
But while from 10 to 90 per cent of the
property involved in sea accidents con-
nected with the service goes to waste,
only one life in from 225 to $50 is lost, and
this is a magnificent record.
There are men in the service who have
records. There was Jerome G. Kiah.
keeper, to whom a medal was awarded
for his attempt to rescue the crew of
the scow Julia McGruder in 1880. Every
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color; send currant jelly to the table
with 1t.
Currant Jelly Sauce-Melt one-half
tablespoonful butter and one-half ta-
ble-spoonful chopped onion, the same OF
grated carrot and fine chopped ham;
one-half bay leaf, six whole peppers:
cook five minutes Without browning; add
one teaspoonful flour, stir, and cook two
minutes; add three-quarters of cupful
of water, one-half teaspoonful OF beer
extract, and cook five minutes; add one
gill port wine, one glass currant Jelly;
stir and cook till the jelly is dissolved;
strain the sauce into dish and dress the
steak over it; garnish with bread crou-
tons or potato croquettes.
Biscuit Pudding-TwO cups milk, one
cup butter two cups flour. one cup su-
gar, nine eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla
extract and the grated rind and juice
of one lemon. Put the milk with one-half
of the butter over the fire; as soon as IT
boils stir in the sifted flour and keep
on stirring until the contents of the
saucepan form into a smooth paste and
loosen from the bottom of saucepan;
then transfer 1t to a dish and set aside
to cool; stir the remaining butter TO a
cream and add alternately the yolks OF
the eggs, the sugar and the paste; thor
oughly stir this and the lemon. vanilla
and the ten whites beaten to stiff
ed form, boil two hours and serve with
wine cream sauce. Note-This pudding
should be served as soon as taken from
the form.
Wine Cream Sauce-One-half bottle
white wine, one-half teaspoonful corn
starch, three eggs (yolks and whites
beaten separately four tablespoon
fulls sugar and the peel and juice of a
lemon; put all the ingredients except
the whites of the eggs in the saucepan;
beat with an egg-beater until just about
to boil; then remove from the f1re have
the whites beaten to stiff froth; add
them to the sauce, beat for minute
longer and serve.
Farna Dumplings-Put a saucepan
over the fire with one-balf cup of milk
and one-half tablespoonful of butter;
as soon as it boils add three heaping
tablespoonfulls of farina. and boil to
smooth paste; turn it into bowl, and
when nearly cold, mix in the yolk OF two
eggs; season with ne-quarter teaspoon
full each of salt and nutmeg, and, lastly
add the two beaten whites; drop from
tablespoon into boiling salted water,
and if the first one breaks, add tea
spoonful of dry farina. The dumplings
can be used with soup as well as with
the roast, and when required for the lat
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The men who plow the misty burrows
of the sea go always with the fear of
storm and wreck before their eyes. Even
in calm weather the slightest miscalcu-
lation may cast them on lee shore in
pounding swell, with the shrieks of hurt
men and the shatter of standing rigging
going by the board to daunt their stout
hearts. But there are men ashore with
hearts as stout, whose mission is to save.
And when the wind rises to a bowling
gale and all along the shore the lame
ducks are scudding for shelter under
half stripped poles, the brave surfmen
and beachmen of the life saving service
perform prodigies of valor, GOODNESS and
resolution.
No portion of the Atlantic coast is
more thickly strewn with the bones of
wrecks or haunted by the spirits of
the drowned than the Jersey and Long
Island beaches near New York. Halter
as may have worse repute for churlish
weather. but far more shipping sails
toward this port than ever passes Hat
teras. The great sand beach of Long Is
land and the long line of sand down
jerseys eastern front converge like the
sides of tunnel, and a storm from any
point between east and north, and due
south-almost any Of the dirty gales
that bring foul weather with them
have plenty of ships to play with. Once
in a while big Atlantic liner carrying
a thousand or more souls in her cabins,
goes thud into the cruel sands, and ali
the world reads the news in next days
papers how everyone got off safe and
sound. but the record of the little cargo
boats that come to grief, of the lives lost,
one, or two, or three. at time; the long
battles with surf and snow and sleet
to succor crews frozen into the riggings
of little schooners-these things scarce
ly get into the papers at all.
