Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-18
LINE IS KEPT M0V|NG|GRESHAM AIDS SHIPS
Callers on President Received Revenue Cutter to Rescue
] Without Delay. Distressed Vessels.
TVISlTORS ARE GRATIFIEO THREE HELPED IN ONE DAY
Pleased With the Prompt Heavy Blow Gives
ton of Business Craft
CONFERENCE WITH CABINET SENECA ALSO KEPT BUSY
Finds Fishing
York;
Gals Situation Into New London.
Revenue Cutter to Rescue of
Distressed Vessels.
THREE HELPED IN ONE DAY
Heavy Blow Gives Work for Gov
eminent Craft.
SENECA ALSO KEPT BUSY
Finds Fishing Schooner High and
Dry on Block Island and lows
Her Into New London.

The revenue cutter Gresham is having
j Its fill of nasty work these days.
A fierce Northwestern sweeping the At
iantic is making match sticks out Of some
OF the stancheet vessels afloat.. according
to reports that are reaching the revenue
cutter service in this city. The Gresham
handled three distressed vessels in a sin
gle day last Friday as it cruised about
in the waters Of Nantucket shoals.
The first Of these vessels was the
| schooner Abbie G. Cole, bound for AL
bany from Boston. The schooner ran be-
fore the terrific gale under bare poles, her
captain hoping to skim the shoal water
and make for a safer neighborhood.
Ashore on Stone Horse Shoal.
The vessel was too frail for the blast
and went ashore. in spite of all her crew
could Go. grinding and humping over the
rocks of Stone Horse shoal, near Mono
moy point. The night patrol Of life-sav-
ing crew at Monomoy point discovered
the plight and after sending a rocket up
ran back to alarm his station.
The life-saving men worked all night.
practically. trying to launch their life
boat, failing every time. The surf is re-
ported as the worst ever seen at that
point: All efforts to shoot line over the
vessel failed.
The Gresham sighted the schooner
about sunrise, and. standing into shoal
water as closely as possible, launched a
surf boat. Even at that, the stanch craft
tossed around on the waves like a cork.
1t took three hours of the hardest kind
of work to get the exhausted crew Of the
schooner safe aboard the revenue cutter.
Meantime the rocks and waves were
finishing the schooner. The Greeham's
report Is that the wrecked vessel will
be total loss.
British Schooner in Distress.
Later in the Cay the lookout on the
Gresham discerned signals Of distress on
the British schooner 8. A. Fownes, bound
from Perth Amboy, n. J., to st. Johns,
n. b. This vessel had her masts blown
practically to pieces the night before in
a gale. Her anchor was dropped over
board near Pollock Rip light vessel.
The sea was running high, but the
Gresham sent a ifeboat and crew to the
aid OF the British vessel and transferred
the schoOner's men to the revenue cut
ter's decks.
That same afternoon the Gresham pick
ed up the n. e. Aver. schooner in dis
tress off Chatham. Mass. The schooner
was taken to a safe port and the Gresham
went to sea looking for more trouble.
message received from the COM
mander yesterday said the little steamer
has the derelict schooner Loud in tow
and is headed for Boston. The Loud was
abandoned in the northwestern gale last
Friday, the crew being taken of by q
passing steamer.
Seneca Floats Schooner.
The derelict destroyer Seneca. in the
past week. found the fishing schooner
William E. Dodge of Noank. Conn, >. high
and dry on Grove point, at the northeast
end of Block Island. After floating the
vessel she tOwed her, in a waterlogXed
condition. into New London. The crew of
the vessel were taken aboard the Seneca.
The Dodge went ashore in q snowstorm
In the early part of the week. In ground
ing her keel was torn of, and she was
otherwise damaged.