The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-03
Kenosha Life Saving Crew Mus
tered Out of Service for the
Winter Last Night
CHANGES IN CREW POSSIBLE
Season for Kenosha Crew Has Been q
Busy One and Many Lives Have
Been Saved During the.
Eight Months of Work
(From Tuesday s Daily

NGAVn AuCSudy Od14y
The Kenosha Life Saving Crew was
mustered out or service at midnight
Monday night and this morning the
station has been closed up for the long
winter rest. The members of the crew
who are not residents Of the city will
leave for their homes the latter part
Of this week and while Captain Frank
Fountain will make his home at the
station during the winter there will
be no others there until the sta
ton reopens on the first of April of
next year.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
men will be absent from the station
for the next four months it is expected
that the station will be a pretty busy
place as the workmen of the govern
ment are expected to arrive any day to
begin the work Of repairing and re-
building the station and it will proba-
bly, take the better part Of the winter
to complete the changes planned.
Captain Fountain states that he is
not as yet ready to announce the make
up of the crew for the new year, but
that it is probable that there will be
some changes in the personal of the
crew. Some Of the men are desir9us
of leaving the life saving service and
new men will be found to take the
place of these men. It is not probable
that any announcement Of the makeup
Of the crew for next year will be made
until the time comes for the crew to
be mustered in for the new year.
This has been the first seaso1~~an
which Captain Fountain was in charge
of the Kenosha station and the log
book Of the station shows that it has
been one of the busiest years in the
history of the Kenosha crew. The
Kenosha port this year had the largest
loss of life reported on the lakes. The
four men killed by the bursting of
steam pipe on the Steamer Maggie
Marshall during the latter part Of
October are put down in the records of
the government as having been lost at
Kenosha. There were but six men lost
on the lakes during the year.
The report Of Captain Fountain will
show that the Kenosha crew was called
out Is times during the year and that
more than thirty people were rescued
from disabled boats during that time.
The members Of the crew took nineteen
passengers off the gasoline launch
" Jobberwock' late in the summer and
when the steamer Getty Of Mar
quette was beached just south Of Ke-
nosha a few weeks ago, seven people
were taken off by the crew. The crew
also aided in bringing into port the
disabled Maggie Marshall with it's car
go Of dead and later in the season
rendered aid in pulling off the tug
William Engel" which had been
beached just off Fort Sheridan. In
addition to these cases there were
many minor cases during the season.
Several bodies of people drowned in
the lake and the harbor were recovered
by the members Of the crew.
While the station is now closed for
the season Captain Fountain announces
that he will keep a watch on duty dur
ing all inclement weather to guard
against any possible loss of life during
the closed lake season. He himself
will spend the entire winter in Kenosha
and personally look after the work of
the station.