Upon the southern shores of the great
lakes Uncle Sans life savers do work
quite as difficult and quite as heroic. The
cold along tn great lakes is far keener.
there is much trouble with ice, the gales
are as furious; the vessels are rather
more frail of build. Within sight of
Chicago. when the northerly gales drive
down Lake Michigan, and all the shore
is white with the teeth of the gnawing
waves. rescues as daring have been ac-
complished as any on the Atlantic coast.
Indeed. during the season of 1895, which
is covered by the last official report.
the greatest loss of life in any of the
twelve districts occurred in the Elev-
enth, on Lake Michigan, where seven
people perished out of a total for the
entire country of but twenty
According to precedent. the report of
General Superintendent Kimball of the
life saving service will be issued in about
a month; but I am enabled, by an in
terview with Captain Thomas Dixon
The herald., 1896-11-22
FLOATING TELESCOPE OF THE FUTURE
WITH A Io.FOOT REFLECTOR

hair. Then it will be placed in fine
box mounted on delicately adjusted
springs. susceptible to the slightest mo-
ton. This box, with its precious bur-
den will be placed in a larger box and
backed with excelsior. 1t will ride in
the very center of the parlor car, and
the parlor car will be coupled in the
center of the train. If the train should
be caught in collision, the progress
of science will be retarded four years,
and some one will suffer loss of 100000
That is the value of the bit OF glass
1t is only forty inches in diameter, is
three inches thick in the middle, and
one and a quarter inches thick at the
edges. Its weight is 205 pounds. From
all this description it would seem to be
Il very ordinary piece of glass, but if
it's complete history were written it
would require a good sized volume to
tell the story.
This glass is the most important piece
in what will be the biggest refracting
telescope in the world. 1t will bring the
image of the moon to within sixty miles
of the eyes Of the astronomer and if
there is building as large as the capitol
at Washington anywhere in the moon
the scientist will see it. He will not
be able to discern human beings, how
ever, should there be any on the moon,
but he will know of their existence by
the evidences of their handicraft. If
rivers or lakes, this piece of glass will
show them for the first time in the his
tory of the world.
Not only will it discover the wonders
of the moon, but it will reveal thou
sands Of unknown things about the other
heavenly bodies. 1t will mark one of
the greatest steps taken in astronomical
science since the invention of the tel
escope by the Holland spectacle MAX
ers, Jansen and Liffersceim, away back
in 1900.
This piece Of glass is the forty-inch
lens for the great telescope given by
Charles T. Yerkes to the University of
Chicago. 1t will be set up in the OBJ
servatory built on the shores of Williams
Bay, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where
the atmospheric conditions for astro-
nomical observations are more favora-
BILE than on Lake Michigan. Astrono-
mers in all parts of the world are eager
ly awaiting the adjustment of the lens
to the telescope. This will be accom-
plished within the next month, and be-
fore the end of the year it is believed
that enough will be discovered to COM
pletely upset all of the present studies
of the science.
THE LENS IN THE ROUGH.
The forty-inch lens has been in the
workshops of Prof Alvin Clark at Cam
bridge, Mass, for seven or eight years.
When it first arrived there it was a great
rough block of crown glass, weighing f00
pounds. This lump of glass cost $40, 600
in the rough, and was purchased of M.
Mantois of Paris. the owner of the only
concern in the world which can produce
big discs of optical glass. The method
Of manufacture pursued by Mantois
cannot be described for the reason that
1t is the most carefully guarded secret
of the kind in existence. The secret of
the Benedctine monks, who make their
wonderful liqueus, is not SO closely
guarded as the secret of M. Mantois,
and that Is saying good deal.
One thing only u known and that is
The herald., 1896-11-22
HUNDREDS OF KLEPToMAN1Acs.
Police Authorities Have a List of Thoso
Belonging to Prominent Families.

