Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE
VESSELS RETURN TO STATIONS
FROM ARCTIC WATERS
Officers Register at Headquarters
Here-Six Cadets Graduate-Or-
ders and Instructions.

+ All the vessels OF the revenue cutter
service feet which performed duty IN
Alaska and arctic waters the past year
have returned to their stations at San
Francisco or Seattle. The cutter Bear.
Capt. f. F. Bertholf, the last OF the
feet to come south, arrived at San
Francisco last Wednesday,. The cutter
Perry. Capt. Haske. is now the only
ship of the service at present in Alaska,
and she is, in the southeastern part of
the state
The cutter Seminole. Capt. J. H. Quinan,
which was at Newport News for several
weeks having both hull and machinery
work done, in preparation for winter
work on the coast has returned to her
station at Wilmington and is In service.
The Seminole Will at once begin her
winter cruising duties under the recent
order OF the President and will cover
portions of the coasts of Virginia and
the Caroinas, with occasional trips far
Their south
Officers Register at Headquarters.
The officers of the service registering
at the department the past week were
Capt q. l.. Garden. special duty:
First Lieut.. Randolph Ridsey. jr., as
sistart inspector. lighthouse service, at
Boston: First Lieut.. Bernard IL. Cam
den, executive officer cutter Seminole
at Wilmington. \. c.: Second Lieut.. r.
W. Dempwolf. from the Algonquin al
San Juan. Porto Rico. and Third Lieut.
of Engineers George w. CairneS from
the Algonquin.
Capt George c. Carmine. comma nding
the new cutter Androscoggin, stationed
on the Maine coast with headquarters
at Portland. who was visiting relatives
on the eastern shore of Maryland, was
in Baltimore "a day two ago on his
way north to join his ship.
Six members of the senior class at the
revenue cutter service school of instruc-
| ton. Arundel Cove. Md, who led In
studies the past year. Cadets William
Francis Towle of Massachusetts, Warner
Keith Thompson of Iowa. Michael John
Ryan of Colorado. Edward Joseph Dono-
hue of New York. James Pine of New
York and Joseph BeSse of North Dakota,
were graduated from the institution
without ceremony last week. They have
been ordered to duty on cruising ships.
and will be commissioned third lieuten-
ants in the near future.
Trial Trip of Tahoma
The trial trip of the new cutter Tahoma
built at the works of the New York Ship
building Company, Camden. \. j.. is
scheduled to take place Tuesday. Decem-
Der 10, on the trial course in the Della
| ware. 1t is thought that the new ship
will be completed and ready to turn oyer
10 the officials of the service the latter
part of this month. The Tahoma is de-
| signed for service in Puget sound, Wash
ington state. and after she is turned over
to the government she will be brought
to Arundel Cove, near Baltimore, to have
her outfit supplied and to be made ready
for the long trip from the Chesapeake to
the north Pacific. The ship will be ready
to sail for Seattle early in the spring.
The new life-saving ship and revenue
cutter Snohomish, under the command of
Capt. Francis A. Lewis. will sail from
| week on the long voyage of about 5000
miles to her station on the north coast Of
Washington state. The ship will toInor-
| row leave the Arundel Cove station of the
revenue cutter service. where she has
been fitting out, and will proceed to Nor
folk. The long voyage has been divided
into ten stages. The first stop made by
the Snohomish will be at Barbados. il
distance of LISP knots from Norfolk.
From Barbados she will sail 2.054 knots
to Pernambuco. then 2.06J knots to Mon
tevideo. thence 13l2 knots to Sandy
Point in The Straits of Magellan; 1.425
knots to Valparaiso, 1907 knots to Callao.
. 1S9 knots to Acapulco. ,493 knots to San
Diego. 451 knots to San Francisco and the
last leg of her long journey will be one of
TO knots from San Francisco to Port
Townsend, Wash. At these points the
Snohomish will stop to replenish her fuel
supply and to obtain a supply of fresh
provisions and stores. 1t is estimated
that the ship will make the voyage in
about 40 days, including stops.
Orders and Instructions
Orders and instructions to officers in the
service have been issued from the office of
the aptain-commandant of the service, in
the Treasury Dep .tment as follows:
Capt. Ct C. Carmine, granted five days
extension leave.
Capt. of Engineers H. G. Whitworth, Or
dered to proceed to Chester, Pa, on in
spection duty.
First Lieut.. w J. Wheeler. granted fif-
teen days extension leave.
First Lieut.. John Mel granted twenty
one days leave.
Second Lieut.. S. V. Parker. detached
from duty as supervisor of anchorages at
Chicago Ill, and ordered to the Itasca
Second Lieut.. P. w. Lauriat, detached
from the Rush and ordered to the
Gresham.
First Lieut. of Engineers H. n. Wood
detached from the Bear and ordered to
the 1tasca.
Capt. of Engineers c. ". Munroe. grant
led three days extension leave and ordered
to duty in connection with repairs to and