Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-24
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

Capt. William Z. Reynolds, superin-
tendent Of construction and repair OF
the revenue cutter service, has gone 10
New Bedford, New London and Woods
Hole, Mass. on official business con-
nected with the service. On his return
to Baltimore be will arrange to have his
Office transferred to the headquarters of
the service at this city. Chief Clerk
Harris of the Office of the superintendent
of construction and repair, who has been
in the employ of the service for thirty-six
years, will not come to this city with
Capt. Reynolds force, but has been
made storekeeper at the service repair
station at Arundel Cove, Nd.
retired. died at Alton. ILL.,. Monday
last and was buried at Portsmouth,
Va, with all henors. Under orders from
the department a detachment of officers
corted the funeral cortege to the ceme-
terry. Lieut.. Jack saw service in the
civil war. and was one of the few sur
viving officers Of the Confederate states
ironclad Merrimac. He took part in the
celebrated fight between the Merrimac
and the Monitor as one of the engineer
off1cers OF the first-named ship. Lieut.
Jack entered the revenue cutter service
in 1883 and reached the grade OF first
Lieutenant of engineers i'm 1898. He
limit prescribed by law.
The derelict schooner Samuel II.
Goucher, which was towed into the har-
Dor at Portsmouth, n. H., by the cutter
her commanding officer, has been an
chored to one side of the harbor out OF
the way. The War Department has been
requested to destroy the wreck, as il is
within the three-mile limit, and Capt
Craghill of the Army Engineer Corps
will take up the question of destroying
the vessel with dynamite, as it is an OBJ
struction to navigation.
the cutter Itasca, on the Savannah
station, is cruising in search of a green
huh derelict schooner reported by the
steamship Albingia about sixty miles
southeast of Cape Hatteras. Since being
first reported this derelict has drifted
over 2vO miles in northeasterly direc-
ton. When located by the Itasca she
will be destroyed with guncotton mines
Capt Berry Friday last wired the de-
partment asking if any further informa-
ton regarding the location of the dere-
lict had been received.
The cutter Mohawk Capt. F. S. Van
Boskerck commanding, in the past week
aided the tug Neptune and the barges
Julia X. Dempsey and EnOs Soule, which
were in trouble off the capes of the
Delaware, and towed them into the Della
ware breakwater. On receiving a mes
sage that the vessels were in trouble the
cutter started I'm search of them and
found the tug disabled about q mile from
the Northeast End lightship. She was
taken into harbor and the cutter at once
started in search of the two barges which
the Neptune had in tow. The Dempsey
vas found about twenty -seven miles off
shore. but as she was anchored and was
making good weather Of it the Mohawk
went after the Soule. which could be seen
about eight miles away. The Soule had
lost anchor and sixty fathoms of chain
and was in bad shape The Mohawk
took her in tow and passing the Dempsey,
picked her up also and took both into the
breakwater. The report states that but
for the timely aid of the Mohawk the
barges would have been lost.
The cutter Window, which recently
reached her station at Galveston after
being supplied with new guns at the
navy yard here, reports to the depart
ment that she is working upon a barge
stranded six miles east of Sabine Pass.
Tex The Window will float the barge
and take her into port Y found to need
that assistance
/. The derelict destroyer Seneca, after an
extended cruise over the portion of the
Atlantic ocean on which the derelict
four-masted schooner Nathaniel T. Palm
er was last reported, was unable to find
the vessel and has abandoned the search
for the time being and returned to port.
1t is thought probable that the Palmer
has gone well to the eastward Of the gulf
though she may be out of the path of
ships and it may be considerable time
before she is again sighted.
The cutter Apache, on winter cruis-
ing duty on Chesapeake bay and its
tributaries, was in port here the latter
of remaining here for day or two, as
usual. only spent a few hours in port
and then sailed to resume cruising
service on the bay.