Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31
REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

has returned to his Office in the Treas
ury from an official visit Of inspection
to the Office of the superintendent OF
and repair and to the re-
pair station Of the service at Baltimore.
Senior Capt. William f. Reynolds, su-
Of construction and repair,
has returned to his Office at Baltimore
from a visit in New London and other
points in New England and is now ar
ranging to transfer his Office from Balti-
more to the division of the service in the
Treasury Department
Cadets William f. Rupertis and E G..
Rose from the school Of instruction at
New London, Conn, are spending the
Christmas holidays at the home OF Cadet
Rupertis in this city. They return to
their school duties January 2.
Cadet Engineers Ellis R Hill and May
son W. Torbert have completed their
course of study at the school of instruc-
ton and have been graduated. They
lions and have been granted ten days
leave. which they are spending in Detroit
Before the expiration OF their leave they
will be commissioner as third heutenants
of engineers and will be assigned to duty
on cruising ships.
First Lieut.. of Engineers Charles F.
Nash. who was called to Alexandra, Va,
by the death of a sister Of his wife, has
returned to Detroit and rejoined his ship,
the cutter Morrill,.
San Francisco shipyard to have a new
donkey boiler installed and her machinery
overhauled. The cutter McColloch will
in the coming month be locked at the
Mare Island navy yard to have her hull
rebuilt. The McColloch is a composite
built vessel and though she has been in
active service for sixteen years this will
be the first extensive repair work she
has ever had done to her hill.
Capt. Johnston. commanding the cutter
Seneca, in his report of the recent cruise
of that vessel in the neighborh001 of the
Bahama Islands, in search of the dere-
lict schooner Nathaniel T. Palmer, states
that for five days the vessel steamed in
circles in the vicinity Of where the Palm
er had been last reported and though the
cutter covered 5000 miles in the search
nothing was seen from the ship but a
plank painted white. In the opinion OF
Capt. Johnston the Palmer has gone to
the bottom Of the Atlantic.
sea, the Delaware and Lackawanna rail-
road barge Henry Clay, which had
broken away from the tug Gettysburg,
which had her In tow, and had drifted
well out into the Atlantic. The cutter
lowed the barge. badly damaged and leak
ing, into the entrance to New York har-
Dor and turned her over to the Gettys-
burg, which was coming in search of her.
The cutter Window last week endeavor-
ed to float an oil-laden barge, No. j,
ashore near Sabine Pass, Tex. but with
out success. The tug Charles Clark had
two barges laden with oil in tow. and
in a storm in the Gulf Of Mexico both
went adrift. No. 1 grounded and No.
is adrift in the gulf. Both barges are
badly damaged.
The cutter Onondaga sailed from Nor
folk December q to the assistance of the
schooner Charles j. Dumas, stranded on
the North Carolina coast, and was stand
ing by the vessel when she received the
boat Warrington, and was thus able to
get quickly to the scene, take on the
crew and tow the disabled war vessel
into Hampton roads.
The cutter Acushnet, on receipt Of in
formation that the schooner Mary Ade-
Island, started from Woods Hole to her
aid, but before she arrived at BLOCK
Island the crew of the schooner had been
taken off by life savers at the Block
Island station, and her services were not
required.
Capt. of Engineers d. Nee. French and
Capt. r. c. Crisp have been constituted
a board to inspect the power launch Vir-
ginia at Newport News. The Treasury
contemplates buying the
launch for service as a customs board
ing vessel at Newport News, and the
purchase depends greatly upon the report
made by the inspecting officers, as to the
for the work required OF her.
During the coming week ii is expected
that the office of Capt. William T.. Rey-
holds in Baltimore are preparing the rec
repair Of the service, will be transferred
from the custom house to the rooms pro-
vided for it in the Treasury Department
The employees of the Office of Capt Rey-
holds i'm Baltimort are preparing the rec
)rds drawings and other equipment for
shipment to this city
The cutter Apache, on the Chesapeake
sta tion, has been requested by Lighthouse
Inspector Poundstone to look out for a
light station. which was lost from the
sta ton in one Of the recent gales on the
pay.
Christmas was celebrated aboard the
cutter apache with all the spirit of
good fellowship the season Calls for,
Ind she was the most beautifully dec
,rated vessel in Baltimore harbor, the
york Of the men. Throughout she was
! Christmas picture.
The gangway leading to the quarter
leck was a gateway of holly and ce-
lar. Every boat davit., bowsprit.
rucks and ends of signal yardarms
we're touched with greens and the hand
teering wheel on the poopdeck was
outlined in evergreens. The captains
,abin mad been taken possession of
md wardroom steePage and berthdeck
we're beautiful in the art ideas Of the |
men. only they took to themselves the |
ignal locker and decorated the berth |
leck with flags of all nations.
A pretty illusion was the removing !
f the tomkins from the battery and |
ubstituting a ball red holly berries |
epresenting the IRE Of the explosion. |
,ehiud which were cOucaye eyergreenS