Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27

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 Without doubt the eldest surviving member or the crew Of the Campbell is Anthony Jerome who has been for great many years the janitor at the custom house and perhaps the youngest survivor is Richard C. Nor ris, eX-United States marshall. who served for a time as cabin boy on the Campbell. Her long term of service shows talat the Campbell was a strong ly built craft. but when compared with the modern revenue cutter of today 1t is on the same plan as a mud scoW to an ocean passenger sreamsiiu. The Campbelfs anchorage was off the cus- tomhOuse wharf so called. and she was there for so many years that the spot was charted by local mariners as Beef bone Reef and it is known to some of the older salts by that name to this day.
 The Campbell was schooner rigged. trim looking craft and fast sailer and was the pride of New London har- bor which was her station for many yeors and the water front boys of that period tipped their caps to Captain Clark and later to Captain Carson as they stepbed ashore from the cutters boat every member of the crew a New Londoner
 At that period there were no steam CTS in the lighthouse department serV- ice and the bouy setter schooner was as well-known in the harbor as the cutter
 Captain John Keenev was her com mander and he had the reputation of being the best boatWan that ever stood at a wheel and knew the coast so well that he was considered an invaluable man for the service. which required skill and knowledge to handle the craft fin close proximity to lighthouses and in placing guides to navigation Captain keeney was an old-time smacl0man and it is sold of him that he would lay-tO and never fish on h Sunday. Nor was he required to take the schooner buoy-setter out on the Lords day. but always moored at the custom house wharf.
 When the sailing vessels on the New London station was discarded, Captain Keeney was assigned to her successor. the steamer Cactus and he commanded that vessel for several years. Orders came for the Cactus to do Sunday service, which the eX perienced captain was satisfied was not necessary, and fhe declined to break his iron-clad rule not 10 work his vessel or crew on a Sunday and he resigned and retired to private life, living to be very old man. He was the father of pr. Wallace Keeney and of Mrs. Frank Phillips.
 With the passage of these two ves- sels from the service and also of their commanders, a type of craft and
  famous has faded into faint history tiiat can only be perpetuated by oc- casionaI references of this nature
 The revenue cutter training ship Itasca is back in port and as soon as the revenue school is transferred from Arundel Cove Maryland, to Fort Trun1- bull this port will be the headquarters for the training ship as the beautiful vessel is used in connection with the school and on board Of which the cadets are given practical training in seamanship. The Itasca now fills the place once supplied by the old bark Salmon P. Cha SC and if was aboard that vessel the young men trained for the service made in their training cruises, but not until after they had served at least two years in the mer- chant marine, which was a requisite for admission to the revenue marine school then located at New Bedford.
 The formal transfer of Fort Trum- bull from the war department to the teasury department has not yet been made, although the old fort has now hut comparatively few soldiers. just enough to properly guard and care for the property and perform the nec- essary military formaliiies and cere- monies, such as the firing of the big gun at sunrise and sunset and raising scribed times. It is understood that before the frost covers the ground the reservation will come within the Jurisdiction of the treasury depart nent. all the soldiers withdrawn and Fort Trumbuil cease to be a military post. When this is done there will not be g regular army military post within the borders of the state of Connecticut.
 The runnor that the Lswley shipyard at Boston is to be transferred to New London has been renewed the present week and now it fs semi officially stated that there is substantial basis for the rumor and that it has become a fact that this established industry is to locate fin New London, and in the Fort Neck section The story goes that the Lawleys are 10 get control of the New London Iron works and in- crease that plant materially. Ne gotiations are said to be almost closed for the purchase of the adjoining water front property which extends 10 the