DR.. Robert Stafford Newton, the medico.
legal expert who was present in Clerkens
well court, in London, when Mrs. Castle
was first arraigned for shoplifting, gave
an interesting interview regarding the case
of the San Francisco woman and so-c0lled
kleptomaniacs in general. DR.. Newton has
made a special study of the subject and az
he was allowed unusual privileges by the
Scotland Yard authorities he had an oppor-
tunity to become thoroughly conversant
with the Castle case w hile DR.. Newton
belives that the penalty in Mrs. Castles
believe that the fact that a person Is a
kleptomanic should exempt him from legal
punishment
The Scotland Yard authorities" said
DIR. Newton, have list of 500 kleptomani-
acs living in London. All of them belong
to wealthy families. The families have
notified the detectives; the kleptomaniacs
have not revealed their secrets.
"All the large stores of London are also
asked to promptly report any case of shop
lifting on the part Of the weak member. SO
a settlement can be made before complaint
is made to the police. A number of unscru-
pulous London merchants have taken adj
vantage of some of these families. 1t has
been discovered that in a large number of
to these families alleging the same theft
was committed by score of different per-
sons.
"All these claims were paid without a
word for a long time, as these families were
in constant fear of exposure. The police
system of wholesale fraud. Chicago
Chronicle.
Every house in Sards, Ga. about 100, ia
owned and occupied by colored people, ana
they are all Missionary Baptists.
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The average man thinks that his repu
tation as a Kind father has been firmly es-
tablished if the baby cries to come TO him.
Father--"That fellow that comes here to
see you so often IS pretty cheap man
His Attitude.-Her Friendl-"Doesn't
your husband object to that pug dog"
she"Not at ALL ohtIet He hates the dog but he
Hell wonder why nobody has asked Miss
Garlinghorn to waltz this evening" She
9s ronS dsar sF Is tqG aaeuaf T4b1n to M well
Tom Barry-"Won,t you accept me If
were to propose?" Perdita-"Try me and
do you W. enjoy novel reading, Miss Belin-
da?" ''Oh, very much; one can associate
dare to speak to in real life."-Chicago
doctor. why is it that people are gener-
ay hsn so MtS maSh mGrs %ohnE @ o0s sme
madame. A boy baby never comes amiss."
HicKsM"The HiK"TTh e Bible says. whatsoever will
Ss aSRs S1a IS EVIDENT @ s from that hat
that our maid knows her place perfectly.
Commercial Rebound-""Do you think
public confidence is increasing, Mrs Badge
fy % Xou better dsbs9 nseye bsd h Sasy aay rT tTE
Of Of marriage. marriage ''Hchcago Record - &c e'' >
ooh. this bouquet is too costly You must
rich fiancee. 'Oh, that's all right miss
Since my master is engaged to you he has
been able to get things on credit" replied
Old up your 'ands!' commanded one of
the two footpads. pointing a cooked revol-
yer at the head of the belated citizen.
you've got the drop on me-" grumbed the
citizen. complying reluctantly. cor I'm
d'arned if I'd let an Englishh syndicate rob
me WITHOUT making some resistance"-
Chicago Record.
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faults. If the block contained the tiniest
air bubble not as large as the point of
needle it would have been useless.
Then a rough polish was given and
further test for defects made. Next it
was examined by a different process to
discover what curves should be given it
during the figuring" process.
After this the glass went into the
grinding room, where sand and water
were first used to bring down the gross
Irregularities on the surface Later
emery was used from the coarsest to the
finest, this in itself being labor of
years After the emery the finest jew
elers' rouge was used for polishing.
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A MILLION dollar GLASS
The Most Expensive and Elab.
crate Ever Made
WILL SHORTLY BE SET
Nine Years Of Labor on the Yerkes Tele.
scope Lens
The Many Processes Which Have Made
This the Most Valuable Piece of
Glass on Earth.

In few days the most valuable piece
of glass in the world will journey half
way across the country. This piece of
glass will have palace car for itself
and will be watched over night and day
by four men. 1t will be wrapped in
soft flannel and then bedded in curled
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England imports nearly Els 900. 900 worth
of timber year. and pays fS,000,000 for
a half is paid for imported wood pulp for
the manufacture of paper. DIR. Schich de-
cIares that E1S0o0.00V worth of timber
might be produced In that country il they
went The right wav ahout Il.
