Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-02
CAPT. tom SCOTT AND THE RACE
ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

one morning In answer 10 an ndvcr-
uHemDut, blfurcuted sea dug-thrrn
parts fish and on" part mnn-strong as
bull Clrnr-oycl, honest, competent
and fearless. walked into my Office "a
stranger. ana thirty minutes later
walked out again ms foreman n cone
Htructluu. The acquaintance begun then
has continued since, until u has rip
oncd into the closest friendship. At
that tlmU this man was forty years "
ugr, iu the prime % his strength. and
az tho beginning OF an experience now
$50 widely known. lie had removed the
wreck uf the Scotland on Sandy Hook
doing thH diving himself, had laid Win
his own hands under water, many ut
the biz foundation stones NJ the sea
wan Tor the dock department OF New
York. ANA was iu every way nttrd. both
a. diver and submarine engineer. for
The work References, usually cunHid-
cred necessary iu "a nrEt Interview, and
generally confirmed by ruharquont In
qulrluH ur written recommendations
never once entered into the nvgotla.
tons between uH No man or child
IN the face without instantly believing
In him. and mo- act OF his In after lfo
could shake that belief. And u iH to
men like him, who risk their lives daily
in The construction ~ our couat lights
ana defgnsos, and IN manning the boats
country owes much of itH strength, men
who have never clhmurcd Tor their
rights, ur organized Themselves into
unions for protection. nor appealed Go
Legislatures f0r hclp-mcn who urg as
brave ~ lhoy. ate modest .
4 year ago this same old sea dog-he
De- Eruy now and There ~ "a biz bald spot
ON tho back uf his head, and he lH "a
tr.nD larger round the middle, hut mat
u ull tho change thorc a. ln him, moth
INK inside. not a. beat N hia heart
say that this same Captain Tom and
I boarded hls tug Ia New London hlr-
bor tho owns half dozen OF thrm nuWl
whore IL SLIGHT roll was rocking the
shirpi,s aa they lay tied tn their poles
how VOL We knew that tull'-uud
headed her out OF the channel over the
same guuue we had taken t1srlher 20
many hundred times Year, before.
captain Tom stood IN the pllut-huuHe.
his hand ON the wheel, and took every
HUuso that came,
Good many holes out here" hc'd say.
a8 she plunged hendfurvmuHt, dlgginE
up h1gfhoads OF water wi a her bow.
'unl mn get worse fore II sets bot
ter
Thoy must have known he wns COM
Ing these old rollers which no had
fought Hn many times, They dashed
over the bow ~ the tug aud snarled
aud CRASHED their teeth, as they biz tho
low line 0f rocks Cirollng the black
gray conc looming up against the
morning sky, hut their frothlugs did
not stop Captain Tom,
ITS kind Of suapy out herr, but I
CUES wen try IL
As he approached the lonely. Isolated
pile OF masonry, spot Ia tho waste
81 waters, that an these years has with
stood tho attacks OF these Heu devils
and hold lts light alnft, the figure OF a
man Slid down the iron ladder of tho
cone and ran TO the end OF the wharf
Then came the voice;
Anything the matterg' Anybody
Rlckg"
Il e. something out of the ordinary
when New London tug heads for the
Rock In the teeth Of "a southeastern,
NO, Just come out TO see u We could
land"
"Goshl How you skerod me-thought
some OF the folks was TUX bad"
Then another man dropped down the
ladder ana springing 10 the boat dayits,
began lowering the life-boat.