The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-31

selves up. when they would be hauled
ashore. To some of the more timid the
remedy seemed almost as bad as the
disease, but all finally concluded that
In the little ark was to be found their
only safety, and eventually all save one
We're taken to the land without the
smallest mishap. The person lost was a
Mr.. Bell of New York, whose sister and
her two or three daughters had been
placed in the car and We're about to be
sent ashore when he insisted upon ac-
companying them. AS there was no
room for him inside the car he foolishly
undertook to cling to the outside OF 1t,
and, as a matter of course, was washed
Off and drowned.
Soon after the storm was over the
hulk of the wreck began to settle down
in the sand, and was finally wholly
covered up. There it lay for twenty
three years. when heavy gale set up
strong current along shore that dug
away the sand and once more exposed
| the skeleton Of the old wreck to view.
A party of wreckers We're soon on board
| and in searching the cabin came across
| the old mortar ball.
| There was no doubt of it's identity,
and it was returned to the companion
| ship of the little mortar which sent 1T
whizzing seaward on it's errand of hui
| mainly more than twenty years before.
Since the recovery of the ball it and the
mortar have been on exhibition at all
! the great Interstate and international
expositions. At present they are await
| ing transportation to the exposition at
| Omaha.
| When the Ayrshire was wrecked the
| life-saving service of the United States,
| now so important, was little more than
| a name, and many a ships company
was thereafter lost on the black and
ugly coast of Long Island and New
| Jersey.
| 1t is known that during the twenty
| years from 1850 to 1870 as many lives
| were lost by shipwreck on the two
/ coasts named as were lost under the
| present life saving system in the next
| twenty years on all the ocean and lake
| coasts of the entire country.
The old life car has been superseded
by lighter though larger one, and for
ordinary rescues a device known as the
| breeches buoy was adopted. By this
| agency two persons may be taken
ashore at a time, and when the number
on board is small as Is usually the
| case it is much the handler and prefer
able appliance.
A modern line firing gun, too, has
taken the place Of the old mortar This
gun is the invention of Captain B. A.
Lyle Of the United States Army and a
Jealous member of the life-saving
| board on devices for rescuing the ship
wrecked. To it's design and perfection
he devoted himself as to labor of love,
and with the result that to-day the
life-saving service Of the United States
has the most far-reaching gun and the
best equipments pertinent to it OF any
similar establishment in the world. the
gun, the powder shot and line being
made expressly for it.
The old round shot and mortar had
teir day and are entitled to respectful
attention and the gratitude Of many 9
rescued castaway, but the Lyle gun
with it's extended range and unfailine
reliability, is as much ahead Of the old.
time appliance as the modern cannon
is in advance Of tie ancient carronade.-
From the Washington Evening Star.