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HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

ter purpose the above quantities shoul
be doubed.-New York Tribune.
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Every house in Sardis, Ca. about 100. is
owned and occupied by coored people, ana
they are all Missionary Baptists.
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laid on bed and the doctor summoned
and the police notified. Niemann ran
away and was captured an hour later
by Lieutenant Edwards and a mounted
patrolman at his home in an alley off
Queen street. His gun was found with
the stock broken and an empty shell in
the breech. Lying on the floor was his
uniform and a belt containing SO rounds
of ammunition.
F'rye's gun, with the stock split and
the lock broken off, was in the room
where he went after he was shot.
In examining Fryes gun it was found
to be loaded and the stock shattered
by the ball from Niemann's gun. 1t
struck under the stock in front of the
guard and then glanced off and struck
Frye. 1t is believed from the appear
ance of the rifle that that the bullet
split. Frye's gun was loaded.
When he arrived at the station he
freely admitted the shooting and cor
roborated the story told by Frye at the
hospital. He was not sure he had hit
the man when he ran away, but was
afraid he had. He was considerably un-
Ger the influence of liquor when ar
rested, and spoke as though the shoot
ing was in self-defense. When locked
up he began crying for his children and
wishing he was dead. He is known at
the station house and is said to have a
wife and eight children.
John Cropley, driver on 290 hack
stand, had just put his horse up in
Manuel Refs stable when the shot was
fired. He did not see the men, as it was
very dark just there, but he heard one
say, g you, I'll shoot you" and
the other one remarked You're cur; |
you're not man enough to shoot" The
report followed instantly. Both men
are employed on the dredger.
At 8 o'clock this morning Frye was
resting easy, with no signs of fever.
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| the Dining Room" etc. Taking this
| latter Technology, the classes are as
signed as follows:
In the reception room, classes in ar
! ithmetic, one, two and three, under
Mr.. Keliinoi primary methods in num-
bers, pedagogy, primary methods in
reading and kindergarten songs are
held. In the dining room, geography.
drawing and history of education. In
the north bedroom English grammar
and the part of arithmetic two under
Mr.. Dickinson. In the south bedroom
advanced arithmetic under Mr.. Estep.
! algebra and geometry.
In the music room, English (Mr.
Armstrong SMITH and methodology.
And, finally, two classes tonic sol ia
and short hand are up stairs.
Prof Lyons class in the geology and
| physical geography of the Hawaiian
Islands will be held in the evening, SO
as to accommodate the citizens of Ho-
nOlulu. But as arrangements have been
made for course of lectures, the class
will have to begin early. Half past six
is the time designated.
Most Of the attendants of the summer
school are those who hope to gain for
the first time, certificate, or, having
one, hope to get better, either at the
examination this month or some future
one. 1t will perhaps be a source of
surprise to many, not merely that there
are so many at the school altogether
(154 were present at the first recitation
yesterday morning, and between 20 and
30 came in after), but also the number
of those who take the higher class of
studies. The classes in geography, ar
ithmetic, English, drawing and tonic
sol ia are Of course very large. But
who would expect that the class i'm
shorthand would number eleven? The
class in geometry thirteen that in al
zebra seventeen, and that in nature
study lfty-four And all these classes
will doubtless be enlarged by additions
as the teachers find they have time for
them.
The classes in pedagogy, method
olOgy and history of education are also
large. The first numbers in the neigh
borhood of eighty, the second counts
fOrty-twO, and the third thirty-ei ght,
in spite of the strong counter attrac-
tiOns of chart methods and kindergar-
ten songs.
The early hour of the lecture, which
is one of course in geology and physi-
cal geography, and the mistake in the
hour as published in some of the even
ing papers, kept the audience from be-
ing as large as it would have been.
About twenty-five, however, gathered
in the music room" OF the High School
building at $50 last evening to listen
to the professor.
Dr. Lyons said, in substance: